The Toorak Village Art Walk

By Faye Depasquale titled ‘Sturts Desert Peas’

The Toorak Village Art Walk runs for 4 weeks from Monday 19 October until Sunday 15 November 2015. The Toorak Village Traders Association has invited 35 artists to showcase original paintings, drawings and mixed media in the shop windows of Toorak Village businesses.
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As promised last Friday 7th August, Waterfront Kitchen was a Big Hit, as an impressive cross-section of Geelong's polo and business community came together to raise funds for national children’s charity, The Smith Family.
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So, what are the 100 greatest Australian singles of the 1960's?
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V is for "Vivacious" and V is for "Voice" - Regin Le Faye is the first and is definitely has the second.
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"Wells was part of the charge of black music onto the radio waves and record shelves of white America" (New York Times - July 27, 1992)
"Mary was our first big, big star," (Esther Gordy Edwards, Ms. Wells's personal manager at Motown and a sister of Berry Gordy)



This is album review number one hundred and thirty nine in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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"What's the point in listening to us doing "I'm A King Bee" when you can listen to Slim Harpo doing it?." (Mick jagger - Interview with Rolling Stone Oct. 1968)
"Slim Harpo may not be a household name among rock ‘n’ roll fans, but he should be."(Popmatters)
"He put the tackle box in a chair by the vocal mike and it was stuffed full of harmonicas. The man meant business" (Jonathan Foose - New Orleans musician)



This is album review number one hundred and thirty eight in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
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Listening to Ross sing is at times like velvet being slowly passed across fine sandpaper or gravel spread with honey. It's like the voice of hard experience that has been tempered with a fine wine.

Quarter Past Late is the latest solo release from well known Australian musician Ross Nicholson. In CD format it features 12 tracks, 10 of which are original tracks composed by Ross. Released late in 2014, Ross has drawn upon his 55 years of experiences in and around the music scene to produce a quality selection of music.
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Hot on the heels of the completely sold-out season of its 2nd year student production Pescado, Last Orders! is a delicious circus degustation featuring the 2015 graduating students from the National Institute of Circus Arts. This rollicking show will run from June 11 to 20, 2015 at NICA’s state-of-the-art National Circus Centre in Prahran. Circus fans who weren't able to get a ticket to Pescado are urged to book early.











Directed by James Brown and Helene Embling, Last Orders! plays on the behavioural code associated with being a high-class waiter, while drawing inspiration from the classic, time- honoured Parisian waiters’ race of the 1930’s. Set in an alluring and intimate venue equipped with a full bar and cabaret seating, NICA's third year students will showcase their immen...

"Zydeco is the rollicking dance music of South Louisiana's African-American Creoles.”(Album liner notes)
"As far as zydeco collections go, this is an outstanding one."(Adam Greenberg - AllMusic)
"This rollicking collection features many of the greatest names in Louisiana music." (Tower Records)



This is album review number one hundred and thirty six in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
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Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
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There are Australian musicians, there are Australian music icons and there are a few, but real, Australian Music Superstars. Max Merritt is one of those true Superstars.

Now after a hiatus of some 25 years, this amazing and legendary man is returning to the studio and readers can assist in this project.
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"It all happened so fast and was over so quick nobody really understood it ”(Glenn A Baker - liner notes)
"One of the few comprehensive various-artists documents of the mid-'60s Australian rock scene."(AllMusic)
"Without doubt an essential purchase for anyone with a serious interest in Australian music of the '60s." (Milesago)



This is album review number one hundred and thirty five in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.

The series is called Cream of The Crate and each review represents an album that I believe represents significant musical value, either because of its rarity, because it represents the best of a style or styles of a music or because there is something unique about the music, the group or the particular production.
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Chris Stockley has been in the mainstream Australian Music scene for over fifty years, and this, his solo CD, represents excellence in application, production and in fact, is a damn fine album!

Pale New Sun is the title of a 13 track release by long standing Australian musician, Chris Stockley.
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