When: 8pm Saturday 14 April 2012

Where: Horizons Hotel, Jindabyne

When: 6pm Saturday 14 April 2012

Where: Horizons Hotel, Jindabyne

About the festival

Over the Moonbah celebrates multiculturalism, harmony and history in the Snowy Mountains area through a series of colourful, exciting events over two days.

The highlight of the festival will be a set of friendship flights over Moonbah and Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mainland mountain. Five pairs of Aboriginal and Polish Australians will take off into the sky, soaring over this beautiful part of Australia.

Other events include concerts, a film screening, the launch of a new publication, BBQs with Polish delights, art and craft displays, and more.

For more information, see the festival program or find out the latest news and, of course, take a moment to get to know the wonderful sponsors of the weekend.

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Cooma Ex-Services Club Ltd.
106 Vale Street
Cooma NSW 2630

Telephone: (02) 6452 1144

Food stalls, a bar and market stalls will ensure you have all your needs for the day and there is plenty to keep the kids amused. On Saturday night there will be a blackboard concert in the hall.

Camping is available for just $10 for the weekend. Showers are available but there are few other facilities so we suggest you BYO everything. A soup kitchen will operate on Friday night for early birds and breakfast will be available on Sunday morning.

The nearest shop and fuel are 30km away in Wyndham or Eden.

Further information:

• towambasessions@gmail.com
• or “Towamba Acoustic Sesssions” on Facebook

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Australian International Music Festival

Sydney 25^th June – 2^nd July 2012

Cooma Music Observation Tour

World-Projects.com.au

Do you have a love of music? Are you learning an instrument? Are you interested in learning more about playing in an ensemble? Do you play or perform in an Orchestra, Concert Band, Jazz Band or in a Choir? This tour is for you.

Australian International Music Festival (AIMF) hosts choirs, bands and orchestras from Australia and around the world. For performing groups that pay to participate in this yearly event they would receive world class workshops and perform in landmark venues across Sydney. Luckily we have been offered access to observe these international groups & clinicians work and perform. If you are interested in observing workshops, performances and listening to international groups then please sign up and come to Sydney.

10 spots are available for interested people to come and meet musicians, clinicians, and watch performances in Sydney Opera House, Angel Place Recital Hall, St Andrews Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall. The only costs are for the tour is to pay for your own transport, accommodation (you can organise your own and staying with a family friend to reduce costs is completely up to you) and food. Entry to the concerts, workshops, adjudicated performances and rehearsals are all free, yes, free. If you are 18 years old or younger you will need to also come with a guardian or parent. For more information on the AIMF 2012 please go to www.worldprojects.com.au and click on the Australian International Music Festival page.

While at the festival you will watch clinicians from Australia, USA and many other parts of the world run highly advanced workshops with some music groups from Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Japan, USA and other parts of the world. Some of the groups will be beginners but the majority will be very advanced or semi-professional world-class groups. There will also be a combined Orchestra and Choir work performed at the command performance at the end of the festival. Nearly every day is completely full of organised music of one sort or another. Choir workshop then a jazz band, then a joint exchange rehearsal, then concert bands for rest of day, next day might be massed choir rehearsals with George Torbay (One of Australia’s best Choir clinicians), then Orchestra workshop, with concert band exchange rehearsal in evening. This is just an example of what could happen for you to watch over a two day and night at the festival. A more in-depth description of what could happen at the festival is available on the website above so have a look at that too. If you allow from 9am to 10pm every day for learning and listening then you are close to the amount of music that you can observe in the time there. There is also an occasional moment of free time for shopping or your own site seeing but it might be only one morning in the whole week.

To participate in this wonderful experience at the AIMF all you need to do is to send an email to wotney@hotmail.com and instructions will be sent to you. You will have to look after your own accommodation, transport and food requirements for the time in Sydney but assistance can be offered in organising that for you. The suggestion for accommodation is the YHA Sydney Central located just next to Central Railway Station as it is cheaper and closer to all the venues for the festival at around $47.00 per night per person. Transport from the YHA to the venues are all walkable but can take up to ¾ hour – Opera House is the furthest away so perhaps a train from Central to Circular Quay with a walk from the Quay to the Opera House. Please budget for these little incidentals.

Small example budget for someone who does not stay at a friends’ house is;

• Accommodation – YHA Central – $47.00 x 7 $329.00
• Train travel where required $ 40.00
• Total $369.00

Please also keep in mind you will have to pay for your food too. Entry to the venues for all festival organised events is free for us and us only. Most participants that come to participate in the festival as musicians in a group pay over $400 each just to join, they also then have to get there, pay for accommodation and food all on top of that participation fee. As you can see we are very lucky to be observers at this event which would otherwise have cost several hundred dollars more.

Click here to go to their site.

Harmony Day 2012.

From 9.00am to 3.00pm at Centennial Park in Cooma.

• Market Stalls
• Performances from around the World
• International Cuisine
• Entertainment for the whole family

If you require further information  -

Contact : Yvi Henderson at Monaro Family Support Services in Cooma

• Ph:  0264 523 450 or
• Mobile 0458 523 457 or
• Email yvi.henderson@monarofss.ngo.org.au

Monaro Country Music Muster
A weekend of country music is being planned for Friday, 30th March to Sunday, 1st. April 2012 in Cooma, to raise money to support the Monaro Committee for Cancer Research. The MCCR wants to raise funds to support families living with cancer in the Cooma-Monaro, Bombala and Snowy River Shires.

Programme:

♫ Friday 30^th March at 7.30pm – Jay Podger’s Album Launch

Venue: Cooma ExServices Club

Tickets: $20 ($5 of which goes to MCCR)

♫ Saturday 31^th March – Cooma Country & Bowling Club

1.00pm Bush Poetry ($2 includes afternoon tea)

7.00pm Walk-Up Concert ($5 includes light supper)

-Poets & musician welcome to perform-

♫ Sunday 1^st April – Concert in Cooma Ex-Services Club. This has been now changed from Centennial Park Cooma due to predicted bad weather.

11.00am – 4.00pm

(Bring a chair/rug. Donations will be greatfully accepted. If it’s raining this concert will be moved to the Cooma ExServices Club)

 

Inside Music is a Proud Sponsor

Enquires please contact:

Elaine Schofield Phone: 02 64525925 Email ainee.pv@hotmail.com

 

 

The Canberra Country Music Festival was established to promote, showcase and grow Country Music (across all its sub-genres) in Australia’s national capital and surrounding regions – the largest inland market in Australia comprising over half a million people. We see the Festival as securing Country Music within the community through holding an event comprising performances, exhibitions, workshops, talent quests, dancing and industry forums. While open to all, the Festival also endeavours to provide a showcase for regional country music artists and the next generation of performers. As the last festival of the year on the country music event calendar, the Canberra Country Music Festival also has the highest level of new recording launches as performers gear up for Tamworth in the New Year. The Festival also raises funds for local non-profit community organisations as well as fostering country music in the heart of the nation!

This year’s theme: “Music Dance Utes Horses – It’s A Lifestyle! Seriously Having A Good Time!”

This year’s festival will include:

• Performances
• Workshops
• Talent Quest
• Dance Sessions
• Special Exhibits
• Ute Van + Truck Muster

For more information go to: http://www.canberracountry.com/

The Performers:

A hugh array of local, interstate and international performers include:

For more information on the Performers click here.

Tickets Available From:

Cooma School of Music
Shop 2, Parkview Arcade, 123 Sharp Street,
Cooma, NSW 2630
Phone: 02 6452 6067
Fax: 02 6452 4938
Email: allan@coomamusic.com.au