Neighbourhood Notes – Don Morrison

We are kicking off the first ‘Neighbourhood Notes’ with none other than local singer, songwriter, guitarist, story teller and guitar maker Don Morrison. You may have heard Don playing his music at The Pear before, on the G’Day Port Adelaide live ABC broadcast with Sonya Feldhoff in May 2021.

Don has shared the stage with many of the biggest names in Australian music, like Midnight Oil, Billy Thorpe, Hunters and Collectors, Men At Work and a hundred more in more than thirty years in music game. He has worked with Bo Diddly, Joe Cocker, Rodriguez and even Billy Ray Cyrus.

He was brave enough to stand next to Shakin’ Stephens in a urinal and nearly got killed by Willie Nelson in Austin, Texas. He’s released fifteen albums of original music and written all about it in a rollicking biography “This Could Be Big – Forty Years at the dag end of the Australian Music Industry”. Don is also a luthier who makes the world renowned Donmo Resonator guitars. More than 500 of these hand made, metal bodied instruments are being played around the world.

Dubbed the Larrikin Troubadour Laureate of Adelaide, he is playing, singing and writing songs better than ever. His songs tell our story with humour, irony and compassion. Don is an entertaining story teller with a powerful stage presence.  He makes his own guitars, writes his own songs and sings them himself.

Come along for one of two sets on Saturday March 18, at 9.30am or 11am. Or stick around for the morning!