featuring The Barry Leef Band with Kimi Tupaea
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The Basement, 29 Reiby Place, Circular Quay
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PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TRIBUTE SHOW
One of Australia's all-time great singers has put together a new show paying tribute to some of the world's favourite bands from the 60s, 70s and 80s The Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Creedence Clearwater, Santana and more.
Barry Leef has one of Australia's best known voices, having been featured on over 170 TV and radio advertisements during 20 years as Sydney's number one session singer. He has also fronted legendary Aussie bands Bakery and Supermarket, led the in-house band at Sydney's Musician's club for ten years, and performed with Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Elvin Bishop, Tom Jones and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter to name a few.
As anyone over 30 will know, these bands had over 100 worldwide hits between 1971 and 1990 and have all become staples of classic rock radio over the past 25 years. Their music is diverse, sophisticated, danceable and loved universally by adult music fans.
While Barry has had this show in mind for some time, the key to kick starting the venture was discovering vocalist Kimi Tupaea, who has the remarkable capacity to sound very much like one of the world's most unique voices, Mike McDonald, whose entry into The Doobie Brothers in the late 70s reignited their success with a second wave of big chart hits such as Takin' It to the Streets, What a Fool Believes, Little Darlin', and Minute by Minute.
Barry Leef has assembled a hand picked nine-piece band featuring Sydney's best singers and musicians, including -
Barry Leef - (Barry Leef Band, Bakery, Supermarket) - vocal & guitar
Kimi Tupaea - vocals & drums
Rex Goh - (Aust Idol band, Air Supply, Jenny Morris, Glenn Shorrock, Tommy Emmanuel, everyone) - guitars
Victor Rounds - (Renee Geyer, Marcia Hines, James Morrison, Tina Arena, everyone else) - bass & vocals
John Spence - (The Big Daddys, Fargone Beauties) - guitars & vocals
Richard Harvey - (The Divinyls, Joe Walsh Band, The Party Boys, Big Daddys) - drums
Garry Steel & Ara Nercessian - keyboards
Teri Lee - percussion & vocals
