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› How Folk Music Went from Daggy to Cool
08/Aug/2019n HOW FOLK MUSIC WENT FROM DAGGY TO COOL, the author traces the evolution of folk music and its changing role from 18C Europe to present-day Australia and the west. Learn more at http://musicinaustralia.org.au/index.php?title=How_Folk_Music_Went_from_Daggy_to_Cool. The Music Trusts' SWOT ANALYSIS OF FOLK MUSIC looks at a complex situation that…
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› Australian Music Vault - have you been here?
08/Aug/2019AUSTRALIAN MUSIC VAULT, a new museum of popular music has opened in Melbourne and displays artefacts associated with successful Australian popular musicians. Learn more at http://musicinaustralia.org.au/index.php?title=Australian_Music_Vault,_a_new_museum_of_popular_music
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› Promoting diversity of cultural expression in the arts in Australia
08/Aug/2019Promoting diversity of cultural expression in the arts in Australia is an official report on Australia’s implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, in the form of a set of case studies. This excerpt from the report focuses on the programs of…
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› Creativity Australia - With One Voice - GRANTS
08/Aug/2019
To celebrate their 10 year anniversary, Creativity Australia is offering 10 grants of up to $10,000 through their 'With One Voice' Community Choir Seed Funding. Singing with others can make you smarter, healthier, happier and more creative! Their programs help build cohesive communities and support networks in an era of…
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› All Directions: A new community choir!
01/Jun/2019
All Directions Community Choir is an open access choir that supports the inclusion of people with disability and a lived experience of mental ill health or ABI and their allies. We focus on gospel and folk and also perform our own compositions. We perform a few times every…
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› Singing: The Key To A Long Life
31/May/2019Singing: The Key To A Long Life by Brian Eno, November 23, 20085:00 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. Podcast available at https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2008/11/20081123_wesun_14.mp3?orgId=1&aggIds=4538138&p=10&story=97320958&siteplayer=true&dl=1. I believe in singing. I believe in singing together. A few years ago a friend and I realized that we both loved singing but didn't do much…
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› Being a confident singer
17/May/2019When I was young, I used to think that once you knew everything and were vastly experienced, then would you become confident. But one day I was in a singing workshop when I realised that this is not true. You just have to decide to be confident. Behave as if you…
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› Just Sing Rounds now available in Braille
21/Mar/2019
The songbook "Just Sing Rounds" by Jane Coker and Val Regan is now available in Braille, thanks to Debra Lewis and the volunteers at the Statewide Vision Resource Centre. The book can be supplied in either dbx or brf file format ready for embossing or for use with a braille device.…
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› Jon Madin: The man behind the Marimbas
04/Dec/2018The inventor Jon Madin has sparked a "marimba mania" in schools with his instruments made from everyday materials. Trained as a high school teacher, Madin has run over 2,000 workshops at primary schools making marimbas and a range of other original and fascinating instruments. The Central Victorian harp-maker Andy Rigby…
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› The effect of music on the brain
11/Oct/2018A talk by Alan Harvey on the effect of music on the brain was given at a TEDx event on Remembrance Day, November 2017, using the TED conference format but independently organised by a local community. https://youtu.be/MZFFwy5fwYI.