The Teskey Brothers serenade Mt Duneed crowd for special Day on the Green

A popular band had its fair share of challenges during a Day on the Green at Mt Duneed. Find out what happened and see all the photos

The Teskey Brothers perform at Mt Duneed Estate for A Day on the Green. Picture: Mike Dugdale

The Teskey Brothers Day on the Green was the perfect way to share a little tenderness in a world gone harsh.

Under painted Mount Duneed skies, West Virginian Sierra Ferrell declared herself quarter bogan and won hearts in an instant.

The renegade country gal breezed between ballads such as Kris Kristofferson’s Bobby McGee and Dollar Bill Bar to Far Away Across the Sea and a full on canter of yee-ha theatre with Fox Hunt.

Sierra Ferrell jams with her band on stage. Picture: Mike Dugdale

The less sophisticated Band of Horses dropped in awkwardly between Ferrell and the headliners with their brand of West Coast rock but prove the adage about books and covers.

Looking more like roadies, they were tight and talented, somehow dealing with simultaneous guitar outages and broken strings without dropping a beat.

Saving the life of a song called The Funeral is no mean feat.

Band of Horses lead singer Ben Bridwell at A Day on the Green on Saturday January 11. Picture: Mike Dugdale

The Teskey’s – Josh and Sam – had and needed no introduction, just strolling onto the stage with grins the size of the DOTG stage.

Brimming with retro, they are a nod to the great Otis Redding and they do it well.

But there’s so much more to them.

Photos: The Teskey Brothers at A Day on the Green

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The reliable bass (Fabian Hunter) and deft drum groove (Nicholas Lawrence) anchored the whimsical Hammond organ (Olaf Scott) allowing the brothers to create a new version of that great sound but one that is unique to them.

Add to that the oozing passion of a couple of hardworking musos who had honed their craft doing pubs and parties long before the ‘big break’.

Offerings don’t get better than a band that haemorrhages music as diverse as the simply psychedelic Paint My Heart and soul-busting Rain.

Josh Teskey sings to the adoring crowd. Picture: Mike Dugdale

My ticket should have said ‘admits one to a night of escapism wrapped in the vibes of the era of hope’.

The crowd was still humming the encore favourite Hold Me as they shuffled out under the moonlight.

This wasn’t Motown, this was G-Town, with Stax of it.

Originally published as The Teskey Brothers serenade Mt Duneed crowd for special Day on the Green