Acoustic blues fans will be delighted by Melbourne’s Doc White, as he plays selections from & inspired by his favourite era – the 20s through to the early 40s: when acoustic blues and ragtime fingerpickers, slide players & the like were in their hey-day. Great songs, with lyrical ambiguities & quirky humour, are delivered on all manner of guitars, both resophonic & standard as well as mandolin, mandocello, ukulele and banjo!

Doc was found abandoned in house in Adelaide, South Australia by African-American Mormon missionaries. Spirited back to the US in a steamer trunk and raised on a peculiar musical diet of pre-war acoustic blues and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Doc rejected the Lord in favour of the devil’s music. He picked up a coveted 1935 D42 Martin guitar in a pawnshop by swapping it for a first edition of the Book of Mormon signed by Joseph Smith that came into his possession by dubious and unspecified means. Returning to Australia as a young man after a very public stoush with the Mormon church in Utah, he took up professional long distance swimming and still holds the record for the Glenelg to Somerton ocean swim he set in 1971. Although professional long distance swimming paid better than music, the siren call of the blues was too hard to ignore. 40 years later Doc is still wanted for questioning in Salt Lake City and still playing the blues.

Doc’s music has been played on ABC Radio and he has been featured on The Planet and in Rhythms Magazine.
Doc’s tune Cropduster Blues was voted Song of the Year at the 2004 VicTas Blues Awards

$10 pre, $15 door | Happy Hour from 6-7pm, 9pm show
Delicious food (including pizza!) available. Fully licensed – NO BYO
Please book carefully - as no refunds, credits or exchanges on tix!
All ages welcome (but under 18′s must be accompanied by an adult)