Danny Ross plays live at the Clink Theatre in Port Douglas.

Danny Ross was born in East Timor. When he was nineteen he started a guitar school there in an abandoned military hospital. The sweet Timorese folk ballads and the friends he made at his school birthed a songwriting career that has recently won him the 2009 Far North Queensland songwriting competition.








Danny says that he has spent the last three years in an apprenticeship of sorts via the vibrant pub scene and blues-soaked roadhouses of the North. The music of this powerful performer is a heady blend of folk baroque, blues guitar and a sweet bluesy vocal within songs which hypnotize.

"Hearing him gives me hope for young musicians" - Bob Brozman (after a support at Tanks Arts Centre)

"The best sound to come through my shop - ever" - Trevor Gore (master luthier and designer for Gerard Gilet guitars)

Douglas Theatre Arts Group and the Clink Theatre

It was always the group's intention that it would eventually have its own theatre. Before that the group performed in restaurants,the old Shire hall and (when these two new hotels were built) in the ballrooms of the Sheraton and Radisson (now Rydges Sabaya Resort).

There was a competition to find a name for the theatre, the winner being Joe McColum, former director of the Brisbane Theatre Company - and a longtime resident of Port Douglas.

He took the name from the prison in Clink Street, round the corner from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London (slang : "in the clink" meaning in jail). In those days, theatre people had a dubious reputation!

"Danny Ross Live at The Clink"

            $20 DTAG Members and Friends of the Festival

Available at Re:hab on Macrossan and Goodies in Mossman as well as at the door.

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