Country Music

217 River Street, BALLINA, N.S.W 2478
Phone 6681 4480 Mobile 04091258883
Email mvincent1@dodo.com.au

EAST COAST ACADEMY OF MUSIC
ALL FORMS OF MUSICAL TUITION

ROCK, PIANO, KEYBOARDS, DRUMS, TRUMPET, SAXOPHONE, VIOLIN, FIDDLE, COUNTRY KEYS, COUNTRY GUITAR, SONGWRITING AND AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSIC IN GENERAL, AND EUROPEAN INCLUDING GUITAR, CLASSICAL, ACOUSTIC, ELECTRIC, ALL STYLES FROM COUNTRY TO JAZZ AND COUNTRY FIDDLE. WE ALSO RUN WORKSHOPS IN COMPUTERISED MUSIC FOR INTERIM GRADE OR QUALIFIED PEOPLE TO HIGHER LEVELS INCORPORATING MIDI FILES, AND SOFTWARE, AUDIO ENGINEERING, RECORDING STUDIO, MUSICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES, VIDEO AND D V D TRAINING. WE ALSO COVER THEORY TO ALL GRADES, AND SINGING BOTH MODERN AND CLASSICAL. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN IT, THEN WE WILL TEACH YOU IN A MOST FRIENDLY AND COMFORTABLE ATMOSPHERE. PLEASE ASK OUR STAFF FOR ADVICE ON TUITION AND GRADING. WE ARE A CREDITED MUSICAL SCHOOL WITH ALL GRADUATE TEACHERS

YOUR’S IN MUSIC
MICHAEL VINCENT
T.S.A. MEMBER
EAST COAST ACADEMY OF MUSIC

Michael now has secured the services of Paul Rabbit Robinson, the Epoch sponsored violinist and is now teaching every Tuesday at our academy. He specializes in country and Irish fiddle and is also writing a book on the secrets of electronic fiddle, look for the book in about a week. Any working musician, teacher or in the trade generally, and can prove it, receive 10% discount off any recommended retail price in my shop, Michael intends making this a country musicians, and musicians in general, place to shop and record. $400 gets you a master CD with CD jewel cover with artwork and printing, a two page bio and 4 or 5 tracks recorded CD, stamped with a cover and a reasonable amount of mixing to your satisfaction. They then burn off copies for $4.00 and register if required to by APRA for manufacturing license. One to 100 copies can be printed, which means that if someone wants a bio on CD, they can do this with approximately 6 copies for around $420. For another $100 they can have a DVD COMPLETED (WITH VIDEO INCLUDED). They now have over 200 students and have introduced country guitar, slide guitar, pedal steel guitar and fiddle into the curriculum with Paul Rabit Robinson as their fiddle teacher. Paul is on the back of the EPOCH catalogue and EPOCH have now made them their only DEALER on the North coast of NEW SOUTH WALES. Things are going great. If you are interested phone 0266 814480 or 0266 819643.

EAST COAST ACADEMY IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT YOU CAN PURCHASE THE COUNTRY MUSIC BULLETIN ON THE NORTH COAST.

MICHAEL VINCENT

Paul Rabbit Robinson and I have been performing locally and have been booked at the Ballina RSL for both Christmas day and Boxing day and will be doing a ton of country stuff . Other venues include Bellowing Bulll Restaurant at Wollongbar and Brunswick Hotel Evans Head RSL and other local venues and will be featuring Zia Moreau with us on occasions. Zia has toured with people like Lisa Hunt and others and is fairly well known on the country circuit. Anyway, that's all the news for now. Hope all is well and I will catch you later
Yours in Music
Mike Vincent
Nimbin

Broken Bow

My shop in Ballina is starting to make headway, slowly but decisively. We are now Epoch's North Coast Agent and things are looking good in that department. Had a surprise customer on Saturday when this unsuspecting character rang to ask if I had a bow for his Epoch fiddle as (someone trod on his bow after a performance the night before and broke it), which I did and within the hour, none other than Pixie himself was bowless, at least I could accommodate him thank God, which was the first time I had met him and a thorough gentleman is he. Oh well back to the grindstone. Best of luck with the rest of the year.

Good news is that my shop is going well and we now have courses in country music songwriting, production music in country guitar styles and keyboard skills and a few other odds and ends and I have built the retail side of things up as well having sold gear to some country greats such as Pixie Jenkins and others. I had the pleasure of playing in a backup band being Saddle Tramp, for Owen Blundell at Nimbin and I have recently recorded a number of people who have entered the talent quest at the inaugral Lismore Country Festival and some of them have been great, top notch stuff coming up there.: “FROM A JACK TO A KING”

These infamous words affect nearly every one of us that has ever had anything to do with Country Music and none so pertinent than what has happened to older country singer songwriter Michael Vincent. Six weeks ago heading to Tamworth with possibly one of the best country style guitars ever made, with loads of endorsement, enthusiasm and general love for country music to losing the lot through irresponsible measures taken by some associates and then back once again after purchasing the East Coast Academy of Music in Ballina and starting again once more. 4 Years ago Michael was severely assaulted on the North Coast of New South Wales and spent nearly two years in hospital with 4 months on life support in a coma and six months in intensive care and 19 operations to purchasing of the East Coast Music Academy in Ballina

The Academy is a credited school of Music registered with DEET and 8 university graduate teachers and his heading down that country road. Courses offered at the Academy including most instrument tuition from grade 1 to University entrance examinations. They have secured the services of people like Paul Robinson, one of Country’s greatest fiddle players through to people like Jivan Diwano, a well respected New York musical director, who is currently residing in the area until his latest book is to be published which will be available through outlets such as Allens and Dymocks. Multi Media, computer music design, record production and software education such as Cool Pro Edit, Sound Forge and others will also be amongst a number of workshops being currently designed hopefully with the assistance of people such as Chris Cook, if he has time, John Ashcroft Jnr, Paul Robinson, Epoch sponsored violinist and an array of musical producers who actually reside on the North Coast and have offered their services to the Academy

Our aim is to attract the young budding artists and make them conversant with the pitfalls and the positives of the Music business in General as well as instrument tuition and hook into the country scene assisting with record production and song writing skills attained by a number of long term country oldies who have also offered their services to the Academy

It also offers a full-blown recording studio, aptly named Mad Dog Recordings with services up to and including D V D production etc.

All the signs indicate that through good old yakka and come common sense, The Academy should be able to expand quite rapidly and gain the respect that it should deserve in a great but hard Industry.