AN UPCOMING music night will certainly be full of sweet and juicy tunes.
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The Pineapple will be held at Tarraganda Hall this Saturday, and aims to become a regular, monthly event featuring five or six performers each time.
“There will be food, music, socialising – it can’t get any better,” the event’s performer organiser Buddy Gottaas said.
He and event organiser Elya Bartholomew are two Year 11 students from Bega High School, who said The Pineapple was initiated in order to provide a venue for local musicians to play.
“It’s also to show all the different types of music we have around here,” Elya said.
“It’s about having somewhere to go with your friends, and also just to make musical connections with people, from Moruya, Eden and around.
“We’re hoping to make some connections with Wollongong, and get some performers from there.”
“The Pineapple” was chosen as a name as it is a catchy, visual thing.
This works well for the show’s already-created merchandise - groovy pineapple t-shirts which will be sold on the night.
Elya said the event differs from another local youth music night, The Little Night In, as it will eventually be more about getting performers from out of the Bega Valley to play, while The Little Night In is “more of a blackboard night”.
She said they came up with the idea at the end of last year after seeing the Tarraganda Hall, and a core of young adults formed as organisers.
“It was a completely unused space, and we saw it and thought, hey, we can have something going on here,” Elya said of the hall.
It is not just a youth night, and while there are just young performers for the first event older musicians will play in the future.
Elya said they have received a lot of interest so far, and you can join the event’s Facebook page.
The inaugural Pineapple will take place on Saturday with doors opening at 6.30pm for a 7pm start at the Tarraganda Hall, on Tarraganda Lane three kilometres out of Bega.
There is a local line-up, featuring Matt Burrows, Tim Northern, Cabec, Grace O’Connor and Gypsy and the Albert Folk.
Tea, coffee and cake will be available and it is a gold coin donation.
