Sizzling Strings - Bruce Mathiske and Friends
An Evening of Guitar Extravaganca
Saturday 10 July 2010, 8pm
Denmark Civic Centre
Denmark Arts presents a night of guitar extravaganza by internationally acclaimed guitar virtuoso Bruce Mathiske.
Expect an entertaining night of stringed excellence with infectious rhythms and fiery fretwork from far flung corners of Bruce’s guitar. Bruce’s unique style of playing bass, rhythm and melody simultaneously has led to world wide acclaim and standing ovations at performances in Denmark, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Japan and the U.S.A.
Bruce brings with him ukulele player Greg Young, a guitarist for 40 years who converted to Ukulele after absorbing himself in various forms of world music. The colours & variations he emits from his Australian handcrafted Ukulele is a perfect ingredient as part of the concert.
They will be joined by Craig Sinclair, who is no stranger to the Denmark Audience having performed at the Festival of Voice in 2008 and returned for a market performance in 2009. Craig combines crisp finger-style slide guitar with soulful vocals and contemporary original folk-blues to create a unique style that draws on many rich traditions.
The evening will start off with local guitar virtuosos Mardae Selepak and Colin Reeves who will add their own flavor to this night of sizzling strings.
Tickets $32/27 concession/members.
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Denmark Festival of Voice
Free Family Concert
Friday 4 June 2010, 6pm - 7.30pm
Denmark Civic Centre
Especially for the Denmark Community this opening event for DFOV 2010 features the Golden Hills and Denmark Primary Schoo Choires, our two local choirs Eklectica and Choir for Gaia and The Wise Girls.
Free entry
The Big Gig Feature Concert
Friday 4 June Denmark Civic Centre, 8pm
Denmark Civic Centre
This Concert, aimed at presenting the cream of the Festival to local audiences, features the main acts of the Denmark Festival of Voice 2010.Dya Singh, Mr Percival and The Stiff Gins.
Mr Percival, a unique Australian solo a capella-vocal-performance-artist with a voice “created by angels” he defies pigeonholing, with his soaring vocals being looped at one moment and then the audience suddenly being acclaimed as his backing band.
Alongside him will be six piece superstar world music group Dya Singh, featuring the soaring vocals of Dya, alongside his two daughters, a virtuoso tabla player, and world class violin (Andrew Clermont of Totally Gourdgeous) and highly acclaimed guitarist. On the same bill we will feature The Stiff Gins, the darlings of Indigenous song in Australia.
Tickets $40 full, $30 concession available online or @ Denmark Arts Office Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Dya Singh Feature Concert
Saturday 5 June 2010, 8pm
Albant Town Hall
The six piece superstar world music group Dya Singh, featuring the soaring vocals of Dya, alongside his two daughters, a virtuoso tabla player, and world class violin (Andrew Clermont of Totally Gourdgeous) and highly acclaimed guitarist. Supported by local musicians Katie White and Jeremy Jongsma.
Tickets $40 full, $30 concession available at the box office Albany Town Hall
Denmark Festival of Voice One Voice Closing Concert
Sunday 6 July, 8pm
Denmark Recreation Centre,
One of the real features of this years Festival will be the One Voice Closing Concert, with six hundred people singing and dancing together and led by some of Australia’s best workshop leaders and singers. “This is something completely new to this Festival, and perhaps anywhere, to be looking to have so many singing together at the one time…..in perfect harmony! It will be an uplifting evening. People will sing along with Mr Percival, Bernard Carney, The Stiff Gins and Dya Singh. It’ll be amazing” says Peter.
open to public, free event
An evening with eminent Australian playwright David Williamson and novelist & biographer Kristin Williamson
Wednesday 5 May, 7pm
Tea House Books
David Williamson is one of Australia's most celebrated and significant playwrights and cultural figures. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s, with works such as Don's Party (later turned into a film) The Club and The Removalists. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously.
Williamson's work as a playwright focuses on themes of politics, loyalty and family in contemporary urban Australia, and holds a mirror to how we have come to define our times and ourselves. Major works also include The Department, Travelling North, The Perfectionist, Emerald City, Money and Friends and Brilliant Lies and more recently, Dead White Males, a satirical approach to postmodernism and university ethics, Up for Grabs, which starred Madonna in its London premiere and the Jack Manning Trilogy (Face To Face, Conversation, Charitable Intent) which take as their format community conferencing, a new form of restorative justice which Williamson became interested in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Kristin Williamson is the author of Women on the Rocks, The Last Bastion, and, most recently, a biography of her husband David Behind the Scenes. She also co-wrote, with David, the film Touch the Sun: Princess Kate, and researched his films The Last Bastion and Gallipoli.
Wine, cheese, readings and discussion
Tickets: $15 - Bookings Essential – limited spaces, book early
RSVP: Tea House Books – 9848 1801 or teahousebooks@bigpond.com
Transmission Open Floor Café
Saturday 24 April 2010, CWA Hall, 8pm - 11pm
Bring your poem, song, dance, performance, creativity… or just come and enjoy. Great food and tea/coffee will be available. For more info call Terry 9845 2471 or 0438 740 565.
BNW#17 Festival Finale
Sunday 4 April, 7pm
Denmark Scout Hall
It's time to celebrate all that was Brave over the weekens. See the Scout Hall transformed into a vibrant area of constantly shifting performance spaces. Come with the whole family and be ready to explore and celebrate a community buzzing with energy and creativity. Local wine and light food available.
Tickets $15, Concession $10, Family (2 adults, 2 kids) $40, Kids under 5 are free.
Available at Spot News, 9848 1362
BNW#17 Closing Ceremony
Sunday 4 April, 5pm - 6pm
Centre for Sustainable Living Sanctuary
BNW#17 Gondwana Youth Arts Project
Sunday 4 April, 1pm - 3pm
Community Park
BNW#17 Abridged Short Film Festival
Saturday 3 April 4.30pm - 11.30pm
Denmark Civic Centre
Denmark Markets
Saturday 3 April, 10am - 4pm
Berridge Park
Arts and Craft Stalls, an exciting lineup of performances, a giant Pumpkin Competotion and much more
Entry by gold coin donation
BNW#17 Festival Lounge
Friday 2 April, Saturday 3 April, 7pm - midnight
CWA Hall
BNW's #17 Poetry Pontoons: Bridging brave new worlds
Friday 2 April, 7pm
Spoken Word Performance at Tea House Bookshop
Let the rhythms of poetry and prose linger around you as you sip wine and drift into moments of reverie. Caroline Cadde, guest editor if WA's creative writing publication Indigo Jounral Vol #5 will be introducing three published Denmark Poets - Graeme Kershaw, Linda Bradbury and Virginia Jealous - alongside Albran's prose writer Sarah Drummond.
Hosted by the dynamic literati duo Donna Ward and Melissa Thompson.
Please get in early with ticket purchases as we are definately limited seating for this extraordinary event.
Tickets $12 available at Tea House Books on sale Thursday 4th march.
Ticket includes local wine and cheese at event
BNW#17 Our Secret River
Friday 2 April, Saturday 3 April, 4pm - 6pm
Outdoor location advised with ticket purchase
Dive into 'Our Secret River and let ripples of story, dance art and music wash over you. A large cast of indigenous and non-indigenous performers create a compelling experience that explores our personal histories of connection and disconnection between cultures and the land.Not to be missed!
You are advised to wear shoes suitable to walk on uneven terrain. If you require special assistance contact Denmark Arts on 9848 3623.
Tickets $10 available at Spot Newsagency 9848 1362
BNW#17 Kwoorubup Art Walk
Friday 2 April, 1pm - 3pm
Location to be announced
BNW#17 Cantelever Exhibition Opening
Friday 2 April 11am - 1pm
MOO'ved Fashion and Art Gallery, Suth Coast Highway
BNW#17 North of Us Exhibition Opening
Thursday 1 April, 7.30pm - 9pm
Centre for Sustainable Living
BNW#17 Festival Opening
Thursday 1 April, 5.30pm - 7pm
Centre for Sustainable Living Sanctuary
BNW#17 Book Launch and Exhibition
Blue Sky Beyond The Sun
Tuesday 30 March, 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Centre for Sustainable Living
An illustrated anthology of poems written over 30 years takes ordinary experiences and opens them as a window to profound dimensions. Through his poems local resident and former teacher Antar Neill Riddell attempts to put into words something which is beyond words. The Launch of Blue Sky beyond the Sun will include an exhibition of the illustrations including artwork by local photographers and artists. The evening will include readings and live music by V'Vaci Early Music Ensemble and Barry Heydenrych.
Please note there has been a change of date as adevrtised in the BNW Program
BNW#17 Bosko and Honey Ukulele Concert
Saturday 20 March, 5pm - 7pm
House Concert at 324 Lights Rd
Ukulele players Bosko and Honey are on an all-Australia ukulele road trip, accompanied by international performers Yan Yalego from France and Gensblue from Japan, and a uke-playing film-maker. They are performing, jamming, conducting interviews and giving workshops all over the country. They travel with the motto “Big country, little ukuleles for a smaller, friendlier world”. Workshops will be held at the CSL as part of Brave new Works#17. Check out the Ukulel Safari website:
Entry recommendet donation $15 for bookings call Robyn 98483110
BNW#17 River Stories Community Forum
Saturday 20 March, 1pm - 5pm
Centre for Sustainable Living
An opportunity to hear visiting artist Alison Clouston talk about her work, hear about the Kwoorabup Art Walk project and hear local river stories from Indigenous, historical and environmental perspectives.
Denmark Arts, with advice and involvement from different organisations, is aiming to turn the Kwoorabup Walk Trail - along the Denmark (Kwoorabup) river - into a living, changing art walk, with an ongoing program of site-specific artworks into the future. These ‘sculptures’ may be three dimensional, or they may be ‘happenings’ or ‘living acts of art’, such as ceremony or performance.
Sandra Hill, aboriginal artist had to cancel her perticipation due to a knee injury. We are aiming to invite her back to Denmark later on in the year. Watch this space!
Kwoorabup Artwalk Information Sheet
Free entry
For more information call Denmark Arts on 9848 362 or Vivienne on 9840 9354
Songs and Sounds
A concert of Songs and Early Music
Saturday 13 March, 7.30pm
Uniting Church
The voices of Cantare will join with V'vaci Early Music Ensemble to present a concert of song and early music in anticipation of Easter. Cantare will be prforming excerpts fromStainer's Cricifixion, Handel's Messiah and JS Bach's St Matthew's Passion. The program also includes music from Holborne, Scheidt, Monteverdi and others.
Entry $15 Tickets available at the door,
includes refreshments served at interval
Transforming Trash into Gold
Music Concert
Wednesday 10 March, 5pm - 6.30pm
Tip Shop, Macintosh Rd
A fun concert to celebrate creativity innivation and sustainability. Local Musicians have created funky instruments out of recycled materials.
Featuring the Hedge Bandits, Juncadelic, local trio Odd Sock and young Denmark fiddlers.
Entry $8, Concession $5, Children Free
Contact Greenskills for more information 9848 1019
Book Launch 'The Lashed Minstrel'
Saturday 6 March, 1pm - 3pm
Vancouver Arts Centre Concert Room
The Lashed Minstrel is a book of short stories and poetry by former Denmark Resident Paul Sheehan. Paul currently resides in Albant and is launching his new book at the Concert Room, Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany on Saturday 6 March from 1.00pm - 3.00pm. Everyone is welvome.
Transmission Open Floor Café
Saturday 27 February 2010, 8pm - 11pm
CWA Hall
Bring your own song, dance, performance, creativity… or just come and enjoy. Great food and tea/coffee will be available. For more info call Terry 9845 2471 or 0438 740 565.
Entry $10
Get the Healing Feeling
Fundraiser concert for Paul Doquile
Saturday 20th February 2010, 4pm - 10pm
Centre for Sustainable Living
A fun-family friendly fundraiser for Paul Doquile will be held at the CSL on Saturday the 20th of February from 4-10pm. Open mic from 4-7pm (bring poems, songs, dances etc).
Bands from 7-10pm incl duos, trios, and Denmark’s best: Xave Brown, Sundancers, Moodswingz, Mandala, Mary Jane Greenaway. Bring food to share and a picnic rug, see you there!
Licensed bar - no BYO. All proceeds will go to Paul to assist him on his healing journey.
Entry $10 min donation per adult, Kids FREE.
Sleeping Silver
Thursday 18th February, 7.30pm
The Wolery Community Centre
House Concert with David Ross Macdonald, Rae Howell, Mel Robinson
After 11 years of touring with The Waifs, David Ross Macdonald brings his songs and deft finger-picking guitar to the stage in a brand new collaboration with two of Australia’s most respected musicians.
Sleeping Silver is one of those rare collaborations in which three musical souls have coalesced in an acoustic alchemy that is both as achingly dark as it is shimmeringly beautiful. Macdonald’s instrumental guitar compositions and an astute selection of his songs have been reduced to their simplest elements and then reborn with the haunting vibraphone of Rae Howell and the beguiling cello work of Mel Robinson.
Composer, pianist and vibraphonist extraordinaire Rae Howell (Sunwrae Ensemble) “paints every style, every influence in complete, organic harmony” (The Silent Ballet). Cellist, songwriter and arranger Mel Robinson (Mr Sister, Tim Rogers) is “bubbling with creative brilliance” (The West Australian).
Tickets: $20/15conc.
Contact Simon 9840 9231 to book simon.neville@bigpond.com
PORTICO QUARTET
Friday 12 Febrary, Howard Park Winery
Having spent years honing their sound by busking throughout Europe, Portico Quartet's fluid playing has led to celebrated appearances at Big Chill, Glastonbury and the London Jazz Festival. Their debut Knee-deep in the North Sea was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize and was named Jazz, Folk and World Music album of the year by Time Out.
Ethereal sax, double bass and drums combine with the Hang, an 'otherworldly steel drum', to produce truly distinctive, hook-heavy instrumental music that moves from mellow and soothing to exuberant and adventurous, drawing on everything from jazz and classical to African.
The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of schoolfriends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, and play festivals and clubs. Yet what distinguishes them from dozens of other Hackney hopefuls is the way they sound – a fresh, unclichéd resynthesis and reinvention of music that’s both pleasingly familiar and thrillingly new, like World Music from the future. With largely acoustic resources – percussion, bass and wind instruments – they have conjured and refined a group signature that’s immediately recognisable. Thanks to the use of the hang, a tuned percussion instrument bought on impulse at a music festival, they have a sound that is instantly attractive, yet uncompromisingly individual, and it’s this, combined with the cheerful eloquence of their performances, that has brought Portico Quartet a long way in a short time.
Tickets $35 available at Spot New, Albany Town Hall or book online
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Transmission Open Floor Café
Saturday 30 January 2010, CWA Hall, 8pm - 11pm
Transmission Cafe is back for the New Year!! Bring your poem, song, dance, performance, creativity… or just come and enjoy. Great food and tea/coffee will be available. For more info call Terry 9845 2471 or 0438 740 565.
Zigatango
Sunday 24 January 2010, Denmark Civic Centre, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm)
Gypsy and Tango music will come together in an exhilarating evening of music and dance. Zigatango brings a youthful flair and wild intensity to the traditional styles of Gypsy and Tango music. Formed in early 2006, the band has accumulated a diverse repertoire which includes arrangements of fiery Gypsy melodies from Eastern Europe and the music of Astor Piazzolla, the legendary Argentinean bandoneon player who is credited with revolutionising tango music. read more
Denmark Market
Sunday 24 January, Berridge Park, 10am - 4pm
Denmark’s residents and visitors are invited to enjoy the family friendly atmosphere at the Denmark market. Children’s entertainment, healthy food and fresh produce complement the selection of quality arts and craft stalls.Berridge Park comes alive with the hustle and bustle of market activity. The ever popular Kid’s Tent... read more
DenMusic Gig to Launch new Denmark Arts Website
Saturday 23 January, Karriview, 7.30pm
Denmark Arts newly established music group DenMusic will hold monthly gigs at Karriview featuring local bands. The first one will kick off this Saturday to coincide with the launch of Denmark Arts new website .Join us for the celebration night with Sue Cunningham’s new band, Blumanna’s Tony King going solo, and The Sundancers grooving up a luscious green salad of sound.
Entry $10 / $5
The Magic Clock
15, 16,17 & 19, 20, 21 January, Denmark Civic Centre, 7.30pm (exc Sun 17 - 2pm matinee)
Denmark Village Theatre proudly presents The Magic Clock written and directed by Heather Haskett.
A pantomime romp through time that will mesmerise the whole family!
Tickets $12 adults, $6 Kids u14, $30 family. Available from Morrison's Newsagency.
Sizzling Strings - Bruce Mathiske and Friends
An Evening of Guitar Extravaganca
Saturday 10 July 2010, 8pm
Denmark Civic Centre
Denmark Arts presents a night of guitar extravaganza by internationally acclaimed guitar virtuoso Bruce Mathiske.
Expect an entertaining night of stringed excellence with infectious rhythms and fiery fretwork from far flung corners of Bruce’s guitar. Bruce’s unique style of playing bass, rhythm and melody simultaneously has led to world wide acclaim and standing ovations at performances in Denmark, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Japan and the U.S.A.
Bruce brings with him ukulele player Greg Young, a guitarist for 40 years who converted to Ukulele after absorbing himself in various forms of world music. The colours & variations he emits from his Australian handcrafted Ukulele is a perfect ingredient as part of the concert.
They will be joined by Craig Sinclair, who is no stranger to the Denmark Audience having performed at the Festival of Voice in 2008 and returned for a market performance in 2009. Craig combines crisp finger-style slide guitar with soulful vocals and contemporary original folk-blues to create a unique style that draws on many rich traditions.
The evening will start off with local guitar virtuosos Mardae Selepak and Colin Reeves who will add their own flavor to this night of sizzling strings.
Tickets $32/27 concession/members.
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