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› Draft Road Map to COVID Normal for Community Music Makers
24/Sep/2020
Community Music Victoria is actively speaking to Victorian Government Representatives about a best practice, safe return to community music-making as restrictions ease across regional and (potentially) metropolitan areas of the state. As we continue to learn about COVID-19 transmission, it is preferable to take a precautionary approach to protect the community until further information becomes available. Before you decide how to proceed, check the advice and what the legal requirements are: From 11.59pm on Wednesday 16 September Third Step restrictions apply throughout regional Victoria. From 11:59pm on Sunday 13 September First Step restrictions apply in metropolitan Melbourne. The recommendations in the table below are suggestions only for a return to community music-making. If you would like more clarity, we suggest you…
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› How One BU Researcher Is Empowering Prisoners with Music
18/Sep/2020
Music, with its profound and complex effects on the human brain—from reducing symptoms of pain and depression to lowering blood pressure and stress levels—can have powerful and transformative effects on the lives of people, including those who are the most marginalized. As choral and orchestral conductor André de Quadros…
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› For Folk’s Sake let’s have a Sing!
18/Sep/2020
A National "folk choir" to keep the tribe together and singing during covid with Christina Mimmocchi Nothing beats that surging feeling of singing together in a group - be it your local choir, the session bar or campfire. And nothing beats meeting up with the tribe at our beloved folk festivals. …
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› Music for Special Green and Blue Places: Call Out to Composers and Musicians
17/Sep/2020
The Coastal Connections project is now commissioning original musical compositions for a series of six short films about people’s special places in the natural world. In the first stage of the project, community members from Bass Coast were invited to write 150 words or less about a place in the natural world that was special to them. Thirty-six creative contributions were submitted and the project’s Working Group has selected fourteen of the submissions to be incorporated into six short films. The films will incorporate footage of the special places as well as interviews with community members about what their special places mean to them. An overview of the films can be seen here. Composers selected for…
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› Growing Community Music: Project Update
02/Sep/2020
The next phase of CMVic’s Growing Community Music project (GCM) is gaining momentum, following the path forward which emerged from stage 1 to increase and encourage greater participation in community music making, across Victoria. The vision for stage 2 is a large-scale program to grow the number of music leaders, groups and participants in many different settings, including necessary training programs, mentoring, resourcing and advocacy. Once funding is secured, the plan is to employ catalysts in three regions: East Gippsland, Mildura Regional City, and City of Casey and the shire of Cardinia. John Howard, CMVic’s Finance and Admin Coordinator and a member of the GCM steering group explains, “there’s a group in Mallacoota who have put in an application for…
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› ENT consultant Declan Costello - research on COVID update
16/Aug/2020
ENT consultant Declan Costello is an expert on the voice. He has been leading the research into Covid-19 and the potential dangers concerning singing and wind instrument playing. Phase one of his research is now complete and its finding will inform Government policy. This is a conversation between him and Sam…
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› Acappella songs to see and hear
16/Aug/2020
Songs with Natural Voice News members to watch and listen to - from The Natural Voice News at https://naturalvoice.net/ Will You Love Me Tomorrow? by Dominic Stichbury and the Bellow Fellows at https://naturalvoice.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0cf015fbe8421b8ebcf941b65&id=a62857e338&e=fd60887114 The Lovenotes on Zoom (These Foolish Things) - NVN members Jules Gibb, Faith Watson, Rose…
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› Karaoke Choir Online
05/Aug/2020
Hello to Everyone whose usual choir has gone into recess due to COVID restrictions! The Karaoke Choir of Diamond Creek is continuing to meet via Zoom and whilst it's not the same as singing together in person, it's better than not singing at all! So if you're missing your weekly sing…
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› Online Course History of Australia in Song 1788 to 1988
05/Aug/2020
Martie Lowenstein from "Sing till you Grin" will teach an online course which covers 200 years of what life was like throughout Australian history, illustrated by Australian folk songs, poems and real life stories from 1788 to 1988. The sessions cover a mix of well-known and unfamiliar Australian bush songs, poems…
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› Safe practices in teaching musical instruments
31/Jul/2020
With the continued threat of COVID-19 spreading through the community, safety remains a top priority for music teachers as they resume physical lessons. Ensuring safe practices in any enclosed teaching space demands much care and attention, and Safe Work Australia (SWA) makes available comprehensive information on this that every teacher needs to…