by admin | Apr 4, 2012 | independent music
oh Blues Festival… I’ve been going to you since I was 15 years old… I remember your ferris wheel and your mud swept fields of Belongil. I remember waves of mud, when I was 16, whilst volunteers tried to tie everything down with bales of hay; and my...
by admin | Mar 14, 2012 | independent music
Since nothing was getting done much around here anyway, Dan and I scooted to the 20th anniversary of the Womadelaide Festival, March 2012. Our delightful and ever heart-warming engineer, James Boundy, expressed to us that it was not a festival to be missed, and having...
by admin | Mar 3, 2012 | Music, practise, singing lessons, vocal lessons, vocal technique
Your music teacher always told you to practise. They always told you 20 minutes every day, or maybe they told you an hour every second day… or maybe they said 5 minutes every time you brush your teeth.. Whatever they said, I’m sure they said to...
by admin | Feb 28, 2012 | independent music
We have begun. It was begun long ago, but, as far as the Owl, this project has begun. A dear new and wonderful friend of mine, Melissa Main, was double booked in two Melbourne venues last week, and I was delighted to be able to take one of the gigs off her hands while...
by admin | Feb 14, 2012 | jazz, Music, nerves, self esteem, singing lessons, theory lessons, vocal lessons, vocal technique
Ok my petals, Term has begun, we’ve spent a week or two playing your new favourites, warming up again, starting the new year with a smile, remembering the scales you learnt last year, dusting off the agility exercises you learnt over the course of 2011. So, I...
