VIOLIN: Sarah Busuttil
DRUMS: Ben Hellmig
GUITAR: Brendan Rick
FLUTE: Katherine Rick
DOUBLE BASS: Chloe Smith
Influences
PAST SHOWS
2008 - National Folk Festival, Woodford Folk Festival 07-08, Illawarra Folk Festival, Boolarra Folk Festival, Summer in the City Wodonga, Brunswick Music Festival, East Brunswick Club, Ruby's Lounge, Bar Open.
2007 - Port Fairy Folk Festival Fringe, Brunswick Music Festival's Sydney Road Street Party, Illawarra Folk Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival, Boolarra Folk Festival, The Palais, The Evelyn, The Cornish Arms, The East Brunswick Club, Bar Open, Palookaville, Aztec Bar, Rubys Lounge...
2006 - Spanish Club, Esplanade Hotel, Cornish Arms, Aztec Bar, Retreat Hotel, Bar Open, Ruby's Lounge, Festival of Folk Rhythm & Life, Merry Muse Folk Club, Candelo Arts Society, The Harp, Illawarra Folk Club, Tattersalls Hotel, The Columbian, The Rails, Mount Beauty Music Muster, Wesley Anne, Commonwealth Games...
2005 - Maldon Folk Festival, Castelmaine Spring Ball, Yackandandah Folk Festival, Ruby's Lounge, Bar Open, Empress, Booroondara Festival, Merry Muse Folk Club, Pot Belly Bar, Jells, Dan O'Connell...
2004 - Maldon Folk Festival, Hawkesbury Fiddle Festival, Bar Open, National Gallery of Victoria, Jells, Bluestone...
2003 - East Coast Tour, Folk Rhythm & Life, Woodford Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Illawarra Folk Festival, Fitzroy Music Festival, Albury Applause Festival, La Festa Griffith Music Festival, St Albans Folk Festival...
2002 - Woodford Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, National Year of the Mountains Lantern Festival, Uranquinty Folk Festival...
2001 - National Folk Festival, Canberra Multicultural Festival, Albert Hall, Merry Muse Folk Club.
Sounds Like
The Counterfeit Gypsies...
Flutterby Video (music by The Counterfeit Gypsies - Batuta)
The Counterfeit Gypsies, Melbourne's premier gypsy dance band, have forged a reputation as one of the country's most talented and exciting live acts. The sound is a wicked brew of hard-swinging grooves, ankle-breaking tempos, old-world melodies and extreme virtuosity.
A favourite on the Australian Festival circuit, highlight performances have included:
Woodford Folk Festival 2002/03, 2003/04, 2007/08
Port Fairy Folk Festival Fringe 2007
National Folk Festival 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008
Illawarra Folk Festival 2003, 2007, 2008
Festival of Folk, Rhythm and Life 2003, 2006
Yackandandah Folk Festival 2005, 2007
Brunswick Music Festival 2007, 2008.
In over seven years of performance, this hard-working, independent band has headlined events in many of Melbourne's finest live music venues including Melbourne's Spanish Club, East Brunswick Club, the Evelyn, the Esplanade Hotel, Revolver, the Northcote Social Club and a host of others. In 2006 and 2007 The Counterfeit Gypsies were invited to perform for Greenpeace's ‘Walk against Global Warming' to audiences of over 40,000 people. The band also performed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the National Gallery of Victoria and BMW Edge series at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Alongside a busy touring schedule and performances on radio and television, The Counterfeit Gypsies have also been involved in soundtracks for film, documentaries and featured in Flutterby, an international award-winning short animation produced by Parry Studios.
For bookings or enquiries email: counterfeitgypsies@yahoo.com.au
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"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and lost times from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
Gypsy Dub Sound System, Back by Special request at 505. You know where it is, if you don't just ask some one! April the 1st. Starts at 8.30, don't be late, the last one sold out at 8.30!!!
Hi Gypsies, thanx for the friendship, -can't wait to hear you live one day...was playing The Tango with some other lunatics @ the National this year, -did I miss your act? Cheers, Inge
Have a lovely Christmas and a very happy & prosperous New Year! Be safe! Be good! Be a better human! Be loved and loves well.
Jorge Albuquerque (Prog Noise) International magazine & Laboratorio Pop
BRAZIL
See you in 2009!!!
"It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one! And this illusion is not wrong. Future is always good, no matter what happens. It will always give us what we need and what we want in secret. It will always bless us with right gifts. Thus in a deeper sense our belief in the New Year cannot deceive us". Kersti Bergroth (1886-1975), Finnish writer and playwright
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