Sunday 12th July

Winter wine, women, and songs

To celebrate the launch of both a new group and a new voice on the coast. Australian women singer/songwriters and their friends will perform on the Cooroora Institute’s outside stage between rainforest and garden as the sun sets to celebrate mid-winter and the love of place.

3:00pm Welcome to country

3:30pm Ayla Scanlan

4:00pm DelanyWard launch

5:00pm-late Open mike with shared food, songs, and mulled wine

Your note donation will help pay the performers’ costs. Bring a plate of food and a song to share. There will be a fire under the stars beside the outdoor stage, but bring warm woollies and an open heart!

Ayla Scanlan

Ayla is an award-winning young singer/songwriter from the Sunshine Coast. She won the opportunity to do a demo CD with Robin Young Smith, was runner-up in Caboulture’s Homestead songwriting country music competition, and overall junior winner at the Yandina festival. Her songwriting of unusual and thoughtful lyrics with guitar is an emerging talent to look out for!

Delany Ward

Delany’s metamorphic vocals and lyrics along with Ward’s unique bass and guitar playing form the core of this vibrant group. Alternate rock/folk/jazz and the avant garde are fused to deliver an enigmatic, life-packed and love-jammed performance. Both Delany (Qwerty, Mettaphor) and Ward (Activist Link) create from the edge, working with diverse and marginalised groups to form experimental, creative, and innovative music. Here is a chance to hear DelanyWard in the intimate setting of this more-than-human place, along with friends Linsey Pollak and more...

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Brought to you by the Cooroora Institute: a place of art and environment.

To tread lightly and joyously upon this earth....

Note: This is a steep property and an outside venue. If raining, the concert will be postponed. Ring 544 77746 to confirm attendances.

Our outside stage sits between the rising moon and setting sun, between the crows ash and the wattle, between the house and the view, between the domestic and the wild. This is where Linsey Pollak gave his recent concert, The Extinction Room, playing surprisingly uplifting music that drew upon the sounds of rare and endangered animals, as the sun set across our valley amidst the white noise of crickets and frogs. We celebrated with soups and cakes and donations went towards rare and endangered species. This is the life we hoped for – and here it lies; ceremonial time arises quietly in this magic valley. It lies in the everyday as much as it rises in the special. It is a humbling local place rather than a grand event.

At one sunset performance in December 2007, the bass notes of Dale Rickert’s cello attracted large green tree frogs. Maybe 20 clustered behind the make-shift stage. Their deep barking calls made new improvisation possible. Dale’s father, Peter, joined him on gamelan, the frogs deep throated the beat, and the cello soared out across the valley. The honour of such star-lit improvisation dissolves the skins between body and earth. This is what landscape memoir is made of; this is where peace is born.