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The Yearlings & Lucie Thorne Winter in Adelaide

Sunday, June 28 @ 4:00PMSun, Jun 28 @ 4:00PM

The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton SA, Adelaide

The Yearlings & Lucie Thorne Winter in Adelaide Tour. Tickets $30

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The Yearlings & Lucie Thorne Winter in Adelaide

Saturday, June 27 @ 8:00PMSat, Jun 27 @ 8:00PM

Three Brothers Arms, 40-42 Venables St, Macclesfield

The Yearlings & Lucie Thorne Winter in Adelaide Tour. Tickets $20

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The Yearlings & Lucie Thorne Winter in Adelaide

Friday, June 26 @ 7:30PMFri, Jun 26 @ 7:30PM

Murray Delta Juke Joint, 4 Dowdodd Crs, Goolwa, SA 5214

The Yearlings and Lucie Thorne Winter in Adelaide Tour. Tickets $30 ($35 on the door)

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'Twas the gig before Christmas FREE SHOW

Sunday, December 21, 2025 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PMSun, Dec 21, 2025 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PM

The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton SA, Adelaide

Festive greetings friends & music lovers! Here we are again, end of year shenanigans are upon us and we are putting on the annual celebratory free show at our beloved Wheaty.

We'll be playing with the wonderful Mark Seddon on bass and Kyrie Anderson on drums.

Joining us on the bill will be special guests ISABELLA GRACE and BUG & BANJO.

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL George St, Thebarton Sunday 21 December Doors 4pm

FREE ENTRY

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Friday Nights At The Q

Friday, October 31, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 9:30PMFri, Oct 31, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 9:30PM

The Q On Hallet, 5 Hallett Street, Adelaide, SA

Friday Nights at The Q are where talented musicians interweave a melange of sounds in the historic, acoustically wonderful space. A delicious grazing platter is included. This Friday at The Q will feature Daniel Gosling: original compositions and performances with a Brazilian edge, and us, The Yearlings. Ticket price includes a grazing platter. Doors at 7pm

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The Yearlings

Sunday, September 7, 2025 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PMSun, Sep 7, 2025 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PM

the Wheatsheaf Hotel, George st, Thebarton, Adelaide

The Yearlings in duo mode, 2 sets

$20 online, $25 at the door.

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Tiny Hut Concert - Chris Parkinson launches his debut solo album Children During Wartime

Saturday, July 26, 2025 @ 2:00PM — 5:30PMSat, Jul 26, 2025 @ 2:00PM — 5:30PM

Walton Farm, Seppeltsfield

We’re thrilled to launch the very first Tiny Hut Concert at Walton Farm, Seppeltsfield — and it’s going to be something special. Join us for an intimate afternoon of live music inside Manning House — Walton Farm’s beautifully preserved 1845 single-room timber hut — as we celebrate the release of Children During Wartime, the debut solo album by acclaimed guitarist Chris Parkinson. Best known as one half of The Yearlings, Chris is one of Australia’s most expressive and respected guitarists, with over 35 years of performance and recording experience. Children During Wartime, created in response to the invasion of Ukraine, is a haunting and heartfelt instrumental record filled with emotional depth and quiet power. We’ll kick things off around the campfire, before moving inside for a special performance: • A set by The Yearlings to open the afternoon • Followed by Chris Parkinson performing Children During Wartime in full Only 20 tickets available – don’t miss this rare chance to experience one of Adelaide’s finest in a truly intimate and historic setting.

🗓 Saturday 26 July 🕒 3pm – 5.30pm (Gates open 2pm) 📍 Walton Farm, Seppeltsfield 🎟 Tickets $50 — strictly limited to 20 only 🍷 BYO drinks and nibbles (no doubt we'll be pouring some reds and offerinf some snacks as well) 🎧 DJ Clinical Clint spinning dusty country vinyl around the campfire fire.

This is the first in a new series of intimate concerts at the farm — a winter’s afternoon of music and firelight in a one-room timber hut under the gums.

$50 - only 20 tickets available

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Chris Parkinson debut album launch with The Yearlings at LUCKY DUCKS

Saturday, July 5, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 10:30PMSat, Jul 5, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 10:30PM

Lucky Ducks, Temperance Precinct 206 Port Rd, Aldinga SA, Aldinga SA

Chris Parkinson launches his debut album "Children During Wartime" with The Yearlings supporting at a lovely intimate venue Aldinga called Lucky Ducks. All ages.

$20 online, $25 at the door.

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Chris Parkinson album launch with The Yearlings

Friday, April 25, 2025 @ 7:30PM — 11:00PMFri, Apr 25, 2025 @ 7:30PM — 11:00PM

The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton SA, Adelaide

Chris Parkinson debut solo album launch - Children During Wartime - an instrumental guitar record created in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

Chris Parkinson has well earned his standing as one of Australia’s very finest expressive guitarists. Best known as one half of iconic South Australian duo The Yearlings alongside his partner of 25 years Robyn Chalklen, Chris is a highly respected and experienced musician and collaborator renowned for bringing a depth of tone and nuanced touch to his craft. Chris Parkinson has contributed to dozens of albums - and countless hundreds of live performances - in a wide variety of contexts, for over 35 years. Children During Wartime is his first-ever solo offering.

Children During Wartime is a collection of exquisite and emotionally-charged musical vignettes brimming with pathos. From the plaintive opener Ukraine, through the drive and reckoning of Somewhere Over There to the haunting First Day of Spring, this is a body of work borne from empathy and deep feeling.

As Chris explains; “When all of us knew of the impending Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, I went to the Kyiv webcam and watched as cars rolled by, everything looking quite normal and peaceful, but checking in on the webcam on the first day of the invasion there was nothing but blackness, the webcam vision had disappeared and the hell of what was to be the new normal for so many lives struck me hard. The week after I composed the beginning of a tune that was to become ‘Ukraine’ and the birth and direction of this record began. And the tunes kept coming. I don’t normally write in this way… but it dawned on me that I was reacting to how I felt about the children and their innocence and I finally realised that that was the record and I wanted to share those feelings”.

Children During Wartime was conceived, composed, performed, recorded, engineered, mastered and produced by Chris Parkinson, at The Yearlings’ own recording studio My Sweet Mule, making this album a truly solo venture in all regards. Recorded during the Spring of 2024, each instrumental has been captured live with one microphone and zero edits (and just one overdub).

Lean on in and listen; to the weave of sorrow and pain, of urgency and courage, imbued with the ultimately hopeful optimism of children during wartime.

The Yearlings will play a set from 9pm

$30 via try booking.com | $35 at the door

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'Twas The Gig Before Christmas

Sunday, December 22, 2024 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PMSun, Dec 22, 2024 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PM

The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton SA, Adelaide

‘TWAS THE GIG BEFORE CHRSITMAS! Yes, it’s the traditional pre Christmas show where The Yearlings and friends get together to play some tunes. Anything could happen . . . The Yearlings with The Stable Hands | Also History Of Trees | And Sophie and Isabella FREE SHOW Doors at 4pm

THE YEARLINGS The Yearlings (Robyn Chalklen and Chris Parkinson) have an undeniable connection, the chemistry evident in their performance makes it feel like magic. There is an intangible quality to their set that draws you in completely. Their current album ‘Luck’, mixed by Chris Shaw in Austin TX (Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow) and produced by Lucie Thorne, took out the 2023 Roots Album of the Year (Adelaide Blues & Roots Association). Their music is intimate, raw and powerful, producing a new strain of acoustic music, siting somewhere between folk, blues, and country. This is a simplistic comparison however, Robyn Chalklen and Chris Parkinson have their own distinct identity - their songs speak directly to an Australian experience and despite their performances being completely stripped back to voice and guitars, they have a distinct hypnotic groove that is irresistible.

HISTORY OF TREES Well known among local blues, roots, rock fraternity, Nikko (Nick Kipriddis) started learning guitar in 1979 after inheriting his father’s old Japanese Teisco and so began an everlasting love affair with guitar music. History of Trees is his first solo venture.