Music

Cheap Flights . . . or maybe not

Next month my daughter Seona and I are jumping in a big silver bird and heading off to the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and Italy. I know, it’s a lousy job but somebody has to do it. Our trip was organised for us by a terrific independent travel consultant named Dorothy. And if you live [...]

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iMusic is here

This is so cool I just had to share it with you. If you got an iPhone or an iPad for Christmas maybe you should team up with a few friends and try this for yourself. It’s North Point’s iBand and they’re making music using nothing but iPhones and iPads. Everything from keyboards to saxophones. [...]

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The Cat and the Celtics

The Cat in the title doesn’t have four legs, doesn’t meow and is in fact the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens.
The Kilmore Celtic Festival is where Allan and I rug up warm and head up the Hume Freeway to spend a day immersed in Celtic music of every flavour.

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Culture in the Colonies

There’s a great scheme going on with some of our independent movie theatres over the last couple of years where they do direct live broadcasts of operas from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. I’ve been going for the last 18 months and the experience is fantastic. Not only do you get a fabulous high [...]

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Kilmore Celtic Festival 2009

Someone must have pressed the fast forward button and whizzed the year through, because I can’t believe it’s been a year since we headed off down the Hume Highway on our annual pilgrimage to the Kilmore Celtic Festival. And of course, my annual homage to the event. Once again I meant to buy the early-bird [...]

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Scrapbooking Social Media Love-in

Last month Darren Rowse from Problogger ran a Social Media Love-in for his readers. And following in his footsteps, I thought I’d set up one for on-line scrapbookers. The object of the exercise was to help all his readers to connect with each other on the social media sites that they belonged to. They could [...]

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Dancing with the Stars

Here’s a cute story you might like. I’ve been a fan of the Ballet for many years now and, together with my Ballet Buddies Yvonne and Sandra, we usually go to three or four Australian Ballet Company productions a year. Well last night we went to see Destiny which was a program of 2 ballets, [...]

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The Kilmore Celtic Festival

The last weekend in June is always a standard booking in my calendar for the Kilmore Celtic Festival. I wrote about this last year and each year it just keeps getting better. I enjoy Folk Festivals as a matter of principal. They always have a great vibe and I get to hear some wonderful and [...]

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Ross Ryan…my name means horse

Went along to a great gig on Friday and I thought I’d share it with you. A friend of mine, Ross Ryan teamed up with Spectrum for a terrific night in the upstairs bar at the Trades Hall in Melbourne. Ross is a well known performer in Australia from the 70s and 80s. Back in [...]

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Drifter – Ian Bland’s first solo album

Last September I wrote a post about Ian Bland’s gig at the Greyhound Hotel in Melbourne. Well Ian has finally released his first solo album titled Drifter. My friend Thatch wrote a great backstory on Thatch Space about the journey to this album’s release. I recommend you hop over and read it because it’s very [...]

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