by Judy Oleinikov | Dec 8, 2020 | Trad Chat
Brittany, Ireland, Adelaide via Scotland, Scotland via southern Europe, Sweden and Victoria; we haven’t been travelling in 2020, but our tunes have! Our latest round of Celtic Jam Online tunes are truly global, taught by musicians in different corners of the...
by Judy Oleinikov | Sep 28, 2020 | Trad Chat
Back in March 2020 we converted our weekly jam session to a successful online format. It was a temporary measure until things returned to “normal”. What we didn’t realize then was that online would become our “normal” this year ,...
by Judy Oleinikov | Jun 28, 2020 | Trad Chat
Ok, it’s true, 3 months is not a very long milestone to celebrate an anniversary! But replacing a room full of players jamming together with an online platform where you can only hear one person at a time… that doesn’t sound like a recipe for...
by Judy Oleinikov | Oct 21, 2019 | Trad Chat
“From a composition point of view, we need to think who we want to speak to… It’s not so much about hard and fast rules, but just having an understanding with others, a common language to speak.” Kate Burke Kate Burke , based in country NSW, has been...
by Judy Oleinikov | Mar 5, 2019 | Trad Chat
Overnight success… does it actually exist?Usually it’s anything but. There’s an element of mystique to an artist’s extraordinary talent and on-stage charisma, and who hasn’t fallen for the idea that musicians have been born into a different world to the rest of us,...
by Judy Oleinikov | Aug 20, 2018 | Trad Chat
“What I love about social dance is seeing a roomful of people in sync, the dancers and the musicians. There’s just nothing better, that buzz of live music and everyone responding to it”Judy Oleinikov, QuasiTrad contradance organiser.Here’s an excerpt from the...
