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20th NOVEMBER 2008

Welcome
This week we bring you the full line-up and there are plenty of hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered.

There are just six weeks to go before Peats Ridge 2008. We recently visited the Festival site and were greeted by a beautiful and inspiring valley. A bit of this magic you can see in the picture above. Keep an eye out for our next e-news when we will be announcing the arts and theatre program and we’ll have details on the children’s festival too. Enjoy!


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Peats Ridge 2008 - Full Line-up

For the past couple of months our programming team have been listening to music almost non-stop and now we get to see the fruits of their efforts. The majority of artists in the third and final release applied to perform at Peats Ridge and the team have hand picked some great emerging artists to flavour this year's Festival.

The final artists release contained just over 120 artists which will bring the total musical artists performing at the Peats Ridge to just over 200. That's more than 200 great reasons to come to this year's Festival.

Without further ado, please welcome the full line-up for Peats Ridge 2008!

Salmonella Dub (NZ) • Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu • Jon Cleary (USA) • Frightened Rabbit (UK) • Hawksley Workman (CAN) • Mamadou Diabate  (MALI) • Bluejuice • Hermitude • The Temper Trap • Monsieur Camembert • Mista Savona • Pivot • The Fumes • Chris Kayana Gudu • Sparkadia • Basslines 

Filastine (SPAIN) • King Tide • Snob Scrilla • Jill Barber (CAN) • Chain • Belles Will Ring • Dead Letter Chorus • Firekites • Hey Rosetta (CAN) • Dallas Frasca • Kara Grainger • Kid Confucius • Pez & 360 • Mark Pritchard / Harmonic 313 • Maga Bo (BRAZ) • Andy Bull • Tina Harrod • Cloud Control • The Winnie Coopers • Matthew Barber (CAN) • The Blackwater Fever • LJ Hill • The Jezabels • Tijuana Cartel • Elana Stone • Master Khalil Gudaz • Papa Lips • The Devoted Few • Deep Sea Arcade 

Lowrider • Chase The Sun • Deep Street Soul • Mick Hart • Yen • Skipping Girl Vinegar • The Dolly Rocker Movement • Cuthbert and the Night Walkers • Tommee • The Bakery • Perry Keyes • Wagons • King Farook • Rumpunch • Papa vs Pretty • The Maladies • The Ray Mann Three • The Sniffer Dogs • Declan Kelly and The Rising Sun • The Extended Family • Underlapper • Scarlett Affection • The Hoo Haas • Peret Mako • The Dead Sea • Parades • The Phonies • The Crooked Fiddle Band • Leroy Lee • The Strides feat. Ras Roni • The Maple Trail • Telafonica • Sarah Humphreys 

Paul Greene • The Hands • Sui Zhen • Brian Campeau • Jumbledat • Superheavyweights • Audio Shaman • Tracy Redhead • Steve Griffiths • The Green Mohair Suits • Three Quarters Hazel • Sailmaker • Mitch Grainger • Jason Walker • The Falls • Juke Baritone & The Swamp Dogs • Leanne Paris • Dubshack • Jamie Lloyd • Fyah Walk • Jason Lowe • The Sunpilots • Blackseedz Dancers • Orisha • Seagull • The Witness • Fergus Brown • Ernest Ellis • Daniel Peterson • FisherKing • Freeman Dancers • Sam Shinazzi • Modifi • The Kundalini Experience • Noel Boogie

Renny Field • Nick and Liesl • Meem • Cass Eager • Jack Carty and The Party • Peregrine • Ellen Kibble • ALF • Favourite Son • Jordy Lane (Syd) • Monk Fly • Paul Applekamp • Kiko • Dubcock • Jack Shit • The Mischief • Microwave Jenny • DJ Leigh Wood • Sal Kimber and the Good Ole Boys • Nakula • Aindrias Stack • Hipster G • West Labz • Claude Hay • Bio Diversity • The Pryor Theory • Cryin Skies • Rocwater • Tom Richardson • Ichabod’s Crane • Ashleigh Mannix • Murray Kyle • Emma Davis • Amy Freeman • The Slowdowns • The Shane Romeyn Solution • The Vampires • Maja Petrovna 

Jason Pawley • The Understudy • Katy Wren • Squat Club • Luke Escombe and the Corporation • Know-U • Nadeena Dixon • Brass Knuckles • Patrick Kehoe • Michael Peter • Are You The Farmer • Mashy P • Global Chill • Lawrence Barlow • Michael-John Azzopardi • Camilla Hill • Social-Living • Brynstar • Lucy Hall • JALU • Deciduous • Uncle Jam • Aaron Wales

Carl Raymond Blues Band • Few 2 Many • Cleptoclectics • Eli • Howard • Sleep • Marley Dixon • Daniel Lee Kendall • Western Synthetics • Kodama • The Professor • BabyBooma • Abstract New Dimensions • Chris Tejcek • Sunsaria • Allara Laferla & Taylor Beaumont • Karise Higgins • DJ Drae Mu • DJ Maren • DJ Reload • Sorted Few • DJ Jonah • Freedom Sound • Teddy V • Inna Riddim • Sound Guise • Nathan Kaye • Nautilus Sound • Flossy • Morning Monks • Vibes Connection

The Bakery - Not Just For Baking Bread

'We all have a universal need to groove and The Bakery make great music for loving and dancing.' ABC Limelight magazine

Let The Bakery take you into a state of dancing madness at this year’s Festival. The Bakery are an 11-piece party extravaganza - ridiculous, mayhemic, joyous, soulful and contagious. Their music has been described as a neo-orgasmic-soul-funk-jungle-party-core and although we aren’t quite sure what that means we are definitely looking forward to experiencing it first hand.

Listen to The Bakery on MySpace.
Kara Grainger

'Grainger's alternately throaty and honeyed voice floats over a slickly produced bed of bluesy accompaniment.' The Tennessean

Kara Grainger will be bringing her classic songwriting, and smooth vocals to Peats Ridge. She has the ability to whip up a storm with a fiery slide guitar and sings of love, loss and heartache across a rich palette of swamp-blues, contemporary folk and fresh soul-pop grooves. It's a captivating blend of sounds big on swagger, sugar and spice and comes packed with passionate storytelling and provocative guitar work.

Listen to Kara Grainger on MySpace.


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Cuthbert & The Night Walkers

'CATNW are not followers of any nature, merely purveyors of glorious pop with melodies and songs to die for and a stage show that is even better.' Time Off

Friends of Peats Ridge, CATNW are bringing their magic straight to the Festival. Imagine a pysch-washed, choir-infused pop take on the joy of life as written and performed by a ringmaster, a rock band and an all-girl choir.

The eight-piece Sydney outfit who join the musical dots between 'Brick in the Wall' era Pink Floyd and Architecture In Helsinki (and everything in-between).

Listen to Cuthbert & The Night Walkers on MySpace.

Storm The Ridge: The Grand Final

It's the Grand Final of Storm The Ridge, our artist development program. Over 600 bands applied from a huge range of genres from folk, hip - hop, dub, rock to reggae, and the semi-finalists battled it out each week for the past four weeks. 
 
The four finalists will compete for the top spot at The Vanguard this Sunday, 23rd November.

These finalists are Billygoat and the Mongrels, Maxine Kauter, Caitlin Harnett, and Boom Band Krewe. To see these great performers live and to ensure your seat, head to Moshtix.

 The winning artist/band will have a live performance recorded, mixed and mastered and 500 copies of this recording will be distributed by MGM.  And, to top it off the winner will perform at Peats Ridge 2008.

STORM THE RIDGE AND WIN A FESTIVAL PASS
All those that pre-book to the Grand Final will go into the draw to win a Peats Ridge 2008 three day season pass.  The winner will be drawn at random on the night.

When: Sunday 23rd November from 7pm
Where: The Vanguard, Newtown
Price: From $10 through Moshtix

For more information about Storm The Ridge head to our website.
A Taste of the Arts Early

We could not wait until the next newsletter to share this special arts offer with you. Our friends at CarriageWorks have partnered with Force Majeure to bring their smash hit show The Age I'm In exclusively to you for a special price.

‘It’s Kate Champion’s Force Majeure, and it’s brilliant.’ Arts Journalist Diana Simmonds

Directed by Kate Champion, The Age I'm In is a poignant, revealing and sometimes irreverent portrait of Australians, told through Force Majeure’s distinctive dance theatre language. With stellar performances, state of the art technology and stories that connect with everyone, this sell-out show will have Sydney-siders scrambling for tickets.

To book, call CarriageWorks 1300 723 038 and quote the password ‘AGE’ to receive your ticket at the special price of $25.

Where: CarriageWorks 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
When:  25th November to 6th December


For more information go to the CarriageWorks website.

Your Festival Needs You

We are currently recruiting for an Organics Coordinator and a General Store Manager.  Please email applications of interest to finance@peatsridgefestival.com.au.

Applications for intern positions have opened. This is an ideal opportunity to get experience with a sustainable arts and music festival on pre, during and post event tasks.

The following opportunities are available; Volunteer Assistant, Office Manager, Children's Festival Assistant and Artist Services Assistant.

Volunteers who have already expressed an interest, we thank you. We are currently scheduling roles and jobs, we will email you with details. Please keep checking the website regularly for positions available.

For more information and application details go to our website.
Stallholder Applications Now Open

Stallholder applications are now open. If you are an artisan, crafts person, instrument maker or organic food stall you will be given preference, but all applications will be considered, taking into account product suitability and past attendance.

When completing your online application take particular note of requirements for packaging and waste and include as much information as possible.

Stall numbers are limited for 2008 and applications close 30th November 2008.
Go to the stallholders applications section of our website for more information.  


The Greenest Place to Go.

For a list of the best green products The Green Directory promotes a comprehensive resource of eco friendly products and services. Products and businesses are screened to make sure they operate how a green business should be run and the directory does not list businesses that just use the term sustainability or green as a marketing tool.


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