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$1000 prizemoney

The Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance is proud to announce a new poetry award - The Spud Poets Award.
A prize of $1000 will be given to the best original poem, in the opinion of the judges, submitted of 300 words or less with a celtic connection.

The Award was inspired by a poem written by Mary Fiorini-Lowell in 2002 called the Humble Spud. Mary gave a performance of her The Humble Spud at the Lake School launch in Koroit, Vic on July 23 2005 when it was announced the entries are now open for the Award.
Entries close on October 31 2005.

The panel of judges lead by Martha McEvoy (from the Embassy of Ireland) and Jim Brown (President of the Victorian Bush Poets Society) will select 15 finalists to read their poem at the Spud Poets Award Night on Friday January 6 2006. The Award night will be held as part of the annual Lake School and staged at the Commercial Hotel in Koroit. While the judges are considering the award winner, a concert of Songs of the Poets will be performed by renown singers Maria Forde, Vince Brophy and recently inducted Legend of the Lake - Dennis O’Keeffe.

Applications for the Spud Poets Award can be found on the Bushwahzee Bush band website - bushwahzee.alpalink.com.au

Enquiries about the award can be emailed to Felix Meagher
bwz@alphalink.com.au or posted to PO Box 22 Mitcham 3132

The Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance is staged annually by the Koroit Community Association Inc January 3-8 2006

The Spud Poets Award is made possible by sponsorship from
Bushwahzee Bush Band

The Drones latest album “Wait Long By The River & The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By” (In-Fidelity/Shock) continues to impress critics and music lovers alike. With the band about to head off to tour Europe indefinitely, they’ve put together a national “farewell” tour that’ll take in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Fremantle, and Adelaide in Aug/Sep. As worldwide recognition continues to grow, The Drones are about to sign with a UK record label that’ll not only ensure their album is available throughout Europe, but also provide them with a stack of media coverage, and an endless number of gigs. However, before they relocate to Berlin or London (or wherever?), The Drones plan to keep their growing legion of local admirers happy, with a barrage of rip-snorting live performances across the country that’ll be sure to prove them worthy of the media’s recent hyperbolic praise.

In Melbourne catch The Drones “farewell” gig at The Corner Hotel on Friday 26 August with special guests: The Devastations, SALMON (featuring Kim Salmon), Dynamo, and Tiger By The Tail (new band for Dave Thomas of Bored! fame). Tickets $16 + b/f (available now from The Corner Box Office - Ph: 9427 9198) or $20 at the door. Doors open 7.30pm - first band on at 8.00pm.

The Drones last gig at The Corner was sold out by 9.30pm - so don’t miss out - get your tickets from The Corner Box Office now.

CAPERS MELBOURNE
PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH

THE WOLFE GANG AND BOB SEDERGREEN

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, COOKING UP A DELICIOUS MELTING POT OF BLUES AND JAZZ

ONE SHOW ONLY - FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 2005

Pianist Bob Sedergreen is one of the greatest performers of blues and jazz this country has produced. He has worked with some of the most recognized talents in Australia and internationally including Jimmy Witherspoon, Nat Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie.

From traditional to contemporary, Bob infuses his music with authority of style, creative expression and humour, in a way that involves the musicians around him and the entire audience.

Continuing his legendary record of collaboration with outstanding local musicians, Bob joins The Wolfe Gang for the first time in this extraordinary show.

The Wolfe Gang bounded onto the Australian blues scene in 2003 with their debut CD, Coming Back For More, and feel-good blend of blues and jazz. Led by vocalist, Diana Wolfe, the Gang - Broc O’Connor (guitar), Roy Zedras (bass) and Peter Robertson (drums) - has performed at festivals including the Australian Blues Music Festival, Rutherglen’s famous Winery Walkabout Weekend and the Mt Beauty Music Muster.

The Gang members are accomplished musicians with a shared love of the blues and decades of experience performing at festivals, touring, recording and supporting international acts including Van Morrison and the late Roy Orbison.

This once-only show is a rare opportunity to be ‘in the kitchen’ as these great musicians cook up a tantalising brew of jazz and blues.

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST
CAPERS MELBOURNE
CORNER BURWOOD ROAD & POWER STREET, HAWTHORN
(03) 9819 1797
PERFORMANCE TIMES: 8.30 - 10.30PM (TWO SETS)
COVER CHARGE: $20
RESTAURANT OPEN FROM 6.30PM. BOOKINGS ADVISED.

Capers Melbourne brings you the best of Australian entertainers combined with fine dining in an elegant atmosphere. Capers Melbourne is a smoke-free venue.

OFFICIAL CD LAUNCH PARTY at The Rainbow, 27 David St Fitzroy on Friday 26th August. Starting at 9pm to launch “Prague Radio.”

Here’s an online review of the new CD:

“The warm acoustic guitar washes over every note and Baker`s Finn-esque
croon takes you down on your knees to prepare to be lifted back up to
the warm sun breaking down on your pop-starved soul. Embrace tuning
into “Prague Radio” and be rewarded with a bit of timeless
acoustic-driven pop. Very Highly Recommended!”

http://www.notlame.com/CDBAKER1.html

Eight O’Clock Sharp

Saturday August 6, $15/$10*

Brett Robin Wood

Sydney based Singer/Songwriter Brett Robin Wood is a folk-pop storyteller. Brett’s live solo performance has been described as “Charlie Chaplin meets Leonard Cohen” – with spontaneity & humour Brett reveals the hidden ways of the heart and the intricate maze of the mind, beautifully capturing the experience of being human. He has recently released his new studio album, Likely Stories. He will be playing in the showcase for the folk alliance convention later this year.

Brett’s show is a little bit Darren Hanlon, a little bit Martin Pearson. Brett Robin Wood’s catchy tunes gently land in your psyche, leaving you smiling in celebration of what it means to be human. http://www.brettrobinwood.com

plus two support acts:

Michael Olliffe has been playing music since the age of seven after being inspired to take up playing piano by the Peanuts character Schroeder. Michael is a confident songwriter and performer seeking to combine ambition with integrity and passion crossing many styles from rock to pop, ballads, punk, the avant-garde, electronic and acoustic-based material.
http://www.myspace.com/michaelfranklin

Huw Luscombe is a 39 year old poet from Glebe who writes about the disconnectedness of the modern world and how much he hates the Television. He was once “seeing a Psychiatrist” but after about a year they decided to get married.

“Luscombe Poetry has “Little insights and magical images that distract verse from simply forging ahead, making declarations or working things out. understanding less, revealing more” - Les Murray

Melbourne’s Dead Frenchmen release debut EP ‘When Ghosts Take Over’

Melbourne’s Dead Frenchmen share a love of music from underground to pop, Joy Division to The Lemonheads, Swervedriver to Interpol, Archers of Loaf to The Shins Ladies.

Garnering supports for some of Australia’s best up and coming acts, including The Morning After Girls, Midnight Juggernauts, Treetops and The Red Sun Band proved they had something going on, but something you can’t quite put your finger on…

In April 2005, Lindsay Gravina took Dead Frenchmen’s jangly pop anthems and edgy new wave tinged beats with Pledgers “Curtis meets Morrisey” vocal styles floating above into legendary Birdland Studios and the result is a stellar EP with the standout element being the most important and too often lacking: great songs.

‘When Ghosts Take Over’ was released on Monday 25th July through Timberyard Recordings/Shock and to celebrate the release they are launching it nationally in August:

Melbourne Launch Party
Friday 12th August - The Ding Dong Lounge
With very special guests: Children Collide, Dragon Lord (Midnight Juggernauts side project) and Jemima Jemima.

Sydney Launch Party
Saturday 20th August - Club 77
With very special guest Damn Arms

Adelaide Launch Party
Saturday 6th August - The Exeter
With very special guest Little Star

More dates to be confirmed…

www.deadfrenchmen.com

*** CONFERENCE REMINDER***REGISTER WITHIN 7 DAYS AND RECEIVE EARLY BIRD RATE***

LIST OF FULL ABSTRACTS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT:
http://www.une.edu.au/campus/confco/nrhc2005/

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NATIONAL RAILWAY HERITAGE CONFERENCE

28-30 September, 2005 - Tamworth, NSW, Australia

‘Thinking Rail: Lessons from the Past, the Way of the Future’

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The Heritage Futures Research Centre of the University of New England is organising a major conference about the past, present and future of Australian railways.

Themed, “Thinking Rail: Lessons from the Past, the Way of the Future”, the conference will be forward-looking as well as historical and commemorative. It will concentrate on the important role railways have played, and ought to play, in the social and economic development of the nation.

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE…

**Hon. Mr Tim Fischer, Chair Tourism Australia and Director Asia Pacific Transport (Freightlink) will talk about enhancing the potential of rail.

**Colin Divall, Professor of Railway Studies at the University of York and Head of the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History, run jointly by the University and the British National Railway Museum. Professor Divall’s research embraces railway and transport history, the social history of engineering and technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the public history of transport and technology.

**Ian Gray, Professor at the Centre for Rural Social Research, School of Humanities, Charles Sturt University. Professor Gray will present on what makes a good rail employee.

**David Morgan, President of the European Federation of Museums and Tourist Railways (FEDECRAIL) and Chairman of the Heritage Rail Association of Britain and Ireland.

**Bryan Nye, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Railway Association Inc.

**Chris Le Marshall, Linqage International and Australasian Railway Association Inc.

**Folklorist, Warren Fahey, will present a survey of rail-related folklore and especially the songs and yarns that have been created over the past 150+ years.

**Andrew Moritz, Director, The Workshops Rail Museum “the collection, preservation and presentation of our rail heritage needs a coordinated national strategy to ensure a sustainable outcome into the future…”

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The event will attract a diverse range of delegates from the railway industry, professionals and academics to policymakers and those in the wider community with an interest in railway heritage and a continuing railway presence. The conference is allied with the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Railways in NSW and will precede the celebrations associated with the official opening of the Australian Railway Monument (ARM) and Railway Museum at Werris Creek, NSW - 1-3 October, 2005.

Please visit the conference website to view recent updates at: http://www.une.edu.au/campus/confco/nrhc2005/

Conference Secretariat
UNE Conference Company
University of New England
ARMIDALE NSW 2351
Ph 02 6773 2154 Fax 02 6773 3766
Email: confco@une.edu.au