Thursday, March 28th, 2013
with SANS at The National Folk Festival
EPIC (Exhibition Park in Canberra)
Canberra ACT [map]
Canberra ACT [map]
IAN BLAKE: Calendar
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
National Folk Festival launch
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
The Street Theatre
Thursday, December 13th, 2012
Brindabella Business Park
Sacred Sax: solo carols on the soprano... - noon to 1pm
Canberra: next to the airport ACT [map]Just me wandering around playing nice traditional tunes. I'll go and get some antlers this arvo.
Sunday, December 9th, 2012
Stevi James' book launch with Cassidy's Ceili at Jugiong
Saturday, December 8th, 2012
Carols by the Lake, with Mike Jackson
Featuring live on stage 7.30 pm - 10 pm
- MC: Mike Jackson
- Santa
- The Kazoos
- La Voce Della Luna
- Kavisha Mazzella
- The Children's Performing Company of Australia
- Moreland City Band, and
- Brunswick Women's Choir.
Friday, November 30th, 2012
The Pocket Score Company
Performances on November 30th, December 1st and 2nd.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
SANS at Riksscenen, Oslo, Norway
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
SANS at the Home Festival, Dartington Hall
Sunday, May 20th, 2012
The Pocket Score Company
Friday, April 27th, 2012
With Cassidy's Ceili at the Mount Beauty Festival
Mount Beauty VIC [map]
CC will be playing in the Country Club at 9pm on Friday 27th, and at Cranky Charlies' at 5pm on Saturday 28th.
Two shows on Sunday 29th: 1pm at the Lakeside and 5pm at the Settlers' Tavern.
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
with Revontulet at The National Folk Festival
Dance displays on Saturday at 5pm, Sunday at 11am, Monday at 3.30pm on the Piazza, and a workshop in the Mallee on Sunday from 4 to 6pm.
The band will be fiddlers Lins Vellen and Lachlan Green plus IB on bass.
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
With Cassidy's Ceili at The Irish Club
Yes folks, it's that time of the year again: silly hats and green beer a-go-go as CC plunges back into the celebratory groove with its unique blend of psychogoidelic balladmongering and driving diddley dharma lovingly drizzled with that bizzybuzzy rhythmhoney all the way from Bodhran Bay.
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
with Revontulet at Cowra NSW
Revontulet is the Canberra-based Finnish dance company, off to Cowra for the Festival of International Understanding. This year, Finland is the guest nation.
I'll be playing bass along with fiddlers Lins Vellen and Lachlan Green.
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
with Shortis & Simpson at the Q
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
with Shortis & Simpson at the Q
Wander through the wondrous world of wordsmiths - the craft of Johnny Mercer, the sophisticated rhymes of Cole Porter, the surrealism of Lennon, the imagery of Dylan and Leonard Cohen, the storytelling delights of Eric Bogle and Paul Kelly, the imagination of Joni Mitchell, and much more. Waxing Lyrical is more Gilbert than Sullivan, more Hart than Rodgers and more Ira Gershwin than George.
Shortis, Simpson, Casey and the band have fun in this imaginative and informative, funny and moving show. Waxing Lyrical never wanes, it pours.
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
with Shortis & Simpson at the Q
40 years ago, songwriter John Shortis grabbed up his first batch of songs and boldly knocked on the door of Rolf Harris' room at Sydney's Chevron Hotel. Rolf sat him down on the floor and gave him a songwriting lesson. Now Rolf mightn't be everyone's favourite songwriter but he is a great teacher, and from that day, Shortis developed a passion for the craft of lyric writing.
Brought to you by the team that gave you Tin Pan Aussie, Waxing Lyrical is a fascinating look at some of the world's great songs and songwriters, from the point of view of the lyrics. Shortis, himself no slouch when it comes to stringing together words in song, waxes lyrical with quirky and insightful tales of the inspiration and the perspiration that has given us songs of love and heartbreak, pain and joy, comedy and drama. The extraordinary Moya Simpson sings the songs, backed by a very hot band made up of cabaret artist and songwriter Peter J Casey, with Ian Blake, Jon Jones and Dave O'Neill. And Casey gets his turn to take on the topic in two guest spots.
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at the Gay & Lesbian Tennis Club Bushdance
Dust off your hat, polish your boots and get ready to kick up some dust. Bushdance is back with a fun night of dancing with men and women of all flavours.
There’s a bar, a bbq and a live band to lead you through those dances that you might remember from primary school – like Strip the Willow, The Waves of Bondi, crazy polkas and some more genteel promenades.
Have fun with your Bushdance outfit. It’s a night of singlets, jeans, chaps, check shirts, rhinestones, akubras, hats, boots and twirling dresses. Anything’s fine, but it does get hot in there. We suggest you don’t wear heels or open shoes – your feet will take a beating!
By the end of the night you’ll have danced with everyone, caught up with old friends, made some new ones and helped raise cash for the GLBTI community.
Bushdance is a community fundraiser co-ordinated by Pink Tennis - Canberra Gay and Lesbian Tennis Club.
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
SANS at St Ethelburga's
The first UK appearance, indeed the first performance outside Finland, by a unique, dramatic new quartet comprising zither-playing multi-instrumentalist Andrew Cronshaw, Armenian duduk master Tigran Aleksanyan, multi-instrumental reeds-player Ian Blake and the great Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio, all of whom appear on Andrew's new album "The Unbroken Surface of Snow". For this special showcase event, a precursor to shows around the world in 2012 and onward, Sanna will be flying to London from her home in eastern Finland and Ian from his in Australia.
www.andrewcronshaw.com
www.ianblake.net
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Kurki-Suonio
www.myspace.com/andrewcronshaw
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at Tulip Top Gardens
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
with Valanga & Andrea Khoza at Taste Canowindra
It's the second 'Womindra' - now known as the 'Origin Womindra World Music Festival'
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at Tulip Top Gardens
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at Tulip Top Gardens
Tulip Top Gardens – established in 1997 is a world class exhibition of half a million tulips and is open daily from 9.00am-5.00pm. The 10 acre garden of magnificent tulips, daffodils, and other spring flowers creates a spectacular display. Hundreds of blossom trees nestle between the flowers and provide a magic pathway to the cascading waterfall and watercourse with classical music wafting through the air in the hidden valley. Take the popular pathway past the rosemary field framed by unique blossom trees to our 70 metre high viewing platform for the perfect photo. '
That's what they say on their website and it's true! Great place.
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at The Turning Wave
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at The Turning Wave
Friday, September 16th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at The Turning Wave
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Nicole Canham's Tarogato Lecture/Recital
22ème Université Européenne de Saxophone
Gap France [map]
Gap France [map]
... with Claude Delangle, performing works by Ian Blake, Tim Hansen, Toru Takemitsu, Luca Vanneschi, Benjamin Britten and Paula Matthusen.
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Kaustinen Folk Festival
with Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan and Sanna Kurki-Suonio
Festivaalipuisto / Festival ParkKaustinen Finland [map]
from July 11th to the 17th.
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
'Sound Bites' at The Front Gallery & Café
Bite-sized pieces for voice, winds, electronica & electric guitar by Blake, Takemitsu, Lopez, Zipporyn and Heath.
Two shows: 3pm & 6pm Sunday 10 July 2011 featuring Miroslav Bukovsky, Nicole Canham, Karen Heath, Zoey Pepper, Carlos Lopez Charles and Niels Rosendahl.....with Markan.
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Lichfield Festival
with Andrew Cronshaw and Tigran Aleksanyan - 10pm
Cathedral Lady ChapelLichfield, Staffordshire England 01543 306270 [map]
Price: £10
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
Clarity Clarinet Quartet plays 'Starling'
Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne VIC [map]
Melbourne VIC [map]
My clarinet quartet gets another airing: this time at the Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Festival.
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Music for Everyone presents 'The Gathering of the Animals'
Ainslie Arts Centre
Braddon ACT (02) 6230 7190 [map]
Braddon ACT (02) 6230 7190 [map]
A performance of my musical for young players from MFE's Junior Music Theatre, directed by Dianna Nixon and Vanessa Nimmo.
There are shows on June 26 - 28.
Lost on an unknown island, Beth and Luis find a place at the Gathering of the Animals: a Wolf raises some awkward questions, but they're eventually welcomed in as part of the pattern of life.
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
with Cassidy’s Ceili at The Hellenic Club
CC returns to The Hellenic Club, which is lots of fun because they like dancing there. Even to us.
So we were chuffed, stoked and gruntled to be invited back: it's like the Land of a Thousand Dances down there in Woden, with those hep cats doing the Wa-Watusi to 'The Fields of Athenry' among other novel juxtapositions.
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
The National Folk Festival
'Tin Pan Aussie' with Shortis & Simpson - 2.30pm
EPIC (Exhibition Park in Canberra)Canberra ACT [map]
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at The National Folk Festival
CC kicks off the Friday night Merry Muse concert at the Bellissimo.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
with The Pocket Score Company at the ANU Arts Centre
8pm
ANU Performing Arts Centre Australian National UniversityCanberra ACT 0421 555 367 [map]
Price: $10/$5
One Common Thread:
A Vocal and Choral Concert Exploring the Musical World of Laments
On Wednesday evening 20th April there will be a very special concert of vocal and choral music that explores the fascinating world of musical laments. The expression of grief through singing is a connecting thread running through all cultures. This concert will feature four of Canberra’s finest singing groups and sets out to explore a diverse range of responses to expressions of loss through song.
The Pocket Score Company was formed to bring the beautiful but rarely-heard sound of the all-male vocal ensemble to Australian audiences. They sing music from medieval and renaissance times to the present. The choir Kompactus, directed by David Yardley, has acquired a reputation for its versatility and fresh performances.
The Australian Choral Society SCUNA consists of ANU students, alumni and staff, and members of the wider Canberra community and is directed by Jonathan Powles, a composer and head of Musicology in the ANU School of Music. In this concert, SCUNA presents the Pergolesi Stabat Mater with Louise Page and Christina Wilson which promises to be a wonderful musical treat; FLOTSOM (folk lovers of the School of Music) World Music Choir will feature Scots Gaelic traditional singer from the Isle of Skye, Christine Primrose. Christine and the choir will sing some of the incredibly haunting ancient laments from the Highlands of Scotland including the stunningly beautiful song Griogal Cridhe (Beloved Gregor) written by his wife in 1570 after he was executed at Taymouth Castle in Perthshire.
This concert is part of a three-day intensive colloquium run by the International Council for Traditional Music and being held at the School of Music, ANU. The colloquium explores the musical expression of loss and bereavement and responses to it across a variety of cultures.
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
with Cassidy’s Ceili at The Hellenic Club
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at The National Museum
Irish Festival Day - 1pm
Canberra ACT [map]It's a day of things Irish at the NMA, celebrating the 'Not Just Ned' exhibition:
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/irish_in_australia/
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
with Cassidy’s Ceili at Jeir Creek Wines
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
with Cassidy’s Ceili at Jeir Creek Wines
It's Harvest Festival time at Jeir Creek, and Cassidy's Ceili will be playing on Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 3 pm.
One of the nice things about Jeir Creek Wines is that the product immensely improves the way the music sounds.
And since we'll be playing selections from the relatively new and unspeakably celtalicious CD 'Sunday at Sandy's', it promises to be a tip-top weekend.
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Canberra Balloon Festival with Cassidy's Ceili
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
with Cassidy’s Ceili at The Irish Club
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at PJ O'Reilly's
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at The National Botanic Gardens
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at King O'Malley's
Friday, March 4th, 2011
'Short is the Song' at The Southern Cross Club
At the end of 1970, John Shortis gave up his primary school teaching job. When the holiday pay ran out in February ’71, he was on his own, earning what he could from his songs and his freelance script writing for ABC radio. Forty years later he’s still a full-time songwriter/musician, and he reckons it’s worth celebrating. 'Short Is the Song' is a fascinating trawl through the Shortis songwriting career from his humble first attempts at 13 to his current output. Joining him on this autobiographical journey are Moya Simpson (of course), plus Jeannie Lewis, Kerry-Ella MacAullay, Peter J Casey, Peter and Yanto Shortis (his twin sons- both great musicians), Mark Shortis (his guitarist brother), as well as the best band in the ACT- Ian Blake, Jon Jones and Dave O’Neill.
Show only 8.30pm, $28. Dinner and show 7pm, $61 (2 courses).
Monday, February 14th, 2011
with Cassidy's Ceili at the Belconnen Labor Club
Friday, December 31st, 2010
with Cassidy's Ceili at The Royal Hotel
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
with Cassidy's Ceili at Carey's Cave
CC unplugged at a Crystal Clear Concert: an occasional series of events presented by Geoff Kell in the remarkable setting of Carey's Cave.
information@weejaspercaves.com
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Colchester Arts Centre
ANDREW CRONSHAW with TIGRAN ALEKSANYAN & IAN BLAKE
Church StreetColchester CO1 1NF
England 01206 500900 [map]
info@colchesterartscentre.com
Monday, October 4th, 2010
Tulip Top Gardens with Cassidy's Ceili
The Tulip was originally a wild flower, growing in Central Asia. It was first cultivated by the Turks as early as 1000 AD, The flower was introduced in Western Europe and the Netherlands in the 17th century by Carolus Clusius, a famous biologist from Vienna. In the 1590’s he became the director of the Hortus Botanicus, the oldest botanical garden of Europe, in Leiden. He was hired by the University of Leiden to research medicinal plants and, while doing so, he received some bulbs from his friend, Ogier de Busbecq, the Ambassador to Constantinople (presently Istanbul). He had seen the beautiful flower called the tulip, after the Turkish word for turban, growing in the palace gardens and sent a few to Clusius for his garden in Leiden. He planted them and this was the beginning of the amazing bulb fields we see today.
http://www.holland.nl/uk/holland/sights/tulips-history.html
...and it's the Long Weekend, so of course you'll be able to attend: and when you're bored by bulbs, buy a brand-new album from Cassidy's Ceili. It's bonzer, boomer, ripper and grouse (as we say in Canberra) and I like it so much I have several.
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Tulip Top Gardens with Cassidy's Ceili
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
taste Canowindra
It's the 'Womindra' world music festival.
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Tulip Top Gardens with Cassidy's Ceili
Tulip Top Gardens: a family venture well deserving of your support. If you're thinking of going to Floriade, come here first!
Here's a snippet from their website:
Tulip Top Gardens – established in 1997 is a world class exhibition of half a million tulips and is open daily from 9.00am-5.00pm.
'The 10 acre garden of magnificent tulips, daffodils, and other spring flowers creates a spectacular display. Hundreds of blossom trees nestle between the flowers and provide a magic pathway to the cascading waterfall and watercourse with classical music wafting through the air in the hidden valley. Take the popular pathway past the rosemary field framed by unique blossom trees to our 70 metre high viewing platform for the perfect photo. '
Telephone: 02 6230 3077
Facsimile: 02 6230 3657
E-mail: tuliptopgardens@bigpond.com.au
Now, there was this joke doing the rounds when I was a lad in Finchley: the punch line was 'Tulips from Hamster Jam' but I can't remember the story. Maybe it's just as well.
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
The Pocket Score Company and Polifemy at St. Paul's Church
Another day, another saint...
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
The Pocket Score Company & Polifemy at St. Margaret's/Holy Cross
Surround Sound: two choirs meet for some afternoon antiphony.
Music in stereo from Orazio Vecchi, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Nicholas Gombert, Michael Praetorius.
Plus Encina, Guerrero and something noisy from the Codex las Huelgas.
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
at The Turning Wave Festival with Cassidy's Ceili
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
at The Turning Wave Festival with Cassidy's Ceili
5.30pm
Gundagai NSW 02 9489 2780 [map]
Here a launch, there a launch: ev'rywhere a CD launch...
Cassidy's Ceili plays at the Upstairs Theatre at 5.30pm, followed by a 10.15 gig at the Services Club.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Nicole Canham at Salle Henri Selmer
Nicole Canham with Claude, Remi and Odile Delangle at the Selmer Showroom in Paris for the world and European premieres of new works for tarogato, piano and electronics.
One of these is my new tune 'twmp'.
That's a small Welsh hill btw. A good spot for the musicians to play for dancing, and so, this piece develops a brisk bourrée feel as it wears on.
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
with Cassidy's Ceili at the Ginninderra Labor Club
Back to the 80s!* Get out your ugg boots, plaid and heritage stretch stonewash and titivate the mullet for an afternoon in the cage at the Charnie Labor Club with Belco's lovable Celtick psychobogans: Cassidy's Ceili.
Free admission: just try not to throw stuff. Or you could lob us a lobster plus five and take away A NICE NEW CD!
*1780s actually...
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Cassidy's Ceili CD launch at The Irish Club
The celtalicious new CC CD 'Sunday at Sandy's' will be officially unveiled at Weston's splendid Irish Club.
It's free — the gig, not the CD — and there'll be food laid on. I'm certainly going.
Here's the band round at Sandy's garage sale attempting to sell a couple of old instruments to tide us through until we become rich and famous when the CD goes triple platypus.
L to R: Jonesy, Petey, Cassidy, Blakey, Sandy.
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
’The Holly and the Jivey’ with Shortis and Simpson
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
An ode to the life and work of Buddy Holly, in which I get to play the Pixiphone.
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
with Cassidy's Ceili at The Merry Muse
'Sharing Dreams' brings a group of friends together who write and perform their own material: Divided By Three (Phil Emerson, Trish Butler and Graeme Hume); Cassidy’s Ceili (Cassidy and Peter Richens, Sandy Gibbney and Jon Jones); Merrilyn Simmons; Mary Firkins; Greg Carlin and Craig & Simone Dawson.
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Sound Bites at The Front
Bite-sized pieces for winds, electronics and drums: by Bach, Blake, Edwards, Piazzolla and Tsiavos.
Come and hear a mix of improvised and pre-meditated electro/organic chamber music, including two of my tunes: 'The River Daughter', for voice and rather a lot of bassoons (all wielded by Zoey Pepper) and 'twmp 23' - featuring Nicole Canham on the mighty tarogato, which resembles a feral soprano sax.
I'll be attempting to keep up on the ordinary soprano sax, but you'll also hear the extraordinary saxophone of Niels Rosendahl and the rapid-response creativity of improvisers Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet/flugel) and drummer Col Hoorweg.
Two shows: 3pm and 6pm
Friday, June 25th, 2010
A Concert on Mobiles
A Concert on Mobiles - approximately 10 minutes performed by Ian Blake, Lea Collins and Kimmo Vennonen, design and engineering Vennonen, with acknowledgement to Greg Schiemer.
In 1983 Greg Schiemer's A Concert On Bicycles featured cyclists riding around Lake Burley Griffin carrying portable radio receivers tuned into program material broadcast on 2XX (the local community radio station). The invitation/publicity had asked people to bring their ears, bicycles and radios to create a unique concert event, incorporating all phenomena associated with experiencing the concert from a moving bicycle, multiple point moving sources replaying the radio concert and the interaction of participants/audience as they travelled around the bike path with groups passing each other and all the inherent psycho acoustic phenomena etc. Kimmo Vennonen provided radio engineering support and technical co-ordinatinon of that event.
Spending several Easters broadcasting from the National Folk Festival to hundreds of community radio stations nationally, Vennonen and Collins began discussing how the evolving technologies of broadcast, narrow cast, small wireless networks and the changes offered by increased bandwidth could be utilised in creative ways (our thinking was naturally influenced by the challenges and problem solving required in a 72 hour long feral outside broadcast environment - using mobile phones to generate back up web streams for concerts from venues adjacent to our studios when the internet cafe ate all the bandwidth for instance or the ISDN fell over).
A few post bump out drinks in the session bar with Ian Blake, a shared interest in spatialisation and plans were hatched, create a small local network, ask conference goers to prepare by installing an app from the app store for their iPhones, Kimmo and Ian performing live, Lea providing pre prepared material and directing concert goer/participants. The concept could be realised using 21st century consumer technologies and we believed we have achieved an elegant contemporary version of a concert for mobile participants to be performed in Canberra ACMC 2010.
This experimental concert invites you to gather in the big band room with your mobile, break into 2 groups and proceed quietly around the path. The two groups will travel in opposite directions within the wireless 'narrow cast' space, listening to concert program material transmitted to your mobile device. Then rejoin the performers in the band room for a distributed end to the spatialised event.
To paraphrase the earlier invitation 'walk in, please bring your ears and Tuner app' .
Note: no headphones, and don't be afraid to turn it up to 11!
if you do not already have a mobile device with a configurable web radio tuner installed, you can participate in a slightly different way - just tag along and listen...
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Ginninderra Labor Club with Cassidy’s Ceili
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
National Library of Australia with Jenny Gall
What is the feminine voice of Australian folk music?
This performance takes you inside the kitchens and lounge rooms, bedrooms, laundries and the outdoor spaces where music was and is made.
Songs from field recordings, old manuscripts and family songbooks combine with soundscapes and artwork to recreate the rich imaginative landscape of women's music.
Join Jenny Gall with Ian Blake, Jacqui Bradley, Sandy France and Sue Hobson for an exploration of Australian folk music without the beards and bottletops...
For further information call Jenny Gall 0421 276 372
Get a taste of the CD 'Cantara' at: http://www.myspace.com/cantarasound
'Cantara' is available from Indie-CDs.com, who will be happy to send it to you wherever you are: use this link to find out more:
http://www.islandwebs.com.au/applications/search/search_result.asp?ItemID=705"
And if you're in Canberra, the bookshop at The National Library has it in stock.
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
'Tin Pan Aussie' with Shortis & Simpson
TIN PAN AUSSIE- Australian popular music before rock ‘n’ roll. With a hot 4-piece band, Shortis and Simpson tell the little known stories of what happened in Australian popular music in the first half of the twentieth century. They bring to life the gems, along with the songs that are so bad they’re good, against the background of the social and political history of the time. From ragtime to jazz, vaudeville to musical comedy, gramophone to sheet music. Great fun, and informative too! Thurs/Fri/Sat April 29/30, May 1, 8pm. The Q (Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre), behind the council building in Crawford Street.$39/$34 conc. & groups/$29 under 25.To book- online at www.TheQ.net.au or phone 6298 0290
Friday, April 30th, 2010
'Tin Pan Aussie' with Shortis & Simpson
TIN PAN AUSSIE- Australian popular music before rock ‘n’ roll. With a hot 4-piece band, Shortis and Simpson tell the little known stories of what happened in Australian popular music in the first half of the twentieth century. They bring to life the gems, along with the songs that are so bad they’re good, against the background of the social and political history of the time. From ragtime to jazz, vaudeville to musical comedy, gramophone to sheet music. Great fun, and informative too! Thurs/Fri/Sat April 29/30, May 1, 8pm. The Q (Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre), behind the council building in Crawford Street.$39/$34 conc. & groups/$29 under 25.To book- online at www.TheQ.net.au or phone 6298 0290
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
'Tin Pan Aussie' with Shortis & Simpson
Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre
Queanbeyan NSW [map]
Queanbeyan NSW [map]
TIN PAN AUSSIE- Australian popular music before rock ‘n’ roll. With a hot 4-piece band, Shortis and Simpson tell the little known stories of what happened in Australian popular music in the first half of the twentieth century. They bring to life the gems, along with the songs that are so bad they’re good, against the background of the social and political history of the time. From ragtime to jazz, vaudeville to musical comedy, gramophone to sheet music. Great fun, and informative too! Thurs/Fri/Sat April 29/30, May 1, 8pm. The Q (Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre), behind the council building in Crawford Street.$39/$34 conc. & groups/$29 under 25.To book- online at www.TheQ.net.au or phone 6298 0290
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
St Pauls Church with The Pocket Score Company
Hear Morales' Missa Beata Virgine.
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Fairbridge Festival with Andrew Cronshaw
4pm
Pinjarra WA (08) 9246 3311 [map]Monday, April 5th, 2010
with Cassidy's Ceili, still launching that CD at the NFF
Here a launch, there a launch. We'll be demon frisbee players when all this is over...
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
with Andrew Cronshaw at The National Folk Festival
In the Fitzroy.
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Cassidy's Ceili CD Launch
CC launches the new CD at The National Folk Festival's 'Flute & Fiddle'
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
with Cassidy's Ceili at The National Folk Festival
In 'The Flute & Fiddle'
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
taste Canowindra: with Valanga and Andrea Khoza
Valanga Khoza was born in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. He grew up in a traditional setting surrounded by lively singing,
drumming and dancing. The Limpopo area is rich in traditional healers, orators and storytellers, highly respected throughout
Africa. These were his neighbours. Their nightly ceremonies carried songs and rhythms passed down through thousands of years. Valanga carries these influences through his songs and storytelling.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
with Cassidy’s Ceili at The Irish Club
Cassidy's Ceili wraps up St Patrick's Day...
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Canberra Balloon Festival (bright and early...)
up, up and away with Cassidy's Ceili...
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Corinbank Festival
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Corinbank Festival
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Granite Vale Wines with Cassidy’s Ceili
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Australian National University
7pm
Canberra ACT [map]ANU International Students: Welcome Bush Dance with Cassidy's Ceili
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Ginninderra Labor Club
The Valentine's Day rage in the cage with Cassidy's Ceili at Charnie's favourite night-spot.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Garema Place: Groovin’ in the City
'Groovin’ in the City' it says here... well, Cassidy's Ceili might work up to a bit of gentle palpitation on a Tuesday lunchtime...
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Canberra Southern Cross Club with Cassidy's Ceili
Friday, November 27th, 2009
’Stoned’ with Shortis & Simpson at Vivaldi’s
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
’Stoned’ with Shortis & Simpson at Vivaldi’s
Having done Buddy Holly, S & S drag us into the 60s for an evening of Stones. I'll be ghosting Wyman, Jon Jones will be shadowing Watts, while Dave O'Neill does Captain Teague and the other guitary bloke all at once.
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
FunMusic for Little Kids CD and book launch
2pm
The FunMusic for Little Kids book and CD is being unleashed by Lynne Pilbrow and myself on November 15th at St. Barnabas' in Charnwood, ACT.
Lynne says: "The FunMusic for Little Kids program aims to introduce musical knowledge, skills and concepts to children in a fun way, and is designed to foster an enjoyment and love of music. FunMusic draws on the methods expounded by music educators such as Kodaly and Orff, but has been developed to be relevant and accessible to children living in Australia. Lessons are based around themes appropriate to the age and experiences of young children." Here's a sample.