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Singing Quilt performance at Bundanoon Hall 1st November 2008. Photo by Beth Boughton. |
Singing Quilt Project
A Singing Quilt by Andrew Ford premiered at the Bundanoon Memorial Hall on 1st November 2008.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The CD of A Singing Quilt will be released on 27th April 2009 and will be available at $10 per CD from the following outlets -
- Customer Service Centre, Civic Centre Moss Vale
- Tourism Southern Highlands Visitor Information Centre Mittagong
The Wingecarribee Singing Quilt Concert
Groups of people often work on quilts to tell the story of their community, representing its history and geography in motifs in the quilt. This project involved representing the community and its people in song – thus a "singing quilt".
A new work for choir and percussion has been commissioned from Robertson composer, Andrew Ford, based on the theme of people coming to the Wingecarribee over time, with the environment as the constant. The lyrics are entirely drawn from interviews with local people, and these interviews themselves, edited and remixed, form another layer of the piece via a spoken word backing track. A third layer is provided by a percussion ensemble (DRUMatiX) playing a range of tuned percussion instruments including bells, gongs and drums.
A Singing Quilt was performed by a combined choir of local choirs and singing groups. Members of the Singing Quilt Choir are from Serendipity, WENCHEs, Berrima Singers, Southern Highlands Voices in Harmony, SHACappella, Singing for Leisure, Southern Highlands Sing Australia and the Highlandaires.
Can BeltoCan Belto was formed in 1996 after a series of voice workshops run by Moya Simpson. The group has performed mostly world music, but has broken loose recently with a performance of Bohemian Rhapsody, and now Beatles. Can Belto has performed at the National Folk Festival, the War Memorial’s Hall of Memory, and have been involved in many Shortis and Simpson’s theatre projects. They were also the basis of the choir in ‘Emma Celebrazione” and ‘The Universal Lake’ for the Weereewa Festival.
DRUMatiX DRUMatiX is a percussion group based at the Australian National University, directed by Gary France. In A Singing Quilt they will be playing a number of instruments—Sizzle cymbal, rain sticks, congas, tubular bells, small tam-tam, tuned Thai gongs , tom-toms, hand bells, metal wind chimes, large suspended cymbal, bongos, vibraphone, marimba and temple blocks.They will also be performing two works for percussion ensemble—Omphalo Centric Lecture by Nigel Westlake (b. 1958) and Rags by George Hamilton Green (1893 - 1970)
A Quilt exhibition by Southern Highlands Quilters Guild was held at the concert.
A Singing Quilt was commissioned by Wingecarribee Shire Council with financial assistance from the Regional Arts Fund which is an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional and remote Australia.
Contact details
Jenny Kena
02 4868 0855 (ph)
02 4869 1203 (fax)
jenny.kena@wsc.nsw.gov.au
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