'saturday night live'

A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FUNDRAISING EVENT

A CELEBRATION OF WORLD MUSIC & DANCE FROM AUSTRALIA TO AFRICA IN A SOCIAL SETTING
Tickets: $25 per person. No BYO – Drinks from the Bar
FAST LANE TICKETS FROM:

Woodend Copy Centre	Leadbelly’s Music
Shop 5, 130 High Street, Woodend	109 Mollison Street, Kyneton
Tel: 5427 3092	Tel: 5422 1083

The Saturday Night Live world music season is starting at St Ambrose Parish Hall in Woodend on Saturday 6 October 2007.

The event is a community partnership fundraising event with the Woodend Children' s Park and 100.7 Highlands FM.

Sudanese-born singer Ajak Kwai and The Band will be the feature performers.

Ajak Kwai brings an exciting African vocal style and repertoire to her performance, given a contemporary treatment by the local musicians who work with her. Ajak sings the traditional songs of her Dinka heritage in southern Sudan and her own contemporary work. Her history includes childhood immersion in the traditional musical culture of her village, adolescence and early adulthood in exile, in Cairo, before arriving in Australia.

“Saturday Night Live” follows the successful launch of the live world music performance in October 2006.

Ajak will be supported by “Unsung” who are a powerful vocal group who have been playing the festival circuit to rave reviews from the punters. “Unsung” comprise singer/songwriters Wendy Ealey, Leticia Maher, Moira Tyers and Neil Robertson.

The program will start early with “The Netherby Brothers” whose song “Beaconsfield” won the prestigious First Prize in the “Australia” category of the 2006 Australian National Songwriting Awards.

About the performers

AJAK KWAI & THE BAND

Strong blends of African rhythms over layers of European style instrumentation that with their surging Sudanese dance rhythms brings the audience to its feet. Ajak performs her original songs in a new and vibrant Afro-Dinka style with a contemporary edge. She sings in her native Dinka language as well as English and Arabic.

UNSUNG

A new contemporary award winning outfit of musicians and songwriters whose four original voices and huge vocal harmonies will blow you off the dance floor. With a distinctive style and influences from rock, pop and jazz through to folk and blues you will think, laugh and dance through their performance.

THE NETHERBY BROTHERS

Contemporary folk music with linkage to the great folk singers and groups of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s that takes you along with their experience in Australia and travel to the far-flung corners of the globe.