Tribute to Paul Kelly- The Forum 14.11.09

Gosh where do I start, this was an incredible night of beautiful music and even more incredible performances by an array of Australian leading lights of the music industry.

At the beginning of the night it was great to hear people in the audience sharing their stories of when they first heard Paul Kelly’s music. For me I remember seeing Paul Kelly and the Dots on Countdown and that was it, I was a goner. And yes, that was almost thirty years ago.

The backing band consisted of some blokes you may know….

Dave

Ed

Kiernan

and

Adam

And look there were even some

Arnold Horns thrown in

Ash Naylor

as the musical director for the event had the unenviable task of filling in on stage during the gaps in between artists and he managed to keep everyone entertained.

Performers included

Bob Evans

Megan Washington

who sang a beautiful version of Meet Me in the Middle of the Air,

Paul Dempsey

Dan Kelly

Katy Steele

Dan Sultan singing Give In To My Love, does this man ever take a bad photo??

Clare Bowditch

Clare singing To Her Door

Jae Laffer from The Panics

Ozi Battla from The Herd

Adalita from Magic Dirt

Missy Higgins

and the first surprise of the night - John Butler

John then invited Missy Higgins and Dan Sultan back on stage to join him in singing From Big things Little Things Grow

come on, any excuse to add another photo of Dan Sultan

They were then joined by everyone on stage for the final chorus

it became a great big love fest

And then just when we thought it was over the second surprise of the night….

Paul sang Leaps and Bounds and was joined by

Michael Barclay

and Jon Schofield

and then everyone else joined in for the finale

I love this photo of Clare as it shows just how loved and admired Paul is

………. and a good time was had by all

The End.

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