Local Gold #12

Name: Local Gold #12
Start: 2026-03-30T09:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-30T11:00:00+11:00
Location: Smith's Alternative

Schedule

Mon Mar 30 2026 at 09:00 am to 11:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Smith's Alternative | Canberra, CT

$20/10
Local Gold showcases the best and latest original music acts in Canberra.
Appearing at this Local Gold: The Silvertop String Band, Tom Woodward and Mini Trace. Details below
Hosted by lovable local rockstar, Pete Lyon, the three part show opens with a proven emerging talent and progresses to a headline set from a higher profile established favourite. Most acts are local, but it’s pretty Canberra to welcome visitors too, right.
Local Gold is intimate, fun and entertaining, with an emphasis on authentic artistic expression in original contemporary songwriting. So, if you love hearing local talent, new and old, raw or polished, make this a recurring appointment in your calendar!
Appearing:
The Silvertop String Band are a brand new five-piece Bluegrass band in Canberra, so new they have no on-line presence or photos. Their first gig was at Cobargo Folk Festival, followed by a support for Cobargo sensations El Pony Pisador at Smith’s and now they headline Local Gold, the pinnacle of their career so far.
Tom Woodward is arguably Canberra’s most prolific songwriter, a hard-seasoned busker, a long distance runner, a rambling man… a poet philosopher, a tormented soul, a dreamer… enigmatic, melancholic genius…. his finger-picking an otherworldly product of 25 years ceaseless, obsessive bio-mechanical programming, his clinking clanking meccano hands propelling his songs on their careering, careening path through nutrient-rich word salads, bleak and pitiless, yet somehow comforting. His voice an authentically tortured Dylanesque yowl and whine – full of inner torment, bemused life observations, obtuse metaphors. And with all that, finally, an entertaining and self-deprecatingly humorous performer, personable and engaging – you’ll want to take him home with you despite your better instincts.
Mini Trace are a duo subset of their main band, The Trace. With one guitar and two voices, with great harmonies and clever lyrics, they don’t seem to require a band? But check them out here or around town with band and make up your own mind.