Title: Canberra Classical Guitar Society Meeting
Location: Wesley Uniting Church, physician
20 National Circuit in Forrest
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 2.30 pm
Date: Sunday 10th May 2009
End Time: 4.30 pm
Title: Canberra Classical Guitar Society Meeting
Location: Wesley Uniting Church, allergy
20 National Circuit in Forrest
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 2.30 pm
Date: Sunday 10th May 2009
End Time: 4.30 pm
Title: “Grettovska Duo†– guitar and flute recital
Location: Wesley Music Centre, ambulance
20 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT.
Link out: Click here
Description: “Grettovska Duo†with Lina Andonovska (flute) and Harold Gretton (guitar) with works by Bela Bartok, Astor Piazzolla, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Antonas Ourkovzovnov, Philip Houghton and a world premier by Tusos Stylianov. Adults $20, Cons $15, Students $15, Children under 12 free. Enquiries 0404 317 988.
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Thursday 21st May 2009
Tag Archives: Canberra Classical Guitar Society
Canberra Classical Guitar Society Meeting
Title: Melbourne Guitar Quartet
Location: Wesley Music Centre, melanoma 20 National Circuit Forrest ACT
Link out: Click here
Description: As part of their “Four Elements†CD launch tour
Start Time: 3.00 pm
Date: Sunday 12th July2009
Background:
The Melbourne Guitar Quartet is a young and energetic guitar ensemble formed in 2005. Displaying expert musicianship at an international performance standard, MGQ have a strong reputation for playing with a vibrant energy and maturity. Having contributed many new arrangements to the guitar repertoire, MGQ have a strong supportive role amongst the broader Australian community and toward young emerging artists.
MGQ have given performances for the Victorian Classical Guitar Society, Darwin International Guitar Festival, Melbourne Acoustic Guitar Festival, and the Quiet Music Festival. They have performed in Hamer Hall, Federation Square, Chapel Off Chapel, Montsalvat, and the National Gallery of Victoria. MGQ have also been the recipients of numerous awards and prizes including Quiet Music Festivals ‘Cone of Silence’ award for most popular act in 2008.
MGQ recently released their debut album Four Elements. The album features several new arrangements by group members of works by Astor Piazzolla and Bill Whelan’s “Riverdance”, in addition to works by Robert Davidson and Francis Kleynjans.
Title: Canberra Classical Guitar Society Meeting
Location: Wesley Uniting Church, find 20 National Circuit in Forrest
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 2.30 pm
Date: Sunday 10th May 2009
End Time: 4.30 pm
Musica del Fuego – Guitar Trek
Title: Musica del Fuego – Guitar Trek
Location: Albert Hall, pilule Commonwealth Ave, Yarralumla, ACT 2600‎
Link out: Click here
Description: As part of the Canberra International Music Festival, the guitar ensemble Guitar Trek will perform “Latin meets ‘Oz’ as Guitar Trek celebrate its new disk and Albeniz’s centenary. Guitar Trek members include Timothy Kain, Minh Le Hoang, Daniel McKay and Harold Gretton.
Tickets ($35/$28) through Canberra Ticketing or 02 6275 2700.
Start Time: 6.00 pm
Date: Friday 8th May 2009
Milena Cifali presents “A Passion for Italy”

Garry Carson Jones

New CD "Spirited" available at Cooma School of Music $25

Garry Carson Jones
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, tablets
through his solo,
duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/

Garry Carson Jones

New CD "Spirited" available at Cooma School of Music $25

Garry Carson Jones
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, decease
through his solo, remedy
duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, diagnosis
through his solo, duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, ailment
through his solo, healing duo, recipe
trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is
available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, more about
through his solo, buy information pills
duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in
Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, cialis through his solo, duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his
first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in
Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, pilule through his solo, duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his
first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in
Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Garry Jones is well known to regular pub and club goes right along the far south coast of New South Wales Australia, more about
through his solo, this web
duo, trio and quartet work with his bands – Chill, Slice of Ice and The Poddydodgers. Born into a musical family he was the youngest child of four. He grew up in a small town in New South Wales 13kms from the Victorian border in a place called Delegate. Garry started playing guitar at the age of ten and wrote his
first song at age fourteen. That same year he and his brother Shayne joined their first band and have played in bands together ever since. He played pub rock for 25yrs until in 2001 Garry found a new passion in country music. He entered his first talent quest and won both singer/songwriter and recorded songwriter sections. The following year he was the outright winner of the Merimbula Country Music Talent Quest. He was a finalist in the amateur section of the Tamworth Songwriters’ Association / Tiara Awards at Tamworth in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Also, in 2003 he was a finalist in the steel city Champion of Champions in
Newcastle and was third in the National Champion of Champions showcase in Canberra, A.C.T. Garry has been a singer/songwriter now for twenty-four years and has accumulated a vast repertoire of original songs. His debut country album “Spirited” is available now.
Contact:
www.myspace.com/garryjonesthepoddydodgers
http://www.poddydodgers.com/
Email: lightbearer@dodo.com.au
Title: Milena Cifali presents “A Passion for Italy”
Location: Italian Cultural Centre, visit this site
Franklin Street Manuka, online
ACT
Description: The Italian Cultural Centre is hosting a night of guitar music performed by Milena Cifali followed by an Italian pasta buffet, salve
with a guest performance by the Classical Guitar Society of Canberra.
Start Time: 7.00 pm
Date: Saturday 23rd May 2009
End Time: 10.00 pm
Tickets: $30 concert and dinner.   At door or tel: 0421 208 963
Minh Le Hoang Classical Guitar CD Launch
Rehearsals
This is the time of year when new things are started. If you know of anyone who may like to come to a chorus rehearsal and see if it suits them, drugs do invite him or her. Perhaps a cake night to welcome potential members would be fun.
If you are new to the chorus yourself, abortion please do come along on Tuesday the 3rd or any Tuesday after that. Â You can call the shop on 6452 6067 or email me here if there’s anything at all you’d like to know. The chorus is for women and men. We are a secular choir who sings unaccompanied music of all kinds, in two or three parts. We have been going for about thirteen years and while we sing for the love of it, we also perform on average about once a month at all kinds of town events. The first month you attend is free and after that we charge $15 dollars a month. Â
We have a dedicated committee who handles the general organization, money, rent, costumes, birthdays etc and a secretary, Jane Reed who writes a wonderful newsletter on line. We will give her the wherewithall to put it on here. Not me of course but a delegate from  the next generation.
Our first rehearsal for 2009 will be Tuesday night 3rd of February at 7.00 pm for a start at precisely 7.15. We have be
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Performances
 Our first engagement of the year looks like being the 27th of March, the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Lambie Street Preschool.  Stephanie Hann is organizing it and her vision is something like this:
- Children who have been making lanterns at workshops gather at the Royal Hotel, dressed in white robes, carrying said lanterns.
- The Monaro Strings and Winds is playing outside the pub lovely wafting  music.Â
- The children follow the recorder player, surely our own Rowena Evans, and her drum playing mates down the street, passing en route our Hannah Spencer playing  her harp under a large tree. (The children will be distracted from thinking of the pied piper by accompanying parents.)Â
- At the far end of the street will be the Cooma Harmony Chorus welcoming them with songs that portray childhood in a positive light. Â (I will definitely change this message when I leave my son’s company).Â
So I’m thinking We Are, the wafty overlappping one we did some years back. I have the words but am having difficulty finding a complete version of the music. If anyone has one, and it is a number of pages long, I would be grateful if you could get it to me. Apart from that, we might still have the Owl and the Pussycat and I can arrange some children’s songs, depending on what Stephanie would like, and our lullabies would be suitable as well – La Mar and All the Pretty Little Horses. I would particularly like to make a lantern or two so I’ll keep you posted. Rumour has it  Kevin Hambly will have full sized lantern horses, so this is our chance to do something equally not usual.
More singing possibilities this term:
I think the airport opening will still happen this autumn, and I have Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, the band version, to arrange. (Yeah, I’m on it.) I am open to other  suggestions like Up in the Air I Fly, etc. I have a list.
Also there is Easter. I have said we are a secular choir and so we are but there are some beautiful chorales by Bach that we could use during the Easter season at any concert. Now that we have tenors and basses, some music is available to us which wasn’t before. Â
 There is also a peace festival that happens in autumn in Canberra which we may be singing in, and Roslyn knows of a thing also. The Cooma Music Competition is tentatively Sunday the 31st of May. No doubt more will come. I am in the process of choosing and preparing repertoire so do let me know early if you may need us.
Classical Guitarists, view Harold Gretton and Véronique van Duurling in Concert
Once only in Canberra! A sublime mix of classical guitar music. From the meditative, Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba” to the Hungarian Romanticism of Mertz, from the operatic and capricious Legnani to the elegance and grace of classic-era France you will be transported by a delightful program performed by two international award-winning guitarists.
Venue: All Saints Church Ainslie, intersection of Cowper, Foveaux and Bonney Streets, Ainslie, ACT.
Date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Time: 3pm
Cost: $15, $10 concession (Canberra Classical Guitar Society members, ANU Friends of the School of Music members, pensioners, seniors, students)
Les and I will be driving up from Cooma so let us know if anyone needs a lift.
http://www.classicalguitarcanberra.org.au/wp/
Classical Guitarists, health
Harold Gretton and Véronique van Duurling in Concert
Once only in Canberra! A sublime mix of classical guitar music. From the meditative, Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba” to the Hungarian Romanticism of Mertz, from the operatic and capricious Legnani to the elegance and grace of classic-era France you will be transported by a delightful program performed by two international award-winning guitarists.
Venue: All Saints Church Ainslie, intersection of Cowper, Foveaux and Bonney Streets, Ainslie, ACT.
Date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Time: 3pm
Cost: $15, $10 concession (Canberra Classical Guitar Society members, ANU Friends of the School of Music members, pensioners, seniors, students)
Les and I will be driving up from Cooma so let us know if anyone needs a lift.
http://www.classicalguitarcanberra.org.au/wp/
Minh Le Hoang Classical Guitar Concert and CD Launch
Canberra guitar virtuoso and competition winner (including Tokyo International Guitar Competition 2007) Minh Le Hoang in a solo concert to introduce his new CD “The Fall of Birds.â€
Enquiries 0422 274 039. Adults $20, apoplexy
concession/students $15. Tickets at the door.
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6 March 2009, 7:30pm, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, ACT.

Minh Le Hong
Classical Guitar Duo Concert
Rehearsals
This is the time of year when new things are started. If you know of anyone who may like to come to a chorus rehearsal and see if it suits them, drugs do invite him or her. Perhaps a cake night to welcome potential members would be fun.
If you are new to the chorus yourself, abortion please do come along on Tuesday the 3rd or any Tuesday after that. Â You can call the shop on 6452 6067 or email me here if there’s anything at all you’d like to know. The chorus is for women and men. We are a secular choir who sings unaccompanied music of all kinds, in two or three parts. We have been going for about thirteen years and while we sing for the love of it, we also perform on average about once a month at all kinds of town events. The first month you attend is free and after that we charge $15 dollars a month. Â
We have a dedicated committee who handles the general organization, money, rent, costumes, birthdays etc and a secretary, Jane Reed who writes a wonderful newsletter on line. We will give her the wherewithall to put it on here. Not me of course but a delegate from  the next generation.
Our first rehearsal for 2009 will be Tuesday night 3rd of February at 7.00 pm for a start at precisely 7.15. We have be
Â
Performances
 Our first engagement of the year looks like being the 27th of March, the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Lambie Street Preschool.  Stephanie Hann is organizing it and her vision is something like this:
- Children who have been making lanterns at workshops gather at the Royal Hotel, dressed in white robes, carrying said lanterns.
- The Monaro Strings and Winds is playing outside the pub lovely wafting  music.Â
- The children follow the recorder player, surely our own Rowena Evans, and her drum playing mates down the street, passing en route our Hannah Spencer playing  her harp under a large tree. (The children will be distracted from thinking of the pied piper by accompanying parents.)Â
- At the far end of the street will be the Cooma Harmony Chorus welcoming them with songs that portray childhood in a positive light. Â (I will definitely change this message when I leave my son’s company).Â
So I’m thinking We Are, the wafty overlappping one we did some years back. I have the words but am having difficulty finding a complete version of the music. If anyone has one, and it is a number of pages long, I would be grateful if you could get it to me. Apart from that, we might still have the Owl and the Pussycat and I can arrange some children’s songs, depending on what Stephanie would like, and our lullabies would be suitable as well – La Mar and All the Pretty Little Horses. I would particularly like to make a lantern or two so I’ll keep you posted. Rumour has it  Kevin Hambly will have full sized lantern horses, so this is our chance to do something equally not usual.
More singing possibilities this term:
I think the airport opening will still happen this autumn, and I have Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, the band version, to arrange. (Yeah, I’m on it.) I am open to other  suggestions like Up in the Air I Fly, etc. I have a list.
Also there is Easter. I have said we are a secular choir and so we are but there are some beautiful chorales by Bach that we could use during the Easter season at any concert. Now that we have tenors and basses, some music is available to us which wasn’t before. Â
 There is also a peace festival that happens in autumn in Canberra which we may be singing in, and Roslyn knows of a thing also. The Cooma Music Competition is tentatively Sunday the 31st of May. No doubt more will come. I am in the process of choosing and preparing repertoire so do let me know early if you may need us.
Classical Guitarists, view Harold Gretton and Véronique van Duurling in Concert
Once only in Canberra! A sublime mix of classical guitar music. From the meditative, Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba” to the Hungarian Romanticism of Mertz, from the operatic and capricious Legnani to the elegance and grace of classic-era France you will be transported by a delightful program performed by two international award-winning guitarists.
Venue: All Saints Church Ainslie, intersection of Cowper, Foveaux and Bonney Streets, Ainslie, ACT.
Date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Time: 3pm
Cost: $15, $10 concession (Canberra Classical Guitar Society members, ANU Friends of the School of Music members, pensioners, seniors, students)
Les and I will be driving up from Cooma so let us know if anyone needs a lift.
http://www.classicalguitarcanberra.org.au/wp/