On the eve of the US presidential elections, Fred Smith leads a musical safari through the main streets and back roads of the America.
 
In 2007, Fred returned from three years living and touring in the US to release the album Texas, a song cycle documenting an America divided, shaky and hungover from the early years of the Bush administration.
 
Bruce Elder from the Sydney Morning Herald described the album as “a wonderful, quirky and irreverent look at the United States and its idiosyncrasies…He has a love–hate relationship with America, which he has neatly coupled to a wry and profound understanding of that complex society”.
 
Fred will be presenting songs from Texas and a few more he has written since, interspersed with yarns and observations from his inconclusive experiences in the home of the free. He will be accompanied by Liz Frencham on double bass and Carl Pannuzzo on percussion.