A Small Hall Session with C.W Stoneking

Coming to you Live at the Meeanee Hall!

Food and drink available from 6pm with music from 6:30pm.

C.W. Stoneking is an Australian/American singer, musician, recording artist. Born in

Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia in the mid 1970s. He has lived and

toured across Australia, the UK, Europe, and the U.S.A. He has independently

released 3 critically acclaimed original full length albums, King Hokum, Jungle

Blues, and Gon’ Boogaloo. He’s performed extensively internationally with various

backing band lineups and as a solo performer, the instrumentation of his musical

groups and recordings mirror the stylistic inspirations of his songwriting, New

Orleans style brass and drums, Traditional African, Caribbean style percussion,

early 20th century blues, jazz, and American folk styled guitar and banjo, gospel

inspired electric guitar and background singing…

C.W. Stoneking’s music and lyrics draw inspiration from a wide spectrum of

musical styles and traditions which he combines to create his own unique sound.

“There are multitudes in Stoneking’s music. It’s probably easiest to describe him

as a ‘blues artist,’ but the term disguises what makes his music special. There’s so

much in there. 1920s pre-war blues..New Orleans jazz..jug band

music..hokum..country..calypso..jump jive..early rock’n’roll..gospel.. His gift is that

he brings them all together without anything sounding out of place. He finds the

strands that connect all of these different styles and gently braids them together.”

Jim Hickson , Roots Magazine 2018

“If I could ever trade my speaking voice with a person, it would be C.W Stoneking.

He just sounds like he's from a ghost ship in the middle of monster island to me.

It's just beautiful.”

Jack White, Double J 2018