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Sahara Beck
Sahara Beck (born 1996) is an Australian singer and songwriter, from the Sunshine Coast. She has released two studio albums: ''Volume One'' (2011) and ''Panacea'' (2016), and three EPs: ''You Could Be Happy'' (2013), ''Bloom'' (2014) and Queen of Hearts (2019). Beck has won multiple Queensland Music Awards. Early life Beck was born in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1996, and comes from a musical family. As a child, she used to watch Mary Poppins which inspired Beck to sing. She took on vocal lessons, piano lessons, guitar lessons and trumpet lessons. Musical career 2009–2011: Early years and ''Volume One'' By the age of 13 she dazzled the local musician, Harii Bandhu, by joining to sing with him on her Dad's birthday party. Bandhu took on a mentoring role for Beck and has given her opportunities to perform on live gigs, as she has written numerous original songs which Bandhu later refined and recorded nine with Geir Brillian. In 2011 her debut album was then formed, ''Volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byron Bay Bluesfest
The Byron Bay Bluesfest, formerly the East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, is an annual Australian music festival that has been held over the Easter long weekend in the Byron Bay, New South Wales, area since 1990. The festival features a large selection of blues and roots performers from Australia and around the world and is one of the world's leading contemporary music festivals. The festival was founded by Dan Doeppel and Kevin Oxford in 1990 and is run by Peter Noble who joined Oxford for the 1994 event. It has been held at several locations in and around Byron Bay and is currently held at Tyagarah, north of Byron Bay town. Originally running for four days, it now runs for five days, from Thursday to Monday. The Boomerang Festival is an event within the festival dedicated to Indigenous Australian performance, art and culture. Bluesfest 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. 2021 was cancelled one day before it was due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA AMCOS
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the '' Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, live gigs in pubs and clubs etc. APRA distributes the royalties from these licence fees back to their compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Music
Albert Music, formerly J Albert and Son, is an Australian company with an estimated worth in 2009 of more than A$209 million. The company has major interests in music publishing and production and it earns significant royalties through its subsidiary, Albert Productions which manages the music catalogue of the Australian rock band AC/DC. Alberts was acquired by BMG Rights Management in July 2016. History Swiss-born horologist Jacques Albert (1 January 1850–9 July 1914) migrated to Rockhampton and then Sydney in December 1884 with his wife Sophie (d. 1890) and their two children.Albert J. (2009) 'House of Hits ', Hardie Grant Albert established a clock, watch and occasional violin repair business in Newtown, Sydney in the following year. From 1890 Jacques began importing and selling a wider range of musical instruments, which included a Boomerang mouth organ. He established J Albert and Son in 1894 with his Russian-born son Michel François "Frank" Albert (26 March 1874–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordoff–Robbins Music Therapy
The Nordoff–Robbins approach to music therapy is a therapy developed for children with psychological, physical, or developmental disabilities. It developed from the 17-year collaboration of Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins beginning in 1958, and its early development was influenced by Rudolph Steiner and anthroposophical philosophy and teachings. Nordoff–Robbins music therapy is grounded in the belief that everyone can respond to music, no matter how ill or disabled they are. It holds that music as therapy can enhance communication, support change, and enable people to live more resourcefully and creatively. Nordoff–Robbins music therapists practice worldwide and have graduated from training programs around the world including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and the Far East. United Kingdom Nordoff Robbins is a registered UK charity that receives no statutory funding. The charity runs the Nordoff–Robbins music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition
The Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition is an annual competition that "acknowledges great songwriting whilst supporting and raising money for Nordoff-Robbins" and is coordinated by Albert Music and APRA AMCOS. The competition awards a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place and was named after iconic writers Harry Vanda and George Young, known as Vanda & Young. The competition is Australia's most prestigious and lucrative songwriting competition. The inaugural competition took place in December 2009, with Megan Washington winning with the song " How to Tame Lions". Background In 2009 independent music company Albert Music collaborated with APRA AMCOS to establish an international songwriter's competition. The competition open to all songwriters – published or unpublished, and all proceeds raised by the Vanda & Young Global Song writing Competition go to not-for-profit organisation ''Noro Music Therapy Australia (NRMTA)'', which uses music therapy to help people cope with the strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Music Awards
The Queensland Music Awards (commonly known as QMA and known as the Q Song Awards from 2006 to 2010) are annual awards celebrating Queensland's emerging artists. They commenced in 2006. Each year, the QMA Song of the Year is immortalised in a plaque on Fortitude Valley's Walk of Fame in the Brunswick Street Mall. 2006 Q Song Awards The 2006 Q Song Awards winners. ;Major awards * Song of the Year - "Unsettle My Heart" by The Boat People * Published song of the Year - "Songbird" by Bernard Fanning * Grant McLennan Lifetime Achievement Award – "Cattle and Cane" by Grant McLennan * QMusic Encouragement Award - "Don't You Choose Me" by Kate Bradley ;Genre awards * Blues and Roots - "Honey Don't" by The Gin Club * Country - "Better Off" by Chris Pickering * Electronic / Dance - "Tin Cat" by My Ninja Lover * Hip Hop - "Analgestic" (remix) by The Winner Coopers * Indigenous - "Native Language" Song by Freddie Shortjoe * Jazz - "Mesmerisation" by Sean Foran * Mixed / Alternati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland, Australia
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope D
Hope Defteros (born 1999/2000), known professionally as Hope D, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician from Brisbane, Queensland. Defteros has won a Queensland Music Award. and is best known for her single "Second", released in 2020. Career In late 2019, Defteros released her debut single "Swim", which led her to be a finalist for the Billy Thorpe Scholarship. In 2020 she released three further singles: "Second" and "Common Denominator", and "Miscommunicate", in the lead-up to her February 2021 EP entitled ''Cash Only''. Defteros has performed at Splendour in the Grass, St Jerome's Laneway Festival, and King Street, Newtown, Sydney, King Street Crawl. She won the ''Emerging Artist'' award at the 2020 QMusic Awards. On 17 September 2021, Hope D released "Happy Hangover", a song co-written with close friend G Flip. In a press statement, Hope D said the song is about "fully tripping out and having experiences that will later become nostalgic". In July 2022, Hope D relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tia Gostelow
Tia Gostelow (born 12 October 1999) is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter from Mackay, Queensland. Gostelow released her debut studio album, ''Thick Skin'', in 2018 on Lovely Records. ''Thick Skin'' was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2019 National Indigenous Music Awards. Life and career 1999–2014 : Early Life Gostelow was born on 12 October 1999 and grew up in the regional Australian town of Mackay, Queensland; adjacent to the Coral Sea coast, Australia. When Gostelow was 4, she relocated to Groote Eylandt a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria with her family for her father's work. She spent six years there before moving back to Mackay where she went to High School. Gostelow's Indigenous hereditary roots are based in Cape York's Luma Luma tribe where her grandfather is an elder. 2015–present: ''Thick Skin'' In 2015, at the age of 16, Gostelow wrote "State of Art" which was released in February 2016 as her debut single. "State Of Art" received airp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Create Control
To create is to make a new person, place, thing, or phenomenon. The term and its variants may also refer to: * Creativity, phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created Art, entertainment, and media * Create (TV network), an American public television network consisting of lifestyle and human interest programming from the libraries of PBS and American Public Television * ''Create'' (video game), a 2010 video game published by EA Brands and enterprises * Create (nightclub), an entertainment venue in Los Angeles Computing and technology * Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, a proposed improvement to the rail lines in the Chicago area * Create, read, update and delete, create is one of the four basic functions of persistent storage identified in the acronym CRUD ** CREATE (SQL), a statement in SQL * iRobot Create, a hobbyist robot based on the iRobot Roomba platform Organizations and programs * Create Project, a web-based community fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Feeds
''Music Feeds'' is a free bi-weekly digital music and lifestyle magazine (street press) established in 2008 and based in Sydney, Australia. It is distributed electronically every second Tuesday, with additional material posted on the website regularly. As distinct from direct competitors ''Drum Media ''The Music'', (formerly known as and now incorporating ''Drum Media)'', is an online Australian music magazine. It previously existed as a street press devoted to long-form music journalism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. I ...'' and ''The Brag'', ''Music Feeds'' purports to cover more independent and self-funded musicians. This is a distinction that has been noted by several local music sources. Since 2012, Music Feeds moved to a 24/7 online music publication and regularly covers local and international music news, events, and releases. References External links * 2008 establishments in Australia Biweekly magazines published in Australia Free mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
