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FANTASTIC TUNE RESOURCE:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/

A virtual session where one may play along.

BRISBANE FOLK HISTORY PROJECT IS GOING TO THE NATIONAL!

Some of the wonderful photos and memorabilia collected by Mary Brettell and the BFHP will be showcased at this year’s National Folk Festival in Canberra. We’re hoping to raise awareness of the project, and maybe flush a few more old Brisbane folkies out of the woodwork for interviewing.

The work of digitising old recordings is proceeding well, and we’re seeking funding to continue this. If you have any precious old recordings of concerts, sessions, radio programs etc., please let us know.

The book, based on the oral history interviews, is currently the subject of a grant application to Your Community Heritage. If we get this funding, it will enable us to employ a writer to finish drafting the book by the end of 2012.

Meanwhile we really need to raise funds to get the photographic exhibit properly organised and down to the National. There are three ways you can help with this:

Donate to the Brisbane Folk History Project through our brand-new Donate button on the website brisbane.folkhistory.org

Collect Pauls Collect-A-Cap milk bottle tops from your friends and family and give them to one of the Committee members (10c a cap!); and

Come along to our fund-raising concert on 25^th March at the Danish Club. Further details will be sent out as they come to hand.

Questions, comments, offers of assistance (gratefully accepted)?

Call or email Andrea Baldwin on 07-3857-5150 or  
 

GRILL'D WEST END OPEN MIC TUESDAYS

OR

CHIPS & TUESDAYS...

Hi Brisbane friends! I am going to be hosting an open mic night every Tuesday in West End starting November 15th!!! If you have 15 - 30 mins of material that you would like to share in a very supportive setting let me know! This is a family friendly restaurant so kids welcome.

Venue: Grill'd West End, 88 Boundary Street, West End 4101. 07-3255-3057

The owners of Grill'd, Dave and Colin, are committed to supporting live original music, which is fantastic… covers welcome too. So if you would love an audience to play to and don't mind a burger as a thank you, give me a hoy.

Tell your friends.....

Do come along and support this worthwhile event, sing your songs, even some covers.

 

~ First Weekend March ~

MULGOWIE MUSIC GATHERING

Fri 2 - Sat 3 MARCH to return on Sun 4.

Test your voice, instruments & camping gear and relax after Woodford Festival!

Camping in the grounds (& cabins) of The Mulgowie Pub with our host Simon Emmerson. Admission and camping is free, everyone welcome.

Strictly NO BYOG. That's the deal and only fair.

The direction of the weekend is largely determined by those attending and usually has a bit of everything; singing sessions, tunes (Irish and Manouche), and lots of socialising. Indoors, covered beer garden/eatery, 2 lighted pergolas with hard floors, pub verandah, and the cabin verandahs as well as the campsites - plenty of diversity.

There is a Saturday morning market of local handicrafts, plants, food & drinks. Breakfasts!

This is your chance to jam with other folks from around the local area & the Darling Downs in a laid back comfy environment with wonderful food available. I suggest remaining overnight when the serious playing goes on into the wee small hours.

Laidley is a small historic country town 80k west of Brisbane, between Ipswich and Toowoomba on the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive. Turn off at Plainlands. Mulgowie is 10k south of Laidley; drive through Laidley until the Tee junction and turn right - the sign says it all...

A limited amount of free accommodation is again available for those without tents or caravans to be made available to those who email me on a first come basis. Ph 07 3816 1813.

Bring your voices & instruments - let's relax & enjoy ourselves!

~ 2^nd Weekend March ~

MAIDENWELL GATHERING

Friday March 9 to Sunday March 11 - 2012

at the King's Hotel Maidenwell. Camping behind the pub.

Your host the publican is Gavin "Spud" Jones 07-41646133
and organiser is Glen Donald

Share Saturday night’s acoustic Blackboard Concert or Sunday morning’s Coomba Falls session or the veranda sessions or the backroom sessions, the new back double carport sessions or the campsite sessions, singing sessions, tune sessions, mixed sessions, good meals...catch up with/meet music lovers (and other interesting people) from Gympie, Kingaroy, Toowoomba, Stanthorpe, Lockyer, Ipswich, North and South Coasts, Brisbane and wherever else.

More information next edition (March).

SOUNDS OF THE FOREST

Songs and Rhythms of the Baka people of Cameroon, West Africa

Be part of a unique Singing opportunity led by UK musician Su Hart who has
visited and sung with the Baka for 20 years.

When: Sunday 11th of March, 10am - 4pm
Venue: To be confirmed
More information: contact Ann Bermingham at 07-33716507 or

Visit www.suhart.com and www.baka.co.uk

STEFAN GROSSMAN & TIM O'BRIEN

Ipswich Civic Centre

FRIDAY 16^th MARCH at 7.30pm

Tickets: please call the Civic Centre on Ph: (07) 3810 6100

MALENY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS

STRINGS & THINGS

28 - 31^st MARCH at the MALENY SHOWGROUNDS

28^th Powered campsites, Sing Along Workshops: Please Book 0754944220

31^st Walk Up & Play finale - catered, amateurs most welcome

31^st NIGHT TIME OLD TIME DANCE & SUPPER

1^st Pioneer Village OPEN - Vintage cars and music

PLEASE BOOK EARLY, 07 54944220

CABOOLTURE, KILCOY AND COLINTON HUT ...

Kilcoy Folk Music and Poetry Camp

Easter 2012 from 6th to 9th April

More years ago than I care to remember, I spent a weekend camping at Taromeo Homestead, sharing with 100 or so others the opportunity to make music where the ‘true Queensland drovers’, had gone before. Now I live at Kilcoy, another location on the old Brisbane Ladies stock route. In an unguarded moment at Kilcoy Unplugged I reminisced about that weekend and suggested that it would be fun to host a similar gathering ...

The inaugural Kilcoy Folk Music and Poetry Camp will be held at Easter 2012 from 6th to 9th April. Folk music and bush poetry lovers are invited to join us for a weekend of acoustic music and performance poetry, workshops, a swap meet, walk-up performances and jam sessions, a Saturday night main concert and a Sunday night bush dance.

The camp will be held on the Kilcoy Showgrounds, a venue that provides all amenities and powered camp sites and is five minutes from town, at the northern end of Lake Somerset. Kilcoy is on the D’Aguilar Highway, 90 minutes’ drive from Brisbane.

At this year’s Easter camp, the first Graham Fredriksen Memorial Poetry Prize will be awarded. The poetry competition, open to bush poets throughout Australia, will be judged in March, and the prize presented at the Saturday concert. The late Graham Fredriksen, one of the founders of Kilcoy Unplugged, was killed on his cattle property in 2010. Three times winner of the Bronze Swagman, Graham was acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest bush poets. It was a great privilege to have had him among us and we hope the Prize will be a lasting memorial to the power and beauty of his verse.

Roey Fitzpatrick (Rosemary Allen)

For more info, contact John Barwell: 04 2850 2262, or visit www.kilcoyunplugged.com

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