NFFC in the local paper

This week's Hobsons Bay Leader features the Club in two places!
Greg Hammond (long-standing member and half of the Tall Boys) appears on Page 2 (see article online) and pops up again on Page 7 (see article online) along with Steve Martin (the other Tall Boy) and Sonny (alias Greg Jenkins) from the blues duo Sonny and Cloudy.

BO TERM1 SESSION 1 6FEB 2012

A cracking start to the year!

Attended:Greg, Alasdair,Mike de Valle,Kathryn, (passed her L plate test 94% we hear!),Simon L, Wendy, Marilla,Bruce S Chris K Chris H, Bruce W, Simon D, Kerry, Trevor, and a guest from Honk Kong Morris, Dave.

The night was used to experiment with recording our first sets. The results were gratifying as Bruce could play them back to us immediately. We played a few non BO tunes as a courtesy to our guest and settled into our tea break chatter and all.

The first set we boiled down to
black cat x2 rita bakers x2 syd briggsx2 , the Mp3 will go up on our tunes site CLICK HERE (and look under BUSH ORCHESTRA PRACCY SETS 1 AND 2) for all to practise at leisure. Ditto for the nest set, 3 mazurkas once each, Stan Treacey's, Sally Sloan's, Gordon Lyall's, also on the tunes site.
Next weeks tunes will be a couple of waltzes, the Gervasoni Waltzes and Helen's Heart Waltz.
A rough plan is to practise for the first 40 min, tea break and try to record for the second 40 min.

Newport Bush Orchestra - Taking a Break from Recording

The Newport Bush Orhestra hit the ground running tonight and started work on the first track of their CD of tunes and dances of Australia. Leader Greg O'Leary had everyone up to speed very quickly and sound engineer Bruce Williams was on the dials to make sure that the music was being captured 'just so'. After a quick break it was back to business. It will be interesting to see how the NBO is going 8 weeks down the track as the pressure is on to complete all tracks - probably pretty relaxed actually as that it the nature of the group. Apart from recording the group has the Newport Lakes Bush Dance to prepare for (March 16, 4pm) and no doubt a few other local gigs that will inevitably pop up between now and then. All on track for great year of music making with the NBO.

Choir back for 2012

The Newport Community Choir is back in fine form for 2012. With a few regular members unable to come this week we were down to 17 singers but it was great to have a couple of newcomers - welcome Lizzy and Emily! We started off with a new song - the Skyhooks classic Horror Movie. Sounding good already. Anyone who feels like singing and is free on Wednesday nights - come and join us!

Christmas Carols 2011 - Pics 2

Carols at the Substation was a lovely night - lots (and lots) of people, 2 schools (Newport Lakes and Newport Gardens) 1 community group (The Karen Choir) and of course many NFFC'ers playing (the Carols Orchestra) and Performing (Ukulele Dolls, Powder Room Secrets) and many friends. What a great way to complete the musical year. Merry Christmas.

Christmas Carols 2011 - Pics 1

The Carols Orchestra - A Bit Blurry but ......