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BRUNSWICK
MUSIC FESTIVAL
eNews December 2009
Greetings to all our e-customers and patrons, I'd like
wish you all an enjoyable, safe, merry Christmas and
a prosperous New Year. It will be a big one for me personally,
as my immediate family are jetting out of the snow and
ice in Scotland to spend time in Melbourne and Sydney
over the Christmas and Hogmanay (New Year). This will
be the first time we have all been together at Christmas
for over 35 years, so a very merry time is guaranteed.
This newsletter also heralds the unveiling of our new
web site for 2010 and the 2010 full program for your
early perusal. The online booking service will be open
for business mid January, so this early opening will
give you plenty of time to plan your shows and most
importantly get your bookings in early.
CLICK
HERE to view the 2010 Festival program
I'm proud to say we have put together another top flight
program of artists covering all our genre range, there's
quality shows in folk, contemporary and traditional;
Celtic, Blues, old time, bluegrass, world and gypsy,
there's some great womens music on offer, and a special
feature being the 3 wonderful acts from the Mediterranean
hinterland. In particular we're happy to be able to
continue our association with our two visiting traditional
groups from Greece, both of whom have performed at festivals
stretching back to the very first in 1989. It also a
pleasure to welcome our new artists every year, there
seems no end to the range and quality of first time
visitors to our shores and our festival, and I can assure
you they will not disappoint. Our Australian roots music
scene continues to gain serious memento and I'm sure
you will support the excellent range of fine Australian
artists we have for this year. Combine that with a really
great program of music and dance at the Sydney Road
Street Party, where we feature local music almost exclusively,
we're in for bumper feast next March.
Feel free to register friends, family, workmates and
comrades on
our web site to recieve continuing festival news,
(but only if you feel their lives will benefit from
it).
In concluding I hope you enjoy looking at our new web
site, its looking really lovely thanks to our web maestro
and long time friend and buddy; cheers Pete lets hope
it all works!...and please, all you folks who can take
time, let us know what you think, of both site and program.
Our printed program brochure will be delivered the week
beginning 18 January, with the box office opening for
phone and mail on bookings on Monday 1 February. You
can also register to have the brochure sent to you fresh
of the press.
Meanwhile here
is some music in January you might like to catch.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the 2010
Brunswick Music Festival.
Yours sincerely
John McAuslan
 Nano
Stern and the Folkoholics
Nano Stern, who was such a success at the 2009
Brunswick Festival, is touring again in December/January.
He forms a madcap duo called Folkoholics with
a hot accordion player and crazy puppeteer Matija
Solce from Slovenia. The Folkaholics will be supported
by Nano Stern in a solo capacity. They're performing
one show in Melbourne at The East Brunswick Club on
Wednesday 13 January. Here's the Myspace sites, the
Folkoholics site has two wonderful video clips (and
nothing much else). http://
www.myspace.com/folkoholics - http://www.myspace.com/fernandostern
Bookings: Visit the East
Brunswick Club website
 The
Boite's annual festival celebrating the joys of
song and singing, the Boite Singers
Festival at Daylesford, fabulous concerts and workshops
7-10 January. There are some exciting new things - a
bit of Flamenco, some TaKe TiNa, the Boite wine launch
on the train, and the choirs concert now in the Town
Hall, one of Australia's finest acoustic spaces
Bookings: Visit The Boite's
website.
Brilliant, stunning music coming from Mali in west
Africa also in January.
 Firstly,
Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra perform
at Hamer Hall on 20 January. It's high energy stuff,
a big African band driven by the amazing Kora ( african
21 string harp) of Africa's number one virtuoso, Toumani
Diabate.
http://www.myspace.com/toumanidiabate
Bookings: Visit The
Arts Centre website
Secondly the beautiful guitar playing of Vieux Farka
Toure, the son of the legendary Ali Farka Toure,
possibly west Africa's best ever guitar player and that's
saying something!. Two shows at Thornbury Theatre, 21/22
January, the music will be superb, and venue is a beauty.
http://www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/
- http://www.myspace.com/vieuxfarkatoure
Bookings: Visit the
Thornbury Theatre website
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