ROBBIE MANN & NEILL DUNCAN // December 20, 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 Robbie Mann bring a little stride piano, accompanied by one-man-band, Neill Duncan, live on stage. Reservations are essential and seating is strictly limited - head to auntyeds.com.au to reserve your table now.

ROBBIE MANN:
Robbie specialises in a style of early jazz piano known as ‘Stride’. Born of ragtime, the term ‘stride’ was coined for reasons that will be immediately recognisable if you spy the left hand of a well-versed practitioner. Stride, in it’s purest form, is a rarely heard idiom and Robbie is one of the very few masters of the style in Australia. While many a pianist may be fine purveyors of the accurate leaping left hand, Stride piano is a much more specific adherence to particular rhythms and mannerisms. For a demonstration, one must simply listen to some of the founding masters of the style. The music of James P. Johnson, Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, Fats Waller and Donald Lambert would constitute an excellent start. While Robbie often fuses his genuine grasp of stride with many other forms of music, to great expressive effect and artistic exploration, the soul of the music remains unmistakably, ‘Stride Piano’. Stride is especially suited to solo performance due to its emphasis on the ability to mimic an entire rhythm section in the left hand. Robbie regularly performs as a solo artist, including a mix of ragtime, stomps and eccentric arrangements of eclectic melodies amongst established jazz standards.

NEILL DUNCAN:
Neill Duncan is one of New Zealand’s most exciting and eccentric musical exports. His natural talent was almost cut short in 2016 when he lost his left arm to cancer. Proving you can’t keep a great musician quiet, Neill now plays a bespoke, one-handed tenor saxophone, designed and built in Amsterdam. As if that weren’t impressive enough, he also plays an adapted drum kit, a megaphone, and a few additional weird and wonderful instruments that thrill crowds Australia-wide.

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

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