Sydney Harmony & Australian Poetry – Arts Monday
Musical Director, Vicki Dwyer and founding member, Tony Sykes, and Author and Poet, Libby Hathorn are my guests today. Vicki Dwyer is the musical director of Sydney Harmony –an all-male a cappella choir that is internationally acclaimed for its unique ‘barbershop’ style 4-part a cappella harmony. Now in its 16th year, the 35-strong chorus of ‘amateurs with good voices’ performs regularly and competes nationally and internationally – being judged small chorus champions at the 2014 Pan Pacific contest, and chorus champions at this year’s 2015 Barbershop Harmony Australia’s Eastern Region contest.
SYDNEY HARMONY – Open Rehearsals Mondays 26 October and 16, 23, 30 November at Ron Dyer Centre, Miller St North Sydney
Holiday Voices concert Saturday 5 December 2pm and 8pm at
Independent Theatre, Miller St North Sydney
More info: www.sydneyharmony.com.au
This week we present Episode Five in our series on Australian Poets – Old & New with my guest, author and poet Libby Hathorn. Our fifth episode features John Shaw Neilson (1872 – 1942). Although largely untrained and only basically educated, John Shaw Neilson became known as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets, who wrote about the natural world and the beauty in it.
I look forward to your company 10.30am – 12.00pm
Margaux