Just back from a great week in Ubud, Bali. Ubud may be noisy, relentless and crowded with tourists - all vying for the same piece of cracked pavement or avoiding the same holes in the road - a mix of Western hedonism, healing modalities and polite but compromised...

Bula! Just back from a glorious week in Fiji singing with 40 or so very enthusiastic participants on my  second Coconut Chorus vocal retreat. As well as our regular singing sessions at First Landing Resort (how good was that omelette!), we had the wonderful experience...

A shameful case of the Australian government bending the knee to the USA: Australian citizen Dan Duggan has been in solitary confinement in a NSW maximum security prison since October 2022, with no charges on the say-so of the American government. He has not been...

2023 was an amazing year of travel and singing for us - Making Music in Italy was a brilliant success, Portugal a wonderful holiday where I heard some remarkable music, Fiji was a revelation, Bali equally wonderful, and the many events in Australia and NZ were fully...

Our first SINGING BY THE SEA 5-day retreat in Queenscliff was an unqualified success. 5-star meals, bountiful morning teas, (who says it's not about the food?) ferry rides, charming environment, wacky evening events...plus the pleasure I had in working with Annemarie...

I'm honoured to have had a documentary about my musical life shown recently on ABC-TV's Compass program: Episode 10 in series 37 is called Freeing The Song. There is footage of workshops, the Cafe of the Gate of Salvation, US gospel tours, evolving (or devolving) hair...

I'm in Lisbon, writing in an apartment in the funky Alfama district. The windows are open, music from the bar across the road and random street sounds float in, and I find this more life-affirming than distracting. I'm just now, three days after the event, coming down...

Singing By The Sea - A 5-day Retreat may not be a snappy title, but I reckon it will sell itself no matter what.  Join two dynamic and uplifting choir leaders for a week of vocal joy in the beautiful heritage seaside town of Queenscliff, Victoria. Melbourne singer,...

Motivated by the recent enquiries, we're now adding two more workshops to the April calendar. On our way to COFFS HARBOUR for our weekend workshop, we'll hit PORT MACQUARIE on Thursday April 13 for an evening in the Senior School Hall of Mackillop College. (After my...

I find myself having a resurgence of interest (or delusion) in creating experimental/whatever music (whatever it is it's not a cappella or gospel), mainly thanks to joining a very supportive experimental & electronic online club. I've begun to add new Van Da...

October 23-28! Save these dates! We'll take over the historic seaside town of Queenscliff, 106 km southwest of Melbourne on the Bellarine Peninsula, for a week of singing with Tony & a special guest choir director. When we're not singing we'll be relishing the...

I'm VERY happy to announce two new and exciting exotic locations have been added to this year's plans. Both of these promise to be sensational—inspiring, relaxing, joyous and heart-opening. Firstly, I'm running a week-long course in Fiji, August 22-29, at the lovely...