Our Big Fat Greek Café Tour

Step inside the Greek-Australian café of a golden era - the smell of frying chips and freshly ground coffee, the clatter of plates - the heart of the town.
This was the world that fed regional Australia for the better part of a century. The Greek cafés. The milk bars. The families behind the counter who arrived with photographs of strangers in their pockets and built lives one steak and chips at a time.
Greco Retro Jazz band Girl From Greece bring you Our Big Fat Greek Café Tour, a 75-minute live music show woven with the soundtrack of those cafés featuring Greek classics, jazz standards, timeless favourites and the stories that filled their walls.
Mel Lathouras grew up in Bundaberg, where her family ran two cafés on Bourbong Street, the Café Royal and the Elite, from 1920. Katerini Manolatos's family ran Feros & Feros in Byron Bay around the same time. Now Mel comes home to Bundaberg with Kat by her side, bringing the whole Greek café story to the stage with a stellar six-piece band of Australia's finest musicians, with bouzouki at the heart of it all.
Greek classics. Jazz standards. Stories from behind the counter that belong to everyone who walked through the door. The yelling and the laughing. The early mornings and the late nights. The daily opera of café life.
Part concert, part shared history, all heart.
Fresh from a sold-out launch at Brisbane's Thomas Dixon Centre, which was a feature performance at the 50th anniversary of Paniyiri Greek Festival.
"Mel and Kat are a powerful creative duo." — John Kotzas AM, CEO Queensland Performing Arts Centre