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Jinja Safari

As their Twitter profile says: ‘Pepa Knight & Marcus Azon frequently dress as forest animals and scurry through the underbrush’- certainly an interesting insight to their personality and also to their music. Described as surf rock meets afro pop, Jinja Safari were Unearthed winners for this year’s Splendour in the Grass. The duo have recently

Fertiliser for Budding Artists and More

Australia Council for the Arts Info Session Come find out if ArtStart is for you. ArtStart is a new grant initiative helping budding artists move from studying their artform to earning an income from it. The program provides financial assistance to recent creative arts graduates, including musos, who are committed to establishing a career as

Peats Ridge 2010

What happens when you put thousands of smiling people in a beautiful valley, over a three day period, showcase music, arts and culture across 9 stages and bring in the New Year… PEATS RIDGE! Peats Ridge is a festival that has been described as a ‘sensual explosion’ (novafm.com.au), ‘colourful and memorable’ (pagesonline.it) and a ‘musical

Final Call: Don’t DIS’my’ABILITY Small Arts Grants

Two days left to get your Don’t DISmyABILITY Small Arts Grants applications in! In July this year Accessible Arts invited applications for Small Grants of $3000 for individual artists or organisations to create high quality arts project as part of the 2010 Don’t DISmyABILITY campaign.

Michael Griffin – Music Educator at RCC Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Wednesday 18th August at 4pm (sharp) Redfern Community Centre in cooperation with Allans music/Billy Hydes is proudly hosting a presentation from international music educator Michael Griffin who will present his module Learning Music: Practise and Performanc

We Are Volcanoes

November two thousand and eight marks the birth (or for irony’s sake, the ‘eruption’) of the musical collective We Are Volcanoes. Comprising of three very strange, yet compatible artists, the band, whose sounds are influenced – though not entirely defined by – a myriad of genres, mainly accredits the product of it’s creative work to