Month: August 2017

Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: Ari & Rhiannon for Comedy 4 Karma

August 31, 2017 Mandy Hall
Comedy 4 Karma, the annual fundraiser for the Daylesford Dharma School on Saturday 16th September at Daylesford Town Hall is set to host a stellar bill of comedians including Bob Franklin, and MC Dave Callan, plus more to be announced soon.

Providing pre-event warm up tunes for the audience before the laughs begin, will be much loved local act Ari & Rhiannon. Punters will be treated with their sassy tunes whilst grabbing the opportunity to nourish their souls and bellies with great wholesome local food via the food truck and bid on the Silent Auction featuring excellent locally sourced items. Comedy 4 Karma is an important and much needed annual fundraiser for the Daylesford Dharma School (currently Australia’s only Buddhist primary school and one of only three schools of its kind in the world).

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Sydney Guitar Festival – Slide Evolution: Jeff Lang, Dom Turner & Fiona Boyes, Factory Theatre. 26th August 2017

August 30, 2017 Mandy Hall
Sydney Guitar Festival 2017 proudly presents an evening of Blues inspired Slide Guitar with Jeff Lang, Dom Turner (Backsliders) and The Fiona Boyes Band.

These three iconic artists each presented a set of their finest original compositions in a variety of arrangements, followed by a unique and exciting collaboration exploring some of the Slide pioneers from the Delta to the Contemporary use of Slide around the globe.

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Food & Lifestyle Scene

Recipe Scene: Sticky Peanut Butter Pecan Buns

August 30, 2017 Kate Delbridge
I adore peanut butter – love it in savoury satay sauces, sweet things or just straight form the jar. This recipe comes from the cookbook The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book. I’ve changed the dough recipe to make it quicker, and they put raisins in the filling. Feel free to do so, but I felt there was enough going on without adding them. You can use crunchy or smooth peanut butter, I favour smooth. These buns smell divine as they are baking, and are best eaten while still slightly warm with the deliciously sticky topping running down the sides.

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Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: Mick Bower of the 1965 Masters Apprentices

August 25, 2017 Mandy Hall
Melburnians are about to experience a very special piece of music history this September as the reconstituted expanded nine-piece 1965 Masters Apprentices return to the music city to perform, with founding members Mick Bower and Brian Vaughton sharing the same stage for the first time in Melbourne in 50 years. This is special, one night only show, is a retrospective look at what good music is all about – a then and now account of 1965 Masters Apprentices.

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Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: Hap Hayward

August 24, 2017 Mandy Hall
“…I hate happy families – we were happy for a while…” So sung a seventeen year old Hap Hayward singer/lyricist for The Dead Salesmen on their Bumper Bar Stickers song. At Forty Seven, Hayward thinks he may have been overstating things a little, but the family dynamic and all that comes with it has always been “a well of inspiration” for him to explore through song.

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