Once a regular with the Sunday Jazz quartet at Bowral Golf Club, Peter is now playing at the Gibraltar Hotel on Centennial Road, Bowral every Saturday between 3-4.30pm.

He is playing solo due to COVID 19.

From Vernon Duke's classic Autumn in New York to Ellington's Sophisticated Lady, Peter Locke will leave you stamping for more.

Peter now has a regular gig at Star Casino with Highlands favourite, George Washingmachine in the plush new Sovereign Room on Fridays from 7-10pm.

At 10 years of age, Peter learned piano in Macksville.

He left at the age of 21, realising music was "inside him."

"There was a fork in the road and I took the road marked music," he recalls.

"I went to Newcastle where there were so many clubs and heaps of work. In the seventies Newcastle was rocking with music. I played with Bob Barnard's quartet for 10 years and then played five nights a week in the dining room at City Tatts.

"That enabled me to buy a little home at Greystanes where I lived for 30 years. Gigs with renowned bands Andrew Dickinson and Dan Barnett kept the bread buttered."

And what is Peter's favourite song?

"Actually, despite the hundreds I have played I do have two favourites- Body and Soul and All the Things You Are."

Welcome back Mr. Locke. You have been sorely missed.

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