Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Practise makes perfect …

Sam Lucas keeps his eye on a musical future SAM LUCAS is a young cellist with a career as a classical musician that is well mapped out into the future. His success seems assured not only because of a natural talent but a strong determination to succeed through rigorous practice. “The constant practice is not a chore [...]

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Rapskallion … on the deck

Rapskallion takes to the eastern road again this summer, pedalling their new five track E.P “Le chat et Fiddle” from Melbourne town to Crystal Waters in a blaze of sweat, colour, feathers and accordion powered riffage. “Le Chat et fiddle”(The Cat and Fiddle) is a collection of musical vignettes from a realm inhabited by back alley [...]

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Rain inside Beerwah Hotel

There’s only three of them but The Rain is a musical storm – a force to be reckoned with – and once those three-part harmonies and easy on the ears songs, penned by powerhouse writer Kelly Cork, soak into your bones .. you’re hooked. The Rain is the feature group at Beerwah’s Got Country on Saturday [...]

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Roots Beats & Special Treats

Palmwoods Hotel continues to bring the very best blues and roots artists to the Sunshine Coast hinterland. On Saturday December 17 Palmwoods Got The Blues is on again with three more of the highest quality blues acts touring Australia today. Since big Matt Southon began touring nationally, he has mightily impressed his knowledgeable music fans with his [...]

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Russian songstress at UpFront

In December Russian-born Innessa will make her Australian debut at the Upfront Club’s large stage in Maleny. At age 9, Innessa was invited to join the local choir and began her lifelong passion for music and performing. After several years of expanding her vocal talents and learning the guitar, by the age of 16 she had [...]

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Palmwoods Special Blues Treats

There’s another phenomenal lineup of the best Blues & Roots to rock the Palmwoods hotel. Kicking off the pub’s “Roots, Beats and Special Treats” program on Saturday November 5, Adam Hole & Marji Curran (below) have been burning up the highways continuously for the last 3 yrs and with the release of their latest album “Red”, [...]

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Steven Jaymes at Beerwah

Feature band in Beerwah’s Got Country November line-up is Steven Jaymes and his band. 2011 is shaping up to be a great year for Steven and his band. Steven started the year doing a benefit concert in Tamworth with Troy Cassar Daley, Bill Chambers, Shane Nicholson among others then with the 2nd single GOING BACK TO MEXICO [...]

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Caxton Street Jazz …back in town

The popular Caxton Street Jazz Band will be back on the Sunshine Coast and blowing up a storm on Saturday December 3 at the Kawana Community Hall from 7.30- 10.30pm. The 6 piece Caxton Street Jazz Band band appeals not only to jazz aficionados but has a wide following from the general public who enjoy good [...]

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Hot Gypsy Jazz at UpFront

La Petite Manouche – translated roughly as “the little gypsy” is a collaboration of Burke Goffe and Robbie Averill, both graduates of the CPIT Jazz School in Christchurch NZ, who have spent the course of their studies having the style of gypsy jazz drilled through their souls by the main guitar tutor Bob Heinz. Consequently, they [...]

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Youth Orchestra is 21!

The Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra is delighted with the recent addition of Maria Salmon to take up the mantle of music director and conductor for both the string orchestra and sinfonia strings. Maria has a music career that spans 27 years – from music teacher, to concert performer, to conductor for the WAYO string orchestra. The [...]

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