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The Bush Music Club Inc. holds regular Dance and Music workshops. Concert Party Instrument/Singing Beer & Cheese Nights Pennant Hills Dance Workshop |
This is the Bush Music Club's learning / performing group.
The Concert Party aims to give budding musicians the experience of a
working Bush Band.
All levels welcome!
| when: | As required |
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| contact: | Bob Bolton - (02) 9569 7244 |
The Concert Party hosted a workshop at the Australian Folk Festival held at Albion Park. These are some pictures from the workshop.
Over the years a number of bands have formed out of the Concert Party's activities. During the late 50s and the 60s the Concert Party was the only regularly performing Bush Band in Sydney, descending from the (real) original Bushwhackers and the Shearers' Band.
In the 70s and 80s, the Concert Party gave birth to groups like:
There are probably three times as many more bands that drew on Concert Party Alumni or formed around the fringes of its activities.
The Concert Party has also helped foster the public performance of Bush Dances as entertainment. Many of the quasi-professional Bush Dance groups ultimately trace their formation, or at least their formative members, back to Bush Music Club Inc. dance groups associated with the Concert Party.
An open session offering basic tuition, sufficient to get a reasonably tuneful sound out of most bush music instruments, and an unstructured night that can turn into anything!
| when: | Monday Nights - 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm |
| where: | Tritton Hall - Hut 44, Addison Rd Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville |
| cost: | $5 |
| contact: | Bob Bolton - (02) 9569 7244 |
