Mantist
January 25, 2011
Never has the name of an artist been so apt, growing up in Southern Sudan, Hip Hop, MC, Mantist and his crew, No Pain No Gain, know a thing or two about pain. Having lost his father before he could even remember his dad’s face he was sent to live with his alcoholic Grandmother at the age of 6. Because of her drunken state Mantist was often left hungry and had to head out with his 8 year old brother to find food. Music was a release and at the age of 12 he started to write songs. Free-styling in local villages and refugee camps in his native tongue was an outlet for his pain and when he came to Australia he began to write songs that told his story, spoke of hope and freedom. Showing that out of pain there IS gain.
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Band Members:
Mantist
G-Jay
Brandon Lee
January 25, 2011
Brandon Lee was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea. He finally settled down in Queensland, Australia 2007. Before that he was a guest guitarist of the Korean pop fusion rock band “SSAW” after graduated jazz guitar course at the Seoul Jazz Academy which is sister relationship with Berklee Music College in USA in 1997. After that he involved in Korea popular jazz clubs, “EVANS”, “Chen-Nyen-Dong-An-Do” with professional musicians. Further more, he produced some back ground drama musics for “Sweet Spy” with MBC ( one of Korean broad casting system ) in 2006.
Now he have been playing jazz for local people in Toowoomba since 2009 for some park events in Toowoomba flower festival, at St Luke’s church, as a member of the Toowoomba Jazz society.
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Shoeless Joe
January 25, 2011
Central Queenslands latest chapter in LIVE!! Entertainment Quinton Cassidy, Graham Howells & Tim Ingram have joined forces to create some of the regions finest music performed by 3 accomplished musicians. Blending Acoustic & Electric tones with the tightest of percussion and add exceptional vocal harmonies with great showmanship you have SHOELESS JOE. Central Queenslands latest chapter in LIVE!! Entertainment Quinton Cassidy, Graham Howells & Tim Ingram have joined forces to create some of the regions finest music performed by 3 accomplished musicians. Blending Acoustic & Electric tones with the tightest of percussion and add exceptional vocal harmonies with great showmanship you have SHOELESS JOE.
This year Shoeless Joe have been added to the playing roster at “Dingo Daze” alongside Jimmy Barnes, John Stevens and The Black Sorrows…..
Specialising in music to sooth your soul as the sun goes down and add that little something something to your late nights, Tim Ingram Australia (Drums) Grahame Howells from Wales(Bass) and Quinton Cassidy NZ (Vox + guitar) are following there music.
Songs about Redwine and heartbreak, alternate herbal income, aggressive negotiations/peaceful protest & Dirty Merch Birds….. you will laugh till you cry and smile yourself to sleep with the sound of Shoeless Joe resonating in your ears….
Media
“Blending mellow guitar rhythms soulfully smooth vocal tones with intricate lyrical content results in a melodic tapestry of thought provoking tunes, Shoeless Joe are not to be missed” The Morning Bulletin
SUPPORTS
Jimmy Barnes, Screaming Jets, Grinspoon UB40, Bondi Cigars, Joe Camilleri, John Stevens
FESTIVALS (Performed)
The Dreaming 2010
Bluesfest 2009 -2010 & 2011
Global Grooves 2010 & 2011
The Village Festival 2008 -2010
Festuri 2010
Queensland Multicultural Festival 2010
Ngapuhi Festival 2011 (New Zealand)
MEMBERSHIPS
BEMAC
APRA
ALLIANZ (Public Liability)
NETWORKING
www.shoelessjoe.org
www.myspace.com/shoelessjoe3
www.facebook.com/shoelessjoemusic
www.triplejunearthed.com/shoelessjoe
Muziz
January 25, 2011
“Muziz” is an exciting and colourful act, combining the evocative music of the Middle East and North Africa, with the beautiful art of Belly Dance. A unique ensemble, Muziz specialises in Classical and Folkloric belly dance music, from the complex orchestral pieces of Egyptian composers to the up-beat village songs of Egypt, Turkey and neighbouring regions. The authentic sounds of traditional instruments interweave with Tamara’s subtle yet passionate movements, creating performances that are both appealing to the ear and visually exciting.
Band Members:
Mike Taylor- Ney,Darbuka, Bendir
Vanessa Glenn-Cello
Greta Kelly Violin- Kamenche
Stephen Cuttriss-Accordion
Kelly Dowall-Clarinet
Tamara Taylor- Riq, Bellydance
Jomar Ravalo-Darbuka, Bendir
http://www.myspace.com/muzizmusic
Bilge Ozgun
January 25, 2011
Tulip Garden, led by Bilge Özgün’s lyrical and expressive voice is a Brisbane-based ensemble of multi-instrumentalists playing traditional Turkish music on ud (fretless lute), kemanche (spike fiddle), ney (end-blown reed flute), and darabuka and bendir (hand percussion). Tulip Garden performs both classical pieces with intricate vocal and instrumental arrangements, and traditional folk songs with lively and unusual rythyms. Bilge’s ability to connect with listeners and her extensive repertoire of Turkish nostalgia allows her to take requests from the audience, and if they’re Turkish they’ll usually sing along.
Tulip Garden’s instrumental repertoire is drawn from the Tulip Era of Ottoman history; the cultural equivalent of the Western Renaissance. Our classical fasil (suite) is usually made up of instrumental pieces in the form of a Peşrev (a slow prelude), Saz Semai (a piece usually in 10/8 and 6/8), and Longa (a lively conclusion) all in the same makam (mode). A mellow moment in our set will also include Tasavuf (religious) music of the Sema (the Whirling Dervish prayer ritual); pieces in a form known as Ilahi which are played on the ney. We also play bubbly folk tunes that we collected on our journey in 2008 through North-Eastern Turkey and Central Anatolia.
Henryk (Michael) Kurylewski
January 25, 2011
Henryk (Michael) Kurylewski was born in Brisbane to Polish parents who emigrated to Australia following World War II. His passion for dance emerged at the age of 10 after seeing the Polish State Song & Dance Ensemble MAZOWSZE perform in Brisbane, and he began studying Polish folk dance a couple of years later.
Graduate studies broadened his experience in the dramatic arts, and as a secondary teacher, he directed and choreographed numerous student productions including Godspell, Once Upon a Mattress, Grease, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Look Homeward, Angel, The Diary of Anne Frank, Our Town and Dark of the Moon. Also trained in classical ballet (Sandra Pincham School of Dance, Gladstone, and the Ashgrove Dance Studio, Brisbane), he has appeared in principal roles with Ballet Theatre of Queensland in productions of Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Les Patineurs and Aurora’s Wedding, and has given featured role performances in The Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. He has also appeared with The Dancers Company of The Australian Ballet in Giselle, with The Royal Ballet in Swan Lake and with the Paris Opera Ballet in La Bayadere.
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Nicholas Ng
January 10, 2011
Nicholas Ng brings together the ancient and the modern in music through the use of traditional instruments and electronic sound. As a composer, he is open to just about anything – a trait encouraged from his student days by Anne Boyd and Ross Edwards, and perpetuated today by supervisor Larry Sitsky.
His native style is influenced by a sonic quest for his roots as an Australian composer of Chinese descent and often involves implementing old–world Asian modality in a contemporary ‘western’ context towards the creation of a fresh, unique and highly energised sound.
For more information,
http://www.nicholasngmusic.com/biography.html
Linsey Pollak
January 10, 2011
Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. His work as Community Music advocate has taken him all over the country for the last 20 years working as Musician-in-residence in communities from Hobart to Broome. He has worked as Musical Director & Composer for Companies such as Doppio Teatro and Dance North and performed with groups too numerous to mention. He established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. Linsey has a reputation for making and playing instruments made from rubber gloves, carrots, watering cans, chairs, brooms, bins, and other found objects.
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Saikat Bhattacharaya
January 10, 2011
Saikat Bhattacharya has been playing the sitar for over twenty years. Playing the sitar has been his passion and devotion. The first teaching began in early nineties under the supervision of his Guru Pandit Manilal Nag of Calcutta, in India. Pandit Manilal Nag comes from the Vishnupur Gharana, which is the one and only school of music that originated in Bengal with its roots, embedded in the “Seni Gharana” of Delhi. Ustad Bahadur Hussain khan, descendant of Miyan Tansen came to Vishnupur, a culturally rich town in west Bangal, since which it became a famous seat of Dhrupad music, both vocal and instrumental.
Saikat has made numerous public performances in India and Australia. In Australia, he has regularly performed in the Queensland multicultural music festival, Woodford folk festival and several other public and private programs.
Brisbane Babas Band
January 10, 2011
Umesh Chandra is a leading memeber of Brisbane Babas Band,Since its inception, The Brisbane Babas Band has become the most awarded and has made the most performances of Bollywood and Bhangara music in Brisbane. Brisbane Babas Band has been providing live Bollywood songs and rhythmic Bhangara to a wide variety of audiences.
They provide for all live Bollywood entertainment including bollywood Dances, latest Bollywood movie songs, popular remixes, old time favorites and Bhangara.
The band is fully equiped with its own sound system, which eliminates the need to hire additional sound system for your function.They provide from a complete ten piece band package to an intimate two piece band. They cover weddings receptions, corporate functions, community events etc.
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