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25.01.2022 Sad news this week with the passing of jazz guitarist Brendan Shearson. Apart from playing in many groups, he was a founding member of the Newport Gypsy Djangos who contributed greatly to the repertoire that the group continues to play. Brendan played regularly at the Newport Bowls Club for the BBQ and Bands days, and performed at the early Newport Folk Festivals both as a solo artist and with the Djangos as well as leading the first guitar workshop at the festival with his great mate @Rob Broatch. Vale Brendan - a pleasure to have known and played with you! Michael Stewart

22.01.2022 Sad news this week with the passing of jazz guitarist Brendan Shearson. Apart from playing in many groups, he was a founding member of the Newport Gypsy Djangos who contributed greatly to the repertoire that the group continues to play. Brendan played regularly at the Newport Bowls Club for the BBQ and Bands days, and performed at the early Newport Folk Festivals both as a solo artist and with the Djangos as well as leading the first guitar workshop at the festival with his great mate @Rob Broatch. Vale Brendan - a pleasure to have known and played with you! Michael Stewart

19.01.2022 Lots of time for reflective and historical activities during this long year. One of our members, David Isom has been busy remastering the first recording of the Bushwackers and Bullockies Bush Band. Dave came across a cassette tape of the recording some time back and has been busy moving it on to CD. It is now in a beautiful case with notes about the start of the band. Some of you may not know, but Dave started the group back when he was at La Trobe University in 1971. ...If you get a chance to ask him, he will some stories of their heydays - big gigs, overseas tours and a lot of fun. While Dave left the BBBB years ago, it is now an institution in the folk scene and the group still plays at folk festivals and gigs around Australia. Well done Dave on creating this musical legacy! In the meantime here are the notes and links for the CD - Dave will be very happy to take orders and post you a copy! Vintage Bushwackers CD with Historical Photographs and Information Booklet. This is the first ever recording done by the Original Bushwackers & Bullockies Bush Band ( Bushwackers ) remastered from a sole surviving cassette of recording sessions at Armstrong Studios Melbourne 1973. Included is a booklet of photos and memorabilia and available from [email protected] For $25- including postage and packaging. Here is a link to a sample on YouTube Lazy Harry’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1f_E_EmWcs&feature=youtu.be

19.01.2022 Thank you Bill Field for these photos from our Club night 30 April 2021. The next Cub Night is May 28 but if you can't wait that long, check our website for the calendar of events, there is something on every week - a smorgasbord of choice! https://www.nffc.org.au/

18.01.2022 It's a double creative and musical bonanza this Saturday night in Newport! 5.30-6.30pm: The Outside Gallery 'I AM.' exhibition launch. Listen to live music by the Liquorice Allsorts, and as the sun sets watch beautiful images by Keren Dobia Photography light up Paine Reserve, Newport. FREE event, but to stay COVID-safe, please register here: https://iam-theoutsidegallery2021.eventbrite.com.au 7:00pm: THEN Head across to see our friends at Newport Bowls Club. Hang up your coat, enjoy a drink, a meal and more local live music! The Newport Fiddle and Folk Club are presenting their 'Getting There' theme night. An evening of 'songs that celebrate the journey'. Book yourself a ticket at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=736806&

18.01.2022 Arts and Industry Festival has something for the songwriters tomorrow night - check out this preview https://fb.watch/1_OSUFKAF9/ Maddie Jackson is one of a group of writers contributing to the Song Series - also Rusty Berther, Jane Bayly, Mark Seymour, Sherry Rich and Peter Farnan. The songs are the result of a study of place - beautiful idea to get the creative juices going. Listen, enjoy, and then begin your own 'songs of place'.

18.01.2022 The Ukulele Dolls bringing smiles to Hall Street, Newport, outside Hawkers Lane. Mmmm.. lunch! #hawkerslane #ukuleledolls.

17.01.2022 Newport Station meets vintage cars n coffee. Who knew? Watch out for the next meet.

14.01.2022 Melbourne Tramways Band at the Newport Jazz Festival - today is big band day. Top music

14.01.2022 The Newport Storytellers are making the most of the lockdown and taking time to create a podcast series of stories and music. Navigating the restrictions by recording interviews on zoom and songs on USB mikes, trawling through the archive of stories recorded at local events and digging out Club members who have previously ventured into recording studios - we hope to release the first episodes for you to enjoy before Christmas.

13.01.2022 Thank you Claire Saxby for this photo of the Newport Community Choir’s final session for term one. We’ve been gathering in the Newport Lakes Park and singing with the lorikeets as the sun goes down. And thank you also Alan Davies, our leader, who works so hard to keep us singing, despite the challenges posed by Covid.

13.01.2022 Newport Craic playing at the John Shaw Neilson poetry event at Altona on 8th May.

13.01.2022 Lots of our activities have continued online during the pandemic - including the Newport Community Choir, which has just released this video. The choir singers recorded their parts individually, and then the amazing Kerry Saxby mixed them all together into this beautiful video. Take the flight from Siberia to Hobsons Bay, along with the Eastern Curlew!

13.01.2022 Another stage under construction in.Paine Res. Hope there are plenty.of.musos who are keen to perform here once our retreat is over.

13.01.2022 7pm tonight right here on Facebook... catch our fabulous Steeleye Span Theme Night, streaming live!

10.01.2022 The Newport Bush Orchestra is still going strong online, second and fourth Monday of each month.

10.01.2022 2021 will see the beginning of the Newport DRUMMING Group lead by Martin Case.This is one of two Dun Duns the club has purchased with out.Toyota Equipment Grant. Now we just need a few.people who.are interested in.learning and playing!

09.01.2022 It's not too late to apply for the National Folk Fellowship.

08.01.2022 The Newport Strings have dusted off their bows and instruments, found and sorted through their music, and are set to present their first concert since February last year on this Saturday, April 17. Lead by generous and talented Michaela Mee, the group will perform a set of their favourite chamber music, including original pieces and completing the program with the Corelli's sublime Concerto Grosso Opus 6 no. 8. Come and enjoy this free concert: 11am at the Newport Hub (Enter from the Park).

08.01.2022 Enjoy the stories!

07.01.2022 The Newport Community Choir recorded this song to raise awareness for migratory shorebirds and has now been shared on East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership Fb. The flyway is the 'path' the birds follow on migration. Our song and our birds connect us to many countries including Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea, just to name a few. Good work NCC!

06.01.2022 Thanks to all those members who have renewed their membership. If you haven't, it's not too late, you can pay via our website. And if you're not a member, join up and support the club! If you've lost your income because of COVID-19, renew for only $5. The club needs your support to keep running our free online sessions, and to plan and prepare for the return to face-to-face music making... when it's safe to do so.

03.01.2022 We made a podcast while in lockdown! Using zoom, phones, USB mikes - whatever worked; we trawled through audio archives of local storytellers, musicians and fri...ends; we scripted, interviewed and edited and now it’s live. Our aim was to make something nice. Please listen and ENJOY! https://www.nffc.org.au/podcast.html See more

01.01.2022 Classic tunes & good company by the fire last night at Beginner Playalong. Many thanks to our leader for the evening, Garry Sure Would. Curious to join us? Buy a ticket to the Beginner Playalong at the festival. Learn the chords to some favourite beginner songs from three of our regular leaders.

01.01.2022 The emerging heart of Newport - looking good