Brian Cadd is a bona-fide music legend, a multi-award winning songwriter and recipient of an Order of Australia (AM). This powerhouse singer and piano player is as energised and creative as ever.

His career began with the iconic Australian band The Groop in 1966 and wrote all their hits including Woman You’re Breaking Me and Such A Lovely Way. He then formed Axiom, heavily influenced by The Band and dubbed Australia’s first supergroup, he penned hits including Little Ray of Sunshine, Arkansas Grass and My Baby’s Gone.

The next few years saw gold and platinum records and prestigious awards for film scores, title songs and TV themes. In addition, hits included Ginger Man, Let Go, Don’t You Know It’s Magic and Alvin Purple.

After being based in the US during the seventies and eighties, Brian moved back to Australia in 1997 where he has remained, still playing to huge audiences nationwide. In 2007 he was inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame and in the same year was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2018 he was awarded an Order of Australia (AM).

In 2019 Brian released Silver City, produced in Nashville by Mark Moffatt, since 1960 Brian Cadd remains one of Australia’s greatest treasures; a true Statesman of songwriting and recording.

Celebrate 50 Years of Great Aussie Rock with the legendary Dragon here in person on our stage! Sun 15th Oct at 7:30pm

The iconic songs that we’ll never forget – This Time, Get That Jive, Still In Love, April Sun in Cuba, and Are You Old Enough! It will be flashbacks to all sorts of happy memories through your life – not only celebrating 50 years of the band’s hit after Aussie hit, it’s a celebration of you and your relationship with the Dragon songs. Each song is a snapshot of what was happening to you the first time you heard it on the radio or on Countdown and, as such, is branded indelibly into your memory.

Songs from the 80s like Rain, Speak No Evil, and Dreams of Ordinary men and songs from the Phoenix Years like Don’t I look like Jim, Roses, Babylon, and many more. Witnessing Dragon in Concert in full flight triggers a powerfully emotional response – lose yourself in the moment with people who were, until moments ago, complete strangers, and are now fellow Dragon compatriots!

DRAGON – here in person at Avoca Beach Theatre – up close and personal!

Kate Miller-Heidke embarks on the CATCHING DIAMONDS Massive National Regional Tour of Australia. Coming to Avoca Beach Theatre on Tue 6th Feb 2024 at 7:30 pm. VIP presale 5th Sept, General tickets 6th Sept.
Kate Miller-Heidke is an award-winning singer-songwriter who traverses the worlds of folk, pop, opera and musical theatre. She has performed on stages as varied as the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Coachella, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Eurovision Song Contest, the Sydney Opera House, and the Roebuck Bay Hotel, Broome.
And now, after long months locked away writing songs, she’s hitting the road to play in dozens of beautiful theatres around Australia.
Kate will be playing her greatest hits and most beloved pop songs, as well as performing tracks from her original musicals ‘Muriel’s Wedding the Musical’ and the new ‘Bananaland’, some unexpected covers, taking requests, and telling stories from across her varied career. Excitingly, she’ll also be debuting new material from her forthcoming 6th studio album, which will dive deep into the genre of ‘gothic folk’.
This is a special opportunity to see Kate in intimate, stripped-back mode, accompanied by her long-term collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar.
(The bendy poles from Eurovision will be there emotionally, but not physically).
Kate says of the upcoming tour, “Playing live has always been at the heart of what I do – I live for it. I can’t wait to get back to some places I haven’t been in AGES, and some I’ve never been to, and connect with my amazing audiences across Australia. Regional crowds are some of the greatest people to play for!”
Like all Kate Miller-Heidke shows, the CATCHING DIAMONDS tour will be a celebration of voice, storytelling, emotion, humour and music that transports and transcends, of discovering anew each night the transformative connection between the performer and the audience.
ABOUT KATE MILLER-HEIDKE:
Kate is a unique, evergreen artist who is constantly attracting new audiences of music lovers of all ages. After studying classical voice at the Queensland Conservatorium, she moved into the world of folk, and was crowned ‘The Queen Of Woodford Folk Festival’ before embarking on a career in alternative pop.
Chart topping hits, critically acclaimed albums, international songwriting awards, world tours, a Neighbours commercial, musical theatre, performing roles for the English National Opera and Metropolitan Opera, TV roles, a kid, Helpmann Awards, Eurovision, 17 ARIA nominations, death-defying acrobatics on top of a bendy pole, The Masked Singer (where she was appropriately dubbed The Queen), Shakespearean soundtracks, Broadway and the West End, football grand finals, and just recently, the Logies. She’s done it all, and she just keeps getting better. What’s next? Come along and find out!​