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Tuesday Nights at 
Khe Sanh Asia Restaurant
792 Heatherton Road
Springvale South.

BADFOLK

(THE BAND)

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Tee Shirts and Polo's with the club emblem are now available.
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My hard drive died and stole all of our email list.

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AUSfolk Convention

Join us from September 2-4 at Woodfordia (Qld) for the inaugural AUSfolk convention presented by Folk Alliance Australia in conjunction with the Queensland Folk Federation Inc. (producers of Woodford Folk Festival and The Dreaming - Australia's International Indigenous Festival).

CLUB NIGHTS

We will hold our AGM as well.

Members Performance Day
At the Central Hotel, Princes Highway, Beaconsfield, in the Bistro area. A nice friendly day which will give you the chance to meet other members, have a meal together and listen to some more music. Please RSVP if you are coming for a meal. The Hotel would like to have an idea of numbers. Guest are welcome too - no charge - a free day.
No better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Beggs To Differ
"Beggs To Differ" is a Gippsland based group with a diverse range of
musical styles.
Philip Beggs and Terry Lay have strong links to both Folk and Blue Grass genres with guitar, mandolin, harp and whistles in their repertoire.
Diana Rees is a classically trained concert pianist and John Rees is
best known for his bass playing in the band "Men At Work". In "Beggs To Differ" the Grammy Award winning John Rees also gets to play another of his loves the violin / fiddle. The band also enjoys the rich harmonies and loves audience participation.
Philip Beggs is a passionate song writer and has twice won the
prestigious Best Song of Tolerance Award at the Port Fairy Folk
Festival. He also won the The Lawson and Patterson Songwriting Award for the best song in 2000.
With a mix of poignant and lively songs the band has been loved by
audiences for the past 3 years.
Philip Beggs has released two CDs titled 'Boy With Boats And Dreams' and 'Home'.

Matthew Fagan

World roots musician, International finalist in Winfield International Guitar Competion who has  performed with Billy Connolly, Tommy Emmanuel, Leo Kottke, Bob Brozman Michael Fix, Bruce Mathiske, Geoff Achison , Lucky Oceans and more...

Presents World roots, blues guitar and banjo show as performed at Winfield Festival Kansas USA and Nashville USA.

Matthew is best known  as a 10 string spanish flamenco guitarist, and now presents his roots, celtic, blues and jazz grooves.

A fiery show , Matt plays a national tricone resonator slide, celtic steel string and a liberty banjo personally given to Matt by Billy Connolly as a thank you after Matt toured with Billy in Australia in 1999.

"Matthew is the best artist I have ever toured with "( Billy Connolly, Australia tour 1999). 

Matthew  is an exciting musician, who has  developed a unique guitar performance style that crosses from , Blues and Roots, Celtic, Country, Classical to Jazz, Latin to Flamenco, Indian and middle Eastern styles.  He is influenced by the styles of John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Django Reinhardt and Albert Lee.  Matthew is a virtuoso electric and steel string guitarist in the styles of electric rock, jazz and world music. 

Matthew album Voyages and Journeys has recently been signed to an American record label called favoured nations of famous American Guitarist Steve Vai . www.digital-natons.com  Tommy Emmanuel is the only other Australian Guitarist signed to this label.  Last September Matthew was a finalist at the Winfield Bluegrasss Finger Style Guitar Competition in Kansas USA , The leading bluegrass/finger style competition in the world. Matthew  returns to America to  compete again in the Winfield national guitar competition in September.

The album Voyages and Journeys that was recently launched by Matthew Fagan is a vibrant album which covers genres from world music and pop with flavours of Spanish Flamenco and Spanish Classical music, American Roots and Blues and Middle Eastern music.

One of the best musicians around.