Monaro Country Music Muster
A weekend of country music is being planned for Saturday, 31st. March and 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.

The Cooma Rotary Club is hosting the music event, which will commence at 7pm. Saturday 31st March, with a Walk-up, Open Mic Concert at the Cooma Country and Bowling Club.
On Sunday 1st. April, there will be a concert featuring local artists and invited guests, at a venue yet to be decided. This event may be outside or inside. If outside, you will need to bring a chair and/or a rug. The venue will be advertised when details are finalised.
If you or someone you know, can sing or play a country song and would like to entertain at the Muster, please contact Elaine Schofield
02 64525925. 

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

Perisher-Snowy Mountains NSW

World, Roots, Blues, Gypsy, Acoustic, Celtic Music:

• Christine Anu
• Ash Grunwald
• Skipping Girl Vinegar
• Eric Bogle
• King Marong and Afro Mandinko
• The Sunny Cowgirls
• and many, many more

AND FEATURING A CELEBRATION OF INDIGENOUS MUSIC

Tickets and Programmes Available at:

• Cooma School of Music: (02) 6452 6067
• Online: www.snowymountainsofmusic.com.au
• or call 1300 811 324

Click Here For More Info

In January 2012 the New Plymouth Classical Guitar Society will be running the first Classical Guitar Summer School in New Zealand for nearly twenty years. It will be held in New Plymouth in the Taranaki region of the North Island. It will be six days of events that will have all registrants playing their guitar every day as a part of an ensemble that will merge at the end of every day to form a larger Guitar Orchestra. These ensembles will be lead by John Couch, Owen Moriarty and Jane Curry and the Guitar Orchestra led by John Couch.

Other events will include evening concerts from the New Zealand Guitar Quartet, Matthew Marshall, John Couch and the Duo Jackson. Lunch time concerts by Jane Curry, Cheryl Grice Watterson, Nick Price, Marek Pasieczny, Christopher Hill and Duo Tone. Master classes will be run by some of the most prominent New Zealand guitarists. A whole series of talks will cover some of the elements encountered by guitarists from Flamenco Guitar techniques to Understanding Nerves and Conquering Stage Fright.

Would you mind if we were to send you some flyers/posters to place around in key areas to help us get the word out? I have your email address, what is your postal address please? Registrations are open now; please forward this on to anyone and everyone you know that may be interested in coming to Taranaki for a week of guitar. For families traveling to New Zealand, Taranaki is a fantastic part of the country for tourists and travelers.

For full details at www.taranakisummerschool.weebly.com

• Snowy Strings Youth Orchestra
• Paderewski Music Academy Chicago

For more information go to:

http://kosciuszkorun.com.au/

Numeralla Folk Festival 2011

21st to 24th January

Activities

Highlights of this homespun festival are the Bush Dances on Saturday and Sunday nights and Sunday afternoon’s Blackboard Concert, where seasoned professionals and budding artists can chalk their name up to play a couple of songs, recite a poem, spin a yarn or entertain the crowd in any creative way.

Amble about the Country Markets on Sunday morning to pick up a bargain, hear some Numeralla bluegrass music or have a cuppa.

Other features include dance & bluegrass

workshops – no prior skill required!

Food and Drink

There are no shops in the village but you can eat heartily, from breakfast to supper, at the hall. The kitchen is open from nineish in the morning until stumps, serving snacks, hot & cold beverages, delicious home-cooked meals and goodies. The

bar-b-que serves lunch and dinner. Drinks are available at the bar. All are very reasonably priced.

Should you need to stock up on tucker there are shops in Cooma including three supermarkets. Camping gear, music & instrument supplies are well catered for at our sponsor shops in Cooma.

How to get there

The village of Numeralla is situated at the junction of the Numeralla and Badja Rivers, 22km east of the town of Cooma in south eastern New South Wales.

The main route to the village is via Cooma from the Monaro Highway. If you are approaching from Canberra, turn left just after M & T Motors about 4km north of Cooma, then left at the first crossroads (just after an old railway crossing). Once on this road, go straight ahead for 20 km and you’ll be in the village.

There are other routes by which to approach the village. All involve stretches of unsealed but sound road. Petrol is available in Cooma and Braidwood. Please drive carefully – watch out for wildlife on the road, particularly at dawn and dusk.

Accommodation

Enjoy the picturesque campsites in the village. The main site is at the junction of the two rivers. Turn north, just east of the bridge over the Numeralla River. At this site you can enjoy playing or listening to music almost 24 hours every day around the campfires. There are flushing toilets but no showering facilities (the river is available for refreshing dips). You can park your car next to your tent; for safety reasons, we ask that cars not be driven into the campsite after dark.

There is a designated “quiet” campsite on the western side of the bridge, in the grounds of the tennis courts. It is just a short stroll from the hall.

Fire restrictions for each day will apply to all campsites as required by the Rural Fire Service..

If camping is not your style, there are a number of comfortable motels in Cooma offering inexpensive accommodation.

Holiday

In 2011 Australia Day is on Wednesday 26^th January. There will not be any official activities at the festival on that day or Tuesday but the campground will still be available and plenty of good music there is assured.

Numeralla Fingerplunkers having fun at the Folk Festival 2009

-PROGRAM-

Friday

6.00pm Welcome at the Supper Room

8.00pm Old Time Dance ~ Hall

Saturday

10.00am Poets’ Breakfast ~ Tennis Club

11.00am Dance Workshop ~ Hall

1.00pm Blackboard Concert ~ Hall

2.00pm Kid’s Dance Workshop ~ Tennis Club

8.00pm Bush Dance ~ Hall

Lots of great musical items for sale at the Sunday Markets

Sunday

9.30am Ecumenical Service ~

St John’s Church

(opposite the Hall)

10.00am Country Market in and around

the Hall

1.30pm Bluegrass Dynamics ~ Hall

2.00pm Kid’s Activities – Tennis Club

3,30pm Waltz & Polka Dance Workshop ~ Tennis Club

8.00pm Bush Dance ~ Hall

Numeralla Fingerplunkers perform at the Folk Festival

Monday

10.00am Poet’s Breakfast ~ Tennis Club

10.00am Kid’s Activities ~ Hall

1.00pm Acoustic Farewell ~ Hall

N.B. there may be slight changes to the program during the weekend – after all, it is Numeralla.

Tickets

There are no tickets. Entry to the festival, the activities and the camping ground are all absolutely free. You don’t have to book, just turn up.

The festival has been running for over three decades, providing a very social and entertaining weekend for folkies and other visitors whilst raising a modest amount of income for Numeralla volunteer groups such as the local bush fire brigade.

The kitchen, bar-b-que, bar and T-shirt sales cover the costs of running the festival and allow for a small donation to be given to community groups in the village. Please support these sales so that we can continue the wonderful tradition of the Numeralla Folk Festival. As far as we know it is the only free festival still running in Australia.

T-shirts

Each year an artist sketches a scene depicting pioneering life or a festival snapshot. Many regular festival goers boast an art gallery in their chest of drawers! At half the price of most festival shirts they are a must-have.

More Information

www.freewebs.com/numerallafolkfestival

(the website is usually updated in October)

or phone Fran 7am – 9pm on 02 6453 3282

Go to their website: Click here:

Click here for all the info:

http://thredboblues.com.au/

Dear Choir Festival Participant,

Thank you for your interest in the Choir Festival, which is approaching fast. I am writing to you to update some aspects for the day’s organization.

The main change to the plans for the day is a change of venue. The new venue is St Pauls Anglican Church Hall, located in Commissioner St Cooma. This street is parallel to the main road through the centre of town. Driving from Canberra, turn left at the second roundabout, take the first turn right, St. Paul’s is at the crest of the hill.

It is well set up for a Choir event, and is located close to shops so it will be easy to access food etc.

All other plans remain the same. Rodney Clancy will conduct one large group, which presently looks like being between 60-90 people.

Participating Choirs and singing groups are busy learning the selected pieces. Being familiar with the charts will help everyone enjoy the experience on the day. If you need help with this, please email or phone me.

Tea, coffee, fruit drinks, biscuits will be available throughout the day, participants will need to make arrangements for lunch etc. So, bring your own food/drink if you like, or buy it at one of many nearby food outlets. Details will be available on the day, as to where to find shops.

The cost for attending is $10, payable on arrival. Could I also ask singers to bring the music with them that have been used in rehearsal. Also could Choir directors email me a list of expected numbers and voice types and let me know if more vocal charts are needed.

Rodney has asked me to let you know that women who are comfortable singing the tenor parts, even if only in some of the songs, are encouraged to do so. This will help the overall balance of the combined choir.

The program and music list is as follows:

PROGRAM

9.30am Welcome to participants

10.00am Rehearsal No. 1 (2 hours)

12.00p Lunch Break (1 hour)

1.00pm Rehearsal No.2 (1 hour)

2.00pm Break (30 mins)

2.30pm Rehearsal No. 3 ( 1 hour)

3.30pm Break (30 mins)

4.00pm Concert (Till 5.00 or 5.15)

Rodney is concerned to conserve singers voices and rest breaks are important to achieve this. These breaks will provide opportunities to mingle and socialize.

The music selected for performance is as follows, all 4 part harmony.

1. Razzle Dazzle ‘em from Chicargo the musical.

2. Dies Irae – WA Mozart.

3. The Barcarolle (Night of Stars) Offenbach.

4. Pemulwuy – By Australian composer Paul Jarman.

5. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

6. Sure on this shining light S Barber

7. Ave Verum – Mozart

Choirs or singing groups are invited to prepare two pieces each to perform at the concert, if they wish. These will be in addition to the combined choir items.

The SMCS Choir Festival is a great opportunity for people who don’t belong to a choir to enjoy singing as part of a large group. The Festival also gives established Choirs a chance to see & hear other choir groups and share their talents and experience. As this festival is a significant regional music event, I will be inviting the Head of the A.N.W. School of Music, Adrian Walter, or his representative to attend, ore on this at a later date. I look forward to meeting you on September 11 in Cooma.

Regards

Phil Horneman

Music Teacher SMCS

Contact: phil.horneman@smcs.nsw.edu.au

H. 6452 1255

W. 6452 4333

M. 0401 624 138

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