CROW MOUNTAIN // November 22, 2020 // 6-8pm // Free event (Bookings Essential) // Aunty Ed's Katoomba
Katoomba’s favourite Aunty and underground restaurant and bar, the one and only ‘Aunty Ed’s’, is putting ‘the funk’ back in ‘retro-funky’ with the return of free live music every Sunday Night. Serving up delicious burgers, old-school meals and classic cocktails, this basement restaurant and bar is the place to be on a Sunday Night, between 6:00 and 8:00 pm, and hosts the best live music the Blue Mountains has to offer. Like all basement live music joints, the vibe is casual, there's classic booths to slide into, a crackin' good kitchen and craft beer on tap.
Stroll on down to 122 Katoomba Street this coming Sunday Night to see Crow Mountain live on stage. Reservations are essential and seating is strictly limited - head to auntyeds.com.au to reserve your table now.
CROW MOUNTAIN:
Crow Mountain are an Australian old-time country and folk duo, performing original, traditionally flavoured tunes of unnerving honesty and effortless beauty.
Drawing on their Blue Mountains roots, Megan Legg (mandolin) and Ben Thomas (banjo and guitar), regularly performing alongside John Lee (fiddle), Quentin Fraser (dobro) and Paul Abrahams (double bass), blend old-time, bluegrass instrumentation with honey-dipped harmonies, painting aural portraits of human frailty and grit, sorrow and strength, love and redemption.
Their original songs are rich in the sound and story-telling of traditional country music – of growing up in isolation; jumping freight trains to get where you need to be; of getting out of town and returning beaten, with the past at your heels.
In 2019 Crow Mountain performed at the inaugural Sydney Folk Festival, and at the Katoomba Old-Timey Folk Festival, Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival and Mountaingrass Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival, as well as venues around the Blue Mountains and across regional New South Wales.
They released their debut EP, ‘Shallow Water’ in 2018, and have a new self-titled recording due in mid-2020
RESERVATIONS:
We are a fun, casual restaurant and welcome guests of all ages. We want everyone to enjoy their evening at Aunty Ed's and are providing live music free-of-charge but ask you to take note of a few things before joining us.
- Due to COVID-safe regulations, we are currently running at reduced capacity. As such we are asking a minimum spend of $25 per person for dine-in which can average out across the table.
- We are unable to guarantee specific table/booth requests
- We are required to take down the name and number (or email address) of everyone that enters the premises for contact tracing purposes.
WHAT IS AUNTY ED'S?:
The best-est and kitsch-iest slice of retro Australiana this side of Paul Hogan throwing a prawn on the barbie! Put on your best ‘thongs’ (those are 'flip-flops' or 'flimsy sandals’ for our non ‘occa’ speaking friends) and head to Katoomba’s best ‘underground’ restaurant and bar (it’s not a secret, it’s literally under the ground in a basement – we’d keep it a secret but that’s just bad for business). Forget small servings of deconstructed dishes that you saw last night on Masterchef (who wants a meal out that requires assembly anyway), think a crispy ‘schnitty burger’, ‘chips, bits and gravy’, ‘braised beef brisket ”, or a ‘zucchini burger’ for those who choose to make friends with salad. Whilst the food might remind you of a time when your grandmother used to make you a spam sandwich before you went outside to run under a sprinkler (the smartest thing kids had to play with before iPhones), the bar is all about the best beer, wine and cider you can get your hands on today . . . but don’t worry – beer comes in ‘tinnies’ so you’ll feel right at home. If that doesn’t take the lamington, Aunty Ed’s is home to the best cocktails (and mocktails) in the Mountains. Long story short, the food is tasty, the bar is ‘fully stocked’ bro, and it’s family-friendly . . . and your Aunty is welcome. It’s your ‘home away from home’ in the Blue Mountains.
WHERE IS AUNTY ED'S?:
122 Katoomba Street, Katoomba. If you’re driving and hit Echo Point, Skippy or the Milkybar kid – turn around and ask for directions . . . unless you’re a man, in which case you continue driving until you’re ready to admit you’re lost.