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› Music as the food of love and life
20/Dec/2019
Singing and music have added value and richness to every aspect of Peter Gatto’s life from listening to the radio on 3AR with his parents and playing with Wonthaggi Brass Band as a child, through to courting his wife Glenys as a young man in the 1960s. From their very first date, singing remained an integral part of this couple’s love story, featuring consistently in the tapestry of their life together until Glenys’ death from ovarian cancer in 2012.
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› That Girl Song calls for Safety and Empowerment for Women and Girls….
23/Nov/2019
“You put something like this out there and you just hope that it might contribute to improving the situation” says Sarah Mandie, songwriter and creative director of That Girl, a song and dance-based community focussed project run in conjunction with Community Music Victoria to empower women and girls, encourage them to stand up against gender-based violence, stereotyping and inequality and say ‘stop’.
Two years after its launch in 2017, That Girl has brought together girls and women from the Indian and Bhutanese communities of Wodonga; culturally diverse groups of primary schoolgirls in Boroondara; and secondary school-age girls from Healesville High School and the Healesville Indigenous Community Association in the Yarra Ranges. Read more...
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› Whittlesea Muster Delights Uke Enthusiasts
22/Nov/2019
Naming the inaugural Whittlesea Uke Muster was ‘a great laugh’, a take on the iconic annual Deni Ute Muster which was started years ago featuring barbecues, burn outs and a whole lotta utes. “We found out that there actually is a Deniliquin Uke Muster so we had to name our event the Whittlesea Uke Muster and we put a lot of pictures of Ukuleles on the fliers so nobody would turn up thinking it was for cars.” Read more...
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› Songs & Chants for Planet Earth: A Compilation of Songs by Jane Coker
11/Oct/2019
"The outpouring of freedom songs went to the core of the struggle and expressed, as nothing else was able, the hope, belief, desire, passion, dreams, and anguish of the conflict.” Mary King speaking of the power of song during the US Civil Rights movement.
I put this selection of songs and chants for climate justice together with the specific aim of helping us all to find stuff that was simple and catchy enough to use outdoors at protests. I wrote a few and gathered a few from other people but this is only the beginning of my collection and there’s loads of other great stuff out there... Read more
**Photo courtesy of Hilary Walker
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› Thank You, Just Holler!
16/Jan/2020
Community Music Victoria would like to say a super big THANK YOU to the generous singing souls of the Just Holler Choir community, led by Jane York. Before Christmas, Just Holler Choir held a night of fun, nerdy, interactive music trivia, featuring live performances by the choir…
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› SURREY HILLS ORCHESTRA SEEKS STRINGS
16/Jan/2020
SURREY HILLS ORCHESTRA are building up their upper strings sections for concerts in May; August and December 2020 held at MLC. If you have the equivalent of AMEB grade 8 and can attend Tuesday rehearsals in Surrey Hills we would be pleased to hear from you. Check out the SHO website
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› Melbourne Chamber Choir Tenor Vocal Scholarship 2020
16/Jan/2020
Melbourne Chamber Choir is seeking a young tenor to sing with the choir for 2020. The scholarship is designed to support a young singer to gain confidence and skills in the choral repertoire, and to allow the further development of general singing and musical skills The successful applicant will…
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› Melbourne Singers of Gospel is recruiting men!
16/Jan/2020
Melbourne Singers of Gospel, one of Australia's most exciting adult community choirs, is currently recruiting men for our 2020 season.
Are you a man who loves to sing? Are you looking for novel ways to improve your voice, stay motivated in your singing, and have a lot of fun doing it?
Click this link to see our sizzle reel about who MSG is.
Rehearsals commence Jan 28 on Tuesday nights in Port Melbourne.
For more information about singing with MSG, fill in our expression of interest form here.
Happy singing in 2020!
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› The 2020 MCUI Songwriting Competition is now open!
12/Dec/2019
Music: Count Us In is inviting school students to submit their original songs for the National Songwriting Competition. Finalists will be selected to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to write the song that will be sung by hundreds of thousands of young Australians as part of Music: Count Us…
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› Footscray Gypsy Orchestra CD launch
05/Dec/2019Help us launch our second album" FGO:Live in the basement", and celebrate the end of another great gig-filled year for your favourite Gypsy Orchestra. Take this opportunity to hear our new hits live and drinks at the bar. Supper provided. Entry: $10, $5 Concession. At the Footscray Hotel, 48 Hopkins…