Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

TAFE course leads to musical future

A TAFE music demo recording course has inspired a Montville resident to start writing tunes, build himself a home studio and form a new band. Aspiring songwriter, Jonathan Adkins said the short course at Nambour TAFE run by acclaimed international guitarist and writer, Peter Koppes, has given him the motivation to take his leisurely interest in [...]

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Grant for Musical Maestros

ENTREPRENEURIAL musicians Linsey Pollak and Tunji Beir have secured a $4000 RADF grant to produce a demo CD, brochure and photos of their latest improvised musical project. The grant will also fund research into future venues for the duo’s performances. Linsey and Tunji have been playing together for 14 years and in their latest venture Linsey will play the [...]

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Bush Dance with family appeal

Mama Syb and the Bush Rats dance caller, John Wright has loved the music all his life and has been playing in Bush Dance Bands since the mid nineties. He will host a Family Bush Dance in North Maleny on August 7 that is guaranteed to be energetic and fun. When bush dances are mentioned these [...]

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Nambour Grooves at night

Nambour’s Town Square has become a popular venue for groovy, night-time performance as part of the town’s Moonlight Markets on the last Friday of every month. Since permanently locating to Nambour’s outstanding new Town Square in Lowe Street in February, hundreds of Nambour locals and visitors have enjoyed the ‘buzz’ to enjoy music, shop and socialise. So [...]

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David Rovics at Upfront

A special treat at the Upfront Club during August is David Rovics (right) who grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut. By the early 90s he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90s he was travelling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David [...]

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Smokin Crawdads at Beerwah

It’s hard to believe that this is the Smokin Crawdads’ first visit to the newly-renovated Beerwah hotel. The Crawdads have had some line up changes but the music, entertainment and great times had at a Crawdad gig is still the same. Their latest album “Straight to the Pool Room” captures the essence of these very cool crawdudes. [...]

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Tony O’Connor … his music calmed the troubled soul

INTERNATIONALLY-RENOWNED musician, composer and recording artist Tony O’Connor passed away recently at his home on the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Tony was only 49 and had been diagnosed with a brain tumour about eighteen months ago. Despite crucial surgical intervention by Sydney surgeon, Dr Charles Teo, Tony O’Connor realised that his remaining time on this earth was [...]

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Fiddles, flutes and fun at Celtic Festival

The Blackall Range will ring with the sound of pipes, flutes, fiddles and drums this June with the return of the Maleny Celtic Winter School. The first Winter School, held in Maleny last year attracted over 100 budding musicians to attend classes run by some of Australia’s finest performers and teachers of Celtic music and [...]

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‘Patience’ plays at Maleny

The light opera ‘Patience” by Gilbert & Sullivan,- reputedly one of Gilbert’s wittiest scripts, will be performed in Maleny by the combined talents of Maleny Singers and the Maleny Performing Arts Orchestra over two weekends in June. Patience satirises the “aesthetic craze” of the 1870s and 80s, when the output of poets, composers, painters and designers [...]

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Noosa’s very long weekend

Some of music’s literary and media world’s most respected names will be converging on the Sunshine Coast from June 18-27 to partake in 30 literary events, forums and workshops as part of the annual, 10 day, 130 event, The Noosa Longweekend Festival. Festival Director, Ian Mackellar said that the 2010 literary and forum program was one [...]

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