Solace (above) and Red Rattler are a group of locals who will perform at the Dalyston Hall next month. By Martin Cox
SOLACE and The Red Rattlers are groups with eerily similar people, mainly because they are mostly the same people but playing vastly different types of music.
The two groups will perform at Dalyston Hall at 2pm on Sunday December 8. For this concert we are very lucky to also be joined by the Stringz Costero virtuoso Dayna Roberts on violin.
Solace performs classical and folk music from the 14th to the 19th Century with a sprinkling of film and popular songs from the 20th Century. They include a nonet (that’s nine!) of singers plus recorders, violin and keyboard.
SOLACE and The Red Rattlers are groups with eerily similar people, mainly because they are mostly the same people but playing vastly different types of music.
The two groups will perform at Dalyston Hall at 2pm on Sunday December 8. For this concert we are very lucky to also be joined by the Stringz Costero virtuoso Dayna Roberts on violin.
Solace performs classical and folk music from the 14th to the 19th Century with a sprinkling of film and popular songs from the 20th Century. They include a nonet (that’s nine!) of singers plus recorders, violin and keyboard.
The Red Rattlers perform sing-along hits from the 1920s to the 70s with a more up-tempo vibe. Lyrics are provided along with a dance floor for patrons to let their hair down and their voices to ring out. It’s like an old-fashioned sing-song around the piano on a slightly bigger scale.
The musicians are all local Bass Coasters, members of local choirs and bands who have come together slowly like passengers boarding an old Red Rattler. We are definitely on the lookout for more passengers of the instrumental variety – cello, violin, percussion in particular.
Solace began with Martin Cox, a recent refugee from the Big Smoke, who has been holidaying in Kilcunda since the 1980s, who teamed up with two fabulous singers from the Bass Coast Chorale, Kate Cleeland and Helen Norman to play around with some classical duets.
Before we could sing Figaro twice we had grown to a troupe of nine singers complete with a small baroque recorder ensemble who were kidnapped one dark and stormy Wonthaggi morning from the U3A.
The Red Rattlers grew out of another small singing group who had a Bob Dylan moment when some members turned up with keyboard, guitar and a ukulele and the idea of the 1920s-70s sing-along band burst into life.
These fabulous singers and instrumentalists one day parked their old Red Rattler at Solace station. The two groups merged into one big happy musical family and the rest is the future!
For more information and any instrumentalists interested in joining please contact Martin on 0408 163 355.
The musicians are all local Bass Coasters, members of local choirs and bands who have come together slowly like passengers boarding an old Red Rattler. We are definitely on the lookout for more passengers of the instrumental variety – cello, violin, percussion in particular.
Solace began with Martin Cox, a recent refugee from the Big Smoke, who has been holidaying in Kilcunda since the 1980s, who teamed up with two fabulous singers from the Bass Coast Chorale, Kate Cleeland and Helen Norman to play around with some classical duets.
Before we could sing Figaro twice we had grown to a troupe of nine singers complete with a small baroque recorder ensemble who were kidnapped one dark and stormy Wonthaggi morning from the U3A.
The Red Rattlers grew out of another small singing group who had a Bob Dylan moment when some members turned up with keyboard, guitar and a ukulele and the idea of the 1920s-70s sing-along band burst into life.
These fabulous singers and instrumentalists one day parked their old Red Rattler at Solace station. The two groups merged into one big happy musical family and the rest is the future!
For more information and any instrumentalists interested in joining please contact Martin on 0408 163 355.