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In just a couple of short weeks
Lyhra returns to Lazybones!
AND WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE!
LIFE IS BUSY -
BUT MUSIC MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER
SO give Netflix a night off and join us for some joyous music making!
Accompanied by three of our favourite musicians - Nic Cecire; Nick Hoorweg and Charlie Meadows-
we will be unveiling a couple of new tunes along with our favourites. See you there!
Lyhra LIVE @ Lazybones Lounge, Level 1.
Tuesday 28th March.
Doors open 7pm, 2 set show starts 8:30pm.
Tickets are on sale NOW
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That's all...for now :)
What's happening in your world? Let me know!
Till next time,
Trish xo
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I was super thrilled to get to work with my old Idea of North colleague and dear friend Andrew Piper in December 2022.
Andy’s love of all things film was well utilised by the group when he was TION bass, and his post a cappella life sees him working as a full time film maker.
He came along to a rehearsal last year to capture the action as pianist extraordinaire Bill Risby and I made our way through some favourite jazz standards in what I am calling the Barefoot Sessions.
I LOVE working with Bill, and I LOVE singing in a duo setting. It’s so exposed! There’s nothing to hide behind, which also means there’s nothing but the ego to get in the way of creating something raw and real and (hopefully) magical.
So with shoes off (me) and hearts and ears open (both of us), off we set on our musical conversation. We hope you enjoy what we had to say :)
There will be more conversations coming, so keep popping in…
With love, Trish xo
Trish Delaney-Brown; Vocals www.tdbmusic.com.au
Bill Risby; Piano www.billrisby.com
Recorded at Bill’s House - Friday 9th Dec 2022
Filmed by Andrew Piper Filmmaker - www.andrewpiper.com.au
I’M ALMOST TOO SCARED TO SAY IT LOUD…
BUT I’M BACK IN NEWCASTLE next TUESDAY 22ND MARCH!
"Tastefully crafted repertoire, a standout act in our Tuesday Night Jazz series. "
Jeremy Borthwick NIMA
Thrilled to at last be returning to NIMA, “Trish Delaney-Brown and Friends” will be an evening of musical comraderie and communion, celebrating the joy of live performance magic!
Joined by the generous, talented and totally swinging Nic Cecire (drums); Karl Dunnicliff (bass) and Bill Risby(keys), I will be delivering a tasty selection of songs from the Great American Songbook as well as original material from my ARIA shortlisted album ‘The Game”, alongside new works from the upcoming album.
So grab your tickets and your friends and be part of an evening that reminds you why music is good for your soul.
“Graceful in presence and beautiful in sound, Trish Delaney-Brown’s enigmatic prowess captures both her music and audience without equal”.
Neil Simpson; NIMA
I’m also stoked to be masterclassing some of Newcastle’s upcoming musicians and singers at University of Newcastle next Tuesday the 22nd. Big shout out to Sue Carson for organising! I look forward to an afternoon sharing some practical tools on what makes a ‘Jazz Singer’.
"..Trish Delaney-Brown ..shines over ‘The Game’. The album offers proof of her perfect grasp of jazz singing; a challenging range of expression through its multiplicity of textures – from blues to latin-funk to urbane pop and back home to the jazz and the jazz ballad. if you want to hear how good it gets, take a listen."
John Hardaker AustralianJazz.Net
LYHRA is an absolute passion project! I am in heaven working with Sam Walton and Bri Cowlishaw who are total goddesses - talented, beautiful, generous, wise, witty and FUN! We had an absolute blast at our sell out debut show last November, and are psyched to be performing together again this coming April 3rd at the fabulous and funky Lazybones Lounge - level 1.
Joined once again by the swinging’est crew - Nic Cecire - drums; Charlie Meadows - guitar; Nick Hoorweg - double bass; we will be harmonising up a storm.
Tickets are on sale now AND INCLUDE A MEAL. - how cool is that?!
Come and see what all the fun fuss is about!
VOCAL MASTERCLASS RESCHEDULED!
Monday 11th April 2022
Another long coming and twice rescheduled event (thank you Covid) is the Coast Academy of Music Vocal Workshop and Masterclass. Join us for an evening of information, practical exploration and performance tips for all things voice.
Confirm your place, or book tix through C.A.M.
OTHER NEWS
Sun 27th March will see the WollCon Vocal Dept host an afternoon of ‘All Things Voice” - showcasing our staff, students and vocal ensembles.
Workshops, presentations and performances will run between 12pm-2:30pm.
This is a FREE EVENT, and open to all. For further details contact WollCon, or click on the link below.
Life continues to throw all manner of challenges our way, so I hope this finds you surrounded by care, touched by moments of joy, and lifted by hope amongst it all.
Wishing you kindness and lightness and hope to share some music with you at a gig soon.
Trish xo
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Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Super excited to be debuting with my latest project - a joyful collaboration with two amazing powerhouse women; Bri Cowlishaw and Sam Walton. There are only 25 tix available, so get in quick to help us launch this new creative endeavour!
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
8:00 PM 10:30 PM
Butchers Brew499 Marrickville RoadDulwich Hill, NSW, 2203Australia (map)
$30 incl venue entry + $10 bar tab
NSW Dine & Discover vouchers accepted!
Doors from 5pm
� Trish Delaney-Brown - vocals
� Sam Walton - vocals
� Bri Cowlishaw - vocals
Swing Crew:
Nic Cecire - drums
Charlie Meadows - guitar
Nick Hoorweg - bass
DEBUT SHOW from Sydney’s newest female vocal sensation… LYHRA.
Created as an antidote to isolation & disconnection, LYHRA is Trish Delaney-Brown, Sam Walton & Bri Cowlishaw. Celebrated singers, songwriters & performers in their own right, LYHRA is the alchemy of three strong women, creatives & singers surrendering their singularity for the joy of creative & musical communion.
In their debut show at Butchers Brew Bar, LYHRA celebrate the joy of vocal jazz & harmony, with music reminiscent of treasured vocal trios from the past, along with their own arrangements of songs inspired by Mel Torme, Donald Fagan & Gregory Porter and fresh original material.
From diverse stylistic backgrounds, Trish, Sam & Bri combine their musical sensibilities to form the distinctive experience that is LYHRA.
Ably supported by the Swing Crew, they promise a night of musical ‘Joie de Vivre’!
� Trish Delaney-Brown - vocals
� Sam Walton - vocals
� Bri Cowlishaw - vocals
Swing Crew:
Nic Cecire - drums
Charlie Meadows - guitar
Nick Hoorweg - bass
Album review: Trish Delaney-Brown/The Game
Posted: November 15, 2017 inAlbum review: jazz,Uncategorized
Tags:Anita O'Day,Bacharach-David,Brendan Clarke ',Bricusse-Newley,Chet Baker,Dave Panichi,Greg Coffin,Jeremy Sawkins,Johnny Hodges,Mark Murphy,Nic Cecire,Pure imagination,Sinatra,The Game,The Idea of North
The best of jazz vocal – and its perfect expression – is where the voice becomes an instrument, on par with frontline instruments such as the sax or trumpet. The finest jazz vocalists know this and go for it: Mark Murphy, Anita O’Day, Chet Baker, our own Vince Jones. Sinatra too – you can hear his delight when he worked with a small band.
One of our finest is Trish Delaney-Brown. A founding member of knockout vocal group The Idea of North, she comes alive in looser settings where the pure jazz singer in her can really come out.
Her new album The Game places her voice in the perfect setting – a dream-team ensemble also made up of the finest: Pianist Greg Coffin, Jeremy Sawkins on guitar and the rhythm section of Brendan Clarke and Nic Cecire. All the compositions are hers, bar the opener (the Bricusse-Newley gem ‘Pure imagination’) and a co-write with Dave Panichi, the lovely ballad ‘Ruby’.
The ballad can sometimes seem the domain of the jazz vocalist more than any other instrument (apologies to Johnny Hodges) and ‘Ruby’ is as good as they come – a gorgeous example of the form with Coffin’s telepathically simpatico piano painting notes behind Delaney-Brown’s vocal, then rising to a beautiful considered solo.
‘Birds’ is a wordless evocation of the murmuration of starlings. Sawkins’ gut-string solo here has that lovely balance of the classic and the modern that pervades the playing across the whole album, grounding it, yet giving it the wings this music needs.
‘Face of The Bass’ is a strutting blues that features Clarke’s tough bass, breaking into a startling bass/vocal scat duet that leaps out before chilling back down to that bad (good) groove. Across The Game the vocal scat (in duet and solo) is exquisite, always intriguing, never empty histrionics.
The second ballad on The Game is the lovely ‘Simple Feast’. Here, as on the Bacharach-David flavoured title track ‘The Game’, Delaney-Brown’s sense of pop classicism is apparent – lyrics that write short stories, bittersweet, over a musical ground that is sophistication without empty virtuosity.
We go out on the almost-too-hip groove of ‘Wachagot’. A rolling piece of funk propelled by a jagged vocal riff, this one really shows drummer Cecire in his element – flawless touch, earthy sense of groove.
But it is Trish Delaney-Brown that shines over The Game. The album allows her perfect grasp of jazz singing a challenging range of expression through its multiplicity of textures – from blues to latin-funk to urbane pop and back home to the jazz and the jazz ballad. if you want to hear how good it gets, take a listen.
WORDSABOUTMUSIC
words about life and music by john hardaker
https://wordsaboutmusic.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/album-review-trish-delaney-brown-the-game/
What a treat to share a day with the vocal students at the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Sydney last week. as we explored the, sometimes controversial, vocal quality of Belt .
It was so satisfying to share some of the tools for training (and answers to common challenges that this quality presents) that I have found through my own training and use of the Estill Voice Model. As well as targeted exercises to help us build awareness and control over what is required physically to create this sound, we kept coming back to some key thoughts to guide us in our ongoing practice:
Knowledge is power: knowing the how and why is often key in overriding long held perceptions and habits that may not serve us well in specific vocal tasks.
Work smarter, not harder: always maintain Most Comfortable Vocal Effort and remember that muscle preparation happens BEFORE sound.
Silent Practice is your friend; don’t let the sound distract you! Listen harder to the muscles than the voice.
Explore with JOY: Be aware of any physical, emotional or aesthetic blockages you may bring to exploring something vocally unfamiliar. Give yourself permission to ‘fail’, remember its a process not an exam, so make it a JOYFUL noise!
Trish x
A huge thank you to Simon Ward for the invitation, and all at AMPA for taking such good care of me.
To book your own specialised workshop or ‘ Introduction to Estill ‘ presentation for your organisation click here.
I love Estill Voice Training®.
I love that it isn’t about one sound! That it empowers those who use it to tune in to their instrument - to BE in their body, to feel, to explore, to observe with understanding, not judgement. To gain insight into how it works so that we can work with it rather than against it. To know that we have choices in the sounds that we can make so that… we can more freely and fully express ourselves!
And I love the new look. Check it out at: www.estillvoice.com
Please, get in touch if you would like to know more and explore what EVT can offer your unique voice.
Trish x
Images courtesy Eric Pozza ©
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They say most popular songs are about love. We went to hear Trish Delaney-Brown and she sings and writes songs of love, but more mature, more established, more experienced. Maybe it's better to say that she writes of relationships. There's intimacy and honesty here, but it's tempered by experience and it's a pleasure. It was a pleasure all round, of, course.
She's a wonderful singer with serious training and great skills. She was a foundation member of the Idea of North, formed from the Canberra School of Music (pre-ANU) back in the '80s. She was touring her recent CD and mostly the band was from it (I think just Brendan was a ring-in) and they are peak players, sharp and understated and capable of abandon when it fits. She sang a few standards, too. I was wary to hear a start on Blue Moon, but I didn't need to worry: this was far more adventurous that that opening suggested. There was swing, but also grooves of various types, always clear and understated. Was there a foot wrongly stepped anywhere by Nic or Greg? Brendan was the eminent bass that we expect and Jeremy was understated but could let go with energetic solos with just a minimum of effects or switch to finger-picked acoustic for that supreme ballad, Nature boy. There were several unisons of voice with guitar and later keys that were obviously scored, presumably for the album, and they hit me for six.
Then some delicious grooves, one an arrangement borrowed from Dianne Reeves for Softly that let go into a devastating solo from Greg and a short followup from Nic, who otherwise displayed immense decorum throughout. Trish writes lyrics, too, of real profundity and considerable astuteness from her life. One lyric was to a tune written by Dave Panichi for a young cousin, Ruby.
Another told of the pleasure of picnics as simple feasts and yet another of relationships as The Game, and Neat surprise and Thousand stories. All originals with their stories. Then the driver, What ya got, and the hard swinging paean to Ray Brown, Face of the Bass, which placed its demands on Brendan (which he managed with aplomb) despite the jokes of which Ray Brown, that RB of Tuggeranong? And Softly and Nature boy and a superb reconstruction of a murmuration of starlings simply called Birds.
Trish and her band were classy and mature and massively skilled and a deep pleasure. Loved it.
Trish Delaney-Brown (vocals) led a band comprising Greg Coffin (piano), Jeremy Sawkins (guitar), Brendan Clarke (bass) and Nic Cecire (drums) at the Jazz Haus. Trish Delaney-Brown, Greg Coffin, Jeremy Sawkins, Brendan Clarke, Nic Cecire
TDBQ album "The Game" made the 2018 ARIA shortlist! Huge congratulations to Jonathon Zwartz for his win with the beautiful "Animarum", but I'm just so stoked we were considered!
Thank you to ABC JazzDigital; James Kennedy; and of course the wonderful muso’s:
Nic Cecire-drums; Jeremy Sawkins - guitar; Greg Coffin - piano; Brendan Clarke-bass; Karl Dunnicliff - bass.
I can't think of a better way to kick off the New Year vocally than with the comprehensive and practical Complete Estill Voice Training 5 day course. Running Monday 15th to Friday 19th January 2018. Spaces are limited!
P.S Perhaps Santa could be persuaded to put this one in your stocking?.....
It has been a while since I've put myself out there in this kind of way...
I love what I do. I love making music with amazing musicians who are also quality human beings. I love having the whiff of an idea and helping it grow and develop into a song or arrangement. Or 'catching' a song... that incredible sensation of when it drops into the creative consciousness almost fully formed. It's thrilling, humbling, revealing and - when you put it out there in whatever form for others to share - it's rather nerve wracking!
So I was delighted, and incredibly relieved, that when the first review came in for 'The Game' it was so positive! I know I know, it really doesn't matter, 'art for arts sake', 'you can't be everyone's cup of tea', 'each to their own' and all that. But lets be honest, it's nice when other people dig what you've created too!
Anyway, here's what John Hardaker (wordsaboutmusic & jazzaustralia) had to say. REVIEW
But to check it out and come to your own conclusions you can get a hard copy here
or a digital one here
With love,
Trishxo
Sydney's Seymour Centre will again be the hotspot for all things Estill as the marvellous Naomi Eyers presents the 5 day Complete Estill Voice Training Course, assisted by me!
This work is invaluable for speakers, singers, actors, presenters....anyone who has a serious interest - professional or personal - in how the voice works, and how to get the most out of it in the service of their own vocal goals.
Only a few spaces remain, so book your place now!
24 years ago I set out on an adventure with four friends that would turn into (for me) 15 wonderful, challenging, remarkable, creative, complex, demanding and ultimately rewarding years of making music and experiencing life with The Idea of North.
For those not in the a cappella know, The Idea of North is a surprising success story. In a country that worships the gods of sport, carving out any kind of career in music can be a wee bit challenging! Never mind a career in jazz music. And a cappella? Forget about it! And yet The Idea of North has managed to find it's tribe and connect with an audience, as eclectic as it is loyal, to sustain it's 24 (and counting) years of writing, arranging, touring and recording both here and overseas. There have been numerous awards, lots of accolades and, as one would expect with that kind of lifespan, lots of changes!
My 15 year stint as founding soprano came to end when I hit parenthood and decided I didn't want to miss it by being on the road. But the ongoing affection for my colleagues and my sense of investment in this magical 'thing' that I had been part of creating, meant that I never really, fully said goodbye! So when I got the call to say that Andrew Piper (co-founder and bass) and Sally Cameron (my wonderful replacement) were both retiring, and "would I return to the soprano chair whilst they chose a new one"? it didn't take me long to pack a suitcase and kiss my (now older) children goodbye!
And so began a wonderful 6 months of revisiting the music and madness that had played such a defining role in my musical and personal life. A season of celebrating the 'old' and welcoming 'the new'. What a treat!
Huge love to Nick, Nay and Andy xo An absolute pleasure Kai and Luke xo All the best Sally and Emma xo And cheers to the next chapter of TION!
Check them out here: www.idea.com.au
