Name: Douglas Simper tribute and benefit
Start: 2024-12-01T15:00:00+10:30
Location: Church of The Trinity - Uniting Church

PhD(Composition), MEd(Creative Arts), BMus(Hons), BA, DipT
Tickets $30/25
Afternoon tea will be served
Featuring:
*Rod Boucher with Buffalo Drive
*Sevenfold
*Richard Palmer and Co.
*Fossils with multi-ARIA Award winner Peter Combe OAM
*Leigh Newton
*Melinda Steel performing some of Doug’s piano pieces
*Jan Oliver Singers with Jenny Ward on piano performing some of Doug’s songs
*Holy Horns led by Andrew Newhouse
Doug is wanting to return to Adelaide for his 80th birthday in early December and this concert is a way to pay for Lorna and his expenses in getting to Adelaide from Canberra. It is a way to honour Doug’s contribution to music through a breadth of genres. He has some medical issues these days which slow him down but we’ll still get to hear some his music from those performing on the day.
The concert musicians are donating their time to honour Doug but also to celebrate the significance of Adelaide music in the 1970s. They were heady days, not least through the contribution of young English immigrants coming to live in Adelaide as well as those who grew up in the suburbs of Adelaide.