Festival Statesmen
| Type of post: | Club news |
| Sub-type: | No sub-type |
| Posted By: | Dick Bushell |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Tue, 16 Aug 2016 |
After months of build-up, Unwrapped is finally here! The second album from the Festival Statesmen is now out and available for purchase. To launch it we headed to The Producers Warehouse for our launch party in the Umbrella: Winter City Sounds festival, premiering three new arrangements: I Won’t Give Up, Can’t Stop the Feeling, and Canned Heat for our packed out audience along with some sample tunes from the album. Individual CDs are $20 and orders can be placed through festivalstatesmen@gmail.com. Orders can be posted (standard shipping fees apply) or picked up at Newcastle.
As part of our ongoing evolution, one of our big focuses is providing opportunities for our members to develop skills other than singing and Unwrapped was a great opportunity to put that into action. Ryan O’Dea recorded, mixed and mastered all the new tracks, while Mitre Khammash is responsible for the brilliant music video for the album’s flagship single Get Back. 5 arrangements from 6 different members were also sourced, making more than half the album’s content. We’re immensely proud of the result and to celebrate, we’re offering you or your chorus 10% off when you order 5 or more CDs in one transaction!
As we prepare for nationals in Newcastle and welcome new members to the group, we’re also hard at work training a sub-group of our members for the AUS-ACA championships in Melbourne. We took the year off from competing there after our win in 2014, so we’re pretty keen on seeing if we can defend the title. Despite all that’s going on though, our eyes are firmly on the prize as we ramp up to the National Convention, and we can’t wait to show you all what we’ve been working on!
James Moffatt
Festival Statesmen Leadership Team
