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.
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
Hello!!! It's been awhile - sorry there hasn't been in any Australian shows for many months but we've been busy in Europe with a bunch of touring and we're now recording our new album in Berlin (scheduled for release in March).
But to make up for it, here's a big (and silly) Merry Christmas from us (and from some hippos too) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsc3yafzaM8
Some bold new artistic direction? Nah, Just us being silly!!! We did this track for our label's "Black Snow - the completely different Xmas compilation". (and of course, visit our youtube.com/DandelionWineBand for a high quality version)
Wishing you a very silly Silly Season and we'll see you back in Australia sometime in 2010!
Just letting you know about another performance I am doing at Sippers supporting the wonderful Nadene Satch! Also performing on the night will be Kate Kelsey-Sugg...
Wednesday 2nd December 8pm Sippers 164 Rathdowne Street Carlton
Sitars n Bleeps - Melbournes first Eastern Electro and Dub festival! This Saturday 17th October at First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. 9 PM!! Featuring Dub the Magic Dragon, Bulke, DJ Lord Lingham, DJ BP, with Visual Arts from Arnold Eye and Irons! It will be a call for racial harmony in the wake of recent violence towards Indian immigrants living in Australia! We will celebrate our cultural diversity and human likeness with performances from artists of a wide variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. One world, One people, One love!
The world serves us what it considers important, urgent, vital It prefers speed Effectiveness Results Ostentation Noise The illusion of certainty I wish for you to celebrate what serves no purpose I wish you beauty I wish for you to string pearls I wish for you to dream with your feet dangling in a pretty brook I wish for you to listen to birdsong I wish for you to lie down in a broad, poppy-strewn meadow I wish for you to have a small bike in your head I wish for you to experience love at first sight I wish for you " to carry coals to Newcastle" I wish for you to seek beauty Within yourself For yourself I wish for you only what is free Gracious Grace
Josh Owen Band
July Gigs & Espy Residency
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6th July Espy - Front Bar (Band)
13th July Espy - Front Bar (Band)
18th July Corner Hotel (Solo)
Jaimi Faulkner Album Launch
20th July Espy - Front Bar (Band)
26th July Marong Family Hotel (Solo)
27th July Espy - Front Bar (Band)
31st July Thin Green Line (Band)
Hickinbotham Winery Dromana
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www.facebook.com/joshowenband
My Fiddler's Bow is on sale this month. Visit this page: http://adamrsweet.com/mybow.html to order through PayPal or direct from Emily's Website
Every order comes with a free cake of green Irish rosin!
Adam
Check out our new blog and let your mind wander...
http://planetofthescrapes.blogspot.com/
"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
