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› Aka-Pelican Radio show has a new time!
29/Nov/2018
The Aka-Pelican Show is moving to a new timeslot Sundays 7-9pm and you are invited to sing live on the show @3mdr 97.1 fm in Upwey! HELP KEEP COMMUNITY RADIO A “LIVE” The station now operates out of a large 100 y.o. residence, with 4 metre high ceilings. Formerley the…
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› The CMVic Shop never shuts! Great new resources now available
28/Nov/2018
The CMVic online store has four wonderful new additions to its virtual shelves, The Ukestration Manual and The Business of being a Community Musician by Mark Jackson and Jane Jelbart, and Just Sing and Just Sing Rounds songbooks aimed at community singing groups and choirs, by Jane Coker and Val Regan. The Ukestration Manual: Want to go beyond hum’n’strum? Want to deal with music-making humans more effectively? 100+ pages packed with knowledge, practical solutions and reflections based on ten years of teaching and leading ukulele. Click here The Business of Being a Community Musician: Let people value you…
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› Touring Victoria Grants
25/Nov/2018
Touring Victoria Grants, Applications close 14 February . Touring Victoria provides support for Victorian arts and cultural organisations or professional creative practitioners touring a professional production, performance, exhibition or program to regional and outer-metropolitan Victoria. Download the Touring Victoria program guidelines (DOC, 202.0 KB) at https://creative.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0008/87848/UPDATAED-Regional-Development-Touring-Victoria-Guidelines.DOC Funding available - There is no upper limit…
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› Don’t Stop The Music Gets - Big Thumbs Up
25/Nov/2018
Powerful and inspiring is how one can describe ABC TV’s major new three-part documentary Don’t Stop the Music. It drew 465,000 viewers when it began screening on 11 November, and it has received high praise from all quarters, including ASME, the Australian Music Association and The Music Trust. It is obligatory viewing for all who…
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› Organise your own Song Swap
20/Nov/2018
Whenever CMVic runs an event, we ask the participants for feedback and without fail responses relate to repertoire (more new songs) and networking (the opportunity to talk with people working in similar areas, to share problems, to learn!). A rewarding and easy way to achieve both objectives is with a Song Swap. I want to organise my own Song Swap! But how? A Song Swap is easy to organise. As few as four people can be successful although the more the merrier - and the more diverse the range of songs offered up. You need: a venue, a facilitator, a date, advertising Can CMVic help? YES!!!! We have a number of people who are skilled in running these events…
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› Music Games and the Art of Play
17/Nov/2018
Music Games and the Art of Play - Music games can give valuable opportunities for children to not only play and have fun but to also learn a wide variety of skills. Throughout history children have spent many hours playing music games. Playing is vital for how children develop and it…
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› MCUI celebrates ONE SONG event in Hobart and across Australia
17/Nov/2018
On Thursday 8th November, Australian teachers and students celebrated the joy of music education by participating in our Music: Count Us In program. Over a million people watched our live stream and 700,000 students sang in unison throughout the country for our annual Celebration Day event. MCUI 2018 kicked off with the Songwriting Workshop…
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› Don’t Stop The Music
17/Nov/2018
The broadcast of the first instalment of Don't Stop The Music was a heart warming, and compelling story of Challis Primary School students experiencing quality Music Education for the first time. Anastasia, Samuel, Raj and Cody were particularly engaging as they each made their first furore into Musical experience. …
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› Singing out of tune isn’t always a bad thing
17/Nov/2018
Singing out of tune isn’t always a bad thing - article by Chris Rowbury in Natural Voice News. Chris writes... There was an article by Alex Petridis in The Guardian last week in which he claimed that: “singing out of tune can convey emotions that being in tune can't”. It made me wonder,…
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› Jamnesia: A post by Ukulele Australia
01/Nov/2018
This post first appeared on Facebook here. Thanks to Ukulele Australia for agreeing to share it with us, and to Steph Payne and Maurie Richardson for bringing it to our attention in the first place. Today I'd really like to talk about jamming. But…