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Alma LatinaAlma Latina is a Latin street band composed of 20 singers and musicians. They have had a broad experience playing festivals and other events since 2002. Alma Latina will be Cygnet's official street band for the 2011 Festival. |
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Amanda ConnellKnown in Australia and Britain for her pure voice, natural vibrato and flawless delivery Amanda Connell is gaining a reputation as one of our best truly traditional folk singers. |
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Daniel Champagne Daniel is a dazzling young performer characterised by a one-of-a-kind guitar style featuring 2-hand tapping, body percussion and old school finger picking techniques. With dynamic vocal work all rolled into each carefully constructed original or reworked traditional numbers, Daniel Champagne delivers one of the most impressive one man shows out there. Often sounding more like a three piece band rather then a 20 year old Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist, Daniel is rising rapidly through the Australian Folk and Blues ranks and winning over crowds at some of the countries leading events including the Woodford, National Folk and Australian Blues Festival’s, Daniel was so brilliant in 2010 we've invited him back this year. www.danielchampagnemusic.com www.myspace.com/danielchampagne89 |
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Fabio Chivanda and the Jive Masters Fabio Chivhanda is a master composer and dancer in the Shona tradition. His songs are accompanied by the Mbira, a 22 key thumb piano played inside a halved Calabash gourd. Fabio’s music expresses a fusion of his Zimbabwean roots and his current Australian experience. Born in Chivhu and raised in Mhondoro Ngezi, Fabio’s childhood was filled with the rich culture and folklore of his native area. Fabios virtuoso eight piece fusion band 'The Jive Masters' will be one of our Saturday night 'Dance Party' bands. |
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Fado Piccolo Portuguese Fado duo Fado Piccolo play Fado, the traditional music of Portugal, bursting with 'saudade': longing and desire. Their repertoire will include instrumentals in both the Lisbon and Coimbra style featuring Mike playing the unique and haunting Guitarra Portugues, accompanied by Richelle on classical guitar. An added treat there will be a some traditional and contemporary Portuguese songs ranging from nostalgic ballads to the more convivial singalongs, as in Portugal. |
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Fred Smith Fred Smith is one of Australia’s most remarkable artists. He has spent the last 10 years all over the globe: doing peace work in the war torn islands of the South Pacific, touring in America and travelling the Australian festival circuit where he has earned a reputation as a prolific and dynamic songwriter. More recently he has been working in Afghanistan continuing his predisposition for living in war zones. |
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Jenny M Thomas and The System Jenny Thomas and her band The System have taken the traditions of Australian folk and bush music and completely rethought the tunes, arrangements and performance techniques. Jenny's post-modern bush music is arresting, controversial and yet stunningly beautiful. Avant-garde and Indian musical ideas, polyrhythms and modes. funky grooves from the band and other surprises throw our tradition in a very new light. |
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The Justin Walshe Folk Machine The Justin Walshe Folk Machine from Perth bring a host of Australian folk Stories conveyed in a musical setting that draws in equal parts from bluegrass, country, bush and traditional ballad song roots. The overall effect is of a new folk voice in Australian Folk music, earthy, original, driving and entrancing. |
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Laura Targett Laura is a fiddle player grounded in Irish and Scottish fiddle music who has expanded her repertoire and tastes to include music from around the world. Lately she has been enraptured by the possibilities of exploring Middle Eastern music on the fiddle. Laura will be performing with Luke Plumb and with Balakanology at Cygnet. |
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Matthew Fagan Mathew Fagan is a virtuoso guitarist who has won prizes for his playing both in the USA and Australia. He is also a master of slide, banjo and the intriguing 10 string guitar. Mathew blends, classical, flamenco and American finger-picking styles flawlessly to creating a captivating approach to plucked sting instruments. |
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Marcus Sturrock Marcus Sturrock, from W.A., is a guitarist of legendary skill. His musical cv is as impressive as his technique, sense of rhythm and the joy he imparts in his music. Marcus is coming to contribute to our guitar themed concert and workshop, one element of the musical riches to be found at Cygnet 2011. |
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Old Man Luedecke Old Man Luedecke, is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. “An original, he is a musical singularity to be savoured and shared”. |
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Rapskallion One of Australia's most incredible Gypsy Cabaret acts. Rapskallion move through tavern tunes from Romania and Eastern Europe to Swashbuckling Pirate shanties, passionate tangos and a pallete of other musical colours. Add to this great songs, costumes and a hula hoop dance routine that has to be seen to be believed. |
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Saadhana Saadhana are an Indian Tabla and Sitar duo. Jay Dabgar on tabla is one of Australia's leading exponents of Indian percussion. He hails from a musical family in India and bosts 25 years experience on his chosen instrument. He is joined by Josh Bennet on Sitar. Josh is a virtuoso who has studied this iconic Indian instrument with the depth and seriousness of a master musician. Their music is alive with improvisation and moments of spiritual wonder and bliss. |
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Sal Kimber and the Rolling Wheel Sal Kimber and the Rolling Wheel are one of the hottest bands on the folk and country scenes. New original Australian rural music that mines, bush, country and bluegrass traditions for inspiration but which delivers with a powerful beat and lovely vocals.
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Siobhan Owen Hailing from Adelaide, 17 year old Siobhan Owens was born in Wales with Welsh and Irish heritage. Classically trained, Siobhan turns her haunting soprano voice and delicate harp playing to a repertoire of traditional Celtic songs. At a young age she has already recorded two albums, won folk performer awards and has played at many major festivals. A truly enchanting act that we have begged her to come back to Cygnet for another year. |
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Skorba Drawing on the various forms of traditional music which have influenced the folk music culture of Malta, Skorba take you on a musical journey around the Mediterranean where, Italian, Greek and Arabic influences meet and blend. |
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The Spooky Men's Chorale Darlings of the Australian and UK festival circuits, the Spooky Men are making their third visit to the Cygnet Folk Festival. This time they will be performing works from their new adventure in polycarbonate, De.ep, and also teaming up with Fred Smith for their Urban Sea Shanties show which resembles an ethnomusicological duel between the big black juggernaut and the safari suited buffoon in which only grand masculine foolishness emerges as the winner on the day. |
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The String Contingent From Australia and Scotland this trio represent the cream of the 'New Acoustic Music'. Comprised of Chris Stone, (fiddle), Holly Downes (double Bass) and Graham McLeod (guitar), they perform extemely sophisticated instrumental music drawing on Celtic, bluegrass, classical and jazz roots. The level of skill of this group is stunning as are the beauty and joy of their compositions. |
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The Sydney Russian Balalaika Orchestra A full 20 piece orchestra in authentic costume perform phenomenal arrangements of Russian Folk tunes. The instrumentation of Balalaika, Domra, Cimbalon, Bavan and other intrumentation will transport you from Moscow to Vladivostock. |
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The Tinderbox Collective Not that long ago some of Melbourne's top young world , funk and hip hop musicians suddenly discovered Australian Bush Band music. A few old Bushwhackers albums, a few beers and overnight they experienced a terrible revelation 'That the best music in the world was Australian, that it had had a rousing revival in the 1970s and that they had missed it'. Before too long they had given this music a new life and a bold age of Bogan Folk was born. The Tinderbox Collective set last year's Cygnet on fire with unstoppable folk dance beats. They are back. Catch them. www.myspace.com/thetinderboxcollective
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Victor Valdez Harpist,Singer and Dancer Victor Valdez from Mexico via Sydney, Internationally acclaimed harpist Victor Valdes takes an imaginary journey to Latin-America Through the onomatopoeic sounds of the harp.The repertoire includes works from Juan Vicente Torrealba(Venezuela),Digno Garcia(Paraguay), Alfredo Rolando Ortiz(Cuba),Andres Huesca(Mexico),and Victor's own compositions. |
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