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Australian National Busking Championships – Camping!

 

Cooma Showgrounds available for camping

Cooma Showgrounds available for camping

Cooma Showgrounds will be available for camping at the Australian National Busking Championships. Donna at the Cooma Visitors Centre has just confirmed that the Cooma Showgrounds will be available for anyone wanting to camp or bring a motorhome or caravan.They have powered and unpowered sites as well as a shower and toilet block.
Camping Sites are:

  • $22 per night powered and
  • $12 per night unpowered.

It would have to be booked though the Cooma Visitors Centre.
Book your site by contacting the Cooma Visitors Centre: 1800 636 525 freecall) or email: info@visitcooma.com.au.

Cooma Rotary Club backs the Australian National Busking Championships

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It’s official!
The Australian National Busking Championships have joined forces with the Cooma Rotary Club.
In a special meeting this morning we shook hands on a partnership which will secure a bright future for this wonderful community based event.
So keep Saturday 1st November 2014 free in your diaries because it’s going to be an awesome day of busking, medicine music, read more fun and prizes in Cooma NSW!

Busking and Rotary

A Huge Success_The Australian National Busking Championships 2013

This year’s event was awesome! Bigger and better than last year! We had almost 100 musicians performing at 22 diferent venues. In total , illness the buskers performed over 300 half hour sets over the 2 days. That’s a lot of music!

Guyy Lilleyman - The Australian National Busking Champion 2013

Guyy Lilleyman – The Australian National Busking Champion 2013

And the Winners are:

1st Open Champion – Guyy Lilleyman
2nd Highly Commended – Ben Warner & Vince Leong
3rd Commended – Matt Charlesworth

1st Secondary Champion – Vendulka Wichta
2nd Secondary Highly Commended – A Tie!
Sybling Rivalry & The Browne Sisters
3rd Commended – Olivia Cakarun

1st Primary Champion – Jark Hermans
2nd Primary Highly Commended – Callum McPhie
3rd Primary Commended – Brademann Brothers

Peoples Choice Award – Vendulka Wichta

Special Music Awards –

  • Country Music Award: Roger McCullough
  • Multicultural Award: Numeralla Fingerplunkers
  • Classical Music Award: Stypa Quartet
  • Special Judges Award: Mark Davis
Vendulka Wichta - Australian National Busking Secondary Champion 213. And Peoples Choice Award

Vendulka Wichta – Australian National Busking Secondary Champion 213. And Peoples Choice Award

Congratulations to all!
Thank you judges for a job well done and for giving up your weekend for this event.
Thank you Donna Smith and all the wonderful people at the Cooma Visitors Centre
A HUGE thanks to all the wonderful buskers.
Plus a Special Thanks to All our generous sponsors:
Alpine Hotel
The Tourist Cafe
Roses Lebanese Restaurant
Cooma Family Dental
Chelsea Coffee Lounge
South East Arts
Snowy Monaro Arts Council
Eucumbene Trout Farm
McDonalds Family Restaurant
Bombala Street Surgery
Sharp Street Surgery
And of course a Big Thank you to all our Busker Hosts & Venues:
McDonald’s Family Restaurant, Cooma Monaro Railway, Cathy’s Lolly Shack, Cooma Cafe, Tourist Cafe, 40Cafe, Mainstreet, Snowy Camping World, Pizza House & Food Factory, PD Murphy Cafe, Chelsea Coffee Loung, Kettle & Seed, Moontree Health Foods, Roses Lebanese Restaurant, Alpine Hotel, The Lott Foodstore, Monaro Stitches Quilt & Craft Fair, Cooma Motorfest, Honda Snowy Ride, St Patricks Bazaar Fair, A Feast of Poetry and Cooma Visitors Centre.

Here’s a Youtube video of Guyy Lilleyman, Australian National Busking Champion 2013

Here’s a Photo Gallery of the weekend. For more photos and comments go to:

https://www.facebook.com/australiannationalbuskingchampionships

(Please click on thumbnails for larger image)

Australian National Busking Championshipsâ„¢ – 2nd & 3rd November 2013

facebook banner 2013The Australian National Busking Championships™ is a different sort of music festival for Australia. Music festivals in Australia have typically been based on a particular style of music, psychotherapist eg Tamworth Country Music Festival, buy more about Woodford Folk Festival, viagra buy Byron Bay Blues Festival. The ANBC is a celebration of all styles of music because the buskers that perform in this festival bring a huge variety of music. Whether that be Blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, R & B, Pop, Rock, Folk, Country, Bluegrass, Indigenous, Multicultural or Classical , the Australian National Busking Championships™ reflects the rich diversity of Australian music culture.

Ticket prices for most music festivals are expensive; in the ANBC all the street entertainment is provided free of charge. The audience can, of course, tip the busker but that is their choice. All this wonderful music is performed literally feet away from them.

Although there are buskers at many music festivals in Australia, busking is typically relegated to a fringe activity. However, in this festival the buskers take pride of place. This festival brings music back to the people, back to the streets.

WHEN:  2nd & 3rd November 2013

WHERE: Cooma NSW Australia.

THE PRIZES: (TOTAL PRIZE POOL $5,000)

logo busker_australian national busking championshipsOpen (any age) – Sponsored by Alpine Hotel Cooma

  1. Open Champion $2,000
  2. Open Highly Commended $300
  3. Open Encouragement $200

Secondary (secondary school-aged students) – Sponsored by Roses Lebanese Restaurant

  1. Secondary Champion $300
  2. Secondary Highly Commended $150
  3. Secondary Encouragement $100

Primary (primary school aged students) – Sponsored by The Chelsea Coffee Lounge & Cooma Family Dental

  1. Primary Champion $200
  2. Primary Highly Commended $100
  3. Primary Encouragement $50
Special Awards
  • People’s Choice Award $1,000 – Sponsored by The Tourist Cafe
  • Indigenous Award $200 - Sponsored by South East Arts
  • Multicultural Award $200 – Sponsored by Roses Lebanese Restaurant
  • Classical Award $200 – Sponsored by Cooma Family Dental

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMORE INFORMATION:

  • ALLAN SPENCER
  • PHONE +61 2 6452 6067
  • EMAIL: ALLAN@COOMAMUSIC.COM.AU

PAST YEARS CHAMPIONSHIPS

PAST YEARS CHAMPIONS

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Australia Day 2013 Cooma Celebrations – Photos

Here’s a couple of YouTube audio track of Robert Shearer. These were recordered live at the Cooma concert of “Divine Divas and a Bloke” on 29th November 2011:

And here’s Robert performing at Sing Your Own Handel’s Messiah on the 12th November 2011:

Robert Shearer sings at Divine Divas and a Bloke_Cooma 2011


Recording Studio Open Day

  • Studio Tours
  • Live Performances by PTE Artists
  • Sausage Sizzle
  • Kids Jumping Castle & Slide

Venue: “Mount View” 2557 Jerangle Road, public health
Jerangle

Phone: 02 6454 3229

Email: admin@phattrackentertainment.com.au

www.phattrackentertainment.com.au
Recording Studio Open Day

  • Studio Tours
  • Live Performances by PTE Artists
  • Sausage Sizzle
  • Kids Jumping Castle & Slide

Venue: “Mount View” 2557 Jerangle Road, price
Jerangle

Phone: 02 6454 3229

Email: admin@phattrackentertainment.com.au

www.phattrackentertainment.com.au
Australian National Busking Championships named Community Event of the Year

Robert Shearer is named Young Citizen of the Year

 

Vendulka appearing at 40 Cafe this Sunday 2 December at 4.30pm

Vendulka Wichta_Australian National Busking Champion (Secondary) 2012

Our very own Vendulka Wichta will be performing at 40 Cafe 89 Sharp Street, more about Cooma.

This Sunday 2nd December 4.30-6.30pm.

Book a table (02) 6452 2527.

Spaces are limited.

It’s Free!

Vendulka is a wonderful singer. She came to national prominence when she appeared on national TV in this years Australian X Factor.

X-FACTOR
http://youtu.be/PQTTj6bzM7M

And she’s Australia’s National Busking Champion (Secondary) for 2012.

a great big THANK YOU! to all the buskers

I’d just like to thank all the buskers for participating in the inaugural Australian National Busking Championships™  for 2012!

“Wow, shop it was amazing!” ” What a fun day!” “Fantastic variety!” “Such a friendly happy day!” ” It didn’t matter what kind music you were into..there was something there for everyone!”  “We came down town for a 5 minute look and we ended up staying all day!”

Not my words, information pills but just some of the many positive comments I’ve been receiving since the event. And people are already asking about next year! Well yes, of course we’ll have to do it again next year.

We’d love your input!

Not only would we love to see all the buskers coming back to perform next year but we’d love to get any helpful advice, ideas or suggestions and yes, even criticisms. After all it was the first one so there’s got to be more we can be doing to improve. Please leave a comment on this page or if you want to be less public just send me an email at allan@coomamusic.com.au.

The Australian National Busking Championships™ Compilation CD

We’ve already got some great suggestions that we’re considering. One idea that we’d like to go with is to put together a compilation CD of this years championships. If you’d like to be involved please email me back and I’ll see want we can do.  We would be selecting 10 to 12 tracks. All artists that are included in the CD will receive royalties from the sales of the CD.

OK, and yes , we need a better name for the CD. So we’re running a competition for a better name for the CD. A $50 gift voucher is the prize.

 

Australian National Busking Championships…A Huge Success!

Clancy Music presents:

Handel’s Messiah 2012

Soloists: Elizabeth Shearer, about it Ellen Malone, Robert Shearer, Mark Brooker

Experience the splendor and majesty of one of the greatest works written by George Frideric Handel.

Cooma Concert:

  • Saturday 24 November
  • 4.00pm
  • Cooma Multifunction Centre, Cooma Showgrounds

Cooma Tickets:

  • Adult $15
  • Concession $10
  • Student $5

Get your tickets now at The Fabric Salon, 82 Vale Street Cooma NSW 2630

Young Concert:

  • Sunday 25 November
  • 4.00pm
  • Young Town Hall

Young Tickets:

  • Adult $15
  • Concession $10
  • Student $5

Get your tickets now at The Young Regional Conservatorium of Music, or M&M’s Music Studios, Shop 2/52-66 Boorowa St Young NSW 2594

Would you like to sing in the Messiah?

Places are available for singers in these performances. Choir workshops will be conducted at each of the venues on the days of the performances starting at 9.30am.

So if would  like to sing in the choir for either or both of the performances book your place with Rodney Clancy on 0408 488 749.

 About (from clancymusic.com.au):

Robert Shearer (tenor)

Cooma’s own production of Handel’s Messiah is on the 24th November 2012.  This year we will be gathering singers from further a field including Young, Cooma, Canberra, Jindabyne, Bombala, Regional NSW and the South Coast.  A Chamber Orchestra made up of hand picked musicians, they will be professional, semi-professional and amateurs combining to achieve a rich sound.  Don’t panic if you are new to Messiah as we are only learning a portion of the 3 hour long work.  There is a selection of chorus items and solo parts all accompanied by Orchestra.

The cost to participate is $15 per person.  This will be for a 1 day of extensive rehearsal and the concert in the evening all held at the Cooma Multifunction Centre. Singers will have to learn the music before the day of the performance in your own time.  To register your interest in participating this year as either an individual or to register the participation of your whole choir please email info@clancymusic.com.au

Last year saw an amazing amount of singers and a huge energy with over 100 singers and the audience was able to just fit into the hall.  With that said, this year should be even better and bigger. A new venue for this year to allow for the larger performance cast.  So come and join us in Cooma for the spectacular.

The day will start at the Cooma Multifunction Centre at 9:30am, located just off Boundary street Cooma. We will learn and workshop the 6 chorus items selected from the entire work and work with the orchestra and soloists on the performance at 4pm.

We are still accepting new singers to start with the music, please feel free to join us, even if you have not sung in a long time or ever before as we should be able to have a fun day and create some wonderful music.

NEW EVENT

Amazing news, this year we will be also performing Handel’s Messiah in Young at the wonderful Town Hall.  This concert in Young will be on Sunday 25th November 2012.  The concert will also be showcasing local singers from the Young region as well as tourists from the Cooma production making the hike to Young for the day.  Yes, you can sing in both productions should you be interested and keen.  In fact it would be encouraged.  We are arranging for performers to be billeted in each others home towns to reduce costs but of course people can find their own accommodation and make a great weekend of this event should you desire.  For those singers wanting to perform in both concerts and experience this wonderful work twice in two days then they will also have to pay for each day. $30 for both days experiencing performing in Cooma and in Young.

A great big thanks to the wonderful hosts for the Young performance, ‘The Choir of the Southern Cross’.  The help and support that they have offered to make this event happen has been extraordinary.

JOIN US TODAY

The Schirmer Edition of the complete vocal score is recommended and available at Cooma School of Music for $13.00. Phone (02) 6452 6067 to reserve your copy.

We will stage a professional group of soloists to perform the solo roles and a professional Orchestra will accompany the performance in both Cooma and Young. To register your interest in participating this year as either an individual or to register the participation of your whole choir please email: info@clancymusic.com.au

Please make sure you do announce your interest in participating in this event by sending an email to us, we must be able to get the music to you and know numbers for staging and catering reasons.  Thanks in advance and we all look forward to this exciting weekend of Messiah.  Get your friends to come and sing with you but also bring some to watch the concerts too.

Just to let you all know, Clancy Music Productions Pty Ltd will organise a tour of Handel’s Messiah to many regional centres of NSW with a large cast.  Our intention is to tour with approx 200 – 300 singers and a large Orchestra and Soloists to perform and work with local singers at each location with a concert to follow that experience at each location.  For more details of this tour in 2014 please keep your eyes here.  It is intended that CMP will hire a Train with meals and accommodation facilities for all onboard for ease of costs and travel as well. An exciting tour for any music lover and train lovers alike.  Non-performing passengers will also be able to participate in this tour.

 

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello, women’s health
NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

 Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello, view
NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello, capsule NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, ampoule
    NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

 Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello, viagra buy
NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, recipe
    NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

 Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello, page
NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

 Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello, and
NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, recipe
    NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

 Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta

Well Cooma was certainly a buzz with fun and excitement last Sunday with the inaugural Australian National Busking Championships TM. More than 100 musicians performed at 24 venues or “Busker Hot Spots” spread around the CBD of Cooma.

There were buskers from as far away as  Melbourne, about it
Sydney, prostate Newcastle, Canberra, Albury and the South East Coast, as well as many local musicians from Cooma, Jindabyne, Berridale, Nimmitabel, Bombala, Dalgety,and Bredbo. The variety of music was amazing. Blues, Country, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Folk and Classical styles were all being performed. The crowds were lapping it up.

Local businesses were delighted with the increased Sunday trade. The Rotary Food Van had their best day ever. The swim club run out of batter to make donuts. They sold out. The railway made almost $1000 selling devonshire teas and $5 train rides. All the eight cafes that were open in Cooma that day struggled to make enough coffees for many customers that had come down town for a quick look and then decided to stay all day.

Thank you all the wonderful people that sent in their photos of the day.

Click on the thumbnails below for larger image:

 

 

 

 

The Winners! Australian National Busking Championships TM 2012

Clancy Music presents:

Handel’s Messiah 2012

Soloists: Elizabeth Shearer, about it Ellen Malone, Robert Shearer, Mark Brooker

Experience the splendor and majesty of one of the greatest works written by George Frideric Handel.

Cooma Concert:

  • Saturday 24 November
  • 4.00pm
  • Cooma Multifunction Centre, Cooma Showgrounds

Cooma Tickets:

  • Adult $15
  • Concession $10
  • Student $5

Get your tickets now at The Fabric Salon, 82 Vale Street Cooma NSW 2630

Young Concert:

  • Sunday 25 November
  • 4.00pm
  • Young Town Hall

Young Tickets:

  • Adult $15
  • Concession $10
  • Student $5

Get your tickets now at The Young Regional Conservatorium of Music, or M&M’s Music Studios, Shop 2/52-66 Boorowa St Young NSW 2594

Would you like to sing in the Messiah?

Places are available for singers in these performances. Choir workshops will be conducted at each of the venues on the days of the performances starting at 9.30am.

So if would  like to sing in the choir for either or both of the performances book your place with Rodney Clancy on 0408 488 749.

 About (from clancymusic.com.au):

Robert Shearer (tenor)

Cooma’s own production of Handel’s Messiah is on the 24th November 2012.  This year we will be gathering singers from further a field including Young, Cooma, Canberra, Jindabyne, Bombala, Regional NSW and the South Coast.  A Chamber Orchestra made up of hand picked musicians, they will be professional, semi-professional and amateurs combining to achieve a rich sound.  Don’t panic if you are new to Messiah as we are only learning a portion of the 3 hour long work.  There is a selection of chorus items and solo parts all accompanied by Orchestra.

The cost to participate is $15 per person.  This will be for a 1 day of extensive rehearsal and the concert in the evening all held at the Cooma Multifunction Centre. Singers will have to learn the music before the day of the performance in your own time.  To register your interest in participating this year as either an individual or to register the participation of your whole choir please email info@clancymusic.com.au

Last year saw an amazing amount of singers and a huge energy with over 100 singers and the audience was able to just fit into the hall.  With that said, this year should be even better and bigger. A new venue for this year to allow for the larger performance cast.  So come and join us in Cooma for the spectacular.

The day will start at the Cooma Multifunction Centre at 9:30am, located just off Boundary street Cooma. We will learn and workshop the 6 chorus items selected from the entire work and work with the orchestra and soloists on the performance at 4pm.

We are still accepting new singers to start with the music, please feel free to join us, even if you have not sung in a long time or ever before as we should be able to have a fun day and create some wonderful music.

NEW EVENT

Amazing news, this year we will be also performing Handel’s Messiah in Young at the wonderful Town Hall.  This concert in Young will be on Sunday 25th November 2012.  The concert will also be showcasing local singers from the Young region as well as tourists from the Cooma production making the hike to Young for the day.  Yes, you can sing in both productions should you be interested and keen.  In fact it would be encouraged.  We are arranging for performers to be billeted in each others home towns to reduce costs but of course people can find their own accommodation and make a great weekend of this event should you desire.  For those singers wanting to perform in both concerts and experience this wonderful work twice in two days then they will also have to pay for each day. $30 for both days experiencing performing in Cooma and in Young.

A great big thanks to the wonderful hosts for the Young performance, ‘The Choir of the Southern Cross’.  The help and support that they have offered to make this event happen has been extraordinary.

JOIN US TODAY

The Schirmer Edition of the complete vocal score is recommended and available at Cooma School of Music for $13.00. Phone (02) 6452 6067 to reserve your copy.

We will stage a professional group of soloists to perform the solo roles and a professional Orchestra will accompany the performance in both Cooma and Young. To register your interest in participating this year as either an individual or to register the participation of your whole choir please email: info@clancymusic.com.au

Please make sure you do announce your interest in participating in this event by sending an email to us, we must be able to get the music to you and know numbers for staging and catering reasons.  Thanks in advance and we all look forward to this exciting weekend of Messiah.  Get your friends to come and sing with you but also bring some to watch the concerts too.

Just to let you all know, Clancy Music Productions Pty Ltd will organise a tour of Handel’s Messiah to many regional centres of NSW with a large cast.  Our intention is to tour with approx 200 – 300 singers and a large Orchestra and Soloists to perform and work with local singers at each location with a concert to follow that experience at each location.  For more details of this tour in 2014 please keep your eyes here.  It is intended that CMP will hire a Train with meals and accommodation facilities for all onboard for ease of costs and travel as well. An exciting tour for any music lover and train lovers alike.  Non-performing passengers will also be able to participate in this tour.

 

And the winners are….

Open Section:

 The Australian National Busking Champion 2012

Mike Martin (Candello,
NSW)

 Open Runner-ups –

  • Paul Longley (Jindabyne, NSW)

  • Numeralla Fingerplunkers (Numeralla, NSW)

Secondary Section:

 1st Prize: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta (Cooma)

 Secondary Runner-ups –

  • Matthew Ventura (Cooma)

  • Hannah Newell (Bombala)

Primary Section:

 1st Prize: Kayla & Maddie Gay (Jindabyne)

 Primary Runner-ups –

  • Amos Walker (Nimmitabel)

  • Oliver Djurkoviv (Canberra)

Peoples Choice: Vendulka & Vasek Wichta