June 21st – Fete De La Musique
May 28, 2010
Come to the new park above the Kangaroo Point Cliffs to see BEMAC's programmed artists!
Monday 21st June – accross Brisbane (and the world) – free
Get set to let your hair down when the world’s largest international live music event, Fête de la Musique returns to Brisbane for the third year running.
Fête de la Musique is everyone’s festival. Held in 350 cities across the globe on the very same day each year – from Paris and Prague, to Barcelona and our very own Brisbane – Fête is simply about making and celebrating music en masse. There are no tickets, no box seats, no headliners. From soloists to orchestras, jazz to hip hop, choirs to rock bands. Free outdoor performances across the city will showcase the rich talent and diversity of the Brisbane music scene.
Be prepared for some fresh new talent this year. Because Fete falls on a Monday Brisbane schools have the chance to participate like never before. Prepare yourself for a ‘School of Rock’ on the grandest scale!
If you haven’t checked out the new park at the top of the Kangaroo Point cliffs, then make Monday the 21st at 2pm the time to check it out, when BEMAC present a great world music program as part of the world-wide Fete de la Musique, “free music everywhere” event! After you have enjoyed that concert, then head on down the hill to BEMAC for our AGM,
June 12th – Teddy Afro, Ethiopian music sensation
May 28, 2010
Anglican College Hall, corner of Junction & Krupp Roads, Cannon Hill, Brisbane
7pm 12th June, 2010
Teddy Afro (real name Tewodros Kassahun) is one of the most successful singers and song writers from Ethiopia in recent times. Teddy Afro’s success has been credited to the powerful messages in his songs: from compassion to courage and from forgiveness to love. Teddy has been able to break artistic boundaries that were previously untouched. He has been compared to Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley, in part because of his ability to bring a political, spiritual, and rhythmic presence to his listeners. Teddy is also noted for his work with other young and inspiring artists throughout Ethiopia.
For further details call Abel: 0431 044 533
Anglican College Hall, cnr Junction & Krupp Roads, Cannon Hill
June 5th – Dva and Laique at Brisbane Powerhouse
May 28, 2010
The Planet
BEMAC and Brisbane Powerhouse are proud to present
Sat 5th June @ Brisbane Powerhouse
FREE from 5pm – 7pm @ the Turbine Platform
Laique
5:00 – 5:40pm
Dva
6:00 – 7:00pm
Laique
Vintage 1930′s styled swing… Songs of Lust, Murder, Revenge and Shoes. Steeped in a sizzle of hot swing, there’s a twist of mischievous charm beneath the band’s sharp trouser legs and front-woman Kylie Southwell’s slick heels as the hard-popping bedlam begins. This is wine without the glass and murder without the guilt. This is song writing without the diarising. The swinging twenties without prohibition. The lust without the phone numbers. This is Laique – one frock and four suits. French manouche, street beats and tangos all fall in line behind one stray black cat…
Presenting Laique’s queen of song Kylie Southwell, along with premium music-men Gerard Mapstone on guitar & banjo, Michael Patterson on violin, Samuel Vincent on double bass and Will Eager on drums.
Gentlemen hold on to your Stetsons, ladies clasp your fascinators! For Laique will fill your Martini glass to the brim with their quirky tales and romping hullabaloo of lust, murder, revenge and gin.
Dva
(pronounced D-vah) is simply the Macedonian word for “two” which expresses the great love of playing together as a duo shared by its two members: Tunji Beier and Linsey Pollak.
Linsey and Tunji first performed together at the “Border Crossings Festival” in Germany in 1996 and have played together ever since. Although they have travelled very diverse paths and studied different musical traditions, they find their playing extremely compatible. They create improvisations and compositions that draw on the traditions of Macedonia and South India, their greatest musical influences.
Linsey’s collection of wind instruments is unique with 30 years experience in making & experimenting with wind instruments. He has come up with new single reed designs, such as the various clarinis (narrow bored clarinets) made from bamboo, wood, aluminium and glass as well as various hybrid bagpipes based on the gaida (Macedonian bagpipe) which he studied in Macedonia and also the conical bore Saxillo. These wind instruments are combined with Tunji’s Gangan (a small Yoruba talking drum), Tavil (South Indian temple drum), Kanjira (South Indian tambourine with a lizard skin), Jaw Harps and other percussion instruments that Tunji has mastered while living in Nigeria, India and Europe.
Audiences respond enthusiastically to the intense musical relationship between these two artists, and while their music has its roots in Eastern European, Sth Indian and African traditions, they have developed it along their own very personal lines. Their repertoire of original compositions is constantly changing and although based on a solid structure their performances are not rigidly planned and there is a great deal of improvisation that is both technically and emotionally dazzling.
The Planet is a monthly world music and dance program which has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Brisbane Powerhouse, 119 Lamington St, New Farm
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