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Monday 3rd October 2011. Folks in Melbourne will be pleased to learn that the Guitar Gallery’s successful Bluegrassy Session is now a regular event which occurs on the first Monday night of each month in Melbourne. It is hosted by the Guitar Gallery’s Gerry Hale and Kim Wheeler. The venue is the Old Bar at [...]
Here’s a reminder from Terry Cook of the bluegrass jam session to be held at Pelican Waters Bowls Club in Queensland, this Sunday 16th October. 1pm until 5:00pm. The venue is located at 49 Nelson St. Golden Beach 4551 Queensland. All are welcome to come along and enjoy the music, there is no charge. Just [...]
Steve Jackson from Warragul Victoria, has sent us a reminder that their monthly jam is on this Sunday, the 25th of September at “Victoria Hall” on the corner of Victoria and Albert Streets Warragul. Entry is via the gravel driveway from Albert St. There’s plenty of parking around the back. The jams runs from 2pm [...]
Australia’s first Wernick Method jam camp was held in Golden Beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with participants asking for more of the same next year. 25 visiting jammers attended the first jam camp based on the teaching methods developed by US teacher Pete Wernick. Beginning the musical journey can be a daunting and somewhat challenging [...]
Golden Beach Jam Camp 2011 Australia’s first jam camp gets under way this weekend with jammers traveling from as far afield as Hobart in Tasmania and several places in Victoria. The 2011 Golden Beach camp is the joint initiative undertaken by Greg McGrath (editor, australianbluegrass.com) and Pete Wernik of the USA. Pete (aka Dr. Banjo) [...]
News From Steve Jackson Steve Jackson has written and suggested that locals put Sunday, 17th of April in your diary for the next Warragul Beginners Bluegrass Jam – 2:00pm to 5:00pm at the corner of Albert and Victoria Streets Warragul. If you’re in the area, head along on to the next Warragul jam and have [...]
Jamming in Warragul Victoria. Sometime ago in Warragul I started inviting beginners to my house to learn to jam and build jam skills and confidence. Those sessions went on each month for around two and a half years. It was a heartening process, watching peole learn how to play music with each other and grow [...]
Steve Jackson reminds us that the Warragul Beginner’s Bluegrass Jam is on this Sunday between 2:00pm and 5:00pmpm at the corner of Victoria and Albert Streets, Warragul. (“Victoria Hall”, behind the old church, go around the back via the laneway entering from Albert St). Please let Steve know if you need further directions to find [...]
News from Coast Acoustics on the Gold Coast Due to the popularity of the acoustic jam nights, Coast Acoustics now brings you jam sessions every second Tuesday night. Last month the jam included about 20 musicians all of whom joined in with guitars, banjos, fiddles, harps and mandolins, singing along to everything from Hank Williams [...]
Acoustic Sundays in Millthorpe, NSW Millthorpe is a small village between Orange and Bathurst, in central west New South Wales about 250km from Sydney. It’s known for its historic houses and main street, cool climate gardens, and increasingly for fine food and the arts – the sort of place where you can’t go ten paces [...]
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