Green Herring Oz
Green Herring Oz plays high energy, low voltage acoustic folk music influenced by bluegrass, country and blues.
We want to inspire conversations about the things that matter, our relationships, our wellbeing and our connection to nature.
Concerts, jams and more
What’s happening?
While Irma is in Europe until mid June, we are working on new songs.
Your best chance to catch the rest of the band is every second Thursday at the Boyup Brook Hotel, 6-8pm.
We are also planning our 2025 Outback Sunset and Beach Tour through the North of Western Australia. Please get in touch if you would like to book us.
Coming up
22 June – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – Acoustic Music for the Winter Solstice
4-6 July – Bunbury – Bunbury Sea Shanty Festival, performance and open mic hosting
10 July – Perth – Tattersall Folk and Roots, 7 pm
14 September – Kalbarri – Finlays, Sunday session 4-7pm
26-29 September – Manjimup – Bluegrass and Old time Music Weekend
3-5 October – Fairbridge – Nanga Music Festival
Past events, performances and jams – 2025
22 March – Bridgetown – Regen Fest at Ashbil Community Garden – wandering musos from 10am
15 March – Greenbushes – Shamrock Hotel – Irish and Aussie Folk – St Patrick’s Day celebrations – 4-7pm
13 March 2025 – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – BBH Acoustic Buzz, 6-8pm
5,7 March 2025 – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – Acoustic Dinner Music, 6-8pm
1-3 March – Nannup – Bowling Club Verandah – jams, sing-alongs and more, all weekend. We’ll camp at the Rec Centre, follow the music and say hi!
27 February 2025 – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – BBH Acoustic Buzz, 6-8pm
13-16 February – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – House band during Country Music Festival, live acoustic music at the pub
9 February – Bridgetown – Llama Lounge, Hampton Road, Bridgetown – Sunday session – 1-3pm
8 February – Bridgetown – Fallobst and Farms, Hampton Road, Bridgetown, with John Matthews on Banjo – 9:30-11am
31 January – Greenbushes – Greenbushes Community Garden Summer Picnic with Live Music, from 5:30pm
19 January – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – Acoustic music for family and friends, 5-8pm
2, 9, 16 January 2025 – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – BBH Acoustic Buzz, 6-8pm
2024
20-22 December – Greenbushes – Greenbushes Acoustic Year End Campover
5 December – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – Acoustic Buzz, 6-8pm
24 November – Greenbushes Community Garden – Community Potluck Dinner with Live Music, from 12pm
21 November – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – BBH Acoustic Buzz, 6-8pm
10 November – Balingup – Mr Foster’s – Packing Shed – 1:00-2:30pm
9 November – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – 6-8pm
27 October – Quinninup – Quinninup Fair, from 10:30am
25+26 October – Boyup Brook – Boyup Brook Hotel – Rodeo LIve Music
20 October – Greenbushes – Greenbushes Acoustic – Thomson Park – 2pm
19 October – Greenbushes – CWA Greenbushes Belles Centenary Celebration – 1:30-4pm
14 October – Greenbushes – Hot Monday @ Greenbushes Community Garden – community dinner with live music and bonfire, from 5pm
11 October – Bridgetown – Open mic session at the Bridgetown Club
10 October – Boyup Brook Hotel – Boyup Brook Acoustic Buzz – from 6pm
4-6 October – Pinjarra – Nanga Music Festival
26 September – Boyup Brook Hotel – Boyup Brook Acoustic Buzz – from 6pm
20-23 September – Manjimup – Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Festival – jams and more – Tall Timbers
15 September – Kalbarri – Finlay’s -Sunset Music for all – originals and covers – 4-7pm
10+11 September – Hamelin Pool Caravan Park and Cafe – Cafe Music – originals and covers on the porch, 6-7pm
7-9 September – Wooramel River Retreat – Sunset Music – originals and covers
3 September – Warroora Station – Sunset Music – originals and covers
31 August – Cheela Plains Station Stay – Play Music on your Porch Day – originals and covers
29 August – Karijini Eco Retreat – Sunset Music – originals and covers – in the restaurant
27 August – Marble Bar Holiday Park – Sunset Music – originals and covers – from 5:30-7pm
24, 25 August – Pardoo Homestead Caravan Park – Campfire Music, story-telling, sing-alongs – originals and covers – from 5pm
22 August – Port Smith Caravan Park – Sunset Music – originals and covers, plus campfire jam on 23 August
21 August – Barn Hill Beachside Station Stay – Singer-songwriter Sundowner Session – originals and covers – 5:30-7:30pm
16 August – Broome – Cable Beach Caravan Park– Sundowner Music – originals and covers – 5-7pm
7 August – Barn Hill Beachside Station Stay – Singer-songwriter Sundowner Session – originals and covers – 5:30-7:30pm
5 August – Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park – Sundowner session on the grassed area – from 5pm
1, 2 August – Pardoo Homestead Caravan Park – Campfire Music, story-telling, sing-alongs – originals and covers – from 5pm
Green Herring Duo
Irma Lachmund and Lee Goodall
Green Herring Trio
Lee Goodall, Irma Lachmund and Andy Hardy recorded the CD ‘In Hot Waters’
Green Herring Band
John Matthews, Irma Lachmund, Andy Hardy, Lee Goodall and Eck Wessling
A proud history of community building and advocacy
Supporting the Transition Town movement
In 2014, Irma was one of the founders of Transition Town Mount Hawthorn that later changed to Transition Town Vincent. The Transition movement is made up of people like you who are already feeling the benefit of connecting with others to take care of themselves, their community and the planet.
In 2020, Lee and Irma from Green Herring Oz founded Greenbushes Acoustic. This is a mental health and wellbeing support group that connects people in and around Greenbushes through acoustic music and poetry.
Fracking is a bad idea! Green Herring has been supporting Frack Free WA and the Knitting Nannas in their campaigns against fracking and in protection of the native forest in WA for many years.
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We do not have a newsletter (yet?). Best way to stay in touch is to check back to this site regularly. We will post our upcoming events here on the home page and as well on our facebook page, if they are public.
Green Herring Oz acknowledges the cultural custodians of the land on which we gather, the Pibulmen-Wadandi people.
We acknowledge and support their continuing connections to land, waterways and community.
We pay our respect to members of the Aboriginal Communities and their culture; and to their Elders past and present, their descendants still with us today, and those who will follow in their footsteps.
