8 August 2010
1pm
Parkinson Street
Weston Creek
ACT
The celtalicious new CC CD 'Sunday at Sandy's' will be officially unveiled at Weston's splendid Irish Club.
It's free — the gig, not the CD — and there'll be food laid on. I'm certainly going.
Here's the band round at Sandy's garage sale attempting to sell a couple of old instruments to tide us through until we become rich and famous when the CD goes triple platypus.
L to R: Jonesy, Petey, Cassidy, Blakey, Sandy.
29 August 2010
5pm
Charnie Shops
Charnwood
ACT
Back to the 80s!* Get out your ugg boots, plaid and heritage stretch stonewash and titivate the mullet for an afternoon in the cage at the Charnie Labor Club with Belco's lovable Celtick psychobogans: Cassidy's Ceili.
Free admission: just try not to throw stuff. Or you could lob us a lobster plus five and take away A NICE NEW CD!
*1780s actually...
17 September 2010
Gundagai
NSW
02 9489 2780
Here a launch, there a launch: ev'rywhere a CD launch...
25 September 2010
3pm probably...
Hackett
ACT
Canberra's oldest boy band joins the women of Polifemy for some afternoon delight.
26 September 2010
The Pocket Score Company and Polifemy at St. Paul's Church
Another day, another saint...
2 October 2010
12pm
Federal Highway
near Sutton
NSW
Tulip Top Gardens: a family venture well deserving of your support. If you're thinking of going to Floriade, come here first!
Here's a snippet from their website:
Tulip Top Gardens – established in 1997 is a world class exhibition of half a million tulips and is open daily from 9.00am-5.00pm.
'The 10 acre garden of magnificent tulips, daffodils, and other spring flowers creates a spectacular display. Hundreds of blossom trees nestle between the flowers and provide a magic pathway to the cascading waterfall and watercourse with classical music wafting through the air in the hidden valley. Take the popular pathway past the rosemary field framed by unique blossom trees to our 70 metre high viewing platform for the perfect photo. '
Telephone: 02 6230 3077
Facsimile: 02 6230 3657
E-mail: tuliptopgardens@bigpond.com.au
Now, there was this joke doing the rounds when I was a lad in Finchley: the punch line was 'Tulips from Hamster Jam' but I can't remember the story. Maybe it's just as well.
4 October 2010
12pm
Federal Highway
near Sutton
NSW
The Tulip was originally a wild flower, growing in Central Asia. It was first cultivated by the Turks as early as 1000 AD, The flower was introduced in Western Europe and the Netherlands in the 17th century by Carolus Clusius, a famous biologist from Vienna. In the 1590’s he became the director of the Hortus Botanicus, the oldest botanical garden of Europe, in Leiden. He was hired by the University of Leiden to research medicinal plants and, while doing so, he received some bulbs from his friend, Ogier de Busbecq, the Ambassador to Constantinople (presently Istanbul). He had seen the beautiful flower called the tulip, after the Turkish word for turban, growing in the palace gardens and sent a few to Clusius for his garden in Leiden. He planted them and this was the beginning of the amazing bulb fields we see today.
http://www.holland.nl/uk/holland/sights/tulips-history.html
...and it's the Long Weekend, so of course you'll be able to attend: and when you're bored by bulbs, buy a brand-new album from Cassidy's Ceili. It's bonzer, boomer, ripper and grouse (as we say in Canberra) and I like it so much I have several.
14 November 2010
ANDREW CRONSHAW with TIGRAN ALEKSANYAN & IAN BLAKE
Church Street
Colchester
CO1 1NF
England
01206 500900
info@colchesterartscentre.com