JAMATTIX – Friday 21st September

Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall
(Click Here for directions)

Concert performance 6 – 9pm
Doors open 5.30pm

All advance tickets $16 + b/fee through MOSHTIX
Please phone: 1300 438 849
Or book online here – JAMATTIX Tickets

$20 at door, children under 13 FREE

CLICK HERE for the PDF Brochure

The deep vibrations of the didgeridoo will soar with rhythmic drums and percussion, soulful guitar, serenading flutes and vocals. The music will wind a path through many flavours of rhythm and melody, rich tribal grooves and lush soundscapes.

Here’a a video clip of Jamattix “live” at their last Tally Valley gig

The artists:

At the very heart of Matt James music lies his powerful ability to transform the vibrations of the didgeridoo into a symphony of sounds. Stemming from tribal roots and blending many musical styles, Matts music is truly eclectic and powerful.

As Matt James amazing music evolves, one thing remains constant, his passion the driving force behind the energy of his music. When you see him perform you feel elevated . . . it is purely from the heart.
http://www.mattjames.com.au/

Best known in this part of the world for his work over 6 years and 4 albums with world music group Oka, Matt Aitchison now composes music for film and television, as well as producing artists in the Byron Bay area, performing and recording under the name Favourite Son. A drummer, songwriter, keyboardist and singer, Matts musical touch is unique and unmistakable.
http://www.unbeaten.com.au/

Owen James Newcomb – B.Mus [Musician / Producer / Composer]

Oj is a full time musician who loves nothing more then to bring joy, inspiration & stoke to people’s lives through sound. It’s through bands like Band of Frequencies, Afro Dizzi Act, Low Pressure Sound System, The View from Madeleine’s Couch & The Angie & Oj Duo that allows him to have this connection both in live performances & recorded mediums. As a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, this has also given Oj the ability to perform nationally and internationally as a freelance bassist using his spare time as music educator on acoustic/electric bass & trumpet, passing down the the knowledge & experience he has gained to the future of music.

All advance tickets $16 + b/fee through MOSHTIX
Please phone: 1300 438 849
Or book online here – JAMATTIX Tickets

$20 at door, children under 13 FREE

Delicious healthy food and non alcoholic drinks and chai available

Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall

611 Tallebudgera Creek Rd, Tallebudgera Valley

(Take exit 89 from M1 Motorway, turn right at T-intersection traffic lights, hall is 7.2kms on the left)

Saturday 1st September 

Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall
(Click Here for directions)

Concert: 6pm – 9pm (doors open 5.30pm)

Workshop: 3pm – 4.30pm - Making Music with a Cigar Box Guitar (by Soulman O’Gaia)

 Support act: Mattie Barker (The Lamplights)

All advance tickets through MOSHTIX
Please phone: 1300 438 849
Or book online Soulman O’Gaia Tickets

“Colourful, energetic, exotic and talented, Soulman has warmed the hearts of many with his high voltage smile, incorrigible presence and mesmerizing performances….” Mandy Nolan Seven Entertainment Guide.

“Soulman O’Gaia has an uncanny ability to engage the very soul of an audience. An incredible performer with a wonderful energy”…Sandy McCutcheon ABC Radio

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ymOFISgEvCg    Soulman singing “Come to me Angel”

Soulman has recently drawn capacity crowds and won the hearts of many people at The Bellingen Global Carnival, Byron Bluesfest, Woodford Folk Festival, and Neurum Creek Festivals. He has held the stage with Archie Roach, Xavier Rudd, John Butler and Kasey Chambers and featured on recordings with Paul Kelly, Shane Howard, Tiddas and Frank Yamma.

A towering 6 foot 5 inches tall, he is a fluent raconteur spreading feel-good vibes in the high energy performances that are his trademark. The music is a distinctive Caribbean blend of folk style story-telling with Soul, Blues, Rock, Reggae and Gospel stylings.

Souls’ life is a travelogue. After a globe-trotting childhood he founded his music as a busker in London’s Underground Subways, moving on to hone his skills in the volatile world of workingmen’s pubs, clubs and bars across Europe, England and ultimately Australia. O’Gaia has become a one-of-a-kind singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, and a classic tunesmith whose songs linger in the mind and the heart.

His latest release is the uplifting and diverse “Freedom Songs” CD notable for its positive themes and conscious orientation.

All told his big voice reaching out with range and clarity is his most powerful calling card. When Soulman sings you see the intensity of emotion on his face and the soulful stirrings of his ancestral lineage.

WORKSHOP: 3pm – 4.30pm Making Music with a Cigar Box Guitar
(by Soulman O’Gaia)

Bring Your Cigar Box Guitar if you have one or there will be some available for use on the day.

This course is a lot of fun. Soul will show you how quickly you can start to make music and develop your style on a Three String CB Slide Guitar.

All ages are welcome and no musical knowledge is needed. Just be open to having fun.

Playing Cigar Box Guitar is very easy and everyone will leave able to play some simple tunes. A list of Soulman O’Gaia’s tips on how to keep making music and having fun on Cigar Box Guitar will be available for everyone.

3 local makers will have Cigar Box Guitars they have made available for sale on the day.

Concert cost: $16 + b/fee in advance or $19.50 at door, children under 13 Free.

Workshop Cost: $25 + b/fee in advance or $30 at door (all ages)

Special discount for both concert and workshop: only $35 + b/fee in advance or $40 at door

All advance tickets through MOSHTIX
Please phone: 1300 438 849
Or book online Soulman O’Gaia Tickets

Delicious healthy food, snacks and drinks available from 4.30pm, this is a non-alcohol all ages event.

“Soulman O’Gaia…the name says it all… A fantastic singer and performer…” Mick O’Regan Radio National

More information about Soulman on his website – www.soulman-music.com

Support act: Mattie Barker (The Lamplights)

.. Mattie Barker emerged from the fertile Gold Coast- Northern Rivers creative music communities in 2006 and has been generating a ground swell of support locally since. Drawing his influences from a wide spectrum of styles and sounds; acoustic roots and blues, reggae chill, to Cat Stevens style folk, Mattie continues to deliver a heartfelt one-man-band style performance.

With a warmth that resonates out to his audiences, Mattie Barker keeps the tradition of Harry Manx, Xavier Rudd and Jack Johnson alive and fresh with music directly from the heart, often leaving his audiences inspired with his ernest lyrical content and sincere admiration for each and every soul.

Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall

611 Tallebudgera Creek Rd, Tallebudgera Valley
(Take exit 89 from M1 Motorway, turn right at caltex Service station T-intersection traffic lights onto Tallebudgera Creek Rd, the hall is 7.2kms on the left).

Come and feel the good vibes happening at the Tally Valley Hall…

Linsey’s You Tube channel has had over 3 million views… He’s amazing!

Fri 24th August 2012

Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall

Doors open 7pm show time 7.30pm to 8.30pm (1 show only)

Tickets $15 + bf in advance thru MOSHTIX
Tel: 1300 438 849 or online by Clicking Here.

Or $20 at door, kids under 13 Free

Linsey makes music by live looping instruments of his own making such as the saxillo, “Mr Curly”, the Rubber Glove bagpipe and Donna (a glass bass clarinet).

Using these instruments as well as voice, balloons, melodica, jawharps and a carrot clarinet he cunningly creates layers of music so that the audience can enjoy the process of composition as well as the product of performance.

Watch and listen as he “uses electronic wizardry neatly combined with DIY ingenuity to play an array of unexpectedly surprising single reed instruments along with voice-generated rhythm tracks or blasts out a dose of groovy seventies style funk with “Mr Curly” (a contra-bass clarinet made from plastic garden hose) that has audiences bopping in their seats.”

Biography

Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia and the world as a musician, instrument maker, composer and musical director. He has toured his various solo shows extensively in Europe, Nth America and Asia since 1996. All these shows over the last 20 years have featured Live Looping – whether looping sounds created with a bicycle (Cycology), with carrots (The Art of Food), with sounds of extinct and endangered species (The Extinction Room) or with sounds from the audience (The Voice Collector).

Linsey has a reputation for making and playing instruments made from found objects such as rubber gloves, carrots, watering cans, bicycles, chairs, brooms and rubbish bins. First developed in his solo show “Bang it with a Fork” and further in the acclaimed children’s show “Out of the Frying Pan”, this line of musical inventiveness has been combined with live looping to develop nine different solo shows over a period of 20 years such as “Knocking on Kevin’s Door”, “Playpen”, “Making Jam” and “Passing Wind”. The next (10th) solo show will be part of LoopFest.

Linsey has:

• established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA.

• co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States.

• performed at most major Festivals around Australia.

• recorded 28 albums with various groups.

• worked as a musical instrument maker for over 35 years designing a number of new wind instruments.

His current musical projects are his solo shows “Live & Loopy”, “Passing Wind” & “The Extinction Room”, the street bicycle clarinet trio “The Cycologists” and World music duo “Dva” (with Tunji Beier).

Reviews etc.

“Linsey Pollak is one of Australia’s most brilliant and under-rated composer/musicians. He is wildly innovative in the use of instruments but never lets his experimentation get in the way of the musicality of a work.” – The Courier Mail, Brisbane

“Knocking on Kevin’s Door …is a little gem.” The Australian.

“He (Linsey) is famous Australia-wide and has the fantastic ability to capture people’s imagination.” – Music Live

“The unexpected is what Pollak…does so well.” – The Courier Mail, Brisbane

“Pollak’s creativity shines… Combining comedy and music making.” – Hong Kong Standard

Tickets $15 + bf in advance thru MOSHTIX
Tel: 1300 438 849 or online by Clicking Here.

or $20 at door, children under 13 FREE (all ages non-alcohol family friendly event)

Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall
611 Tallebudgera Creek Rd, Tallebudgera Valley
(Take exit 89 from M1 Motorway, turn right at Caltex Service station T-intersection traffic lights onto Tallebudgera Creek Rd, the hall is 7.2kms on the left).

You Tube links for pieces from “Live & Loopy”

Visit Linsey’s You Tube Channel with over 3 million views…

Or check out his personal website www.linseypollak.com

Sacred Earth in Concert
Saturday 14th July 2012

Performing in the peaceful and tranquil setting of the:
Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall
611 Tallebudgera Creek Rd, Tallebudgera Valley

Tickets $25 + booking fee in advance through MOSHTIX
Please phone: 1300 438 849 Or book online by: Clicking Here

Jethro and Prem have been travelling the world for 9 years performing live the music of Sacred Earth. Prem shares with us her heart felt devotion for Spirit and our precious Mother Earth through mantra and songs from the heart. Prem is supported by world class multi-instrumentalist Jethro Williams, playing an array of flutes from around the world including Shakuhachi (Japanese flute), Indian Bansui, Irish Tin and Low whistles, acoustic guitar and songs from the heart.

Sacred Earth’s music is used extensively throughout the world in the massage, yoga, meditation, healing, spa & film industries to evoke a feeling of well-being, peace, and ambience.

Their music is awe inspiring, uplifting and takes the listener on a deep inner journey. The stillness that is discovered during their concert performance is profound. Often moving listeners to tears by the sheer beauty of the music.

Sacred Earth have released a new CD “Breathing Space”… available at the concert. Breathing Space is an offering of exquisite instrumental flute pieces designed with the intention to enhance peace and deep introspection. The perfect soundtrack for yoga, meditation, massage and relaxation, featuring guest artists playing Esraj, Cello and sitar…..

Visit their website: www.sacredearthmusic.com

Doors open at 7pm, concert 7.30pm through till 9.30pm

Tickets $25 + booking fee in advance through MOSHTIX   or  phone: 1300 438 849

200 limited tickets only, so book early as their concerts always sell out (if available there may be some tickets available at the door)

Location: Tallebudgera Valley Community Hall, 611 Tallebudgera Creek Rd
(take exit 89 off M1 motorway, then right onto Tallebudgera Creek Rd and travel 7.2 kms along Tallebudgera Creek Rd. The hall is on the left, drive down driveway for parking)…

Bring a blanket or pillows if you wish to sit up front on the floor (it will be cool in the Valley).

Food and chai available from 7pm

We look forward to seeing you there,
Ken Jacob
“Their live performance is truly a beautiful experience”.