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› Quote(s) of the month
23/Nov/2019
Adelaide Youth Orchestra came across an article about the wonderful jazz musician William ‘Bill’ Broughton (https://adyo.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c8177670c001b0f2f06ac7468&id=c5fb58b154&e=fa68fc856f) who passed away earlier this year. It included a quote from Bill himself. ‘You play to give your gift away. A listener comes because they don’t do what you do; you complete them by…
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› “Friday Afternoons” re-launch
23/Nov/2019
Take a look at our relaunched website! We’re pleased to announce the relaunch of the Friday Afternoons website today: Benjamin Britten’s Birthday, St Cecilia’s Day and six years after the inaugural Friday Afternoons event. Our website has been refreshed to reflect our new mission for the project: to develop the…
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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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› That Girl Song calls for Safety and Empowerment for Women and Girls….
22/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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› CMVic Singing Camp is a Meeting of Voices, Hearts and Minds
01/Nov/2019
The CMVic Singing Camp at Amberley really is a beautiful thing. Conceived, shaped and delivered by a collectively shared love of singing and connection, it’s pretty special to step off the wheel into such an accepting space and feel held by the nurturing spirit of good will, inclusivity and connection upon which the camp is shaped and run. Each year, this event offers an opportunity for everyone to support and and learn from each other, whether they’re experienced with years of leadership under their belt, or just setting out in singing. Held at Amberley in Melbourne's Lower Plenty over the weekend October 18-20, this year’s program was no different. Built on CMVic’s tried and tested peer-exchange, skill-sharing model and using the offers and requests people were invited to make…
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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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› What stops people singing?
23/Nov/2019
The Natural Voice Network believes that everyone can sing. But when we say that to some people, we get the response: “But not me – I can’t sing at all”. Some people even wear this as a weird badge of pride – but is that just the fear talking?. For others…
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› Music is a vital urban resource. How do we plan for it?
23/Nov/2019
Music is a vital urban resource. How do we plan for it? Written by: Shain Shapiro, Founder and CEO, Sound Diplomacy. Music, like any other resource, is not infinite. If we do not teach, invest and support it, it disappears. When something is wedded into the fabric of everyday life, we ignore…
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› THIS MUSICAL WORLD - At the Tempo Rubato
23/Nov/2019
THIS MUSICAL WORLD At the Tempo Rubato, written by Mandy Stefanakis. Brunswick, in Melbourne, has a classical music adaptation of the jazz bar. Its profits support free piano lessons for immigrant children, it presents new music by female Australian composers, has works spaces for creatives etc etc also etc. Fantastic. READ…
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› Deborah Cheetham commisioned to compose “Acknowledgement to Country”
23/Nov/2019
Deborah Cheetham, the Aboriginal singer/composer/producer/educator tells us that she has been commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony to compose the music for an Acknowledgement to Country. It will be played at the beginning of every MSO concert. ‘For this project I had the great privilege of working with no fewer than…