Archive for July, 2010

To celebrate the International Year of Youth and AYMC’s first birthday we’re holding a Youth Music Conference on 25 September, 2010. We want to look at the issues facing young musicians, hear from a range of speakers from different backgrounds, and discuss the way forward for the AYMC and youth music in Australia.

Marcus Westbury and Ben Eltham recently wrote an essay on Australia’s need for a Cultural Policy, and re-thinking how Governments make policy decisions about culture. 

Music. Count Us In is Australia’s biggest school music initiative. A project of Music. Play For Life, the campaign involves half a million students in Australian schools and culminates with everyone singing the same song at the same time.

RECOUNT is a new competition for young musicians at Australian secondary schools who want to remix, rewrite or rearrange the Music. Count Us In song.

Indent, a project of Music NSW, has been providing all-ages events and opportunities for young musicians for 10 years. Indent dates back to the 1996 Drug Summit where one of the many outcomes was the development of a Youth Entertainment Pilot (YEP) project to promote developments in government policy relating to the staging of under 18’s and all ages events and drug and alcohol free entertainment. Read more about Indent’s background.

This excellent program is now 10 years old so in celebration of ten years of live all-ages drug and alcohol free events MusicNSW has just announced the Indent Ten Year Tour, supported by NRMA Motoring & Services. The Indent Ten Year Tour kicks off in Newcastle on September 24, before winding its way across NSW delivering the best in live music to Cessnock, Sydney, Tamworth, Byron Bay, Tuncurry, Bathurst, Wagga, Bega and Batemans Bay.

The Music Council of Australia and Freedman Foundation are delighted to announce Kristian Winther as the winner of the 2010 MCA/Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music.

Earlier in July,27-year-old Zubin Kanga was awarded the 2010 Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship at the Australian National Academy of Music’s Piano! Festival in Melbourne.

BIGSOUND 2010 to be held 8th – 10th of September 2010 in Australia’s only live music precinct, Fortitude Valley Brisbane

iNTune will be held in DARWIN – 27/28th August and ALICE SPRINGS– 10/12th September

The iNTune Music Conference is the biggest and most exciting music industry event in the Northern Territory. It will deliver the latest debates, innovations, hot topics and the best speakers directly into the lap of the local industry.

Should ticket scalping be regulated?  Should it be legal? That’s what an issues paper from the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) is asking.

Kids across Australia are being asked to record their best air guitar moves in a national fundraising campaign to help charity organisation, The Song Room, deliver vital education and development programs for more than 200,000 disadvantaged children each week.