~ 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!
~ 2nd 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).
MALENY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS
STRINGS & THINGS
28 - 31st MARCH at the MALENY SHOWGROUNDS
28th Powered campsites, Sing Along Workshops: Please Book 0754944220
31st Walk Up & Play finale - catered, amateurs most welcome
31st NIGHT TIME OLD TIME DANCE & SUPPER
1st 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 (aka Rosemary Allen)
For more info, contact John Barwell: 04 2850 2262, or visit
www.kilcoyunplugged.com
MALENY MUSIC WEEKEND
APRIL 20-22, 2012
Twenty five
years after the first Maleny Music Festival was held in the town
showgrounds, a group of local musicians are rallying support for an
event in 2012. A fundraiser held in Maleny on November 10, with
Cloudstreet and local musicians, raised over $850 toward initial costs.
The first
Maleny Music Weekend will be held at the local showgrounds
from Friday April 20 to Sunday 22, 2012. The music and
camping weekend will feature Brisbane and Sunshine Coast performers,
with two venues featuring concerts, a bush dance, workshops, sessions
and spoken word. The entertainment begins on Friday night in the
Maleny Showgrounds Pavilion.
Acts
confirmed so far: Pirate Brides, Ewan McKenzie,
Hayden Hack Fusion, The Barleyshakes, Tommy
Leonard , The Goodwills, Mama Sybil’s Bush Band
and the Noel Gardner Trio. Local performance poet Ian Mackay
will host a poets’ breakfast on Saturday and Sunday
mornings.
Camping
will be available at the showgrounds, including powered sites, and
there will be on-site catering and food stalls.
Spokesperson
Noel Gardner said full details about the weekend will be
published in the February edition of the Folk Rag. There will
be a website up and running soon. If you’re looking for it,
googling Maleny Music Weekend should do the trick.
Meanwhile,
Noel said If you are seriously interested in coming to this music
weekend, have a look at our Facebook group page and get your name on
our mailing list.
www.facebook.com/groups/maleny.music.weekend/
(or for those not on Facebook: ).
From little things good things grow
UP YA BUNYAS
This event in mid October was such fun that it is intended to be continued annually.
The usual annual event on the second weekend in MARCH continues as usual
(Dateclaims).
Jam weekend at the Kings Hotel, Maidenwell contact: pub 0741646133.
Glen Donald organised a gathering on 14-16 October 2011,
usual deal, camp behind Pub.
(There have been extensive improvements made to the hotel and shop in Maidenwell.)