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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.

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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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