Inside this issue:

RISING STARS 1

Important dates 1

Events and Festivals Anniversaries

2

PRESIDENTS REPORT

3

OFFICE BEARERS. BIRTHDAYS

4

Audio Technolo-gy/ Music tips

5

Member profile 6-7

Junior Spotlight 8

Guitar Corner 9

Artist profile 10

DATE CLAIMERS

Next meeting

Tues 12th June

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next Practice

7th June

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Next social

Sun 3rd June

Bundaberg Country Music Club Newsletter

BUNDABERG COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB INC.

NEWSLETTER

ISSUE 363

May

2018

Younger Members Soaring To New Heights

Firstly, Phoebe-Jays song ‘Rollercoaster’ heads straight to the top of the charts. A week after her latest song was released on-line, this rising Country Music stars’ performance has already amassed over a hundred thousand views, and reached number one on the Country Tracks charts. She is also a finalist for most popular independent Australian Country Music Female Artist. Combined with her past success with her song ‘14 cents At The Gate’ this young star keeps going from strength to strength.

Also our very own Ariana Brogden along with her fellow collaborator on ‘Those Words Can Hurt’ , Hayley Wheeler, will be opening the show for multi platinum selling artist ‘Timomatic” in Bundaberg on 9th July. The night will also feature “Justice Crew’. What a fantastic opportunity and well deserved. Don’t forget to get your tickets. Plus, they have just been nominated in the “Best Musical Collaboration” category for the 2018 Josie Mu-sic Awards in the USA.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

There will be no practice this week (31st) owing to the public holiday.

MAY WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

5th Ken & Michele Sutton

25th Ron & Irene O’Keefe

29th Peter and Marie Taylor

NAME WHEN CONTACT EMAIL/WEBSITE

Hervey Bay Cool Country Music Club- Hervey Bay Senior Citizens Club

Second Sun-day of the month. 11am for 12pm start– next March 11th

0427 150 015 P O Box 1851, Hervey Bay 4655

coolcountry.herveybay@gmail.com

VELVET COUNTRY Uniting Church Hall Cnr of Queen and Ulm Street Caloundra

1st Sunday of the month. All welcome Walk ups $7.00

Sandy Lewis **Ring 0400331629 if you intend sing-ing

E:sandymay4@bigpond.com Website: Velvetcountry.com

Bundaberg Poets Society, Targo St, Bundy

2nd Sat each month

John or Sandy Lees

4151 4631

12th Home-stead Youth talent Expo

Aug 4th John 07 3889 1185

http://www.homesteadmusic.org/

Broxburn Music Festival

Sept 8 & 9 Sharon Middleton 0407 597 842

https://www.facebook.com/BroxburnMusicClub

UPCOMING FESTIVALS and EVENTS 2018

From The Editor

Greetings fellow Country Music Lovers. Welcome to the May Newsletter.

This month we continue our Junior Spotlight featuring Will Gray, also the Mem-bers profile with the ‘Bryants’; Audio Technology 101 tip4, plus an extra column for beginner guitarists looking to expand their skills.

If you would like to see something special in the newsletter, have something you’d like to contribute or any ideas please get in touch.

G'day

The first weekend in May was a busy one with both the Redlands Country Music Festival and the Bunda-berg Club Social. Three juniors and one senior mem-ber from the Bundaberg club competed at the Red-lands festival. Our members represented the club extremely well with wins and placings in many sections. Once again The Redlands Modern Country Music Club put on a great festival with a very laid back friendly atmosphere. The competition was at a high standard in-cluding artists from Redlands, Twin Rivers, Garden City, Homestead, and Broxburn. It’s was fantastic to see so many different clubs supporting this festival.

I would like to thank all the people who stepped up and helped with the Bundaberg club social this month. Due to the Redlands Festival, a few of the regular volunteers were absent however in true team spirit the social went ahead as scheduled which was great to see.

Practice nights have been well attended over the last few weeks with a number of new faces and some great new talent. I would like to welcome all the new members to our club. I can’t think of too many other genres of music where one can join a community group with fellow singers and mu-sicians. Country music clubs are a great place to develop your skills and pass on encouragement to others.

On that note – Why did the scarecrow win the award for the best country song? Because he was outstanding in his field.

Hope you all have a great month.

Regards

Kane

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

May 2018

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS WHOM HAVE BIRTHDAYS IN MAY

1st Shirley Pershouse

2nd Ann-Marie Williamson, Beverley Balding

5th Corinne Rockett, Les Teefy

10th Michele Sutton

21st Lainey Rockett, John Lees

22nd Kathryn Allen

23rd Debra Constantine

24th Mikayla Birthisel

25th Brad Zylstra, Kim Sliwka

26th Gary Wone

28th Gary Scott

PRESIDENT

KANE GRAY

0409 470 558

VICE PRESIDENT IAN GORDON 0422 191 251

SECRETARY SHARON MUNRO 0403 249 123

ASSISTANT SECRETARY KYLIE BROGDEN 0439 252 453

TREASURER PAULA GRAY 0429 470 559

ASSIST. TREASURER JOAN HARGREAVES 4152 2562

NEWSLETTER EDITOR IAN GORDON 0422 191 251

PUBLICITY OFFICER

ENTERTAINMENT OFFICER

ASSISTANT

KANE GRAY

IAN GORDON

0409 470 558

0422 191 251

FESIVAL

CO-ORDINATORS

COMMITTEE

REPRESENTATIVE

PAULA GRAY

0429 470 559

SOUND

TECHNICIANS

IAN GORDON

JASON SWILKA

0422 191 251

CATERING

CO-ORDINATORS

KIM SWILKA 0403 067 901

FUNDRAISER

ASSISTANT

KYLIE BROGDEN

0439 252 453

PROPERTY OFFICERS JIM MUNRO

REX WILLETTS

0403 249 123

0427 804 526

CHORD CHART

CO-ORDINATOR

IAN GORDON 0422 191 251

Office Bearers for 2017/2018

UPDATE

At the last club meeting it was decided to relax the re-quirement to practice your songs for the two practices prior to a Social. This was originally to enable the band to know your songs, however more often that not the band at the practices can be quite different than the band on the Sunday so it doesn’t really serve it’s purpose, however we encourage all our members to practice as often as they can with whichever band is play-ing.

Audio technology 101 tip 4

GETTING THE MIX RIGHT

Just as with Foldback , get-ting a good FOH mix will depend on gear, speaker type and placement, venue acoustics and most of all a good ear. However there a few basics tools to use to shape and sculpt your sound.

EQUALISATION

With EQ, less is always best. If the music sounds too boomy, isolate the cause and re-duce the bass, if too muddy, it is most proba-bly too much mid frequencies somewhere, and similarly with high frequencies. Music covers almost the full range of hearing frequencies from bass to treble, and a good mix has a good blend across the whole range.

PANNING

When there are multiple instruments, and es-pecially when there two or more the same (acoustic guitars for example) pan them across the stereo spectrum as they appear on stage.. This creates a more natural sound, and everything is not cramped up and competing to come out the centre (think of water through a pipe)– different instruments will have their own space and it will be a much clearer mix.

MEMBER PROFILE

ROD & SANDY BRYANT

Rod was born in Bundaberg and Sandy in Gayndah, Qld. They met in 1966 and married in Emerald Qld in 1970. Rod, a third generation Railway man and Sandy a Qld. Registered Midwife, later settling in Bun-daberg in 1973.

Rod’s early musical expertise was gained in the field of Brass over a period of 22 years with the Gayndah and the Bundaberg Municipal Brass Bands, play-ing Cornet and Tuba. He was awarded Life Membership of the Municipal Band for 20 years service and participation in Qld. Band Championships.

Rod’s grandfather, Charles Clinton, was the Founder of the Bundaberg Boys’ Brass Band in the 1940’s. Many familiar local identities were his students.

During the late 60’s and early 70’s Rod became adept at Saxophone, Drums and Guitar while playing in various dance bands from central Queensland to the coast. By the early to late 80’s during his association with the Bundaberg Country Music Club, he had outstanding successes on the Festival circuit in numerous categories as a Guitar Vocalist. In 1987 he was awarded Overall Performer at Pioneer Village, Redcliffe, Redlands and Nanango and rounded off the year’s achievements as an Overall Finalist in the Qld. Champion of Champions, also winning Champion Senior Duet with daughter Lisa, an ac-complished junior performer.

Since the late 80’s, Rod has judged, compared, and appeared at numerous Country Music Festivals, sharing his knowledge and experience, nurturing many young performers, with several having gone on to successful careers in the Music Industry while Sandy worked behind the scenes Scrutineering. In those days Calculators and adding machines were the tools to tally scores. Some memorable moments were, Jondaryan Woolshed, Miles, Roma and the Caves Rockhampton and by far the Bundy Easter Roundup 1991 was the largest ever, involving 415 Talent Quest, plus 53 prejudged Songwriters and 8

Caves Rockhampton and by far the Bundy Easter Roundup 1991 was the largest ever, involving 415 Talent Quest entrants, plus 53 prejudged Songwriters and 8 half hour Club Shows. An extra stage was run for half a day to cope.

In May 2007, Rod was one of 9 Queenslanders honoured with names added to the Rock of Recognition at the Rockhampton Heritage Village, for their contribution to the Country Music Industry.

Rod has produced 10 CD’s and in recent years merged into the Muster circuit, with appearances at Boondooma Station, Millmerran Camp Oven Cookout, the Clubs Bundy Aussie Muster and Murgon. Professional entertainment is winding down for Rod in favour of his enjoyment of entertaining for various charity and community groups with a variety of entertainment.

A lot of Clubs and Festivals were young back in the early 80’s. Sandy collected var-ious information and formulated a Festival Organizing Guide for a group meeting in June 1986 of which she still has her original copy. She was involved in Fundraising for the Club’s first music Equipment. Lamington Drives, Cake Stalls, Fashion Pa-rades, and organizing very popular Minor Art Unions. She was recognized for her efforts when presented with the Unsung Heroes Award at the Civic Centre by founding member, Evelyn Bury for dedication and hard work in support of the Club. As a Newsletter Editor in the early days, Sandy started a private collection of News-letters and Festival Programs which document the full history of the Bundaberg Country Music Club Inc. since 1983.

In 2015, the Qld Country Music Champion of Champions Association presented Sandy with the Jim Mitchell Outstanding Achievement Award for her contribution to the Country Music Community.

This husband and wife team have been very actively involved in the Club for many years in various positions, particularly in the first decade and from 2011 to 2017 as President/ Secretary & Festival and Muster Coordinators and are proud of their Life Membership and achievements knowing the Bundaberg Country Music Club’s fu-ture is assured with fresh energy, from the next generations of Country Music per-formers.

Will Gray

With two talented musicians, Kane and Paula Gray for parents, it was never going to be long before their son Will started treading the boards and pursuing music. At 11 years of age, Will has now been singing and playing guitar for around 3 years and has competed in a number of music festivals in-cluding Redlands, Bundaberg, Broxburn and Homestead. Most recently being overall Winner

of Juvenile section of the 2018 Redlands Country Music Festival. Will is a big fan of country music and some of his idols include Keith Urban, Lee Kernaghan and Adam Brand. Will enjoys hanging out with the other Bundy junior club members and looks forward to attending many more club festivals including his first Tamworth festival in 2019. One day he hopes to attend the CMAA college and write his own songs.

PRACTICE NIGHTS:

Thursday 6pm

MEETINGS: 2nd Tuesday of the month

VENUE: Bundaberg & District Family Centre (Old Show-

grounds). Entry via Kensing-ton St. gate.

SOCIALS: First Sunday of the month.

Guitar Corner

Pentatonic Scales

Scales are the building blocks of music, and an understanding of dif-ferent types and positions is essential for any guitar player.

As the name suggests the pentatonic scale is made up of 5 notes (penta meaning five). They can be major scales, minor scales, blues scales, just to name a few. This month we will look at the Major pen-tatonic scale which comprises the 1st, 2nd,3rd, 5th and 6th notes from the major scale. For the key of ‘G’ this would be G,A,B,D and E.

The beauty of this scale is that most notes fit over the major chords from the key, so when soloing it’s very easy to find yourself on a compatible note.

The ‘G’ major pentatonic scale can be played in a variety of positions. Figure 1 below shows the open position, and figure 2 shows the horizontal position moving up the neck. Practise it forwards and backwards, incorporating some slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs and pretty soon you’ll have that country twang.

These patterns can be moved up and down the neck depending on the ‘key’. For example start pattern 2 up two frets on ‘A’ and you have ‘A’ major pentatonic, down two frets and it’s ‘F’ major pentatonic and so on.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Long before alt-country became fashionable, there were a band

of brave pioneers who saw the future… (Flying Emus) were

searching for a style of music and lyrical content which, a dec-

ade later, in the hands of people like Kasey Chambers, Shane

Nicholson and Troy Cassar-Daley, would make country music

an integral part – not an alien music for rural aficionados – of

the broader Australian music landscape.”

During the 1980s Sydney’s Flying Emus took the Australian music scene by storm. Forming in

Sydney with the intention of playing a new form of country music, they wrote songs about

modern Australia – flood, drought, love and city life – and combined a wide range of musical

influences, from Bluegrass and Folk to Pop and Western Swing.

ARTIST PROFILE

The Flying Emus mainstay consisted of Mike Kerin on fiddle, Ian Simpson on banjo and gui-tar, John Kane on guitar and mandolin, Genni Kane lead vocals and guitar. Other members of the band included Hanuman Dass on percussion , Michael Vidale on bass. The band line up also included Malcolm Wakeford on percussion and Graham Thompson on bass.

The Flying Emus were one of Australia’s leading bluegrass bands from the late 1980′s. Sev-eral of the band members played in the Slim Dusty band and the Emus were formed during a six-year period when Slim Dusty had stopped touring.

I had the good fortune to see and meet The Flying Emus in Tara, Qld in the late 80’s, and from what I remember it was an awesome show.

Bushland Boogie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGFyyxbYUk

It’s A Sunburnt Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7bUiY48xU I’m In Love With Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn91_7CmO_c

We gratefully acknowledge and

thank all our sponsors for continuing

to support our club through 2018

CHORD CHARTS

Remember to print your chord charts in double spacing and highlight your chords

with yellow highlighter. Use Arial 14 BOLD

Bundaberg Country Music Club Incorporated PO Box 1147 BUNDABERG QLD 4670

EMAIL: bundycmc@gmail.com WEBSITE: www.bundycmc.com

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bundycmc

Kane (President) 0409 470 558

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