Cafe Culture Series   -   Flap

at The Mudbrick on February 28 at 5pm 

 

Melbourne’s latest sensation, Flap, have burst their way onto the live music scene impressing the audiences, the festival directors and the critics alike. A quick scan of the internet reveals an array of impressive reviews seemingly from a variety of age groups. Most folk prefer to bypass the difficult if not impossible task of categorizing Flap’s style of music preferring instead to say what they think about it. The most seasoned of musical ears are hailing the young groups MUSIC as intoxicating, cheeky, invigorating, classy, innovative, unique, exuberant and the list of gushing complimentary adjectives goes on.

 

The five piece group is led by honey sweet vocalist and ukulele player Jessica Guille who also writes a lot of their songs. Multi talented Eamon Mc Nelis writes the other half of the songs as well as sings and plays trumpet (not at the same time, that would just too multi talented!). His songs are as full of the drama, joy and humour of Melbourne's inner north. When you add Shannon Barnett on trombone, Mark Elton on double bass and Ben Hendry on drums you might begin to get a glimpse of why they are hard to pidgeon hole. Most, but not all, of their material is original as is played in kind of a 1920’s jazz style. They sing about falling off cliffs, getting naked and being poor, as well as some universal themes like falling in love & getting drunk. Flap!'s sound is held together by their dancey, driving rhythm section & topped off by stunning solos. The band has loads of energy and charm and their stage presence is unmistakably, unpretentious Australian. 

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mallacoota Summer Community Markets on Greer St

The December/January Markets were a huge success.

Two market dates remain:

Saturday March 6      8.30am - 1.30pm

Saturday April 3   8.30am - 1.30pm

 

There are no Wednesday markets this season.

Cost of market stalls is unchanged from last year.

For information about stalls - call 0422 988 890 or email artsmallacoota@gmail.com

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Easter Roving Minstrels  - more info coming soon!

Also at Easter - a new 'Coming Events' production - details soon!

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Big Screen 2010 - Anzac Weekend - more details soon!