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Jada Alberts
Jada is a Singer/Songwriter and Actor from the Top End.
Currently living in Melbourne she is in the process of
releasing her first EP, set to launch in November, 2009. Jada
has played at various venue's around Melbourne and works
regularly as an Actor, her most recent role as Lulu in
Melbourne Theatre Company's The Birthday Party.
Kevin Kropinyeri – Compere
Stand Up Comedian Winner 2008 Deadly Funny
Hailing from the Ngarrindjeri Nation along the Lower Murray River, Lakes and
Coorong region in South Australia, Kevin is a proud Aboriginal man who’s not
afraid to laugh at himself.
Rachel Maza Long
Originally from the Torres Strait Islands, Rachel Maza Long
comes from a family of actors that spans three generations.
She is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of
Performing Arts. She has had an impressive career in
theatre, film, television and radio since graduating in 1999,
with credits including the films Radiance, Cosi and Blood
and Ash, and television appearances in Sea Change,
Stingers and Marshall Law. She has also narrated ABC
Radio National’s recording of Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris
Pilkington (Nugi Garimara). In 1994 she was nominated for the Corner Award
by the Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle, for Best Performance in Radiance, and
in 2002 she was awarded a Green Room Award for Best Performance by an
Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Holy Day.
Tom Long
Tom graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art
(NIDA) in 1994 and has appeared in several Australian television
series, most notably the ABC hit SeaChange (1998-2000) and the
Nine Network police drama Young Lions (2002). He starred in the
Australian films Two Hands and The Dish, and played Brenden
Abbott in the 2003 telemovie, The Postcard Bandit. Tom’s recently
also appeared in the film The Book of Revelation and ABC TV
series, East of Everything.
Little G
Little G AKA Gina Chrisanthopoulos, draws inspiration from
her Aboriginal and Greek backgrounds when rapping,
dancing and performing. After studying Indigenous
Performing Arts at Swinburne University, Little G earned
herself a name performing as the lead in the hit hip-hop
musical Bass Anger which confronted issues of friendship,
violence, racism and love. She also worked at Northlands
SC as Koori liaison with the two Koori educators. Gina’s
performances have included many events in the
indigenous community in Melbourne with Uncle Richard Frankland and Uncle Kutcha Edwards
and gracing the stage of the Hamer Hall as a featured performer in the MIX IT UP, Visible
concert.
Kylie Farmer - Kaarljilba Kaardn
Kylie was born in Perth and has worked as an actor and model in
Western Australia for over 10 years. Screen credits include
ROSALIE’S STORY produced by Artemis International and directed
by Debbie Gittens, the lead role of Crystal in SA BLACK THING
produced by Core Films, ROLL, MAIN ACTORS and TO HELL AND
BACK. Theatre credits include ROMEO & JULIET for the Australian
Shakespeare Company, WELCOME TO COUNTRY for Yirra Yaakin
and the Perth International Arts Festival, ONE DAY IN ’67 Sydney
performances for Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and Sydney Theatre
Company, KING HIT, BOOYI KOORA KOORA Tortoise Dreaming
School Tour for Yirra Yaakin. Directing credits include WELCOME
TO COUNTRY for the Perth International Arts Festival and Assistant
Director for AMY GOES TO WADJEMUP
Cath Jamison
Woman of Deception mixes elements of daring stunts and
graceful illusion in her acclaimed work. From full stage
spectaculars to roving slight of hand work, Cath is comfortable
entertaining any crowd.
As an international award-winning artist working consistently
around Australia Cath knows how to keep a crowd on the edge
of their seat. She offers a fresh, theatrical approach to the world
of magic and intrigue.
Cath Jamison is provocative and unique, stylish and sensual.
Her illusion work, close-up magic and daring stunt shows are
like nothing you've witnessed before.
Cath was the first female magician to tour Australia and New
Zealand with the World Festival of Magic and the winner of the
Professional Stage Magician Award at the International
Magician Convention in 1998.
Paul Norton
Paul started playing bass in various bands in his teens, which
led to the formation of Melbourne band The Runners. After a
couple of years of constant live work The Runners were
signed to Mushroom records in 1981 and released their first
single Sure Fire Thing in 1982 followed by The album Hitting
the Wall and the single Endlessly. The Runners toured
constantly throughout the early eighties and went through
many line up changes before disbanding in 1985.
Paul spent the next couple of years playing with various bands
(Wendy and the Rocketts, Steve Hoy and the Hoy Boys)
before launching a solo career in 1988. Again signed to
Mushroom Records Paul released his first single Stuck On
You which received immediate airplay and got to number two
on the Australian charts. Paul then went to London to work
with producers Paul Muggleton and Mike Paxman on the next
single I Got You and the album Under a Southern Sky (the
song Southern Sky was later chosen for Australia Day
Celebrations at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney).
Paul worked live with his band for the next couple of years before teaming up with American
musician/producer T-Bone Wolk (Hall and Oates Carly Simon) to work on his second album Let
It Fly which was recorded at Metropolis studios in Melbourne and mixed in New York at Electric
Lady and Bearsville studios. Let It Fly was released in 1992 with the singles When We Were
Young and Lil Red Riding Hood. Paul worked live with his band over the next couple of years
touring extensively throughout Australia including many aboriginal communities and Arnhem
Land.
In 1994 Paul met Peter Wells RIP (Rose Tattoo) and Cletis Carr and together they formed
Hillbilly Moon and later that year released the album Hillbilly Moon Volume One with the song
She Left Me receiving solid airplay on Country Music Television.
Paul was Musical Director and wrote the score for The Australian Shakespeare’s production of
Much Ado About Nothing and the finale for the critically acclaimed comedy Certified Male.
Paul has written for and with some of Australia’s finest performers including Debra Byrne, Gerry
Hale, Wendy Stapleton, Donna Fisk and Michael Cristian, Dobe Newton and Colleen Hewitt. In
the last few years Paul has divided his time between writing producing and working live and is
currently working on a new album. 2006 saw Paul tour Australia with The Countdown
Spectacular, featuring 27 of Australia's top rock acts of the 70's and 80's performing to 100,000
people nationwide.
Noel Tovey
A dancer, actor and choreographer, Noel was the artistic director for
the indigenous welcoming ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Born in Melbourne, the son of an Aboriginal mother and father of
Scottish-African descent, Tovey endured sexual abuse, neglect and
poverty throughout his childhood and adolescence. Despite this
hardship he went on to become successful in the theatre in both
Australia and London, including appearing in the world premiere of
Oh! Calcutta! He taught at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and co-founded the London
Theatre for Children before returning to Australia in 1990. He recently
played the lead role in Skipping on Stars based on the life of
indigenous tightwire walker Con Colleano, performed to celebrate the
25th anniversary of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.
Wendy Stapleton
Trained as a youngster in Classical Ballet, Tap, Acting and
Singing, Wendy made her first professional appearance at the
age of nine at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Noel Coward's "SAIL
AWAY". She then performed regularly with J.C.Williamson’s for
many years combining this with weekly performances on
G.T.V.9’s TARAX SHOW. At 16 she became a professional
vocalist and has performed with the best of Australian Talent
among them John Farnham, Glen Shorrock, Jon English, Joe Camilleri etc.
In 1979 she signed with Mushroom Records and formed WENDY AND THE ROCKETTS,
touring Australia and overseas with acts including BRIAN ADAMS, Z.Z.TOP, & HALL AND
OATES .Her self penned single PLAY THE GAME went to No. 2 on the National Charts.
Her singing career has also embraced theatre performances such as "BAD BOY JOHNNY",
"THE MAGIC SHOW", "THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE", "WHAT’S GOIN’ ON" , "I ONLY WANNA
BE WITH YOU - THE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD STORY" both here and in the U.K. "TWO UP"
with Glen Shorrock, "DUSTY DORIS AND ME" and "SCREEN GEMS" with Dean Lotherington;
the title role of the singing voice of "LI’LL ELVIS" in the ABC cartoon of the same title and the
acclaimed all girl show "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS" starring WENDY, DEBRA BYRNE AND NIKKI
NICHOLLS.
Wendy appeared as Delta Goodrems’ mother "Trixie Tucker" in Neighbours and has appeared
in several episodes of "BLUE HEELERS", "HALLIFAX F.P." and Terence O'Connell’s short
movie "YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME".
Wendy has most recent project has been working on the play "Minefields and Miniskirts", at the
Playbox Theatre Melbourne. Minefields and Miniskirts is an original adaptation of Siobhan
McHugh’s bestselling book on the women who went to Vietnam during the war.
2006 saw Wendy tour Australia with the "Countdown Spectacular" featuring 27 of Australia's top
rock acts of the 70's and 80's, performing to over 100,000 nationwide.
Joe Dolce
African-born, Australian-resident singer/songwriter who
achieved fame with the million-selling song "Shaddap
You Face", recorded under his vehicle, the group
named Joe Dolce Music Theatre and released in 1980.
The song reached number one in 15 countries. The
track famously kept Ultravox's Vienna off the number
one singles spot in the U.K. Joe currently performs solo
shows and also frequently appears with his longtime
partner, Lin Van Hek as part of their folk music-literary
cabaret, Difficult Women which has been performing internationally since 1993.Dolce is of
Italian ancestry, and received the Advance Australia Award in 1981.
Constantina Bush & the Bushettes
Constantina Bush was born in 2008 for outblack in Melbourne. An Alter
Ego of Kamahi Djordon King she was created from the need to replace
another performer. The name Constantina Bush comes from a Time
when Kamahi Djordon King met Condoleezza Rice and stupidly
addressed her as Constantina Bush during a luncheon held for her
during the Commonwealth Games organized by Alexander Downer.
Isaac Drandich
Isaac is of the Nyungah (South West WA) on his mother’s side and Croatian on his father’s side.
He graduated from WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAPPA) in 1999 completing the
Indigenous Theatre Course. He has worked with companies such as Kooemba Jdarra, SA
Opera, Playbox/MaltHouse, Ilbijerri, HotHouse, Melbourne Workers Theatre and toured the
country telling stories through theatre. Issac has been involved in a workshop for the SA Opera
Company entitled Ingkata with Roz Horin and has just completed a season for the Sydney
Theatre Company of Romeo and Juliet in which he played Romeo.
Dobe Newton
In the late 1960s Dobe was saved from his university studies
and real life plans to be a lawyer by a bunch of Irish folkies who
introduced him to the Dubliners. He was handed a lagerphone
and a tin whistle, and bush music nestled in his bones.
In 1972 Dobe joined The Original Bushwhackers and Bullockies
Bush Band. The band quickly established ‘legendary’ pub
residencies in Melbourne’s inner north, and soon turned their
attention to the folk revival that was sweeping Europe, led by
English folk/rock bands Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention and
The Albion Band, all featuring the cream of traditional players in
new and exciting electric music experiments.
After more than a decade of life spent almost entirely touring
Australia and Europe, Dobe’s thoughts turned to home and
hearth – more particularly, to the matter of raising a family.
With two beautiful boys – Bill and Dan to enjoy, Dobe looked for other music-related things to do
during the Bushies ‘semi retirement’ from full-time touring and headed the recently formed WA
Music Industry Association and establish the WA Music Industry Awards, followed by a return to
Melbourne as CEO of the Victorian Rock Foundation and Melbourne Music Festival, and time
as National Director of Ausmusic’s Australian Music Week.
Running workshops, conferences, seminars and organising gigs in WA and Victoria reignited
the passion for education, and Dobe accepted an offer to join the teaching staff offering
Australia’s first TAFE course in Music Business.
Dobes commitment to the growth of Australian Music saw him as a member of the CMAA Board
and Executive for 10 years, to the planning and establishment, and development of the
Australian College of Country Music.
Remember the target ads in the 90’s with that home-grown voice? Dobe’s voiced the multiaward winning TV and radio ad for sixteen years and can still be heard being ‘friendly’, ‘sincere’
and proudly Australian for a variety of products and causes.
Dobe continues to do what he loves best - belting the hell out of the lagerphone more than
anything else he can think of – well, just about anything!