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Events 2023

January 8-13

Australasian Recorder Festival

Tutor

Opening Concert - 8th January

re-grounded performance - 12th January

March 25 & 26

 

St John Passion


Saturday 25th 3pm - Australian Poetry Hall of Fame, Guyra

Sunday 26th 3pm - Hoskins Centre, The Armidale School

April 27 - 30

New England Bach Festival

La Folia - Virtuosic Dance music

Alana Blackburn - Recorder

Joanne Arnott - Recorder

Anthony Abouhamad - Harpsichord

Friday 27th April 7.30pm Armidale Uniting Church

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/CFKPJ

 

Heroic Marches and Recorders

Alana Blackburn
Benjamin Thorn

Joanne Arnott

Sunday 30th April 12.30pm Armidale Uniting Church

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/CFKQJ

 
June 23

Handel's Alexander Feast

UNSW Collegium Musicum Choir

7.00pm

UNSW Sir John Clancy Auditorium, Kensington

 
 
2022
March 17, 18 & 19

Newcastle Fringe Festival

Re-Growth? performance of electroacoustic works for recorder

Works by Ros Bandt, Benjamin Thorn, Donna Hewitt

Video Artist- Jutta Pryor

Sound Engineer - Jim Atkins

 

The Royal Exchange

32-34 Bolton St

Newcastle

17th - 6pm

18th - 6pm

19th - 4.30pm

 
March 25

Looking Through Windows: A multimedia Aboriginal history and art exhibition

Performance at the opening ceremony

The University Gallery

University Drive

University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus

5.30pm

Register with Eventbrite here.

March 27

Music and Shakespeare

Alana Blackburn & Alex Robson

A short act about music, the recorder and Shakespeare. 

UNE Showcase @ Parramatta Nights - Philip Lane

2.00pm-5.00pm

Free event

 
 
April 19

Tamworth Country Music Festival

UNE Showcase - staff and students perform

Tamworth Library

Tamworth

 

April 30

Breath Transformed

Alana Blackburn & Riley Lee

The Armidale Playhouse

Beardy St, Armidale

7.00pm

Tickets $35 Adults, $25 concession

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=888392&

August 25

EarthBound

Backstage Music series

For more information and program visit Backstage Music

Nauti Studios 

201 Great Western Highway, Hazelbrook

7.00pm

Tickets here

August 26

EarthBound

Backstage Music series

For more information and program visit Backstage Music

Woodburn Creatives

82 Cope Street, Waterloo

7.30pm

Tickets here

September 25

Music on a Market Sunday - Grounds and cycles with a twist

Finger, Purcell, Weiss & Frisell, but not like you've heard them before!

Alana Blackburn (recorders)

Steve Thorneycroft (guitars)

Ash Hall (trumpet)

Sarah Lawrence (narrator)

Armidale Uniting Church

Rusden St, Armidale

12.30pm - free event (donations welcome)

November 6

Breath Transformed

Alana Blackburn & Riley Lee

1/37 Fairlight St, Fairlight

2.00pm

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CDCHQ

 
2023
January 8-13

Australasian Recorder Festival

Public Performance & Tutor 

Armidale, NSW

 

 

 

March 25 & 26

 

St John Passion

Armidale

TBC

April 23

Blackheath Music Festival

Alana Blackburn & Riley Lee

TBA

 

 
April 27 - 30

New England Bach Festival

2021
January 31

Happy Birthday Benjamin Thorn!

A celebration of one of Australia's most prolific composers.

Benjamin Thorn is an important contributor to Australian recorder music.

Uniting Church

Rusden St, Armidale

2.30pm

 
April 18

Crosswinds Duo

Performance of Crosswinds Duo (Maryanne Piper & Alana Blackburn)

with special guest Damian Wright (flamenco guitar) for the launch of the New

England International Circle

Danica Park, Nemingah. NSW

Donation $29 includes food and drink

4.30pm

Reservations: https://www.trybooking.com/BQHQW

 
April 19

WORD PLAY

A children's show angled around New England children's author Sophie Masson's children's picture book, 'Join the Armidale Parade', illustrated by local illustrator Kathy Creamer and published by local publisher Little Pink Dog Books, and it's attracted a lot of enthusiasm from the schools, especially as it will be happening around the traditional time of the actual Parade in Armidale.

Sophie Masson - Author

Alana Blackburn - Recorders

Maryanne Piper - Clarinet

Damian Wright - Guitar

St Joseph's Primary school, Uralla

April 20

WORD PLAY

10 am - Kelly's Plains Public School

                   

12pm - Armidale City Public School 

2pm - Drummond Public School

April 29 - May 2

New England Bach Festival

Sydney Consort  "Farewell concert: Bach and Sons"- Music from the Bach family for violin, recorder and harpsichord by JS, WF, CPE and JC Bach, and a little Handel on the side.

Stan Kornel - Violin

Alana Blackburn - Recorder

Monika Kornel - Harpsichord

Thursday 29th April

Uniting Church, Armidale

7.30pm

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/BOKPS

"The German Recorder and Friends" 

Premiere of a new work by Steve Thorneycroft for recorder and guitar

Alana Blackburn - Recorders

Steve Thorneycroft - Guitars

Friday 30th April

Uniting Church, Armidale

5.30pm

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/BOKQJ

 
 
June 19th

12 Threads

New Australian Art song project brought to you by Blush Opera

Supported by the City of Sydney

Vicki Lee Gallery

2/350 Bourke St, Surry Hills

Tickets Free Register at https://www.eventbrite.com.au

 
December 16

Regrowth? New Multimedia work for recorder by Ros Bandt premiere

Armidale Playhouse

Armidale NSW

6.30pm for 7pm performance

Tickets $25 adult, $15 concession 

https://www.trybooking.com/BVWTT

2020
January 18 & 19

Chaos & Chasms 

A program of French Baroque repertoire by historical performance

musicians around Australia.

Saturday 18, 7pm

Sunday 19, 2pm

The Oratory - Abbotsford Convent

1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC

 

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/BGAZX or cash at the door

 
 
January 21-25

Tamworth Country Music Festival

Various appearances throughout events at the TCMF

Wednesday 22nd January: 11am 'Story Time' Tamworth Library

Friday 24th January: 11am Entrepreneurs Hour discussion panel, UNE Tamworth

Tamworth, NSW

 
 
April 4th and 5th - Cancelled

St John Passion - J.S. Bach

Saturday 4th April: Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium, 3.00pm

Sunday 5th April: TAS Hoskins Centre, Armidale. 7.30pm

For Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/messiah

April 25th - Cancelled

Away from Home

Performance with local Ezidi musicians

May 7-10 - Cancelled

New England Bach Festival 

Performances with some of Australia's finest early music ensembles

Thursday 7th May - Sydney Consort 'Farewell Concert, Bach and sons'

7.30pm Uniting Church

 

Saturday 9th May - Austral Harmony 'Bach and Florid Song'

7.30pm TAS Memorial Hall


See http://www.ne-bach-festival.com for details

 

May 24
 

Free Space — Live music from an empty gallery

FREE SPACE is a series of live performances at New England Regional Art Museum featuring local musicians using the unique physical qualities of the gallery's spaces to explore sonic possibilities.

Download the program notes here.

5.00pm-6.00pm

LInk TBA

November 22

Inverell Music Society

Early music for recorder and lute/guitar with local guitarist Steve Thorneycroft

2.30pm

Inverell Art Gallery, 5 Evans St, Inverell NSW

December 13

Fiori Musicali

Sunday 6.00pm

The Armidale School. Armidale NSW

Tickets $20: www.trybooking.com/BNGGT or at the door


 

 

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