When 'you've got the blues', you think about misfortune, betrayal, heart-ache and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While the lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity and discomfort. The blues is about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The Roaring 20s were the times of the blues - life was tough! Bluesmen left the plantations, juke joints, and rambling shacks of the Deep South and headed into the big cities. Everyone talks about Jazz however Blues in the 1920s was a way of life and the big cities didn't make it easy. Head back to the 1920s this week with Chris O.

Chris is a solo artist from the Blue Mountains, Australia, who plays songs of a bygone era - vintage blues and grassroots music, the way it used to be. She travels around carrying her “band”, just like a pack pony – dobro, lap-slide, banjo, ukulele, as well as a few plain ole guitars. Cooking up the sounds of the Delta from greats such as Memphis Minnie, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, Big Mama Thornton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House. Chris also stirs in a few of her own songs of these times. Come along and find out why Chris won 2015’s Sydney Blues Competition and made it to the quarter-finals of the International Blues Competition in Memphis in 2016. 6:30-8:30pm, bar open, free event. Welcome to the 'Blues Mountains' y'all!