performance
february 2007
Music that Rocks our World
Tess McKenna
If music sustains the soul, singer songwriter TESS MCKENNA has played a major part in providing that music.
TESS has toured her “uniquely now & Australian” style of roots blues music extensively, supporting artists such as Nick Cave & Lucinda Williams; has played her music from as far as the Woodford Folk Festival to the East Coast Roots & Blues Festival in Byron Bay, from the Melbourne Concert Hall to Austin's SXSW Music Festival in Texas, USA.
TESS has released three solo albums to critical acclaim & is currently recording her fourth album. As well as major festivals & live appearances on national radio & television, TESS has been playing gigs at inner city pubs & venues throughout her career.
TESS has sung & written for film & television such as Seachange, Vacant Possession & Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies, as well as representing fellow musicians on the Australia Music Council as a Peer Member (Contemporary Music)
As a member of Melbourne’s music community, TESS has recorded & shared the stage with everyone from The Joelenes to Joe Camilleri.
UPCOMING GIGS 2007 – Saturdays in March @ The Brunswick Green Hotel with The Shapiros.
Visit Tess website at www.tessmckenna.com
Le Phat
Le Phat play an high energy performance of Organic World Trance, by melanging hip hop , funk and Afro-Latin trance with the raw power of tribal drumming!!
Mission Australia
Mission Australia is a non-denominational Christian organisation with a vision to spread the love of God and meet human need.
With more than 320 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia, in every state and territory, Mission Australia aims to empower disadvantaged and isolated individuals, families and communities by giving them the support they need to get back on track, and lead more fulfilling lives.
Our services are centred around:
* Family support initiatives for families and children in need;
* Youth initiatives for disadvantaged young people;
* Housing support initiatives for homeless people and those at risk of homelessness;
* Employment and training initiatives for the long-term unemployed; and
* Community building initiatives that help strengthen and empower entire communities.
Where people are in need, Mission Australia seeks to make a powerful, sustainable difference.
Our innovative community and employment programs inspire self-confidence and hope, and enable people to tap their own resources to pursue a positive and independent future.
For more than 140 years, Mission Australia’s vision has been helping the nation’s most disadvantaged individuals and communities out of crisis and into security.
Now, at a time when many Australians and their communities are facing a new set of social problems, Mission Australia is continually developing contemporary services to help people in need address these emerging issues.
Le Phat
Le Phat melange Hip Hop, Funk and Afro-Latin dance music with the raw power and high energy of tribal drumming to create a passionately crafted Organic World Trance full of high energy rhythms, unique instrumentation, and crowd interaction.
Le Phat has been rocking the summer circuit over the new year playing a range of festivals and venues from the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland to the festival of Folk, Rhythm, and Life in Victoria.