Live at the Quarry summer series has been announced for the 2008/2009 season!

Live At The Quarry was first launched in February 2008, with an inaugural summer series comprising nine concerts in the Quarry Amphitheatre, a magnificent open air venue created from an abandoned quarry at Reabold Hill in City Beach, WA. Gourmet food, fine wine and even more tantalising refreshments are available to help event goers unwind on the terraced lawns prior to the performances and make the most of Perth’s balmy summer evenings.

The gigs:

SOLD OUT – Paul Kelly – Tuesday 4, Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November 2008. Gates open 6pm.

Paul Kelly’s A-Z shows consist of 100 songs in alphabetical order over four nights with no repeats. After performing these shows in Edinburgh and around Australia, he will be taking them to Perth for the first time.

Tripod – Wednesday 17 December 2008 – Gates Open 6pm

Tripod are doing a Christmas Show! Hoorah! What makes it Christmassy, you ask? Well, as long as Santa gets mentioned (tick) and Jesus (tick) and reindeer (tick) and baubles and that are in it (tick), who cares? And they’ve recorded a shiny new Christmas Album to go with it. The perfect stocking filler. A shameless plug? You betcha. Tripod – the three wise men of the new millennium, just 8 years late…

James Morrison – 21 and 22 January 2009 – Gates Open 6pm, Tickets from BOCS.

Welcome the Australian multi-Instrumentalist who has been guest performer with most of the world’s truly great symphony orchestras and national radio bands of the UK, West Germany and other European and Middle Eastern nations: James Morrison. He’s become a world jazz legend in his own lifetime; is yet to turn 50; is idol to fans in more countries than most people can name, regularly gives live performances in most of them; has co-performed and co-recorded in the last 23 years with many of the world’s truly great jazz personalities and is respected by all of them for his talent.

The Whitlams – Friday 30 (SOLD OUT), Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2009 – Gates Open 6pm

The Whitlams are one of Australia’s favourite bands, whose appeal reaches audiences of all ages and tastes. And after six studio albums, three of which are Platinum and two Gold, the time is ripe for The Whitlams’ “Best of”. Released this August, ‘Truth, Beauty & A Picture of You – The Best of The Whitlams’ is a comprehensive look at the amazing journey of the ARIA award winning band, from scrappy beginnings and tragedy to the success and stability of recent years. Tim Freedman describes: “It’s a mixture of the popular and the narrative. I decided to leave a few singles off because I wanted to tell the story of The Whitlams, and include more early songs and songs that describe the dramas in our history.”

Tickets on sale Monday 8 September through BOCS Ticketing.

A series of nine concerts will be held at the magnificent Quarry Amphitheatre (at Reabold Hill in City Beach) each Sunday evening from February to April 2008.

Gates open at 6pm, so you can have some drinks at the bar and enjoy a picnic before the music starts.

Vince Jones with support Lucky Oceans – Sunday 3rd February 2008

Holly Throsby with Dave Mann- Sunday 10th February 2008

Richard Clapton with support Howie Morgan – Sunday 17th February 2008

Old Man River with support Will Udall Trio – Sunday 24th February 2008

The Black Sorrows with support Bianca Jade – Sunday 9th March 2008

Bojeme with support Graham Wood Trio – Sunday 16th March 2008

James Morrison with support Day of the Dead – Sunday 30th March 2008

Kate Miller-Heidke with support Blanche Dubois – Sunday 6th April 2008

Tickets on sale through The Quarry Amphitheatre or BOCS Ticketing. Ticket prices vary from $37 to $52. Part proceeds going to the JB Seed Arts Fund.

Live at the Quarry website