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WARMING WINTER REGGAE The Bay Collective Sessions is an initiative to see more live music in more places, more often. Working together with small and large venues in the northern rivers area, their aim is to create opportunities for local musicians to connect with our community.
The Bay Collective have teamed up with the Byron Bay Brewery to host a new monthly event to showcase Byron’s incredible music scene. Every month will focus on a different style and genre of music, showcasing the best in the Bay. Winter Reggae Vibes is the first of the monthly events and it will feature two of Byron’s favourite reggae acts, Jesse Morris Band and Katia Demeester. Free at the Byron Bay Brewery, Friday. 7pm.
Dynasty8 Chamber Choir was formed two years ago, under the direction of Elizabeth Swain OAM. They sing a broad repertoire of modern and ancient vocal music, and include local choir leaders Andrew Swain, Adrian Brett, Anita Kuhn and Janet Swain, as well as Kathryn Walker, Brigid Kramer and Barry Firth. You are invited to join Dynasty8 Chamber Choir for a unique choral experience. You can unwind, take a break, luxuriate in a calm warm space as you listen to an hour-long program of music ranging from 12th-century Irish chant to gorgeous contemporary choral pieces. The audience is encouraged to move around quietly during the performance, sit or lie down and close their eyes, stretch and then be still, letting the sounds wash over
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DYNASTY8 CHOIR PERFORMS REST AT MULLUM’S YELLOW CHURCH ON FRIDAY AND BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL HALL ON SUNDAY and through them. Bring a favourite doona or cushions! Blankets, warm socks, mats and pillows will also be provided, as wil chairs. Rest will be performed in two different spaces – 5pm on Friday at the Yellow Church in Mullumbimby, and 5pm Sunday
at the Brunswick Heads Memorial Hall. For enquiries and bookings email janet@songdynastymusic.com or buy tickets at www.trybooking. com.Cost is $15 or $10 concession.
100 DAYS TILL NIMBIN Over 15–17 September this year sees more than 50 acts from across Australia make their way to the Nimbin Roots Festival. Nimbin Roots Festival is excited to announce the 100 Days Till Nimbin competition! With 100 days to go until the fun begins on 15 September, Nimbin Roots Festival is giving away a double Peace ’n’ Love Pass to one lucky music lover! The pass includes entry for two people to the full three days of the festival, camping for two, and two Nimbin Roots Festival t-shirts! To enter, just go to www.nrfest.com and email 100 words or fewer based on the theme: I connect with my roots by...
SINGER /SONGWRITER JOE PUG’S SONGS OFFER AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE COUNTRY-FOLK ARCHETYPES THAT BOB DYL AN AND JOHN PRINE MADE FAMOUS . PUG’S RISE HAS BEEN AS IMPROBABLE AS IT HAS BEEN IMPRESSIVE .
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Celebrate peace, love and organic roots music at the
2017 NIMBIN ROOTS FESTIVAL! Final release tickets SELLING FAST! 3 day – $135 Weekend – $120
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After dropping out of college and taking on work as a carpenter in Chicago, he got his musical start by providing CDs for his fans to pass along to their friends. This unorthodox promotional strategy resulted in the EP selling more than 20,000 copies. This led to a string of sold-out shows and a record deal with Nashville indie Lightning Rod Records (Jason Isbell, Billy Joe Shaver). Pug, in short, is a very interesting man. Being a songwriter is like… being one step above a clown but one step below a magician. When someone says my work is ‘absolutely brilliant’… I say thanks, Mom. My perfect day… repeated viewings of Cool Runnings on a nice standalone DVD player. The song that plays in my head the most is… the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme. If I could have written any song it would be… The Yeoman’s Lament by Mozart. What people don’t understand about me is… that music is a sophisticated ruse for me to acquire a series of Hungry Jack’s franchises in NSW. Busking is to live gigs is what… print newspapers are to online aggregators. When I’m playing Bello you can expect… sweet deliverance at long last. Joe Pug plays Bello Winter Music Fri 7 and Sat 8 July at the Memorial Hall, Bellingen. Tickets at bellowintermusic.com.
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THE WAR AND TREATY PLAYING THE NIMBIN ROOTS FESTIVAL 15–17 SEPTEMBER
STOPPING ADANI A few months back I was privileged to be asked to MC the Stop Adani campaign around the country. It was a remarkable endeavour; with all venues in capital cities at capacity, hundreds unable to get in and some 40,000 logging on for the live streaming, it was clear when 350 Australia put out the call to action across the country to start Stop Adani groups in your local community that powerful activism was seeded. Byron Shire’s Stop Adani group are our local campaign group against the Adani Mine in northern Queensland. This fight is gearing up to be the Franklin River of our times. With climate scientists warning that it’s time to make significant changes in our energy consumption and to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, this is not the time to initiate one of the biggest coal mines in the world, right in our backyard in the
Galilee Basin. Concerned citizens from around Australia and across the world have spoken out against the insanity of such a development, particularly when it involves a billion-dollar concessional loan from our federal government to construct a rail line to get coal to Abbot Point, where it can be shipped through the Great Barrier Reef back to India. Coal is not performing well in the marketplace and analysts predict that renewables are more lucrative and sustainable long-term investments, with solar energy employing four times as many people on the ground to establish a network. So why are we persisting with an outdated model? At home there has been a fight to protect this fragile ecosystem and the pristine artesian waters that will be used in the mining process. To see what this fight is all about catch a screening of Guarding the Galilee presented by Stop Adani Byron Shire at the Mullumbimby RSL on Friday from 7pm.
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