MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW 2017 PROGRAM SATURDAY 5TH AUGUST Click to website: http://www.australianmusician.com.au/melbourne-guitar-show/ *PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE AON WHAMMY BAR EXCLUSIVELY ACOUSTIC AON MEZZANINE STAGE WINNERS CIRCLE WORKSHOP ROOM UP CLOSE & Presented by Australian Musician and Triple M FM Level 1 Escalator West Level 1 Escalator West PERSONAL Audio by Advanced Audio STAGE Level 1 Escalator East 10.30am 10.30am Cafe Corner. 11.OOam AMEB Rock School Clinic Ground Level WEEKEND WARRIORS SHOWCASE UKOLOGY With contemporary music now such a significant part of See two great Weekend Warrior bands open the guitar show. Alex Burns has become very popular in the Australian modern music tuition, Rockschool presents a new and Get up close and personal This program gets lapsed musicians back into playing music 11.30am blues scene having performed countless venues and engaging syllabus, as rigorous in content and delivery as any with the Pros, in this play and living their rock dream NICK CHARLES major festivals. Alex is joined by the incomparable classical instrumental syllabus to date. Teachers will be able & chat session. It’s an 11.45am A class act, revered by peers and Michael Bright on guitar, with Ken Borlaise on stand up to structure lessons through a goal-directed process using MGS Q & A where you get OPAL OCEAN critics as one of the finest pickers bass. up-to-date, popular material with outcomes that are sure to to talk to the pros and hear and players in the land. 2015 Artist some of their magic too. Opal Ocean is a powerhouse instrumental duo that shifts 12.OO noon improve and develop the performance abilities and overall paradigms of the acoustic guitar. of the Year at the Port Fairy Folk musicality of students. Presented by AMEB Festival LLOYD SPIEGEL IN CONCERT 12noon 12.45pm Lloyd Spiegel is an artist at the forefront and cutting 11.30am PHIL MANNING GEOFF ACHISON & MATTY T WALL edge of Australian Blues. It’s that unique experience HISTORY OF AMERICAN GUITAR MAKING Phil Manning is an combined with a relentless touring schedule and stage Our electric dedication to the blues, Australian style featuring 12.30am Presented by Jon Lee, Washburn USA’s Chief Designer, and Australian blues legend, presence that has seen him become a driving force in the perenial Geoff Achison but presenting some new blood in LUCAS MICHAILIDIS featuring Kirk Lorange with hands on demo. Presented by who along with his band Australian blues. Lloyd has just released a new studio Perth’s Matty T Wall Washburn guitars mates from Chain helped Lucas Michailidis has been album This Time Tomorrow. to pioneer an Antipodean described as ‘quite simply a guitar- 12.30pm 1.45pm 1.OOpm form of the blues which playing phenomenon.... he can IBANEZ GUITARS SHOWCASE carries on today through NICK JOHNSTON FIONA BOYES Featuring Simon Gardner Our special guest from Canada is one of the rising forces pull a rhythm and complexity out of a new generation of blues Fiona Boyes, an Aussie blues guitarist, vocalist, and in the guitar universe and displays his mastery courtesy of a hat’. Real art and enriching food aficionados. Over the songwriter, who has been recording & performing for 1.30pm Schecter guitars. Don’t miss it. for the soul is what you get with a last few decades, Phil’s Lucas peformance. more than 25 years, building a career that has taken BOSS SYNTH & MULTI FX MASTERCLASS musical tastes have 2.45pm her to major festivals and stages around the world Featuring Alex Huchings from BOSS (UK) broadened to include folk, YAMMOUNI & SYLVIO PROJECT 2.00pm celtic and world music Marcel and Andy have been long-standing sidemen for some 1.30pm GUITAR PLAYERS SESSION 1 2.30pm flavours. of Australia’s finest artists. Their brand of improv will take TIM O’BRIEN Some of our finest blues exponents will talk about their LINE 6 VARIAX & HELIX GUITAR you on a journeyfrom the depths of tranquility to a blaze of A performer of solo fingerstyle approach, plus there’ll be finger-picking good solos and TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE 2.00pm face-me lting glory. guitar and member of “all-in” jams. Nick Charles hosts Shannon Bourne, Known for his work with acclaimed metal band Twelve Foot KIRK LORANGE Kirk Lorange has played 3.30pm The O’Brien Ensemble, a “Hot Lloyd Spiegel, Fiona Boyes, Phil Manning, Andrew Ninja, Stevic Mackay will be demonstrating his signature Wrigglesworth & Geoff Achison with the Who’s Who of STEPHEN TARANTO Club and Acoustic Swing Band”, Variax Shuriken guitar and the latest in the flagship HELIX Tim O’Brien performs for Sigma range of guitar processors Australian music over Sydney-based Guitarist who currently plays with the Tech- 3.45pm Guitars many years. He is a Progressive Metal band ‘The Helix Nebula’, as a Solo Artist, GYPSY FIRE 3.30pm renowned slide exponent, and has performed for many Australian-based Progressive Gypsy fire is an internationally acclaimed Gypsy Jazz, THE ADVANCING GUITARIST author and teacher. His bands. Celtic and world music group.The lineup features Featuring Lucas Michalaidis and Stephen Magnusson plane talk series of books Matthew Fagan on 10 string Spanish and gypsy guitar this session is based on the landmark book The Advancing 4.15pm 2.30 and videos attest to his and Austral,ia’s leading European born gypsy jazz Guitarist - by Mick Goodrick. Coincidently, this influential book SIMON GARDNER & THE BIG SKY work in music education. TIRI PESTRIVAS performers Alex Yarosh on guitar (Ukraine) and Romana will be celebrating it’s 30th anniversary since first publication Be on hand as Kirk Brisbane based musician, Simon Gardner is a rock guitar Tiri is a fingerstyle guitarist from Geermans Violin (Prague) since 1987. Approaches to scale and chord voicing will be discusses the guitar and virtuoso who will playing his original music backed by his Melbourne, Australia. Presented by among the topics covered. his methods. 4-piece band The Big Sky 4.45pm Ruben Guitars ULTRAFOX 5.15pm 4.30pm Ultrafox presents the finest in Le Jazz Hot in the BOSS ELECTRIC GUITAR ORCHESTRA infectious style of Django Reinhardt and The Hot Club MICHAEL DOLCE MASTERCLASS Matthew Fagan will put on show some bright new young of France. Elegant swing , tender jazz ballads, gypsy Featuring Michael Dolce (The Voice houseband) in guitarists in the inaugural performance of the Boss Electric waltzes and hot rhythm are just a few of the trademark masterclass. Presented by Cilia Guitars Guitar Orchestra. sounds. The Melbourne Guitar Show acknowledges its sponsors for their support in staging the event MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW 2017 PROGRAM SUNDAY 6TH AUGUST Click to website: http://www.australianmusician.com.au/melbourne-guitar-show/ *PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE AON WHAMMY BAR EXCLUSIVELY ACOUSTIC AON MEZZANINE STAGE WINNERS CIRCLE WORKSHOP ROOM UP CLOSE & Presented by Triple M and Australian Musician STAGE Level 1 Escalator West Level 1 Escalator West PERSONAL 10.30am Level 1 Escalator East 12.00 noon Cafe Corner. MOVIE: ACOUSTIC UPRISING STEVE HACKETT ACOUSTIC TRIO 10.30am Ground Level Acoustic Uprising is a documentary film exploring the 11.00am Steve Hackett has had a remarkable musical career AMEB CLASSICAL GUITAR SESSION Get up close and innovative world of Acoustic FingerStyle guitar featuring JOSEPH BALFE and is renowned as one of the most innovative rock Session dedicated to the classical guitar presented by personal with the Pros, interviews with many leading players including Andy Joseph has won numerous musicians of our time, beginning with prog rock legends AMEB in this play & chat McKee, Kaki King, Newton Faulkner and Tommy instrumental & overall awards in Genesis. Steve has released more than 30 solo albums session. It’s an MGS Q Emmanuel. The Acoustic Uprising looks at the rich history both NZ & Australia since first as well as the seven albums he recorded with Genesis. 11.30am & A where you get to of FingerStyle and the fusion of musical ideas the style competing in 2013, including Overall Steve takes time out from his Genesis Revisited theatre talk to the pros and hear has become known for. By Roller Coaster Productions. Intermediate at the NZ Gold Guitar shows to play an exclusive trio show for us. COLE CLARK GUITARS SHOWCASE some of their magic too. 11.45am Awards, Overall at the CCMA’s in PREMIUM TICKET REQUIRED for trio performance. Featuring Lloyd Spiegel ALEX HUTCHINGS Tamworth AUS, runner-up Aristocrat 12.00 noon UK guitar wiz exclusively for MGS017 - a guy who’s Entertainer of the Year (AUS). 1.00pm 12.30pm MIKE ELRINGTON accumulated millions of YouTube views has got to be STEVE HACKETT Q&A Mike Elrington is a something to see. At the MGS2017 for BOSS. 12.00 noon TONE DESIGN FOR THE GT-1 gifted singer songwriter Steve Hackett in conversation with Australian Musician SERGIO ERCOLE Featuring Josh Munday with incredible guitar 12.30pm editor Greg Phillips and taking questions from the floor. Sergio has spent a significant time skills. Standing at SHANNON BOURNE All welcome. Premium ticket not necessary for Q&A almost two metres tall, Described in 2016 as best on ground at the MGS, abroad, studying and performing 1.30pm extensively throughout the 1.45pm delivering his signature, Shannon Bourne returns with another vibrant NICK JOHNSTON CLINIC gut-wrenching vocals performance, featuring Carl Pannuzzo & Luke Hodgson Mediterranean including Andalusia, GUITAR PLAYERS SESSION 2 Florence, Sienna, and Adriatic Coast. Our special Canadian guest features in a clinic for like an instrument all on The acoustic guitar has left its imprint on many cultures 1.30pm His incredible classical proficiency Schecter Guitars its own, very few people and musical genres across the world.