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Music By The Sea Est. 1997 Music By The Sea believes that ART is essential for the wellbeing of the community |
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Music By The Sea Concert Series 2019
3 August, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall
Spot the Dog - 'The Best Years' reunion concert
Concert line up: Mark Cryle / Nadia Sunde / Helen McGreevy / Cathy Bell / Richard Evans / Keith Megson / Silas Palmer / Andrew Heath
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Spot the Dog - 'The Best Years' reunion concert
Concert line up: Mark Cryle / Nadia Sunde / Helen McGreevy / Cathy Bell / Richard Evans / Keith Megson / Silas Palmer / Andrew Heath
TICKETS
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Spot the Dog performed at Music By The Sea on 7/2/1998
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You Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down: Spot the Dog presents “The Best Years”
It has been many a long year since Spot the Dog appeared before an audience, but this much-loved and influential band is back for a one-off, one show only reunion concert featuring songs from all of their cds. There is great excitement in the Spot camp about this event. Maybe this dog did have its day and yes, it’s a little older and you know what they say about old dogs. But the musical magic still works and you can’t keep a good dog down.
Spot the Dog emerged from the Brisbane folk scene in the early 1990s. After some early personnel changes the band settled into a line-up driven by Nadia Sunde’s dynamic vocal versatility, Cathy Bell’s lyrical fiddle playing and Mark Cryle’s finely-crafted song writing. Fused together with Keith Megson’s rock- steady drumming and Richard Evans’ consummate guitar stylings, Spot produced its debut cd Bedside Manners in 1996.
The album earned the plaudits of the critics and of audiences wherever they played. National recognition came with regular ABC air play of the song One More Roll of the Dice. The release of Drunk on the Moon in 1998 saw the band building on this reputation and growing its audience with a sound that fused Celtic, Americana and pop stylings. Spot’s was a sound which defied easy categorisation but which continued to win the band fans all over the country.
As is often the way in such projects, key members felt the urge to move on and to explore new projects. Cathy Bell took her talents to The Poachers in 1998 and later to Tin Star while Nadia Sunde launched a highly successful solo career in 1999.
The remaining members regrouped and recruited fiddle and keyboard virtuoso Silas Palmer and vocalist Helen McGreevy . McGreevy’s warm soul-inflected stylings and Palmer’s consummate piano work saw the band shifting its direction once more to produce the acclaimed Brand New Juliet in 2001.
Yet by the mid-2000s much of the energy had gone and the remaining members decided to call it quits and to move on to other projects. The friendships and the musical connections remained however, despite relocations to various parts of the country. Spot’s members continued hang out together as time permitted and to play and sing on each other’s projects. From time to time reunions were organised with the various line-ups of the band.
It has been many a long year since Spot the Dog appeared before an audience, but this much-loved and influential band is back for a one-off, one show only reunion concert featuring songs from all of their cds. There is great excitement in the Spot camp about this event. Maybe this dog did have its day and yes, it’s a little older and you know what they say about old dogs. But the musical magic still works and you can’t keep a good dog down.
Spot the Dog emerged from the Brisbane folk scene in the early 1990s. After some early personnel changes the band settled into a line-up driven by Nadia Sunde’s dynamic vocal versatility, Cathy Bell’s lyrical fiddle playing and Mark Cryle’s finely-crafted song writing. Fused together with Keith Megson’s rock- steady drumming and Richard Evans’ consummate guitar stylings, Spot produced its debut cd Bedside Manners in 1996.
The album earned the plaudits of the critics and of audiences wherever they played. National recognition came with regular ABC air play of the song One More Roll of the Dice. The release of Drunk on the Moon in 1998 saw the band building on this reputation and growing its audience with a sound that fused Celtic, Americana and pop stylings. Spot’s was a sound which defied easy categorisation but which continued to win the band fans all over the country.
As is often the way in such projects, key members felt the urge to move on and to explore new projects. Cathy Bell took her talents to The Poachers in 1998 and later to Tin Star while Nadia Sunde launched a highly successful solo career in 1999.
The remaining members regrouped and recruited fiddle and keyboard virtuoso Silas Palmer and vocalist Helen McGreevy . McGreevy’s warm soul-inflected stylings and Palmer’s consummate piano work saw the band shifting its direction once more to produce the acclaimed Brand New Juliet in 2001.
Yet by the mid-2000s much of the energy had gone and the remaining members decided to call it quits and to move on to other projects. The friendships and the musical connections remained however, despite relocations to various parts of the country. Spot’s members continued hang out together as time permitted and to play and sing on each other’s projects. From time to time reunions were organised with the various line-ups of the band.
7 September, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall
Bungarribee - eclectic quartet, exotic instruments/master musicians
Gary Daley - piano, piano accordion, electronics
Paul Cutlan - bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophones
Ollie Miller - cello and electronics
Tunji Beier - Indian/ African percussion, loop
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Bungarribee is the meeting place of four different yet complementary musical personalities. Featuring exotic instrumentation and a unique amalgam of styles including classical, jazz, folk and world all filtered through improvisation. Bungarribee’s vision is expansive, ambitious and exploratory. These master musicians relish the challenge of creating a synthesis out of seemingly incompatible musical elements. Like musical archeologists Bungarribee meets at the aesthetic coalface, chipping away until treasure is found. A Bungarribee performance is a journey of discovery for musicians and audience alike. At its core music is about communication and connection, exciting our minds and bodies. This is Bungarribee’s meeting place.
"It is rare that musicians of such different backgrounds come together (deep synthesis/ connection). Music is about communication and connection. As many have attested to through the ages, it is our universal language. Not about genre or style but discovery and connection through improvisation. Drawing on seemingly disparate musical worlds ie Schoenberg to African folk song.
My vision is a positive one which draws both musicians and audience into a world of discovery." - Gary Daley
"It is rare that musicians of such different backgrounds come together (deep synthesis/ connection). Music is about communication and connection. As many have attested to through the ages, it is our universal language. Not about genre or style but discovery and connection through improvisation. Drawing on seemingly disparate musical worlds ie Schoenberg to African folk song.
My vision is a positive one which draws both musicians and audience into a world of discovery." - Gary Daley
5 October, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall
Jeff Lang - singer/songwriter/blues & roots guitar virtuoso
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Jeff Lang - singer/songwriter/blues & roots guitar virtuoso
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“Australian guitarist Jeff Lang weaves remarkably skilled blues guitar around his songs, effortlessly playing complicated parts but never at the expense of the songs themselves.”
The Onion
“Lang’s only reference point is himself, a unique singer-songwriter-guitarist who follows his own path”
Le Soleil, Quebec
Australian guitarist-songwriter-vocalist-producer, Jeff Lang has built a reputation for making startling music that is accomplished, intricate, gutsy, melodic and loaded with soul. Often taking unexpected turns, he has consistently inspired his audiences by creating a stylistically diverse catalog of over 25 albums.
Jeff’s work with the latter won the 2010 ARIA (Australia’s Grammy) for Best World Music Album, while he and Brozman took one home for Best Blues and Roots Music Album in 2002. Jeff received that same award on his own in 2012.
Jeff has delivered show-stopping performances at festivals all across the globe: The Dublin Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Quebec City Music Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Echo Park China, Ottawa BluesFest as well as on his home turf at Port Fairy, Woodford, Bluesfest Byron Bay and Womadelaide.
“Jeff Lang is, in my humble opinion, a national treasure, a truly gifted songwriter and an
outstanding guitarist. He has been inspiration to countless Australian and internationally
renowned roots artists and surely has a place in history as one of this generation’s finest.
He has really touched me and musically, I had a kind of revelation…”
John Butler, John Butler Trio
The Onion
“Lang’s only reference point is himself, a unique singer-songwriter-guitarist who follows his own path”
Le Soleil, Quebec
Australian guitarist-songwriter-vocalist-producer, Jeff Lang has built a reputation for making startling music that is accomplished, intricate, gutsy, melodic and loaded with soul. Often taking unexpected turns, he has consistently inspired his audiences by creating a stylistically diverse catalog of over 25 albums.
Jeff’s work with the latter won the 2010 ARIA (Australia’s Grammy) for Best World Music Album, while he and Brozman took one home for Best Blues and Roots Music Album in 2002. Jeff received that same award on his own in 2012.
Jeff has delivered show-stopping performances at festivals all across the globe: The Dublin Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Quebec City Music Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Echo Park China, Ottawa BluesFest as well as on his home turf at Port Fairy, Woodford, Bluesfest Byron Bay and Womadelaide.
“Jeff Lang is, in my humble opinion, a national treasure, a truly gifted songwriter and an
outstanding guitarist. He has been inspiration to countless Australian and internationally
renowned roots artists and surely has a place in history as one of this generation’s finest.
He has really touched me and musically, I had a kind of revelation…”
John Butler, John Butler Trio
The Orava Quartet has been hailed by Limelight magazine and The Australian as “the most exciting young quartet on the block”, “world class”, and “the real deal”. Earning a reputation and a devoted following for their passionate and thrilling performances, the Quartet bring their unique sound and breathtaking intensity to the classics of the string quartet canon, making audiences fall in love with these works all over again.
The first Australian string quartet invited to sign with Universal Music, Orava have performed throughout North America, the UAE, and Asia, and worked closely with the world-renowned Takács Quartet in the USA for two years, winning top prizes at the 2013 Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition and performing at Sydney Opera House. Since returning to Australia, the Quartet has made an impressive and rapid rise to national attention, performing regularly at all the major classical and arts festivals.
Based in Brisbane, they are also Quartet-in-Residence with Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra.
Program: “Death and the Maiden”
Tomas Luis De Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Mozart String Quartet no.17 ‘Hunt’
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Schubert String Quartet no.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden'
The first Australian string quartet invited to sign with Universal Music, Orava have performed throughout North America, the UAE, and Asia, and worked closely with the world-renowned Takács Quartet in the USA for two years, winning top prizes at the 2013 Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition and performing at Sydney Opera House. Since returning to Australia, the Quartet has made an impressive and rapid rise to national attention, performing regularly at all the major classical and arts festivals.
Based in Brisbane, they are also Quartet-in-Residence with Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra.
Program: “Death and the Maiden”
Tomas Luis De Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Mozart String Quartet no.17 ‘Hunt’
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Schubert String Quartet no.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden'
7 December, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall
Sasta - Irish folk band
Sásta (Happy in Irish) are the most exciting and dynamic Irish band in Australia today. Their brand of thumping contemporary Irish trad is delivered with phenomenal energy - it's all about the fun and dancing! Sásta have toured the festival circuit nationally, as well as playing in France, New Zealand and New Caledonia. They are festival favourites with a great reputation that is well-earned. In addition to headlining Hyde Park in Sydney twice for St.Patrick's Day, Sásta have supported international acts such as Aslan, Mundy, Damien Dempsey, Sharon Shannon and Shane McGowan’s band The Popes (formerly of The Pogues). A surefire crowdpleaser.