 Wendy shares her
Melbourne home with her family, four cats,
Harley, Abby, Russet and Sniper and Alfred the
canine member of the family —the guard dog— all
eight of these close relatives being discerning critics
and valued advisors in matters musical and sartorial.
She is known to be quite soppy about her furry companions past and present
Wendy is a keen chatterbox and brings
this rare skill to her work as an MC.
She has appeared in this role at music festivals, community
festivals, fund raising events, cd launches and awards
presentation events.entaries, co-writing and performing
corporate comedy and appearing in the occasional dramatic
piece - being a bit of a dramatic piece herself.
She is involved in fostering the songwriting
talent in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne as a coordinator
and MC of the Darebin Music Feast Songwriters Award
and a co-founder of the Darebin Songwriters Guild.
Not content with drowning in the administration of
the above, Wendy also coordinates and MCs the Maldon
Folk Festival Roddy Read Memorial Songwriting Awards
as she has done for the past two years.
The year to come...
Tamar 2011 was fantastic. Moira, Jenny
Ealey and Rose and Marcia did a great job with the
Tamar Valley Folk Festival Choir who were absolutely
brilliant the way they embraced
"In the Shadow of the Chimneys" and gave
it considerable welly to wonderful effect. It was terrific
stuff and all participants are to be warmly congratulated
on nailing a bit of a complicated arrangement of a
song many had never heard before. A huge highlight
for both Moira and Wendy was having Nick Charles join
them to play some rather nifty guitar on Gershwin's
'Summertime'. The girls like to believe the audience
didn't detect quite how beside themselves they were
at the opportunity to perform alongside such a superlative
guitarist.
Thanks again to Chris and everyone
on the Tamar Valley Folk Festival committee for their
efficiency and friendliness and for putting on such
a wonderful festival.
Now Wendy is back down to earth hard
at work preparing 'how to' harmony workshops for bands,
as well as more MC engagements including the Moomba
Cultural Stage. March is busy with two performances
of the UHAH project, the UHAH CD Launch being one of
them at the Boîte World Music Café on March 5 (Bookings:
(03) 9417 3550) and
Ealey & Tyers
gigs at Ceres, Mama Vittoria's and the Clifton Hill
Hotel locked in so far.
Meanwhile, follow this link to download
an interview by the very generous Nick Charles for
his "Musician" column in this
January's issue of a Rhythms, Australia's most widely
read roots magazine.
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