SYNCOPATED – A jazz showcase
Join the Melbourne Rainbow Band for a celebration of the 20th century’s most diverse and long lived musical style. Jazz. In a one night only performance, SYNCOPATED will transport you from Chapel Off Chapel to the jazz clubs of the prohibition era and the streets of New Orleans.
Sunday 13th May 2012 @ 7.00 PM
Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran
$25 Adult, $20 Concession
www.chapeloffchapel.com.au | t: 03 8290 7000
Click here to purchase tickets
This performance is presented with the assistance of the City of Stonnington’s Arts and Cultural Sponsorship Program. The Melbourne Rainbow Band would like to thank the City of Stonnington for their ongoing support of the band.
Open Rehearsal – Thursday 23 February
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The Melbourne Rainbow Band is throwing open the door to the rehearsal room and welcoming new members.
To be held the Will Sampson Community Centre in Windsor at 7:30pm on 23 February, this is a fantastic opportunity for interested musicians to come along and meet the band. Bring your instrument and sit in on rehearsal.
So if you play a brass, woodwind or percussion instrument, get that instrument out of the closet, blow off the cobwebs and come along to see for yourself how much fun playing music together can be.
For more details please email info@mrb.org.au
7:30pm – Thursday 23 February 2012
Will Sampson Community Centre
Henry Street, Windsor (Melways Ref 2P G2)
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17th Annual Pride March
It’s more than tradition.
For the 17th consecutive year, the MRB joined with Melbourne’s GLBTI and allied communities to recognises and celebrate the people and events that inspire the courage, solidarity, pride, diversity and strong sense of community of Victoria’s vibrant GLBTI people.
The march down Fitzroy Street seemed to be perfectly timed. Shortly before the band stepped off from the marshalling area the winds that had almost swept us off our feet earlier during our rehearsal died down, giving us ideal conditions for marching.
A huge crowd had lined Fizroy Street and cheered us on as we played the very aptly chosen Born This Way (the Lady Gaga favourite) as well as Firework (Lily Allen).
Having made it down to the end of the march at Catani Gardens, the band members then made their way back to their cars just in time for the clouds to open. Phew!
Thanks go to our friends and supporters for showing their support and entheusiasm, but most of all we thank those true band groupies who marched with us as our colour guard.
Midsumma Carnival 2012 – Birrarung Marr
Drop by our stall at Midsumma Carnival on Sunday 15th January. We’ll be in stall A1, near the Joy 94.9 outside broadcast
We will also be performing through out the day.
Our new CD: 15 & Fabulous!
It’s here! The Melbourne Rainbow Band’s new CD has arrived, and it’s even more fabulous than we could have hoped. Celebrating some of our favourite music from the last five years, it pretty much includes every style of music we play – movies, musicals, classical, jazz and even a couple of rock tunes with guest vocalist Julie Leder.
CD’s will be available at all our events for $15 each. An additional $2.5 will cover postage costs anywhere in Australia. Email treasurer@mrb.org with your name and postal address, and we will send you our bank details.
TRACKLIST:
- The Dam Busters March
- The Man from Snowy River (Listen to an excerpt)
- Hold On, I’m Coming (Vocals: Julie Leder)
- Selections from ‘Hairspray’
- Pacem – A Hymn for Peace (Listen to an excerpt)
- Virginia
- The Doors in Concert
- Big Spender (Vocals: Julie Leder)
- The Genius of Ray Charles
- Tribute to Count Basie (Listen to an excerpt)
- Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons
This is our first CD since our 1997 offering Live in San Francisco, and our first ever studio-recorded CD. It was an amazing experience for all the performers involved, and a great team effort. The CD was recorded in November 2010 by Recording Engineer Rod Reynolds of Rochester Engineering.
Check out pics from the recording process below:
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