HARBOURSOUND 2010

Creative Albany and Great Southern Wine Producers Association present

FRIDAY
8pm

Harboursound Concert
Southern Right Males - Albany’s own male accapella choir
Linsey Pollak and Tunji Beier - middle eastern and Indian grooves
Fiddle Chicks - footstomping uplifting fiddle tunes
Venue: Festival Marquee & Bar, York Street.
No BYO. Food available. Tickets $25
Ticket Sales: Albany Town Hall, Ph 9844 2222
http://www.albanytownhall.com.au/shows.html

SATURDAY

9:30am	Healthway Headspace: Hand drum workshop with Tunji Beier A master drummer teaches middle-eastern and Indian rhythms. Venue: WA Museum, Albany, Old Co-Op building. FREE. 90 minutes. Bookings essential: 9841 4972.
9:30am	Healthway Headspace: Fiddling workshop with the Fiddle Chicks Participants will learn traditional rhythms, chord shapes/fingering, right hand fingerpicking and strumming and learn chord progressions/bass lines for a selection of Fiddle Chicks arrangements. Venue: WA Museum, Albany, Old School Room. FREE. 90 minutes. Bookings essential: 9841 4972.
10am	Youth workshop with Chipolatas (age 14-18). Venue: SEA. Tickets $10. 90 minutes. Book at Southern Edge Arts 9841 6002 seamail@southernedge.org.au This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
10am	Giant Seagulls at Farmers Market - street theatre at the markets Rummaging in bags and pockets, stealing food from plates and squabbling amongst themselves, shrieks of laughter follow the “gulls” wherever they roam. Keep an eye on your children!
12 noon	Lotterywest Free Family concert - Various festival acts perform short sets Venue: Festival Marquee, York Street.
8pm	Harboursound Concert Westwood - soothing Celtic melodies Chipolatas in Concert - circus/music/dance Ten Cent Shooters - thumping country blues to dance away the night Venue: Festival Marquee & Bar, York Street. No BYO. Food available. Tickets $25 Ticket Sales: Albany Town Hall, Ph 9844 2222 http://www.albanytownhall.com.au/shows.html

SUNDAY

9:30am	Healthy Headspace: Arranging traditional Celtic tunes with Westwood - Get inside the methods used to create exquisite arrangements by some of WA’s finest exponents of traditional Celtic music. Venue: WA Museum, Albany, Old School Room. FREE. 90 minutes. Bookings essential: 9841 4972.
10am	Healthy Headspace: Professional Development workshop with Chipolatas Venue: SEA. Tickets $20. 90 minutes. Book at Southern Edge Arts 9841 6002 or seamail@southernedge.org.au This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
11am	Giant Seagulls at Boatshed Markets - Seagulls at a fish market?? Disaster!!
1pm	Chipolatas Kids Show - Children need to be accompanied by an adult. The Chipolatas have performed in 43 countries across 6 continents. Their live performances incorporate circus skills, music theatre and dance bringing the global and the local experience into one magical package. Blending accordion and acoustic rhythms with hip-hop and street style performance, they tap into themes embedded in folk culture worldwide. Venue: Albany Townhall. Tickets $10 per person. Ticket Sales: Albany Town Hall, Ph 9844 2222 http://www.albanytownhall.com.au/shows.html

ALL DAY
GSWPA Wine Festival
Featuring: Gypsy Band Parade and encore performances by various Harboursound acts. Venue: Festival Marquee, York Street. Tickets $20 at the gate (inc. tasting glass). For information contact info@greatsouthernwines.com.au This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

For more information about the acts, click on the

following links:

www.chipolatas.com

www.linseypollak.com

www.slwise.com.au for the Ten Cent Shooters

www.bigrory.com for the Seagulls

www.musicsa.com.au/artists/fiddlechicks

MORE NEWS

This is Rod Vervest. Not only is he the driving force behind HarbourSound, he sings and plays guitar like a genius.

One local paper, the Weekender, has coverage on the net.
You want more, go here.

OTHER NEWS:
MC for the Saturday and Sunday shows will be this man:

He's not much, but he's all we could afford.

Harboursound Festival 2009 - 24th to 26th April 2009

Creative Albany Presents

Pierre Bensusan with Special Guests Miles To Go Trio
8:00pm Friday 24th April 2009

Pierre Bensusan (France) is a guitarist, singer, and composer who constantly explores the depth of his own voice in a way that transcends his instrument. In doing so, his music seems to come from a source much greater than the hands and voice of one man.

Bensusan's compositions often start with melodies inspired by folk traditions. He develops these ideas into compositions of astonishing complexity, creating beautiful and sensuous sounds with a sense of orchestration that goes far beyond what is generally thought of as guitar music.

His pieces commonly feature syncopated rhythms, unusual time signatures, and complex harmonic structures. Any guitarist who has tried to learn one of his tunes will attest to the technical challenges presented by his music.

Pierre Bensusan can be recognised as one of the most eloquent and diverse world musicians of our time. His solo concerts take the listener throughout the palette of emotions, between anxiety, serenity, and deep joy, Bensusan weaves together music from many lands and times in history.

There is a sense of something both playful and serious in his work, an unparalleled sense of freedom in his compositions and his improvisations. Freedom, the spirit of jazz incarnate, is Bensusan and the music he channels without any apparent boundaries.

A composer, a brave improvisational vocalist, melding whistles and resonant low notes with something like his own scat technique. Of all the guitarists in the world, Bensusan is considered to be one of the greatest steel string guitar players of our time.

Special Guests Miles to Go Trio (Australia) will join Pierre for a magical evening of world class music. This is truly a concert not to be missed.

"Listening to Pierre Bensusan is rejuvenating. Beside his extraordinary touch and tone, the notes and melody appeal directly to the tender side of our human nature" - Steve Vai.

"No other guitarist shares his strange gifts of sophistication, accessibility and downright joy. Even at its most complex, Pierre's music only needs ears to be enjoyed" - Leo Kottke.

"One of the truly gifted musicians of our time - he plays the guitar as if it were the very soul of himself" - George Winston.

Visit www.pierrebensusan.com for more information.

Tickets $30
Festival Special - buy tickets for Friday and Saturday night's concerts (in the one order) and receive a $5 discount per ticket. Only available by phone or in person.

Mic Conway's Kids Concert
1:00pm Saturday 25th April 2009

Idiosyncratic tunes that will make your jaw drop, toes tap and sides split. There is no safety net at a Mic Conway gig! Musical mayhem and magic, educational and inspiring, a must see for kids of all ages!

"Mic Conway - the King of vaudeville in Australia today" - Lucky Oceans

Tickets $10

The Undesirables, Mic Conway, and Clarke's Gray Vest
8:00pm Saturday 25th April 2009

The Undesirables (Canada) are a refreshing and infectious songwriting duo who kick out heat like an old wood stove. Passionate vocals, harmonies and great acoustic guitar work combine in original soul, gospel and blues tunes. Imagine Tom Waits and Charles Dickens sharing ale-drenched stories and you might get close.

Mic Conway and Clarke's Gray Vest swing from ukelele tunes to harmonica driven blues, from saw playing to juggling rubber chickens, from classical cello playing to ragtime guitar pickin'.

Tickets $30
Festival Special - buy tickets for Friday and Saturday night's concerts (in the one order) and receive a $5 discount per ticket. Only available by phone or in person.

Lotterywest Free Family Concert
1:00pm Sunday 26th April 2009

Featuring Mardae Selepak, Krzystztof Piotrowicz playing Russian Gypsy songs and romances, David Ross MacDonald playing contemporary folk, and Mic Conway.

Free entry on the day, no tickets required.

Book online here