Port Douglas folk duo The Kroovs are launching their 15 track debut live album this weekend to North Queensland ahead of an international tour.

Catch The Kroovs on Friday 26th of June at McGinty’s Irish Pub on the Shields Street in Cairns or

Sunday 28th June at Paddy’s Irish Bar in Port Douglas as they officially release ‘The Kroovs Live’. The album was recorded at Dougies Backpackers, Port Douglas, in May 2015 in front of a live audience.

CDs will be for sale at shows.

Featuring a mixture of original music, traditional songs and tunes and a selection of quirky covers, the album is an illustration of The Kroovs’ high energy shows. The albums 15 tracks skip seamlessly across genres, from Celtic punk, sweet folk pop to dirty country blues, utilising guitar, mandolin, violin, flute and percussion.

Currently busy organising an international trip, The Kroovs plan to spend some months in the UK and Europe from September, and are looking forward to taking their sound and CD abroad.

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The Kroovs are:

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Seamus Lunt: 

Seamus (or Smoose) has played musical instruments for as long as he can remember. Having a keen interest in learning piano tunes from his uncle at a young age. He inherited the family piano and began lessons from local ‘uni’ students from about the age of 10yrs. 

In high school Seamus was given a nylon string guitar from his music loving uncle and began to hone his performance skills taking any opportunity to play a song on stage whether it be in the school orchestra on percussion, playing drum kit in the school jazz band or one of the many bands he formed with friends. 

After high school Seamus played in a small number of bands jamming in a farm shed with "The Good Time Trio" comprised of two long time high school friends, Bill and Michael Brewer. 

After about 5 years Seamus of full time work he decided that the 9-5 life wasn't for him and moved to Melbourne to immerse himself in the music culture. 

Seamus soon had made friends who played in local bands such as Vice Grip Pussies, Bitter Sweet Kicks, Burn in Hell, Money For Rope and many other musicians following their dream. 

Seamus and Stacey or Rabbit as she is known to her friends met at the famous rock and roll music bar, Cherry, located on ACDC Lane in Melbourne's CBD. They immediately hit it off making plans to meet up and jam together. After 6 months it seemed their time together was over when Stacey decided to move to Port Douglas to be with her family.

It only took about a month before Smoose worked out that Rabbit was in Tropical North Queensland lapping up the sunshine and he was in cold dreary Melbourne. Seamus and Stacey reunited got the opportunity to join a band almost immediately and The Kroovs were formed less than a year later. 

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Stacey Brown

Stacey, or Rabbit as she is commonly known, took up the fiddle at age 16 and immediately discovered a passion for traditional Irish music. Entirely self taught and with no one to tell her otherwise, Rabbit decided left was best and did a DIY fiddle conversion, unknowingly becoming one of Australia's very few left handed fiddle players.

At just 18 she escaped the confines of the farm in sleepy Yackandandah and relocated herself across the world to Ireland to immerse herself in the music, culture and Guinness. 

Returning to Melbourne to study years later she cut her teeth playing traditional Irish sessions around the city. It was here in dingy ACDC lane in front of the famed Cherry bar, that she met Seamus. Bonding immediately over a mutual love of B Grade Cult Movies and leather jackets, unknowingly the wheels were set in motion for The Kroovs.

Moving to Port Douglas in 2012 after completing her degree, Stacey explored more contemporary music styles, performing Open Mic's and Muso's Nights, and touring with a mountain music band for a year. As well as fiddle, Rabbit also plays flute, mandolin and percussion and dabbles in the occasional back up harmony.