Category: Workshop-sat

Tableland Community Choir Bellacappella invites all festival patrons to voice their joy in a BIG SING.  This session is open to all ages and genders, no experience necessary.  Song Sheets are available at the door.

10 am Saturday – Community Hall  

Teaching tips, tricks, and techniques for slide and cigar box guitar. BYO instrument, it’s a workshop that incorporates a jam session.

11 am Sat – Community Hall

Ben will teach and demonstrate a variety of old-time finger picking and banjo techniques used in bluegrass and old time music. Bring your banjo or guitar and learn some traditional tunes from a seasoned performer.

3 pm Sat – Gem Gallery

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. 

3.30 pm Sat – Community Hall

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 – Gem Gallery

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.

1.45 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 – Gem Gallery

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

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