Music Benefit Gig..
Top Class Music Excursion
Music Coordinator, Kirsten Boerema took 30 students from Year 9-12 on an amazing excursion to Melbourne. The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority presented an inspiring selection of Victoria’s outstanding emerging young musicians which featured incredible young students who received very high grades for their VCE performance examinations in 2017. Compered by Assessors and the VCAA’s Curriculum Manager for the Performing Arts, the concerts presented a range of instruments, interpretations and styles by soloists and groups. The students came home totally inspired from the wide variety of performances they had seen throughout the day and evening.
And the musical is "Calamity Jane"
The annual School Production has been announced, and auditions are underway.
This year we have decided to go in a different direction, with an interpretation of a 1950s Hollywood musical, ’Calamity Jane’. Social mores have, thankfully, changed, and there is plenty of scope to heighten, exaggerate and satirise as well as enjoy the wonderful characters and songs.
I think, as I said to Kirsten in November ‘this show will be a hoot !!”
Singing auditions for Calamity Jane are in full swing with Music Director Kirsten Boerema being wooed by possible lead role singers. Students have prepared either the Windy City for the gals or Higher than a Hawk for the blokes.
Kirsten is looking for singers who can not only sing in tune with a great tone but also have that pizzazz/wow factor in anticipation of bringing the house down yet again at our annual school musical shows at the Town Hall in August/September. From the famous 1950’s Doris Day movie musical to the HBO series Deadwood, the courageous individuality of Calamity Jane has delighted audiences for decades. With a fierce disregard for gender expectations and cultural limitations that was centuries ahead of her time, there’s no better time to re-visit and re-examine this remarkable woman.
Auditions are being finalised, with cast to be announced in the last week of term.
Darren Lowe - Director
Music Support Group Benefit Gig at the Bridge Hotel
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First ever benefit gig for Castlemaine Secondary College
Music Program
The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine
March 17 1:00pm
The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine will host Newstead’s own hillbilly rock powerhouse The Styvos showcasing tracks from their new album as they underscore a diverse, actioned packed music line-up dedicated to raising money for the Castlemaine Secondary College Music Program. Other local stars include hardworking folk innovator Meg Nightjar whose new album Sub Atomic Interchange contains the same honesty and delivery that are a trademark of Meg’s live performances. Another local, inventive guitarist Kestral will be playing his captivating brand of hypnotic, rhythmic picking alongside his intricate vocal harmonising. The line-up also boasts the yodeling sweetheart sisters of Castlemaine Petal & Pet alongside the CSC student presence incorporating pop stars Stop that Mammoth, and master musician Lloyd Meadows. All money raised will go to the CSC music program run by award winning music teacher and musician Kirsten Boerema. The SCS music program has offered quality coaching, encouragement, mentoring and training across a range of music styles yielding a bumper crop of local musicians and a strong culture of music appreciation and articulation over a number of years. The monster raffle will be drawn on the day and prizes include muso-focussed goodies worth a stack. Entrance is $10 per adult…kids under 18 free (yet must attend with an adult).
When: Saturday March 17th : 1-pm to 5pm
Where: The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine- 21 Walker St, Castlemaine
Admission: $10 per adult, kids free
Kirsten Boerema
Castlemaine Youth Theatre
Castlemaine Youth Theatre's new play 'The Scones Are To Die For' is on next week at the Phee Broadway Theatre in Castlemaine, featuring 16 young people aged 10-13 years. Some of whom are your amazing talented students!
It is a hilarious new show about a Granny who is a secret agent, which has been created by the students with support from award winning writer Cate Kennedy and Director Kirstie Babbage.
