Woodfordia Ltd
presents
Spring Tour 2026: Regional, Remote and Coastal Queensland
featuring OLD MAN LUEDECKE (CAN) and NICOLE MURRAY (AUS)
Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of two time JUNO award winning and Polaris prize nominated singer songwriter Chris Luedecke. A multiple East Coast Music Award-winner known for his high energy banjo driven stompers, touching guitar ballads and dry humorous stories, Luedecke has been making a soundtrack to an authentic life for nearly twenty years.
Born in Toronto and long time resident of the country near Chester Nova Scotia, Luedecke began recording in the early 2000’s DIY folk scene of Halifax. He made his two JUNO winning albums for Black Hen Music in the late 00s with Steve Dawson as producer at Vancouver’s famed Factory studio. While on a tour of England in 2009, he met and supported folk roots legend Tim O’Brien who produced Luedecke’s next two albums. Tender is the Night was recorded at John’s Prine’s Butcher Shoppe Studio in Nashville in 2012 and 2015’s Domestic Eccentric was recorded in a cabin Luedecke built himself at his home in NS. 2019 saw Luedecke recording Easy Money at both the Banff Centre in Alberta and at Hotel2Tango in Montreal.
Songs like “I Quit My Job” at the beginning of his career and “The Early Days” at the beginning of his family and dozens of other fan favourites trace a warm line of effort, sadness and joy and provide a soundtrack to many peoples’ own progress through adulthood, touching a rare place of truth and charm in the holiness of the mundane. His performing style with his easy going humour and storytelling creates a rare space of hopeful and intimate magic.
Luedecke has kept up many worldwide concert appearances, playing in Europe and around Canada and the USA and six trips to Australia, including a memorable tour where his whole young family travelled with him around rural Queensland for the Festival of Small Halls.
In May 2022 Luedecke was awarded an honorary doctorate from King’s University in Halifax for his cultural contributions.
Nicole Murray is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter working in folk and traditional music. In her varied twenty-five year career she has toured in ten countries and made nine albums with her celebrated band Cloudstreet, simultaneously running two community choirs, a small festival, and annual music summer school classes. She has played more than 300 international shows and many more than that in Australia.
She writes songs with strong narratives, poetic lyrics and catchy choruses, and is a gifted melody writer. She is acclaimed for instrumental and vocal-harmony arrangements for her bands and her choirs. Respected as a vocal workshop leader and instrumental teacher, she loves to empower adult learners to make music and become musically literate.
Nicole created two online choirs during the lock-downs of 2020, and for her excellent work won an Australian Folk Music Award in 2021 for Best Community/Cultural Project. She also won the inaugural Australian Folk Music Award for Best Traditional Album with Cloudstreet and the Little Cloud Orchestra, the final album before the untimely end of the band with the death of her primary collaborator of 22 years, her husband John Thompson.
In 2023 she produced concerts to commemorate John at major festivals, programming an array of national and international performers including Eric Bogle, Chris While & Julie Matthews, and Billy Bragg.
Her other projects have included Scottish dance band The Ceilidh Clan, and The Secret History of Queensland, a show where she created live lightbox drawings and performed songs with fiddle-singing band The Wish List. She co-founded and ran traditional music festival The Maleny Celtic Winter School (2009-14), and for over a decade directed Morningsong Community Choir and The Folk Choir in Brisbane. She has recently presented singing and walking tours in Kosciuszko and France.
Nicole has emerged as a solo performer accompanying her voice with fiddle, guitar and concertina. She loves to sing Australian stories and mysterious old songs about witches.
Cameby, QLD, 5 October 2026 – WORKSHOP ONLY
Cameby Hall, QLD, Barunggam Country Cameby Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Barunggam People. The Cameby Hall has been an important part of Cameby and surrounding communities since the 1960s. The hall is located off the highway, halfway between Chinchilla and Miles, and is surrounded by farmland. It has held many local dances, … Read more
Aramac, QLD, 7 October 2026 – WORKSHOP ONLY
Aramac State School, QLD, Iningai Country Aramac State School stands on the traditional lands of the Iningai People. Aramac State School has been teaching young Queenslanders since 1880, its heritage-listed schoolhouse carrying the wonderfully fitting motto, ‘deeds not words’. In one of Queensland’s oldest outback towns, Aramac is steeped in pioneering stories, including its connection … Read more
Winton, QLD, 8 October 2026
Winton Shire Hall, QLD, Koa (Guwa) Country Winton Shire Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Koa (Guwa) People. Winton is the home of the dinosaurs, opals and cattle industry… and the home of the dunny derby as well! Best known as: Australia’s Dinosaur Capital due to the huge number of dinosaur fossils found … Read more
Glenden, QLD, 10 October 2026
Glenden Recreation Centre, QLD, Jangga Country Glenden Recreation Centre stands on the traditional lands of the Jangga People. Glenden Recreation Centre is the focal point for this small community of passionate residents located 110km west of Mackay. Established in the early 1980s to support the nearby Newlands Coal Mine, the town is surrounded by cattle … Read more
Thangool, QLD, 13 OCTOBER 2026 – WORKSHOP ONLY
Thangool Recreation Reserve, QLD, Gangulu Country Thangool Recreation Reserve stands on the traditional lands of the Gangulu People. The Thangool Recreation Reserve clubhouse/hall was originally the Biloela Golf clubhouse. The whole building, complete with function room, bar and cold room, was moved to Thangool in 1983. The Thangool Advancement Association has held monthly meetings at … Read more
Emu Creek, QLD, 15 OCTOBER 2026 -WORKSHOP ONLY
Emu Creek Hall, QLD, Jarowair, Garumga, and Dalla Country Emu Creek Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Jarowair, Garumga, and Dalla People. The Emu Creek Hall has served the local farming and timber community for over 75 years. The rustic, corrugated iron hall is nestled amongst the ironbark trees approximately 30 kms north … Read more
Glen Aplin, QLD, 16 October 2026
Glen Aplin Memorial Hall, QLD, Kambuwal, Bundjalung and Gamilaroi Country Glen Aplin Memorial Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Kambuwal, Bundjalung and Gamilaroi People.The Glen Aplin Memorial Hall was erected in memory of those from the district who served in World War One and World War Two. Building materials were scarce but the … Read more
Monto, QLD, 20 & 21 October 2026 – Workshop & Show
Monto Landcare Hall, Qld, Gooreng Gooreng, Wakka Wakka and Wulli Wulli of the larger Burnett Region Country Monto Landcare Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Gooreng Gooreng, Wakka Wakka and Wulli Wulli of the larger Burnett Region People.Monto Landcare Group’s hall was originally built in 1953 for the burgeoning Monto Scout Group and … Read more
Austinville, QLD, 23 October 2026
Mt Nimmel Hall, QLD, Kombumerri Country Mt Nimmel Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Kombumerri People.Mt Nimmel Hall is the meeting house for folk living in Austinville, a secluded lush valley in the Gold Coast hinterland, nestled between Mudgeeraba and Springbrook National Park’s world-heritage listed Gondwana Rainforest. Mt Nimmel Hall serves as the … Read more
Cooroy, QLD, 24 October 2026
Cooroy Memorial Hall, QLD, Kabi Kabi Country Cooroy Memorial Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Kabi Kabi People.Set in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland township of Cooroy, the Cooroy Memorial Hall is one of the community’s most historic buildings and has been home to a significant portion of the town’s history. Recently refurbished, the … Read more
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Woodfordia Ltd presents Festival of Small Halls Spring Tour 2026: Regional, Remote and Coastal Queensland featuring Old Man Luedecke (CAN) and Nicole Murray
Festival of Small Halls has announced that Old Man Luedecke (CAN) and Nicole Murray (AUS) will feature on their upcoming Spring Tour 2025.
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OLD MAN LUEDECKE (CAN)
Old Man Luedecke is one of Canada’s best loved roots musicians and few banjo troubadours. Known for his high energy banjo stompers and touching guitar ballads on subjects from nature to spirit and family to food, Luedecke charms his audiences by elevating the mundane to the wonderful. An award- winning musician, Luedecke is also dryly funny in his presentations.
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NICOLE MURRAY (AUS)
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Nicole Murray has spent 20 years touring internationally with Cloudstreet and nurturing community through music. A choir director and teacher, Nicole invites audiences to sing and play together, learning and connecting through harmony, traditional tunes and joyful participation.
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