Tunes in the Tulips
Saturday 3rd October, 2020
2:30 – 4:30pm
Tickets here https://www.trybooking.com/BLKLD
Tunes in the Tulips has become a much beloved event on the North West calendar over the past six years, celebrating the vivid glory of tulip season, fine local produce, and of course great music. With our borders locked down, this year offers a great excuse to focus on the amazing artists, produce, people and landscape that we have right here in Tasmania.
With a special focus this year on celebrating our unique natural environment Aaron Hopper, Yyan Ng and Emily Sheppard will be creating innovative musical performances inspired by kelp, pollen and rain. This year’s event will move through four unique stage spaces, immersing you in a variety of musical styles and traversing varied landscapes through innovative installations.
To comply with COVID safe regulations, the event this year will have strictly limited numbers, so make sure to book your tickets as soon as possible. This is one not to be missed!
The Performers:
Yyan Ng is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, collaborator. Yyan sings and plays acoustic guitar, wadaiko (taiko drums), Shakuhachi, and various stringed, percussion and woodwind instruments. He leads a few contemporary bands and the Launceston Taiko group Taiko Oni Jima, and has been involved in various projects as a guitarist and percussionists. He has played with and/or supported acts such as Emma Anglesey, Daniel Champagne, Shaun Kirk, Jeff Lang, Ben Salter, The East Pointers, Brian Ritchie, Anne Norman and performed all over Australia including Hastings Cave, Mt Wellington/Kunanyi observation shelter(Arts Tasmania), MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, Woodford Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival, Junction Arts Festival, Festivale, Marion Bay Falls Festival, Taste of Tasmania, Jackey’s Marsh Forest Festival, Amplified Awards.
Emily Sheppard is a Tasmanian violinist, violist, improviser and composer. Trained in classical music at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, she is now a member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Van Diemen’s Band. She also performs in various contemporary folk bands and improvisation ensembles. She’s been part of performance and recording projects with Paul Kelly, Katie Noonan, DJ Spooky, Michael Kieran Harvey and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Compositionally, she draws inspiration from diverse musical fields. Her music is informed by unconventional and resonant places spaces. She has performed in Hastings Cave, Marakoopa Cave and Mt Wellington/kunanyi observation shelter, supported by Arts Tasmania and Hobart City Council grants. She has played at festivals all over Australia, including Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, Ten Days on the Island, Darwin Festival, Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival, Fractangular and A Festival Called Panama. Emily is also studying environmental science at the University of Tasmania, and her compositions and collaborations are increasingly inspired by her studies.
Aaron Hopper is one of Australia’s most talented Guitarists and Composers of his generation. He uses his guitar to weave extraordinary magic. With a jazz and classical music background, Aaron's original music is a finely threaded evolution of sound which will transport you from the misty plains of central NSW, to the red earth country of the Pilbara and over to the North West of Tasmania. Aaron has shared the stage with Jimmy Little, Kate Miller Heidke and Katie Noonan, playing at major festivals from Woodford Folk Festival to Port Fairy.
