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February 19, 2010
Lunar New Year, Lane Cove Plaza 5:00 pm
GSB performs contemporary Cantonese and Mandarin songs by Faye Wong, Coco Lee, Frances Yip and Teresa Teng. In full "Chiggles" costume.
December 12, 2009
Mowbray Public School Christmas Carols 2009 from 6:30pm.
GSB will be doing a few Christmas favourites plus an
original first performed last year called Mowbray Christmas Again.
September 18, 2009
Kaleidescope - a colourful multicultural concert of music and dance celebrating the diversity of ethnic groups in the municipality of Lane Cove. Shenoa, Steffi, Emily and Samantha in costume performed classic ballads including Delta Goodrem's Born to Try.
September 13, 2009
Chatswood Rangers Big Day Out - Naremburn Park, Naremburn. A day of entertainment for young families starting at 10:00am. Under a steaming, hot, sun and dry wind, GSB performed beautifully for a full hour. A highlight was Ben's rendition of Shaddap You Face, originally by Joe Dolce, which had the crowd singing along.
September 11th, 2009
Heat 2 of Fitz Band Comp, with Benjamins Big Band, Adam Hendry Band, Sat in A Hat and Kristen Adams. At St Ives Youth Centre, off Memorial Avenue, St. Ives (behind St Ives Shopping Village). One of the longest running band comps in Sydney, organised by Jordan Howe and supported by Turramurra Music.
July 29th, 2009
McDonalds Performing Arts Challenge, Petersham RSL. A fantastic night of performances. Also appearing was be Jump The Park, Mirror Works (1st), Vikram Kaushik, Zygotic, The Vanirs, Metallic Panda, A Bad Days Goodnight, Killara High School (2nd) and Woollahra Public School Band.
July 12th, 2009
Shenoa South awarded 3rd place in the Sydney Eisteddfod - McDonalds Performing Arts Challenge Under 14 Original Composition section with her song The World's Not Perfect. Adjudicator was Sydney music & TV legend Rory O'Donoghue who wrote the music to and sang on the Australian classic Farewell Aunty Jack.
July 7, 2009
Shenoa, Steffi and Emily fly the flag for GSB at McDonalds Performing Arts Challenge Vocal Trio (Open) section with a Highly Commended. The Fifth House, Sister2Sister and Unified scooped the major placings.
June 25, 2009
The full Great South Band with both boys and girls returned to the Mall once again. 7:15pm Kian, Shenoa, Cassie, Ben, Samantha, Gilbert, Michael & Steffi played their exciting blend of coastal music, performing originals and closing with a great rendition of Stevie Wonder's Superstition.
June 19, 2009
Synergy Youth Centre, Lane Cove 7:00 pm. We played with a number of great bands for the Synergy Band Night - right next to the Lane Cove Pool. Also on the bill: Snow Leopard, Dirty Waves, Cam Nacson and the Fifth Wheel, Because They Can, Claire.
May 15, 2009 - New video Soul Kind of Feeling originally by Dynamic Hepnotic's posted on Youtube.
February 26, 2009
GSB Girls do pop-country ballads and new originals at Youth In The Mall, Chatswood Mall. Shenoa, Samantha and Georgia delivered some great tunes like Travellin' Soldier and attracted a crowd of around 40-50 people at times.
February 6, 2009
Lunar New Year Concert, Lane Cove Plaza. 4:45pm. Performers with Chinese, Korean and Japanese backgrounds celebrating lunar new year. Kelly Chan sang songs in Chinese. Great South Band with Gilbert on trumpet performed pop songs. Shenoa looked very oriental in her black and red Cheong Sam.
January 21, 2009
Tamworth Country Music Festival, Peel St. We were playing Slim Dusty's Saddle Boy and a lady yelled out "Hey you guys rock !". That was nice -thank you !
We also performed a song in a quest at The Pub - a Carter & Carter song Leap Before You Look. GSB's first stage performance in Tamworth!
January 3, 2009
Great South Band releases I Wish music video on Youtube. Originally by Stevie Wonder from the Talking Book album.
December 29, 2008
Two songs are released on iTunes. Blue River, an original recording and a cover of I Wish written by Stevie Wonder.
December 28, 2008
Summer City Busking, Sydney with Kian, Jay & Shenoa
December 18, 2008
Youth in the Mall - Chatswood Mall - A big group of special guests for the last gig of the year. This was a great night, right up until the squall hit only minutes from the start of our set, forcing its cancellation. Plan B was activated - some lovely Vietnamese food was had at the Golden Bo restaurant.
December 13, 2008
Mowbray Carols - the ultimate community carols on the North Shore. Featuring the legendary Mowbray Parents Band. Great South Band performed an original song "Holy Christmas Again" during the Carols, and later during Apres-Carols with Walk Like an Egyptian by Bangles and Soul Kind of Feeling by Dynamic Hepnotics.
December 8, 2008
Gilbert & Ben appeared in Lane Cove Youth Orchestra's end of year Christmas Concert at Lane Cove Public School.
November 27,28,29
Shenoa South performed the role of Toto in the excellent production "The Wiz" produced by SYMT. Sydney Youth Musical Theatre produces two shows each year for children agen 10-17.
November 10, 2008
The Australian Childrens Music Foundation announced the 2008 Primary School Winners of the National Songwriting Competition.
First Place "Environmental Theme" - Blue River by Shenoa South
Recorded by Samantha, Cassie and Shenoa from Great South Band, the entry impressed a panel of judges that included Amanda Pelman, Ian "Dicko" Dickson, George Ellis, Megan Crozier, Peter Northcote, Erana Clarke, Marcus Holden, Mark Callaghan, Rebecca Henry & Cameron McGlinchey
October 26, November 9 2008
Spring City Busking, Sydney with Kian, Jay & Shenoa.
October 25, 2008
Kaleidescope Festival Lane Cove celebrating cultural diversity in the community. Shenoa performed her first ever self-accompanied 20 minute solo spot, including 2 original songs.
Sept 19th, 2008
Fitz Band Comp at St Ives Youth Centre. With an average age of 11, the band was cheered loudly from start to finish, and received the accolades of many for their enthusiastic performance of classic songs like Soul Kind of Feeling originally by Dynamic Hepnotics.
Sept 14th, 2008
Shenoa South awarded 2nd Prize in McDonald's Performing Arts Challenge "Own Composition Under 14" section for her song Blue River.
July 8, 2008
GSB vocal trio Cassie, Georgia and Shenoa performed Edelweiss and Big Yellow Taxi as the youngest performers in the Open Age section of the McDonald Performing Arts Challenge.
June 27, 2008
Mowbray Pizza Party, an annual school talent development night. GSB performed Stevie Wonder's classic "I Wish" as a well received closer. Earlier Shenoa accompanied by Samantha on cello, Cassie & Georgia on backing vocal performed her beautiful song Blue River.
Gilbert E. (Lane Cove Youth Orchestra): trumpet & vocals
Cassie M. (Sydney Children's Choir): vocals
Jack S. (numerous school and local jazz & concert bands): bass, guitar and violin
Samantha L.: (Mowbray Camerata): digital piano, keyboards and cello
Georgia H.: vocals
Ben K.: saxaphone
Bjorn E.: bass guitar
May 18, 2008
1st Place - Contemporary Vocal 10&U Northern Beaches Eisteddfod awarded to Shenoa South for her performance of Green Day's Good Riddance song.
March 8, 2008
The Entrance Music Festival. Busking to a responsive audience beside the sea (and the KFC !) - a day of fun with great performers, rides, fairy floss and fire engines to clamber over.
February 15, 2008
Chinese Lunar New Year Concert, Lane Cove Plaza
Songs included Reflection from the Mulan movie accompanied by Sophie on flute, I Like Chinese by Eric Idle from Monty Python, sung by Gilbert & Shenoa, and the beautifully poetic Moonstruck by Kev Carmody.
5:00pm to 5:45pm
January 2008
Tamworth Country Music Festival
A great week of attending concerts, busking, performing in talent quests and soaking up the unique experience that only Tamworth can deliver once a year. Shenoa was fortunate to win the Barry Thornton Memorial Encouragement Award in the CCMA Open Instrumental section for a cello rendition of Wichita Lineman.
December 23, 2007 FM99.3 Richard Osborne's Weekend Mode interview and performance by Shenoa. 11:20am - 11:35am.
December 15, 2007
Sydney's best community carols event - our local School carols night has a mixture of Traditional Carol Singing, Jazz, Opera & Pop. With Gilbert, Samantha, Ben, Georgia & Johnny GSB played a Christmas favourite Jingle Bell Rock and Bananaphone.
December 15, 2007 Christmas Melody Market, Chatswood Mall 9 am to 11 am. With special guests Gilbert, Samantha, Ben & Georgia appearing from 10am. We played a few christmas tunes to add to the spirit of the season.
October-December 2007
Spring City Busking - on our free weekends
you might see us around the city of Sydney.
December 8, 2007
Pitt St Mall 11am-12:30pm - with Gilbert on trumpet, beside a Christmas tree - thanks to the many who stayed to watch.
November 21, 2007
Shenoa South named as a Finalist in Australian Children's Music Foundation, Primary School Grade 3-4 National Songwriting Awards 2007 by Don Spencer, Founder and Director.
November 17, 2007 Australian Songwriters Perform Concert at Palm Grove, Darling Harbour. Great South Band created a small crowd of about 30 people who were enchanted by a half hour of the groups original songs.
November 11, 2007
Pitt St Mall 1 to 2pm, 2:30-3pm - most loved song was Beautiful.
October 7, 2007
Pitt St Mall 12 to 1:30pm - thanks to all who made us feel welcome. We'll be back.
July 27, 2007 Pizza Party 2007 with Gilbert, Samantha & Ben at the local school. A skiffle, jazz, pop version of Mummy is Doing Her Exercise complete with an exercising mother, Mei Lai. Her ballerina-like aerobics were a delight and a highlight of the show.
Shenoa also made her first public performance on saxophone, playing a Neal Hefti & Bobby Troup jazz piece called Girl Talk from 1966.
July 10, 2007 FM99.3 Rob Marcs Breakfast Show interview and performance with Gilbert & Samantha. 7:30am to 8:30am.
July 6,7 2007
Tamworth Winter CCMA. Shenoa sang Carter & Carter's Leap Before You Look and God Didn't Make Mistakes, along with Kev Carmody's poetic Moonstruck. She also took out 1st prize in the Juvenile Instrumental Solo section for her cello rendition of the bush tune Ceilidh.
May 25, 2007 Cove Sports Club, Castle Cove
(Gig Report by Shenoa & Kian)
S: (Shenoa) What was the performance like?
K: (Kian) It was pretty fun!!!
S: Did you do any of your own songs?
K: Yes, Move it and Groove it!!!
S: Yeh it was a fun night! 'Cause it was Kian's birthday, the kids made this really disgusting party food mixture out of; salt, pepper, ketchup, sugar, you name it!
J: (Jay) How was the performance Shenoa ?
S. OK, it was freaky singing when my cello teacher was listening!
J: Did you do any of your own songs?
S: Yes, This World's So Bright, my latest song! :-D
S: Hey Jay, which song do you think went down the best?
J: They were all great!!! And so were our special guests Gilbert on trumpet, Samantha on cello, Ben on sax and Zachary on cello - just AWESOME !!!
S: How many songs did you do?
J: We did 8 pop-folk-country songs, and got lots of great feedback from the audience.
March 25, 2007
Election Day Fete with special guests Janet Long. Janet is an amazing unheralded folk singer whose rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" was very moving. Gilbert on trumpet and Samantha on piano once again revealed their musical talent and versatility with the Eva Cassidy jazz-blues classic "Wade on the Water", sung by Shenoa with Kian on drums. A very relaxed and laid back folk offering to close an eventful day.
March 11, 2007
Central Coast Music Festival at The. Another appreciative street audience, some of whom were capturing the performance on video camera. A beautiful setting for a festival.
January 23-26, 2007 Tamworth Music Festival busking with a 2 hour set of originals, and popular country, folk and gospel tunes, played in the main street of Tamworth to an appreciative gathering of mums, daughters, families, locals and people from all over Australia. Shenoa also performed admirably in the CCMA U13 Talent Quest, and showed off her song Ernie the Donkey at The Pub's Jazzer Quest.
During the CCMA heats, she had the opportunity to perform a Sara Storer original Back Out Back, with a backing band that included the talented Duncan Toombs - Sara's Tamworth guitarist and celebrity fiddle player/arranger Wayne Goodwin who has played for the likes of CSNY, Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris.
10th December 2006
Our first public performance with Shenoa on piano and Kian on hi hat for a jazzy little instrumental number called Scooby Do Wup, at a local piano school.
9th December 2006
Christmas Carols items at our local school. We were joined by our special guests Gilbert on trumpet and Samantha on piano.
Gilbert solo'd beautifully with Samantha's fine piano accompanyment during the fancy dress parade and afterwards Shenoa sang Aussie Christmas which is our version of the classic Bing Crosby tune White Christmas.
Shenoa: Afterwards people asked me if I was nervous, and I said "no because I've done it before".
27th October, 2006
A return to the singer/songwriter night at the fabulously cosy Cove Sports Club aka Tennis Cove (yes they do play tennis there too). We did songs by Mariah Carey (Hero), Carole King (You've Got a Friend) and Eva Cassidy (Wade in the Water) plus Reflections from the Mulan movie.
18th August, 2006
The Annual School Pizza Party had truckloads of talent .. we played our part with a hot rendition of Crazy Frog's Axel F featuring Michael on bass, with vocal support from Zachary & Hannah. Closed out the night with a song that the Carpenters turned into a hit called Sing !
2nd-11th August
Shenoa was the youngest cast member in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a fabulous production by www.pennypresents.org
6th-8th July, 2006
Tamworth CCMA Annual Winter Talent Series, Family Hotel Tamworth. Shenoa delivered a moving rendition of Kumbaya. Our original Kangaroo the Shopper was well received too.
14th May 2006
Performed a collection of songs for an audition @ 2 MBS-FM in Sydney. Unfortunately, we didn't cut it - but there's always next year.
29th April 2006
Aunty Pam's 50th Birthday Party
It was great to surprise her - she never knew ! Played Daddy Fox, Blowin' in the Wind, My Favourite Things and If I Had a Hammer.
28th April 2006
GSB performed at Cove Sports Club, Sydney for the songwriters night - last Friday of every month. Started with an American folk song Daddy Fox which people really liked. Dad's song Oday Okay about loyalties spread across two countries was also well received.
The Sunsetters Troupe 2006 Series
22nd April , 8th April, 25th March, 11th March, 25th February.
Shenoa on classical piano (Minuet 2 and A Short Story), with Janet Long, Dad and Pete Calf doing folky-country tunes including I am Australian, I'll Never Find Another You, You Raise Me Up, 500 Miles, Take Me Home Country Roads, May it Be, Six Ribbons, 4 Strong Winds and Maori Farewell.
27th Jan 2006 - Tamworth Country Music Festival Busking, Peel Street Tamworth
All the ones we knew plus one by the Fuellers, a band from Canberra.
6th December 2005 - Gong Gong & Paw Paw's 50th Wedding Anniversary
If I Had a Hammer, Turn Turn Turn and Blowin in the Wind.
6th June 2005 - School Pizza Party If I Had a Hammer with Shenoa on Cello and Vocal, Kian on Drums and Dad on guitar.
having fun
being coastal friends :-)
different schools
iPod, games, chat
and playing songs ♫
together as a group.
