Category: Workshop-sat

Fast and furious, tender and humorous, great playing, great songs. You’ll forget you’ve got a mortgage, forget your dog’s just died and ignore for a moment that the ice caps are melting.

3 pm Sat – The Garden Vibe

A participatory workshop and musical play space for children to enjoy percussion, play and dancing. Max is a registered music therapist who specialises in early childhood developmental music programs.

3pm Sat – TAFE Stage

A bit of Reggae history and a few related styles: ska, rocksteady etc,  including all participants in playing a Reggae composition in an orchestra arrangement, for a direct understanding of the genre and a lot of enjoyment. 

2.30 pm Sat – Community Hall

How to produce and manipulate sounds to exponentially expand your personal sound library including discussing the many different types of loopers available, from phone apps to hardware. Mal will also demonstrate a few cool (and challenging!) tricks with a digital delay unit.

With thanks to RADF for assistance.

2 pm Sat – Gem Gallery

After running through song-writing tools, improve your craft with methods of enhancement. Alternate tunings, arpeggios, runs between chords. For beginners to accomplished, this workshop suits those with an instrument.

2 pm Sat – The Garden Vibe

An exploration of alternate guitar techniques including tapping, body percussion, & a variation of open tunings to broaden your understanding of the guitar & its endless possibilities.

1.30 pm Sat – Community Hall

Are you a songwriter/performer? Want to either get out of the bedroom and into paid gigs, work or maybe even tour? Tips of how to write songs, appreciate great songs, book gigs, plan tours and budget your way home working on a shoe-string budget.

1 pm Sat – The Garden Vibe

What do apples and pineapples have to do with music? Come and find out… Get ready to stomp your feet and clap your hands to some of the amazing (and wonky) rhythms of the Balkans!

12.15 pm Sat – TAFE Stage

What did Johnny Cash steal to end up in Folsom Prison? What’s the story with the Beatles’ ‘Come Together’? What dirty deed got AC/DC into legal hot water? What do the Angels owe to Status Quo? Find out as Floyd Thursby reveals the historical texts that have influenced and inspired some of our favourite songs.

12 noon Sat – The Garden Vibe

The three masked men of Kallidad will give a glimpse behind the curtain to share the musical techniques, travel and touring stories, and thoughts and philosophies that led them to create a once in a lifetime musical experience.

12 noon Sat – Community Hall