––––– all are welcome in this celebration of participatory music-making –––––

Saturday 28 AugustW Bal lan W Mildura W Emerald or join the beautiful online experience For tickets and more info visit cmvic.org.au

musicfest –program–

musicfest is a Community Music Victoria event in partnership with Mildura Rural City Council with support from Emerald Primary School and Pressroom Partners

Welcome to Musicfest; meet your MCs, Lyndal & Strat

WORKSHOP 1: Sing your heart out with Catherine Threlfall

WORKSHOP 3: All Together Now with Dan MacEoin

WORKSHOP 5: Sing & strum with Kavisha Mazzella

17:35 (5:35pm) FAREWELL: led by Kavisha Mazzella, Lyndal & Strat

Acknowledgement of Country with Maylene Slater-Burns

WORKSHOP 2: Cumbia grooves with Guillermo Viran

WORKSHOP 6: All levels extravaganza with Jen Hawley

10:45am WELCOME to COUNTRY

11:30am SESSION 1

13:30 (1:30pm) SESSION 2

15:05 (3:05pm) SESSION 3

16:30 (4:30pm) ENCORE CONCERT – one more time, with everybody!

from 10:00am Arrival & registration – Meet the friends in your HUB

11:20am QUICK BREAK (10mins)

12:45pm LUNCH BREAK (45mins)

14:45 (2:45pm) AFTERNOON BREAK (20mins)

16:10 (4:10pm) EVENING BREAK (20mins)

WORKSHOP 4: All-in instrumental with Alison McGann and Win & Roger Moser

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MAYLENE SLATER-BURNSAcknowledgement of Country & SongMaylene Slater -Burns is a First Nations singer-songwriter, mentor, writer, activist and grassroots community worker. Maylene speaks and writes to inspire conversations about identity, connection, disconnection and vulnerability. In her song-writing, her storytelling has been described as raw, angelic, haunting, uplifting, empowering and thought-provoking leaving no stone unturned.

Through her parents, Maylene is part of the Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, Yuin, Worimi, Ngunnawal, Gugu Djungan, Nywaigi, Garawa and Gangalidda tribes of the First Peoples, Australia. She has family ties to the Ngambri, Yanyuwa, Kuku Yalanji, Arrente, Walpirri, Yorta Yorta, Latji Latji, Wemba Wemba, Gunditjmara, Gunai, Kurnai and Kulin nations. Kulin is home.

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KAVISHA MAZZELLA AMWorkshop Leader: Sing & strumA power and presence that’s beyond words – Colum Sands

ARIA award winner and songbird Kavisha Mazzella original song’s lyrical ingredients include humour, poetry, social justice and the spiritual. Singing in English and Italian with the voice of an angel, her stories and songs ring with echoes of Celtic, Fado and Gypsy influences that strike a resounding chord within. With 8 solo albums under her belt, she has sung and given vocal workshops at national music festivals and abroad. In 2011 Kavisha was awarded an Australia Day Honour for her contribution to music and reflecting the experience of refugee, multicultural and indigenous communities through performance. www.kavisha.com

Workshop: Kavisha shares with us a song from her vast collection of original compositions, celebrating the power and joy of making music.15:05 (3:05pm)

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LYNDAL CHAMBERS & BRIAN STRATING MCsStrat and Lyndal are experienced performers, singing leaders and community music facilitators, who love empowering people in their own music making journeys.

Currently Strat and Lyndal lead street band ‘Invy Horn Jam’ and an emerging shared music session in Wonthaggi. Before and during the ‘covid confusion’, Lyndal has been working on developing a statewide plan for ‘Growing Community Music’ and they both have enjoyed working on Community Music Victoria’s ‘StreetSounds’ project as well as presenting at Music Camps and workshops in different parts of the state.

They draw their material from a wide range of sources with folky sounds being a particular passion. Whether singing or playing they enjoy creating a fun and non-judgmental atmosphere with a rewarding experience for everyone.

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CATHERINE THRELFALL Mildura Hub HostWorkshop Leader: Sing your heart outCatherine Threlfall is a community musician, music therapist and teacher who has been making music all around Australia for more than 25 years. Catherine is an infectiously joyful music leader, with a lifelong passion for creating and driving accessible music-making in regional communities. Catherine currently lives in Merbein in far North West Victoria where she is the director of Sunraysia Arts and Learning, and leads the With One Voice Mildura choir. Catherine is Mum and Stepmum to six awesome humans and proud Grandma Cath to three.

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ALISON MCGANNWorkshop Leader: All-in instrumentalAlison McGann has been a music educator for over twenty years, teaching a variety of instruments to adults and children in schools and communities throughout Victoria. Since moving to Mildura, she has become an active member of the music community, performing with the Mildura Musical Society, the Mildura District Orchestra and taking part in other community events such as the Carols by Candlelight and the Mildura Eisteddfod. As a conductor, Alison was also instrumental in the founding of the Gol Gol Community Band and the Merbein Village Band.

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WIN MOSER & ROGER MOSERWorkshop Leaders: All-in instrumentalWin Moser and Roger Moser have been involved in community music in the Mildura area for more than 20 years. Ever since attending music camps, festivals, and various CMVic organised events around Victoria, they have been inspired to bring people together to create and enjoy music.

Long-time members of the Mallee Folk Club, they are both currently involved with the Rio Vista Social Club (a ukes plus group), The Merbein Village Band and the Mildura With One Voice Choir. Win is also involved in community arts projects and is an arts educator working with people with disabilities.

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JEN HAWLEY Workshop Leader: All levels extravaganzaJen Hawley can be found exploring the cracks between jazz, blues and world music. Well known and loved for her skills as a guitarist, uke player and singer, Jen has been performing in Australia and Europe for many years. She is a graduate of the late great jazz tutor Bruce Clarke, and is currently a member of The Royal High Jinx. Jen has made a name for herself in the community music sector, teaching at workshops and music camps and also creating The Footscray Gypsy Orchestra in 2011 (now run by Terry Cole) and her Swingalong Ukestra. https://jensmusicschool.com/#community_music

Workshop: Dust off your instruments and voices, put on your dancing shoes and join Jen Hawley for an all-levels music extravaganza. All instruments/voices are welcome at Jen’s folky soul workshop. Easy parts for the new players will form a solid foundation for the soaring sounds of our voices. Let’s set the west on fire as we go higher and higher (that’s a hint!).

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15:05 (3:05pm)

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GUILLERMO (WILL) VIRAN

Workshop Leader: Cumbia groovesGuillermo Viran is a community musician (percussion specialist) with a passion for sharing Latin American Music and Culture, with more than 30 years performing with different bands in the Melbourne scene. Guillermo has been delivering workshops for the Festival of Healthy Living in schools and the community in western suburbs, he now leads the ‘Latin American Community Band’ and ‘Hasta La Cumbia’ which is a Latin Dance ensemble strictly dedicated to performing the Cumbia music style.

Workshop: In this Cumbia workshop you will be guaranteed to boogie, sing in Spanish and most importantly learn to play some simple rhythms on multiple percussion instruments, guitars and simple brass lines that will improve your musical understanding of most things Latin.11:30am

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OLI HINTON Ballan Hub Host and Coordinator Community Music Victoria

When Oli arrived in Melbourne from the UK in 2012 he had no idea of the treats in store! Within a year he found himself Coordinator of CMVic, and as a long time enthusiast and member of street bands in the UK was delighted at the opportunity to work alongside others keen to promote participatory music playing as widely as possible. In no time at all he was revelling in playing his bari sax, accordion, and most recently U-Bass in some of the wonderful community groups around Melbourne.

Totally committed to making community music available to everyone, and as a local to Ballan, Oli can’t wait for Musicfest to kick off!

DAN MACEOIN Emerald Hub Host

Workshop Leader: All Together NowDan has been a student of music, theatre and circus for over three decades. He has been teaching these skills to primary school students for over two of those decades. Dan is currently the music teacher at Emerald Primary School, the Musical Director of the Hills Ukulele Festival and the President of AUTLA (Australian Ukulele Teachers & Leaders Association).

The ukulele is a fantastic instrument with which to teach music theory. It is one of the few instruments that a beginner can pick up and be playing a song off the radio (maybe not perfectly, but at least recognizably) after just ten minutes of practice. That instant success is what keeps people interested in learning more.

Workshop: This is an introduction to both a wonderful song and an Australia-wide project.

The workshop will cover:• A few out of the ordinary chords that have far

reaching benefits for your ukulele playing;• How to break down any song into something that

you can play no matter the difficulty level;• How to take part in the National Project creating our

own ukulele version of the song;• Some excellent practice techniques for acquiring

new skills and;• An introduction to a beautiful song.

This is your invitation to take part in a National Ukulele Project with AUTLA and OK GO.

More project info:

AUTLA (Australian Ukulele Teachers and Leaders Association) with the enthusiastic permission of the management of the band and Music Video Geniuses “OK GO”, is proud to present to you the opportunity to bring together ukulele groups and individuals from all over Australia.

Last year during lockdown in America, the band OK GO wrote a song called “All Together Now”. It is a song about the loneliness and emotional stresses that many were feeling at the time and provided the comforting message that while we are all alone, we are all alone together and that this shared experience (along with the internet) is something that brings us all together. They then created a music video with all 4 band members isolating in their own homes and editing dozens of solo clips into a beautiful final video. Within a month, there was an international push to become involved. The band received audio files, video files and artwork from over 15,000 people from over 21 countries. The band had to create an additional 5 music videos for the song to use all the submissions.

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