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

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

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

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!

CP (VERY un-PC!)