Some photo documentation of a couple of the beach music sessions, which started in June with separate beach ukulele and guitar sessions.

This is the start of the Ashes to Music program funded by News Corp via the ever visionary FRRR Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal. Padma is the lead with the support of CHIRF. 

This is just a start whilst we swing into stride with an expanding program working towards revitalising the iconic Strum the very popular Lucy and Tony’s style open mike and other elements to draw our lovely community together and cover all ages and skill levels and instruments. 

We are gathering under the guidance of the Mallacoota Medical Centre and using facemasks and strict physical distancing, using the 4 meter square model. We will have isopropyl hand sanitiser for general use. Our aims are to learn how to make music in public within the CV19 era, with ease, and assurance that we are doing it correctly, and safely. We are taking our direction from Mallacoota Medical Center, Federal Health advice, the ANU School of Music , Emily Cox, Director of Canticum, and UC Berkeley – Prof. Ken Ueno. Some of this advice is yet to come, in particular, singing in groups.

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