Way Out West Roots Music Club started out on a wing and a prayer in Dec of 2001.
A group of Roots music fans whose regular watering hole was the Williamstown RSL pooled together $50 each to put on a gig featuring the Hornets. With the blessing of the RSL management we put the word around Town that blues music was coming to the West. Up until that time we had to travel on the road and over the river to catch quality live music.
It was a gamble but it worked and gave us the confidence to build on that days success. Here we are six years later an Incorporated Club hosting the best roots musicians in the land and also getting calls from overseas touring artists who want to come Way Out West. As the great Paul Kelly song goes ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’.
We now find ourselves an integral part of the Roots music scene. We are so proud to have been able to create a much needed venue in the West. If you have not been to the Club then please come down and check us out, we guarantee to make your day a good one.
Dogtown
Between the bank and the higher ground extended, from Cole St to the point, a low lying level of noisome swamp-land, almost always covered with stagnant water, further back from the foreshore the black sand changed to stiff clayey soil, whereon grew and struggled stunted copses of sheoak, blackwood, and the native cherry. As before mentioned, the whole dismal environs were haunted continuosly by voracious packs of wild dogs and dingoes, whose melancholy howling made night hideous.
(history of Williamstown)
Annual General Meeting - 2009
We held our inaugural Annual Meeting on Saturday 17th Oct. As my Vice President stated an AGM can be described as 'a necessary evil or a celebration'. The attendance would suggest the later. There was good input from all and we got a lot of positive feedback and even managed to get a few motions passed. The committee has been fine tuned down to a more workable number. I would like to congratulate the new committee and also acknowledge everyone that helped out in our first year of incorporation .Below is a PDF of my President's report. Rob
president's report
Way Out West agm minutes
Annual General Meeting - 2010
Our second AGM was held on Sat 9th Nov. We have had afew changes to commitee and we welcome on board Jenni Chapman (Treasuror), Vicki Sullivan, Phoebe Giles and Diane Forster. We thank retiring committee membersTrish, Ursula and Wendy for their work in helping to keep the ship afloat for the previous year. Also a big thanks to Jenni Brockman for stepping in as the Secretary
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