$10

Bookings phone Roger and Pat,

9489 9052 (bring a plate to share)

MIKE COOPER returns for another of his annual Australian tours. For the past 40 years British guitarist Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer tracing a path completely his own performing and recording solo and in a number of inspired groupings. His roots lie in acoustic country blues as one of the handful of pioneering players of the Sixties Acoustic British Blues Boom playing with and alongside blues legends such as Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White and others.
Cooper has arguably stretched the possibilities of the guitar even more than his better known contemporaries Davy Graham Bert Jansch John Renbourne etc. by pursuing it into the more avant-garde areas also occupied by contemporary guitar innovators such as Elliott Sharp, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith and Marc Ribot. His eclectic mix of styles range  freely through traditional country blues, folk, original songs, free improvisation, pop songs, electronic music and ‘sonic gestural’ playing combined with the sounds of Pacific slack key open tunings and lap steel guitar. He is also a film and video maker / graphic artist /music journalist and collector of Hawaiian shirts.
http://web.mac.com/cooparia

KAVISHA MAZZELLA - - Born in London England, to an Italian father and Anglo Burmese mother and  migrating to Australia in the early sixties,Kavisha is an ARIA Award winning musician and singer who crosses musical boundaries and create community experiences in her shows .She makes passionate, life-affirming music which is an energetic fusion of her own original music in which you can also hear echoes of Italian folk traditions tinged with Country, Celtic and Gypsy styles....
As well as leading the Kavisha Mazzella Trio (with Irine Vela and Peter Vadiveloo) , she collaborates with many artists in theatre projects,teaches workshops in voice in Italy and Australia and has run choirs such as Melbourne based "La Voce Della Luna" Italian Womens choir of which she is the current Musical Director.In 2008 Kavisha was a recipient of the Victorian Governments Multicultural Awards for Excellence for her contribution to Community Arts.
http://www.kavisha.com/