Featuring:
Anthony Hann – Organ
Narelle Hahn – Trumpet
Rowena Evans – Recorder
Where:
St Andrew’s Uniting Church, try Soho Street Cooma NSW
Tickets at door:
Adult $20
Concession $15
SMAC Member $10
Student & Children Free
Presented by Snowy Monaro Arts Council Inc.
Tickets at the Door—Adults $15, Concession $5, Family $40
Ph: 02 6226 3450!
Your family ticket will feed, clothe and
educate an orphan for a month
Here’s some interesting background on this organ:
http://www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/CookWestminsterPres.html
Evgeny Ukhanov_Russian Concert Pianist
Sunday 15 March
at 3pm
at the St Paul’s Anglican Parish Hall
Commissioner Street, about it Cooma
Followed by afternoon tea
Tickets are available at The Fabric Salon, Cooma
Tickets
Adult $25
Concession $20
SMAC Member $15
School Students and Children FREE
Evgeny Ukhanov began his piano studies at the age of seven. He came from the Ukraine to Australia on a scholarship in 1998 and completed his Bachelor of Music.
Evgeny has performed all around the world, has recorded solo and chamber music, has featured in the TV series “Prodigy” and this year he will be competing in the Top of the World International Piano Competition in Norway.
“Evgeny has performed in England, Romania, Italy, USA, France, Germany, Japan, Ukraine and Russia. He began his studies when he was seven years old in the Ukraine and gave his first performance at the age of nine. In 1997 he was a major prize winner in both the Second Horowitz International Pi-ano competition in Ukraine, and the International Piano competition in Sen-igalia, Italy. You are in for a treat when Evgeny comes to Cooma. The Cooma program will include Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev and Gershwin.” from Snowy Monaro Arts Council  Newsletter Feruary 2015.
This year’s festival is happening at Cooma Rotary Markets on Sunday 15 March 2015, medic from 10am to 3pm. Thanks to Cooma Rotary, Cooma Monaro Shire Council, Queanbeyan Multicultural Centre and last but not least M.A.G.I.C. – Multicultural Activity Group in Cooma!
After the festival you can come to see Evgeny-Ukhanov, Russian Concert Pianist at St Pauls Anglican Parish Hall at 3pm:
World Class Pianist Evgeny Ukhanov_Cooma Concert 15 March 2015
Cannonball Express competing at the Australian National Busking Championships
ambulance sans-serif;”>Last Saturday saw the return of the enormously popular Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢ to the CBD of Cooma. Over 170 musicians played their hearts out to compete for over $8,000 in prizes and the coveted title of Australian National Busking Champion. The buskers commenced their street performances at 9.00am and played all day until 5.00 pm – the start of the Finals Concert in Centennial Park. At the Finals Concert five judges, Gunther Gorman, Marian Budos, Graham French, Donna Smith and ABC Radio presenter, Michael Cavanagh decided which buskers would receive the 23 awards on offer.
Guyy – Australian National Busking Champion – 2nd year running!
Singer-guitarist Guyy Lilleyman won the Open Champion for the second year running. He won a cash prize of $2,000. After winning last year’s Open Champion, Guyy has been enjoying an enormous boost to his music career. He has just returned from a highly successful tour of South Africa where he and his duo partner, violinist Amelia Gibson, played for thousands of new fans throughout that country. Guyy advertised on his South African tour posters that he was the “Australian National Busking Championâ€.
Vendulka – wows the crowd
Second place in the open section went to Vendulka Wichta. She won a cash prize of $300. Vendulka is, of course, Cooma’s very own X Factor girl and very much a crowd favourite in this event. Vendulka and Guyy are great friends so although they took this competition very seriously, they still managed to stay friends. They drove down together from Canberra for the day. Third place in the open section went to a fabulous folk group called “The Button Collectiveâ€. They received a cash prize of $200. Originally formed in Lismore, The Button
The Button Collective came all the way from Sydney to compete in the Australian National Busking Championships
Collective is now a Sydney-based band. They are in huge demand – they are constantly on the road performing in folk festivals all over Australia. The band is lead by guitarist, mandolin player and singer, Brodie Buttons aka Brodie Nossiter who was born and raised in Cooma, with piano accordion player Quinton Trembath and double bassist Jacob Pember.
Olivia Cakarun won the $1000 People’s Choice Award
This year’s People’s Choice Award was Olivia Cakarun a talented 13 year old singer-guitarist from Sydney. She won $1,000. The second place winners were the Button Collective, earning themselves $700 to add to their booty. The third place People’s Choice Award was Harry Cleverdon, winning himself $300.
Josh Maynard (from Cowra) was awarded Australian National Busking Champion-secondary section
In the secondary section, Josh Maynard, a singer-guitarist from Cowra took out the first prize and $500. The second prize went to another singer-guitarist, Lucy Sugerman. Lucy is from Canberra and she also received $300. The third prize of $200 went to the three-piece group Raising Cain. This is a group of local musicians: Sarah Nicholson, Rory Maclean and Ehlana Wright. In the primary age section, which was sponsored by the Cooma-Monaro Express, Harry
Harry Cleverdon came from Young to become the Australian National Busking Champion – primary section
Cleverdon came first. Harry is a singer and keyboard player. He came down from Young with his family for the day. His prize was $300. The second prize of $200 was awarded to the brother and sister singing duo “Kick Itâ€. They are Ted and Lucia Stewart from Canberra. The third place went to Tomas Carton. Tomas, who won $100, is a piano player from Cooma.
Marco Solo won one of ten Special Judges Award of $200 on offer
This year there were also 10 Special Judges Awards of $200 each. These were for buskers that the judges thought deserving of special recognition. They were: The Brademann Brothers (from Cooma), The Browne Sisters (from Tanja), Connor Ross (from Cobargo), Cooma Public School Choir, Dab Three (from Woodbine), Marco Solo (from Cobargo), Roger McCulloch (from Cooma), Rowena Evans (from Cooma), Tessa Divine (from Canberra), and Undertow (from Canberra). There was also a special “Farthest Traveller Award†of $100 that went to the busker that had to travel the longest distance to perform in the Championships. This award was donated by Michael Hutchesson. Michael, who is from South Australia, is a huge fan of the Championships. He couldn’t make it to this year’s event but still wanted to be part of the excitement. This year’s third annual Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢ was by any measure a huge success, but it could not have happened without the generous support of the Rotary Club of Cooma, the Cooma-Monaro Shire Council, Cooma School of Music and these local businesses and organizations: Alpine Hotel Cooma, Cooma Hotel, Cooma-Monaro Express, Roses Restaurant, Mark Kenmir & Co, Eucumbene Trout Farm, Cooma Little Theatre, Cooma Lions Club, Cooma Family Dental, Snowy Monaro Arts Council, P D Murphy’s Cafe, Moontree Health Foods, The Monaro Post, ABC Local Radio, Radio 2XL, Snow FM Radio, 2MNO Community Radio, Cooma Cafe, 40 Cafe, Never Ending Memories, Mainstreet, Snowy Camping World, Cooma Trophy & Gift Centre, Pizza House Food Factory, Bush Basics, Kettle and Seed, The Two Vaults Restaurant and The Lott Foodstore.  ABC Radio National – Bush Telegraph – Podcast:
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Recognised as one of the most dynamic and exciting classical guitar ensembles, tuberculosis the Australian Guitar Duo will be performing in Cooma on Sunday 30th November at 3.00pm. The venue is the historic St Paul’s Anglican Parish Hall, 136 Commissioner Street. This Cooma concert will be the last concert in their Australia-wide tour – fifteen concerts performed in five states plus the ACT.
The Australian Guitar Duo consists of Rupert Boyd and Jacob Cordover. They have given performances throughout the world, including at the New York Guitar Duo Festival in New York City, Barcelona Guitar Festival in Spain, Festival de Musique Classique in France, Strings-139 Festival in China, Music by the Sea in Canada, and in every state and territory in mainland Australia.
Australian Guitar Duo have been delighting audiences throughout the world, performing a mixture of new and exciting Australian compositions as well as classic works from the guitar duo repertoire. During this year’s Australian tour they will perform a wide range of works for two guitars, from the Baroque to Contemporary, and will feature compositions and arrangements by Silvius Leopold Weiss, Mauro Giuliani, Maurice Ravel, Ross Edwards, Pixinguinha and Joaquin Rodrigo. This repertoire will form the basis of a new CD that they plan to record in 2015, and is sure to please a wide audience, from the connoisseur of classical music to anyone who loves music or the guitar.
Rupert Boyd and Jacob Cordover are both respected soloists in their own right. They met and formed as a duo in the year 2000 while studying at the Australian National University School of Music, under renowned Australian guitarist Timothy Kain.
In 2012 the Australian Guitar Duo released its debut CD Songs from the Forest,
The Australian Guitar Duo on tour in China, 2013
which was met with such critical acclaim as “wonderfully entertaining†by Classical Guitar Magazine (UK), “superb†by Limelight Magazine, and “a fine recording sure to please the most demanding listeners …technical masters who also possess beautiful tone, and a wonderfully refined collective musical sense†by Minor 7thSoundboard, the quarterly publication of Guitar Foundation of America.
A truly international ensemble, Mr. Boyd and Mr. Cordover live in New York City and Barcelona respectively but meet on a regular basis to perform concerts throughout the world.
The Australian Guitar Duo last toured Australia in 2012, and has since given performances in China, the Philippines, New York, Spain, aboard Queen Mary 2, and most recently Vancouver Island in Canada.
Tickets are now available at Cooma School of Music. For more details, and to browse videos and images of the Australian Guitar Duo, please visit:
http://www.australianguitarduo.com/
https://www.facebook.com/australianguitarduo/timeline
Bush Telegraph on ABC Radio National did a great report on this year’s Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢.
Here’s the podcast to download:
Josh Maynard from Cowra won the Secondary Section
Canberra Guitar Ensemble performing at the Australian National Busking Championships
The Big Busker Bash – Three Music Events For Friday 31st October
As part of a huge weekend of music and fun, cialis 40mg the organisers of the Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢ have planned three major music events for Friday 31st October, more about the night before the Championships. They are: Night of Champions at the Alpine Hotel, asthma Buskers at the Cooma Hotel, and Buskers Open Mic at Two Vaults.
 Night of Champions
The Alpine Hotel Cooma, 170 Sharp Street, will be presenting “Night of Championsâ€, featuring winners of last year’s Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢. The Alpine Hotel will rock to the sounds of Guyy Lilleyman, Vendulka and Roger McCulloch. The Alpine is the major sponsor of last year’s, and this year’s Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢.
Guyy Lilleyman was last year’s Open Champion and has just returned from an extensive tour of South Africa, with violinist Amelia Gibson. Guyy and Amelia, or “Guyy and the Foxâ€, their stage name, played to packed audiences in South Africa in venues throughout the country, including huge audiences at the annual White Mountain Acoustic Festival in Central Drakensberg.
Vendulka, (aka Vendulka Wichta) is of course, Cooma’s very own X Factor girl. Vendulka has won the secondary section Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢ two years running. Also taking out the People’s Choice award! Still just in year 11, Vendulka’s music career is taking off. She is in constant demand as a headline performer at music festivals all around Australia and her EP “Reckless†went to Number One on iTunes.
Roger McCulloch won the Judges Award at last year’s Championships. Roger is a local music legend. He is the front man for the popular local band, the Barstars, and is a prolific song writer, singer and guitarist.
Buskers at the Cooma Hotel
After the months of last year’s renovations, this year the Cooma Hotel has gotten right behind the Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢. The Cooma Hotel, on the corner of Massie and Vale Streets, looks fantastic after its“Grand Designs†adventure! They will be featuring the talents of Brodie Buttons and the Button Collective on that Friday night. Brodie Buttons (aka Brodie Nossiter) will be competing at this year’s Championships with his folk band, The Button Collective. Brodie is a born and bred Cooma boy. After studying music at the Southern Cross University, Lismore, Brodie and his band have forged quite a name for themselves in the music scene. They play regularly in folk music pubs around Sydney such as “The Rock’s Brewing Company†and “Goodgod in Liverpool Street†as well as travelling around and performing at many music festivals such as the National Folk Festival Canberra, Ballina Coastal Country Music Festival and Kiama Folk by The Sea.
Buskers Open Mic at the Two Vaults Café and Restaurant.
The Two Vaults Café and Restaurant, 161 Sharp Street, is a relatively new arrival on the Cooma music scene. They have been offering an open mic night every Thursday for the past couple of months. They call it Thursday Night Music Club and it’s been tremendously fun and successful, with lots of keen local musicians trying out their skills on an appreciative audience. Part of its success is the regularity of these nights – it’s always on a Thursday from 7.30 to 9.30pm. The owners weren’t keen to move the open mic to the “Busking Friday,†so they decided to just have an extra music night that week on the Friday and call it “Buskers Open Mic.†This venue will be a wonderful chance for buskers to meet, greet and jam together before the big day.
