The Ripple Effect making waves, huge waves
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Ryan Pate and Pete Davies are an acoustic duo known as Ripple Effect and they truly are making huge waves wherever they gig. In fact their music is so popular that people dancing on the dance floor wouldn’t let them stop playing and kept calling ‘encore’ after ‘encore’. Well this is what I encountered recently when I checked out this dynamic duo at their monthly residency at Beach 162. They’ve got the look;...
Ash Grunwald
By CAMERON MCCULLOUGH After returning from a massive tour of Canada including shows at the Winnipeg and Vancouver Folk Festivals alongside the likes of Wilco and Jose Gonzalez. Ash Grunwald has released Second Guess, the latest single from his forthcoming album NOW. Adding to this announcement Ash Grunwald will launch NOW, his forthcoming, 8th studio album with an impressive 28 date national tour throughout September and into November...
I’ve got something to talk about
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS I was completely charmed recently when Lorenzo Iannotti (vocals) and Robyn Amato (keyboard), an amiable duo known as Something To Talk About, or STTA, dedicated and sang my favourite song, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen to me at beach 162 in Frankston. People had been saying how good these guys are so I decided to see for myself. Iannotti’s voice provides that essential human element that initially hooks listeners...
Ron Vincent
By MELISSA WALSH There’s an old saying that some musicians look more like the artist than the artist themselves. This could not be truer of Ron Vincent who happens to be the spitting image of Cat Stevens, with his wild dark mane, haunting voice and gentle demeanour. It’s hard to work out if this is intentional or just part of the cosmic relationship between Vincent and his beloved Cat. And now the world for Ron Vincent has opened up...
Are you ready for the battle?
Musicians, bands and solo artists are being called on to enter the annual Mornington Peninsula Push Start Battle of the Bands. Presented by the young members of the Impakt Freeza committee, with assistance from Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Youth Services team, the Mornington Peninsula Push Start Battle of the Bands will be held at Peninsula Community Theatre on August 21 and is the premier gig for up-and-coming artists to battle it...
Extraordinary funk is cool man, Ismaila
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS Born in Sierra Leone and singing tunes seeped in roots with combos of funk, blues and reggae thrown into the pot and in his words “I kinda get folky when I throw in acoustics”, is cool dude, Ismaila. Ismaila is a natural born showman with a showbiz persona going way, way back to his early growing years in Sierra Leone. Coming from comparatively well to do parents who owned a respectable food shop selling the...