ALANA BLACKBURN
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
