Penny Larkins & Carl Pannuzzo: news

Jeepers... what a couple of months. So much and the 9 minutes I have now to be writing this may not see much mentioned but let's see...

 

Quiet Place  this Thursday July 29th; featuring Sally Dastey and Al MacInnes meals from 7, music from 8 pm.

Melbourne Millenium Chorus (August 7, 8 www.boite.com.au)

Boite School's Chorus

Andrew Pattison's Troubadour Weekend at Campaspe Downs 20-22 August www.wineandmusic.net

Quiet Place # 5 with Helen Begley & Tristram Larkins August 26th

Acoustica City Library Concert Series Sept 16th 6pm

Spenser's Live support for Black Heart September 19th

Hola a todos!

Yes, rehearsals have started for the Melbourne Millennium Chorus and soon for the Boite Schools Chorus too! Penny and Carl have been madly arranging and arranging their madness to create a beautiful program of songs that will feature the 350 piece choir and some brilliant special guests. More details as the concerts draw closer. For anyone curious or yet wanting to be involved, go directly to www.boite.com.au or call them on (03)9417 3550

In other news, we have uploaded a new song, 'Everything of mine is just a little bit broken!' (which appears 2nd in the music page playlist - and comes complete with lyrics and a story behind it.) It's debut performance at the recent National Folk Festival in Canberra was given the best icing treatment by guest trumpeter Vincent Bradley, who really illustrated the piece in a most surprising and hysterical way. It's in sketch form here but we hope you like it :)

We are also steadily gearing up to a wonderful series of song-building workshops for adults, kids and people with special needs for the City of Casey's Winter Arts Festival 'Casey Sings'. (And with this in mind, we thought it sweet to keep the Starfish song up first). But if you want a little look into what that's about, visit: http://www.casey.vic.gov.au ..and have a look around! It's about one of the best fun things to do. Late last year a program at the Victorian Arts Centre saw our 'Build-a-song' workshop glean a couple of veritable HITS from the kids involved there. (Indeed IF you or your children were there, drop us a line, we'd love to get you a copy of the song/s!)

Meantime, we look forward to seeing you soon. Our next bit of fun will be on Sunday evening June 6 in Newstead, Central Victoria as guest facilitators at the wonderful Vocal Nosh, devised by the brilliant Fay White to bring any and all keen singers together for a joyous and accessible big group sing (and some warming of the winters with a host of hearty soups!) You will eat more than the paltry price of attendance's worth. So come sing up a storm with us...

Gracias,

Penny and Carl

Ah...autumn... it's a lovely season, isn't it?  It's more about a feeling of tending to loose endings as starting new things but as such...

Carl and I are going to re-label ourselves as simply that; OURSELVES.  PotnKettle will remain our over-arching name and the thing we use as workshop facilitators but from now on we have decided to call ourselves Penny Larkins & Carl Pannuzzo.  Ingenius isn't it?? 

Anyway, we have had some mighty big fun recently but also had a bit of healing going on and there's nothing like a teeny weeny life scare to get you re-invigorated about priorities.  

This year is all about facilitating others' discovery of their own music for us.  We are sharing the direction of the Melbourne Millenium Chorus and working with Sydney Children's Festival again.  All this plus the goal of us each releasing a solo cd by the end of the year... :) 

Check in soon for more news! :) 

Penny & Carl xx

 

The Theatre Royal (Castlemaine) 

 

Have you got one of these where you live?? :) It's an old Music Hall stage.  Lola Montez performed on it in Gold Rush days.  You get the picture.  

 

So it already is what it is but David & Sarah in their 5 years of ownership (built on the initial very brave re-construction of Donna & John) now provide to the town of Castlemaine but still from a heritage viewpoint is absolutely priceless.

We have a venue where as a local artist you might go to David and suggest a gig, he says sure, let's give it a go... 

OR (in my other life) I might go to visit with a whole year 12 theatre studies class and David treats us so professionally.  We now get to put on a show there! :) 

Please visit www.theatreroyal.info and answer the call.  You can even do it from interstate and overseas and speak of my intense requirement to get people listening. 

I understand natural disaster and poverty and sadness on that scale and we really in this lovely (yes, drought-stricken) community are lucky to be able to count community as an asset.  BUT the Theatre Royal is a hub to us and a hub that all owners have kept in heritage style.  For the class, for the culture, for the training, for the caring, for the allowance, for the compensation.... we NEED the Theatre Royal.  xx

Thank you to all the beautiful audiences and artists that shared our lovely times in Daylesford, Tamworth and Newstead this month gone. Too many great experiences and people enjoyed to mention, save the blessing, Yiihaa and presence of these three very different adventures, each inclusive of as rare adventures as having the opportunity to sew up a mass vocal gathering, sing backup harmonies in Japanese and discover great singing storytellers in a local community atmosphere where people are the force, but a gentle one. Perhaps Penny will detail to her liking in the next installment. Til then, keep an eye on our calender for a great next month of events...

Lots folks, let's tell you LOTS of exciting stuff coming up for us in the new year, from local dreamings to interstate shenanigans - that's right, SHENANIGANS!!

Have a look at our updated calender of events for some special stuff coming near you.

New adventures include the Tamworth Festival (yiiihah!) and the beautiful Nannup Festival in WA.

Very soon is the great Boite Singer's Festival in Daylesford coming up Jan 7-10, where both of us will be teaching our respective specialties in all things vocal as well as performing at the Friday night showcase concert.

It will be great to be doing the Newstead Festival again toward the end of Jan. We've enjoyed doing local Central Victorian events, often full of heart and soul. We recently started what will be a beautiful series of bi-monthly concerts at the great Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, transforming its majesty into an intimate space that was christened by the glorious Michael Kennedy, harmony trio The Lloyd Weir and ourselves as a solace from the silly season type of gig. Our next show there will feature the mezmerising Lucie Thorne, but more news about that closer to the time.

We will soon have some new music to put up on the site but  we may stick with our li'l ol' country classic style No Requests until the Tamworth Festival...or until we get some more requests, whichever comes first! :)

Fun on, crazy yawl and happy new ears indeed!

C+P (VERY un-PC!)

..while honestly, a part of me would have it no other way, it's such a pleasurable passtime, especially with someone as lovely and truthful as Penny to adorn and honour my little fantasies. But she reckons she's being a sook at the moment for not fulfilling all of the too many possibilities there are for one duo to possibly do; i think the travel and admin are well enough, fact if i were us, i'd fire us from those jobs and banish us to a nice little padded loungeroom to bounce ideas off the walls and just make more songs out of them!

BUT i believe that's where YOU come into it dear reader/listener. Perhaps so far you'll be listening to and being subconsciously guilt-tripped by the fact that i had to fantasise my own request for this month's song comp. and i'll tell you, the prizes of the couple of cds and passes to our next show near me, aren't that stimulating when it don't get any nearer to me than the fact that i'm IN it!

So please did deep into your creative plumbs and chuck me a challenge or three :)

fun on,
carl

so Carl got to wondering what would happen if we didn't get any more entries and as we hadn't reconstructed what the competition in fact was it was hardly surprising that we didn't...

So he wrote this pretty song to act as an interlude. Check the music page for lyrics.

We have recently had a lovely time at the Burke and Wills Winery. We are going to have another lovely time in Majors Creek next week and we are going to have an absolute stunner of a time playing with Michael Kennedy at the Theatre Royal on Dec 10th! So much to look forward to. We'll keep you posted.

Oh, and all the comp entries are now down-loadable so you can take them with you wherever you go... :)

Hi all,
We have had a very busy time developing our BUSINESS PLAN (!yep...we are attempting to find method in our madness or actually just make paperwork out of our already functioning existence) and still doing millions of things else.

The Sydney Children's Festival choir were a bunch of brave and wonderful people and we had an absolute ball watching people realise what they could do. You guys are brilliantly fantabulous.
The Gorgeous Voices Festival was also a winner. Congrats to Sue Gillett and looking forward to more.

We get to play and sing soon at Andrew Pattison's winery, for a Castlemaine State Festival fundraiser, a potential house concert in Heathcote and share music making with Michael Kennedy and the lovely Lloyd Weir in the lead up to Christmas so keep checking back on the calendar as we confirm details of those gigs...
I (Penny) have struggled lately with some sadness related to personal conflict that has kept me away from these pages that usually keep me so buoyant. Nothing that a little letting it go won't fix but just to explain why there hasn't been another momentous and huge next chapter in our oh so fun competition...:) Have you listened to Blossom's Blue?? It's so pretty...

from us to you, adieu...:)

Penny & Carl (who is off in Cairns with Totally Gourdgeous!! sheesh...lucky boy!)

We have got a SECOND competition winner! :)

No sheepishness there at all..it's pretty nice actually and big thanks to Kate O'Donnell for her entry...

genre: protest song (I'm not sure we nailed the 19th century protest feel...)

theme: marriage equality

character: Blossom (um...ok so maybe Carl forgot she was an animal vet but keeping his muppet tendencies in mind it's probably been for the best in terms of honouring the theme....) who wants to marry her girlfriend, Blue.

We have been very busy lately. :) A lot of seed throwing. We'll wait to see if any of them grow or whether they are bird food I guess...

with love and best wishes,

penny & carl

Well, here you have it... (lyrics on the music page)

Brett Ludeman was our winning entry.  Congratulations, Brett!! 

genre: folk

subject: that moment when you feel like you're six years old again and you give a little squeal of excitement

character: mid-life Lucy

Basically, the thing was that Carl had all the themes in his mind and what came, came!  Bit of an exercise in watching song-writing at work for me really.  Quite inspiring stuff and we had much fun recording it.  

So...what next...well...thing is that there sooooo many cool entries that we need a couple of days to just think about what the next BEST thing is to do... but for now....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

a P.S. from Carl: ..well yes that was fun and a nice start to this sort of shenanigans, thanks Brett. And ok while this was the song that surfaced in the dreaming of me with a melody and concept development possibility, thanks goes to all other entrants where there were some good and fun ideas - do keep them coming yawl.. It's worth noting officially that unlike many songs that i write for pleasure that dont become realised, I have to thank Penny too for arrangement and form-shaping, appropriate key and harmony work etc, to make it the whole song it appears to be here! Hooray..!

Because sadly we can't do it...:( But our beautiful and lovely friend, Helen Begley can and she'll be accompanied by Tristram Larkins too!  (don't I know him??) Check out why her myspace says "if Johnny Cash had a sister..." www.myspace.com/helenbegley 

 

 

Allrrrrrighty!!!

DID SOMEBODY SAY COMPETITION!!!??!! 

Your mission if you choose to accept it is to choose 3 things:

• Genre (bluegrass, folk, screamo) 
• Theme (lost pen lids, solar energy, cyclones)
• Central Character (sid the salada, creepy cat, juice)

We then write/record and upload the song and it features as the only full song on the web-site for a month.  :) Fun, huh? You win a cd plus 2 tix to the next gig that we're near you (or another cd, like one of carl or a soon-to-happen live one...or somebody else's that we want you to hear!) 

If you haven't been privy to Carl's writings for reasons (such as Jon Von Goes theme shows or on a more serious note, "Jabiluka" or "The Only Hope") then you are in for a treat so be involved!!!  

CURRENT DEADLINE: AUGUST 31st 

word.... no ok that would just look like pointless graffiti on this site if i just left it at that...but i guess i AM supposed to be the kinda cheeky naughty one in the band...band?! (well if you count the multiple personalities i guess..). Anyway i'm just delighted to be here on our lovely new websitery. i'm also V...e...r...y slowly getting accustomed to facebook shenanigans but i may stay slow and infrequent, as this site has also seen, due to my proud luddite status and greater love of music to be rathering more time on that leaving the communications and info sharing to my glorious wifey who is, let's face it, just much better at all that than I. SO anyway, thanks for dropping in, and do read on to more useful news posts! All good things.. Carl

The amount of wonderful people that facilitate and make it possible for people like us to do what we do and make music is just wondrous.  Lenny Marks & Richard Delaney are doing their wonderful thing at the Savoy in Katoomba, Bill Arnett (aka Billy Folkus on facebook) is bravely and excitingly providing a stunning sound space for artists and punters alike, Andrew Pattison is doing what he has done for ever so long ever so well, Kate Raffin hosts juiciest house concerts ever and ARTsound FM 92.7 (Canberra, special grats to Bill Quinn) just does good supporting it all!!!!  

On another note... :) In a week (well roughly.. let's say August 31st) we will be making our song samples snippets BUT you will be able to find links on where to buy them AND we will be starting a monthly song-writing subject contest.  :) Basically you guys send a theme and WE (mainly carl but I'll help) write a song and pop it on the site as the only full song played for the next month.  You get a cd and 2 tix to the next gig we play in your town or an extra cd (of either carl's or our soon live) if you live too far away.  Details to follow soon..... intrigued?? 

So the website has been up for a month.  The guestbook has been lovingly treated (thankyou for all your beautiful words), we are heading on up to the Blue Mountains, Sydney and Canberra this weekend and really looking forward to it.  Also on the cards is some individual sessions in singing and vocal health/resonance.   The voice is such a precious and wonderfully hard-working thing.  Have yourselves a little hum's worth of laryngeal massage right now!  :) 

Do you like the web-site?  Should we change songs? How often? Maybe we could offer song-writing or vocal advice right here?  What do you think/want?  

 

Let us know...... :) 

 

UPCOMING:  Andrew Pattison's Troubadour Weekend, a support spot with the Jed Rowe Band, Mullum Folk Club and more..... 

WISH LIST...

• marketing person
• 2010 tour to Italy/Asturies/Ireland
• personal assistant
• enough team-building/well-being work in the corporate sector to help them AND us! 
• a moment

If you have any thoughts or advice that you can offer please contact us@potnkettle.com.au :) 

US...

Today I spent a lot of time mucking about with myspace, fiddling with facebook and pretty much just not really walking around very much. I sent wish lists off to the universe about wanting to travel to Ireland and Italy next year and have already had some response. I said to a friend last week, things must be better today because the sky looks blue instead of too bright. Maybe it's just hibernation time....
couple of nice gigs this weekend....see you there!
penny (carl will write sometimes too...PROMISE!)

Well, thanks to the lovely help and support of those amazing ones at hostbaby plus a little patience and determination with our own technophobe-ness, we finally present to you, our web-site!! Please feedback, comment, send love, pass on, share stories...enjoy!

Carl and Penny are looking forward to heading out on a mini cd launch tour so do keep your eyes out for when we are coming to your house. :) Something that's not as silly as it sounds really if you like house concerts, which we do. Keep well with you and yours and enjoy the little parts...