Steve Plater's Dirty Blues and The McNaMarr Project - Live at Union Square

  • March 15, 2025 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
  • Ballarat Trades Hall

    24 Camp Street
    Ballarat Central, Victoria 3350
Ticket Price (AUD) $15.00 Buy Tickets
Description

Live at Union Square presents and brilliant Double Bill of Local Blues!

STEVE PLATER & THE DIRTY BLUES is fronted by multi award-winning guitarist/vocalist Steve Plater – recognised as one of Australia's finest multi-instrumentalists and renowned for his wickedly deft slide guitar playing with expertise across a range of stringed instruments. If you like your blues raw and dirty, with stinging slide and raspy vocals
 sounding like he’s seen and done it all, then Steve Plater is just the ticket!

With a music performance and recording career spanning well over 3 decades, Steve is best known as a longstanding founding member of the crowd-pleasing, beloved blues band SALTY DOG.  Steve’s personal musical journey in recent years has led to the release of two albums, ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ and ‘Steve Plater and The Dirty Blues’ – showcasing a vocal style which draws inspiration from the soulful sounds of Blind Willie Johnson.

Steve has performed on the same bill as legendary acts B.B. King, Tony Joe White, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Little Charlie & The Night Cats, along with other international headliners, and is also founder and director of the successful
 Great Southern Cigar Box Guitar Festival, held in Ballarat Victoria for the past five years which has become a feature on the regional music scene.

THE McNAMARR PROJECT:
The stars aligned in the musical universe when Andrea Marr and John McNamara, both well respected and experienced Australian Soul and Blues artists in their own right, combined forces to become The McNaMarr Project. They’re right up there with the very best. In 2019 they released ‘Holla & Moan’ - their debut collaborative work. And theglobal blues and soul scene sat up and took serious notice, with great airplay support worldwide, and fabulous reviews likewise pouring in from all corners. The album won the Vic/Tas blues awards for Album of The Year and Song of The Year. Their 2nd Album "Run With Me" also racked up awards and reached number 1 on the Blues and Soul charts here in Aus and the US.The McNaMarr Project are back with their third  album – The Qausar SessionsYet anothet number 1 release on the Blues charts  !and another nomination for Best Blues work in the prestige Music Victoria awards and in November 2024, Andrea Marr was inducted into the Blues Music Victoria Legends Hall of fame.They have represented Australia in Memphis for the International Blues Challenge and being hailed world wide as ‘The Real Deal’. ‘The Soul of Stax’ 

Live at Union Square is a great new series featuring original Australian music in an intimate setting at Trades Hall.

The series is supported by Music Australia - an Australian government initiative - Ballarat Regional Trades and Labour Council and H Squared Studios.

Buy a ticket and come along and support the artists in our lush music space and see great new Australian music.
The Union Bar is open from 7pm to 11pm

Full details at:

tradeshallevents.au
 

Date & Time

Sat, Mar 15, 2025 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Venue Details

Ballarat Trades Hall

24 Camp Street
Ballarat Central, Victoria 3350 Ballarat Trades Hall