Ricketty Bridge will kick off February’s Music in the Gardens series on Sunday.
ERIN PEARSON
GEELONG Botanic Gardens will come alive with folk music this Sunday, according to a promoter for a month-long concert series.
Simon Dawe said Ricketty Bridge will perform its acoustic music for the first time to kick off Music in the gardens.
The Sunday concerts will offer entertainment in the tranquil surrounds of the gardens for patrons of all ages, Dawe said.
“Being a concert series in the botanic gardens, the location is a very beautiful thing.
“The location is really what has made these concerts so successful, having spanned around 12 years.”
Dawe described Ricketty Bridge as six-piece acoustic crossover band that would have “a crack” at anything from Celtic to country.
The bands instruments included an octave mandolin, an accordion, a melodeon, renaissance recorders, Spanish pipes, a fiddle, a saxophone, a dumbeck and a double bass.
“The variety of music ranges from old English fiddle tunes and Breton sailing shanties through contemporary Celtic to 1930s Yiddish theatre and instrumental pieces with a distinctive Middle Eastern groove.”
Dawe said all proceeds from summer concerts would go to Friends of the Botanic Gardens.
Other Music in the Gardens acts for the following Sundays were The Hip Cats, Soul Sister Swing and African Agogo.
Ricketty Bridge is at the Geelong Botanic Gardens on February 5, from 5pm to 7.30pm.
