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Tony GagliardiSoloist who also plays in the duo Two Tones.
Sasha GalliverSasha Galliver recorded her first CD Angel Baby at 18 ("when I was 8 months pregnant! - hence the title") for Round Records after coming to notice at folk festivals and at busking competitions. While raising children she has kept writing songs and is keen to record again. She regularly performs at open mics such as Open Mic At The Dan, at SCALA, and at various venues around town. ("Sasha Galliver has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard and it is worth coming down to the Open Mic just for that."- Corey Stewart)Sasha: As I Am was written about 9 months ago at a time when I was struggling a bit and felt that friends had deserted me. I wrote it as a reminder to myself to stay positive and work out who I am and where I fit in with people. I have played it at open mic sessions and it has become a bit of a favourite. It is one of my slower ballads - I have quite a few of these. I guess I have more melancholy songs than happy songs. I usually write about where I am emotionally and use songwriting as a way to work through difficulties.
"So I go on believing life is fair
Sasha Galliver interviewed by Adrian Miller SCALA News #119, Oct/Nov/Dec 2009
performing As I Am at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel as part of the SCALA Festival Of Original Music Song Competition Live Final 2009. Copyright © Sasha Galliver 2009
Rowey GRowena Garcia (Rowey G) won a Star Encouragement Award in FOOM 2005. She has also been involved in the Mullet Festival 2005, Off the Couch 2005, Feast 2005, Mental Health Week 2005 and Blind Sporting Council Awareness Week 2006. You can also hear Rowie in the band, The Tangerines.
Rowey's Myspace page.
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Georgia GermeinGeorgia Germein won the inaugural Lyrics Under 18y Section of FOOM 2007. She also won a recording prize in the Live Section, a Star Encouragement Award (Live Section) and a Commendation in the Demo Open Section. All this at just 16 years of age whilst a student at Concordia College! Georgia is already self-taught on guitar, bass guitar, piano accordion and drums.
Kathy GibbingsOriginally from Deniliquin, NSW, but a South Australian resident for many years, Kathy has won awards in both the Songwriters Event and FOOM and has been a FOOM judge. She's written a number of articles for SCALA News and conducted "Joinus" workshops. She's also written songs for the musical plays Shafted and Ned Kelly.
Her debut album released in 2007 is entitled Black Cat.
Kenny GreenKenny Green is a freewheelin' Adelaide driving instructor with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on his guitar. He has been writing songs from the age of about 13...without too much success until now. An avid fan of live music, Kenny can regularly be seen at open mic nights and at SCALA, and is part of SCALA's MC roster. He has been attending open mic sessions for the last five years and says he has learnt so much from the talented and not so talented people he has seen.Kenny G: Rescue Me is a song about testing friendship...how far will you go to help a friend in need? I came up with the original idea for the song and scratched away at a dozen verses and a chorus...had already come up with the melody and chords for the song when I presented the song to Jimmy Williams (aka country legend Twyce Daily). Jimmy and I spent the better part of a Sunday fine tuning the lyrics to really bring the song home. The song has been well received and requested at open mic nights, proving to be a popular and catchy tune. In your last moments on this earth, or when you reach absolute desperation, you reach out, who will rescue you?? Kenny Green interviewed by Adrian Miller SCALA News #119, Oct/Nov/Dec 2009
Kenny Green with Sasha Galliver performing Rescue Me at SCALA's venue in 2009.
Katie GreenhalfKatie started writing songs at the age of 13 and first entered SCALA's song competition in 2003. In 2005 she was one of the Winners in the Live section. That winning song will soon appear on a SCALA CD. Katie also appeared in the musical The Sentimental Bloke in 2006.
Grey StreetDuo featuring John and Scott. Previously the duo was named "Avenue" and then "Blind Avenue".
Grey Street's Myspace Music Page
GoldsteinFour piece band comprising Adam Hooper (Vocals, Guitar & Accordian), Ben Hooper (Violin), Robin Pratt (Bass Guitar) and Jeremy Owen (Drums & Vocals). Songs by Adam Hooper. CD available.
Goldstein's TripleJunearthed Page.
playing at SCALA's venue in February 2007
GuillaumeGuillaume (pronounced Giam) is a French/South Aussie performer who has his own refreshing perspective on love (good, bad, or weird), scary friends, filthy habits and the Aussie and outback culture. From high energy to laid back, heartfelt to downright silly, the French influence creates a unique blend.
playing at SCALA's venue in June 2007
Claire GurryClaire Gurry Claire Gurry is a local singer-song writer, poet and writer. She spent a great deal of her childhood roaming the local creeks and parks of Adelaide, country NW Victoria and the SA Mallee-Murray lands with her brother, cousins and friends. Family sing- a-longs and exposure to gospel, jazz and classical music were a long standing tradition.In her teens Claire played classical guitar and wrote songs, poems and stories. Family life, full time work and paying the mortgage then kept her busy! She kept singing as a volunteer at schools and with her own kids whilst studying education part-time. Claire admired her younger brother Paul Gurry's developing musical career (his Silverado song from local Rockabilly band Eldorados era is still her favourite) as well as her step mother, Penny Eames, who is a local jazz singer. Paul, who is now a local DJ at The Boho, has always been her inspiration to follow her own dream of singing and playing music too. Claire loves many different styles, being attracted overall by the lyrics and songs of individual musicians and bands rather than one particular genre of music. She admires a great many locally based and Australian singer song writers, including Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach, Redhead, The Heather Frahn Trio, Raw Honey, Cal Williams Jr and The Borderers! She has studied Indonesian music and language, lived in Indonesia and played in a gamelan orchestra. Claire began singing in local blues/ gospel a capella choirs in 2004 as part of a healing process after an accident. She found her old guitar and began writing her own songs again, reconnecting with poetry and her lifelong joy of musical expression! Not long after this she bought herself an acoustic electric guitar. She joined SCALA and entered FOOM for the first time in 2007. Claire won a Star Encouragement Award in 2007 which has certainly inspired her to keep writing! She is currently singing in the women's a capella choir Allegria (sister choir to 'Women with Latitude'). Claire is also helping to raise her three active kids and works part time in education. Singing harmonies and playing guitar are her favourite thing to do!
Second chances and jumping right in are Claire's motivations. The song
'Jump Right in' and encouragement of friend Alex of The Borderers
inspired her to follow her heart. Believing that it is never too late
to change your life for the better, Claire is emerging as a local
musician singer song writer. Since joining Scala she has had some solo
and collaborative experience singing at The Joiner's Arms,
conferences, fetes, live on Radio Adelaide and open mike nights. She
plans to record some songs in a local studio in 2009. Her children,
friends and life experiences provide her with plenty of song writing
ideas and a great joy of singing and playing music!!
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