Best entertainers in Eltham

This is Eltham in the Northern Rivers, a village on the Wilsons River between Lismore and Bangalow, not the Eltham on the edge of Melbourne, and the list is the hinterland's. Nothing gives Eltham itself as home. The nearest are a singer at Wollongbar and a band at Alstonville up on the plateau, a country act at Goonellabah, a cover band and a rock band in Lismore, then Ballina's cover band, DJ, duo and singer and a comedian at Lennox Head, all within about twenty minutes. Byron Bay sits at the far edge of the ring and holds most of the wider pool. It's a Lismore pub band, not a Byron DJ, that lives closest to Eltham.

DJs are the largest trade within reach, then singers, singer-songwriters and bands, and the DJs are Byron's. Eltham bookings are rarely that. A property wedding on a hill above the river, a village hall birthday, a long lunch out at Clunes or Bexhill, and those want a duo or a band from the plateau and Lismore side, which is closer and free on more Saturdays than anything from the coast. The Wilsons River floods, and when it does the low roads through the valley close; that's not a reason to avoid the place, just a reason to ask every act for a wet-weather answer.