The Baru Beat
“Sometimes service plans go awry, and I need to go with the flow. On one occasion during a service, a larrikin resident exclaimed ‘Here’s one that I know’ before enthusiastically breaking into Slim Dusty’s ‘A Pub with No Beer’,” says The Rev’d Richard Butler, whose role as deacon in The Parish of Warwick is partly funded by the Bush Ministry Fund
Reflections
“It would be remiss of me not to mention how the organist actually has a certain amount of opportunity to express a sense of humour. Examples of this include the time when I heard an improvisation unmistakably including the theme tune to Wallace and Gromit or when the postlude for the Feast of the Assumption was ‘Hooray and up she rises’,” says The Rev’d Dr Gemma Dashwood OAM
“Some of my clearest early memories of church involve the songs I sung as a child, and music is such a fun and effective way to let God’s word ‘dwell richly’ in us. Therefore, as I started my internship at St Bart’s in 2023, I was excited that one of my areas of focus was to foster the growth of generational diversity in the music team — to get young people involved,” says Diana Wong from Resource Church St Bart’s, Toowoomba
It wasn’t a thousand voices shouting to the saints, as one of the hymns in the sample booklet put it; but about 80 people gathered in St James’s, Sussex Gardens, in London recently to put a fair wind behind the latest revision of the famous green-bound hymn book whose first music editor, in 1906, was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, then only 33 years old
Watch St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School music staff, joined by Year 11 double bass player Hilary, perform this exciting new classical work composed by Year 8 student Charlotte. Charlotte was recently awarded joint first place in the Australian Society of Music Education Young Composers Competition (Lower Secondary Division) for her composition titled ‘Ancient Voyage String Quinte’
Watch Fraser Coast Anglican College students sing carols as part of the Christmas season celebrations at the school
Matthew Flinders Anglican College Secondary School students are starting a radio station and who better to teach them the ropes than one of the Sunshine Coast’s best, Old Flinderian and Hot 91.1FM Radio Host Sam Coward (Flinders Class of 1996)?
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