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The Counterfeit Gypsies
Happy Hardcore / Folk Rock



Melbourne, Victoria
Australia

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Member Since7/2/2006
Band Websitewww.thecounterfeitgypsies.com
Band MembersVIOLIN: Sarah Busuttil
DRUMS: Ben Hellmig
GUITAR: Brendan Rick
FLUTE: Katherine Rick
DOUBLE BASS: Chloe Smith

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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.
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   About The Counterfeit Gypsies
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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Jul 11 2009 4:39 PM

Welcome to the OSST!
Nice to have you as a friend!
Tink~
BAND OF MEN





Jul 11 2009 7:07 AM

Thanks for the add.
Fantastic sound here, folks! Really love it.

Pier
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Jul 3 2009 9:18 PM

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Jun 23 2009 2:33 AM

Introducing our debut film clip "She Woke Up to Me". Check it out and let us know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NwYUtWAwk

Thanx for your support!
MojoRising
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Jun 12 2009 5:24 AM

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
THE FUMES





Jun 8 2009 8:52 AM

Hello there..

Melbourne show - East Brunswick Club, Friday 19th June..

Thanks for your space..
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May 31 2009 4:52 PM

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!!!
Savoy Quintet





May 17 2009 1:05 AM

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
Gypsy Jazz Festival





May 6 2009 10:40 AM

Bonjour
petite info le Gypsy Jazz Festival de Nouvelle Calédonie se déroulera du 18 au 22 novembre 2009
Meg





May 4 2009 5:06 PM

The first solo exhibition of paintings by Meg Woodsworth will be open at 696 from the 13th - 27th of May.

The opening reception is on Friday the 15th of May, 6-9pm.

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696 Sydney Road
Brunswick, VIC
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Apr 30 2009 1:57 AM


Hope to see you there!!
The Soul Safari





Apr 28 2009 10:22 AM

THIS SATURDAY!!! EP LAUNCH!!! EAST BRUNSWICK CLUB!!!

Hey guys,

THIS Saturday, 2nd MAY, EAST BRUNSWICK CLUB

SOUL SAFARI EP LAUNCH
with special guests The Megahorns and Mucho Excellente All-Stars

Doors open 8.30pm, tix $10 or $15 with Ep (at the door)

Get down for some unforgettable SOul music and uncontollable dancing!!

much luv

Soul Safari x
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Apr 9 2009 2:16 PM

A New Hit For My Friends!!!

















You Will Not Be Alone
~Twisted~





Mar 22 2009 12:52 PM

Hell...O my new friends thanx 4 the friendship!
Hope u have a Warped & Twisted week <3
Wicked Tunes!
☆ Dark Kisses ☆
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Mar 2 2009 12:08 AM

Hi The Counterfeit Gypsies, we just wanted to let you know about these gig dates... Hope you can make it!

MELBOURNE - PRINCE OF WALES - THIS THURSDAY & FRIDAY with OZ rock legends "TASTE"
Cnr of Fitzroy & Acland Streets St Kilda 3182

http://www.princebandroom.com.au/

SYDNEY - 1 NIGHT ONLY at THE GAELIC CLUB - Friday 13th March - With support 'The Next"
64 Devonshire St
Surry Hills 2010

http://www.thegaelic.com/home/

NEWCASTLE - CARDIFF PANTHERS - Sat march 14th, With support "THE NEXT"

http://cardiff.panthers.com.au/default.aspx?id=1463

ALL BOOKING FAST!

Hope to see you there!!

The ILZP
storyteller





Feb 22 2009 4:35 AM

What a great band you are!! Wishing you every sucess.
Fay and Rob
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Feb 11 2009 11:05 PM

great to meet you...
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Jan 30 2009 3:50 AM

Thank you for adding
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Way to go!!
Love, peace & waffles!
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Jan 15 2009 1:12 PM

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Dec 29 2008 7:08 PM

Very happy 2009 to you fantastic people!

Pieter

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Prog Noise





Dec 25 2008 6:55 PM

Happy Holydays!

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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Dec 24 2008 12:30 AM

Bonnes Fêtes
Gypsy Jazz Festival





Dec 24 2008 12:29 AM

Bonnes Fêtes
Balthazar





Dec 19 2008 11:57 AM

Great work! Really good sound over it all! Keep it up!

- Balthazar
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