Portmanteaux has agreed to provide musical pieces and incidental sounds for the Blue Roo Theatre Company for their 2024 productions – “A Small Day Out” and “Midnight at the Cemetery”. You can find out more about Blue Roo via their website.
Portmanteaux and Another Story are assisting the Blue Roo Theatre Company (an all abilities Brisbane-based theatre group) by providing the score and incidental sounds and music for their 2023 production Bridges. Stay tuned for more information. You can check out the Blue Roo Theatre Company’s website here: Blue Roo Theatre Company.
Peter Kershaw is the new Bassist for Portmanteaux, joining them in September 2022.
Actually, Peter has a long history with Henry Jackson. They played music together when they bonded over blues and R’n’B at high school in Auckland, New Zealand. Peter was a central player in the Auckland blues scene and played in the Mad Dog Jug Band, Original Sun Blues Band, Killing Floor, OK Dinghy, Molly, Cruise Lane, and in Australia, Key Largo, The Red Hot Peppers and Frank Raymond & The Silhouettes. Peter made a living as a professional musician from 1969 to 1978, then worked in the Australian Film Industry as Key Grip, for 28 years before returning to musical entertainment.
For more details see https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/henry-jackson-peter-kershaw-and-the-auckland-blues-boom https://www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/cruise-lane
Digital Single. This is something a bit different from Portmanteaux and is a jazzy Parisian/Western Swing type tune that features the wonderful Jenee Fleenor on fiddle – USA country fiddle ace.
Now out on Bandcamp https://portmanteauxmelbourne.bandcamp.com/
released July 4, 2022
Portmanteaux are:
Mick Frawley – drums; Henry Jackson – guitars; Peter Kershaw – bass; Steve Malkin – keyboards; with Jenee Fleenor – fiddle
Tune written by Alan M Leslie and Henry Jackson.
Recorded by Henry Jackson at Hungry Bear Studios and recorded, engineered and mixed by Ross Caygill at Salt Studios and produced by Ross Caygill and Henry Jackson at Salt Studios. Jenee Fleenor’s fiddle track courtesy Bill Watson, Nashville Trax, Nashville, USA. Mastering by Ross Caygill at Salt Studios, Melbourne, Australia.
Background Cover Artwork: John Hain
Portmanteaux Band - Melbourne 