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› Choir Leader Classifieds
02/Mar/2023
Attention CHOIR LEADERS CMVic has received a number of enquiries from choirs in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne looking for singing leaders to bring the joy of singing to their communities. Stretching from Carnegie to Mornington, several positions are available. If you or anyone you know would like more information…
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› New repertoire for singers and players
31/Jan/2023
Hot off the press, for your group music-making pleasure: Songs of the Living World Laura Brearley's book of 30 songs about our love of the natural world, with notation, lyric and chord charts and recordings featuring singers and musicians from across Victoria. Available from the CMVic online shop Where Everything is Music Val Regan (UK) has a new book of 10 harmony songs, inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the 13th century poet, Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic. Email Val if you are interested in purchasing any of her books from outside the UK. The Melbourne Tune Collection 86 original songs and tunes from 58 different local composers in traditional folk style, available for purchase by sending an email…
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› Sharing food and music makes Sunraysia shine
31/Jan/2023
As Community Music Victoria is all about using music to facilitate connections and develop community networks we were very excited to learn from our Growing Community Music Murray Mallee team about what the good folks from Food Next Door Coop and Out of the Box Sunraysia are doing. Work that feels aligned with the values of our own organisation, and to hear about how everybody’s paths came to cross at the end of November. Read more and see the beautiful video at our CMVic Blog...
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› CMVic Jan-Jun 2022 in pictures and numbers
03/Nov/2022
The CMVic Annual Report covering January to June 2022 is now published!
Click here to check out the pictures and stories (and the oh-so-exciting numbers, of course!). It's a six month "annual" report becuase we've switched to financial year accounting as part of our new funding arrangement with Creative Victoria.
A profound thank you to our members, volunteers, donors, funders and everyone who is sharing the joy of making music across Victoria.
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› Mothers Use the Benefit of Song to Promote Infant Development
26/Sep/2022
A program led by Professor Shannon de l’Etoile from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music aims to help at-risk mothers engage with their babies through singing, to support and promote development of emotional and self-regulation in the infants.
https://cmvicblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/26/mothers-use-the-benefits-of-song-to-promote-infant-development/
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› Melbourne Tune Collection
20/Jan/2023
NEW RELEASE! Melbourne Tune Collection is the result of 3 years on the road collecting contemporary folk music from across Victoria. It consists of 86 original songs and tunes from 58 different composers, who in true folk tradition, are a mix of professional and amateur musicians. The book also…
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› Euroa’s Voracious Appetite for the Return of Vocal Nosh
25/Nov/2022
It’s never been hard to get excited about a Vocal Nosh, what’s not to love about informal harmony singing, hearty soup and crusty bread? For the folks of Euroa, the agonising wait for the return of this well-loved event is about to end this weekend, after more than two years in hiatus. “We had our last Nosh in March 2020 and then it all came tumbling down” laughs Di Mackrell, who shares the facilitation of Euroa Vocal Nosh with Margie Chowanetz and Chris Day. “The people of Euroa have been asking for it to return so we picked a date in November thinking that by then we’d be heading into the warmer weather and the number of bugs going around would be less.”…
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› All Directions Choir Summons Songs and Stories from the Deep
14/Nov/2022
All Directions Community Choir has written 5 original songs from scratch as part of an original composition project called Songs and Stories from the Deep, facilitated by choir director, Cath Rutten. All Directions Community Choir sits within the Boroondara Community Outreach Program (BCO), a mental health ministry run by the Kew Uniting Church to support people with either disability or mental health challenges, or who are experiencing social isolation. The project received funding from Boroondara City Council through the grants program and the Rotary Club of Balwyn and was run by Cath as a series of workshops using water as a metaphor for living, with the group ‘writing from the heart about their experiences of life; the struggles as well as their…
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› Rare opportunity to play a quarter tone trumpet!
02/Oct/2022
The St. Joseph Melkite Scouts Marching Bandi s proud to present a rare opportunity for an exchange of cultures! The Melkite Scouts have acquired a 'Levantine Trumpet', likely to be one of the first in Australia. This special instrument, an invention from the Levant (modern day Lebanon) that extends the Western…
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› Young artists connect at the 2022 Dream Big Youth Music Festival
01/Oct/2022
CMVic congratulates the students, teachers, artists, and organisers of the Dream Big Youth Music Festival on RUOK Day, 8 September! CMVic stalwarts Steph Payne, Jen Hawley and John Lane worked alongside Outer West artists Amy MacDonald (The Fabulous Meltones), Guillermo Viran (Hasta La Cumbia) and Adolphus Zarwue (AD da Boss) to mentor youth from 8 years old up to 25 to write original songs focussing on themes around social and emotional wellbeing, also inspired by the ideas of RUOK? School staff involved in the process included music, classroom and wellbeing teachers. Delivered as a hybrid event, online and live at The Bowery Theatre, St Albans, several schools were able to organise to travel to the theatre to perform live. But many more young people…