City South Association

Headlining the stage at WSAF 2008 will be the Acoustic-Folk sounds of Brillig, Alt-Country Duo The Sea Thieves and the charming and always entertaining Folk-Pop of Cookie Baker. The musical line-up is complimented by the world music sounds of Nice Verde, and the Second-Wind Ensemble.

The concert is free and runs between 11am-4pm. City South Association is pleased to announce the 5th Annual Whitmore Square Arts Fair will be held in Whitmore Square between 11am - 4pm on Sunday 23 November.

The Whitmore Square Arts Fair is a great place to find unique Christmas gifts, experience fine music and enjoy free art workshops suitable for all ages.

ARTISTS

The 2008 Whitmore Square Arts fair (WSAF 2008) will feature the work of over 40 South Australian artists. The different mediums on sale include visual art, ceramics, jewellery, indigenous art, photography, cards, sculpture, clothing, toys, and textile arts. The Fair has a great reputation as a ‘live’ arts fair and a majority of the participating artists will be creating work on-site.

Studios represented include T’Arts, The Muligas, Beau Studio, Chappel Gesture, Luna Bird, NB Designs, Iron Nest, Skinny, Quirky World, Karpandi Arts Centre, and Australasian Porcelain Art Teachers.

FREE ART WORKSHOPS

Workshops at WSAF 2008 include Stencil making with Artist Joshua Smith, Soft Felt Toys with Daniela Catalano from Quirky World and Chapel Gesture and Henna Tattooing with Humna Mustafa. Workshops begin at 12noon and run on the hour.

NIKKI CARABETTA - Traditional Australian Aboriginal dot painting
Learn tradition Aboriginal dot painting with Nikki, using a variety of traditional and contemporary symbols on assorted mediums.

JOSHUA SMITH - Stencil Workshop
Get the lowdown on stencil art with Joshua, learn the basics and make your own.

DANIELA CATALANO - Soft Felt Toy Workshop
Daniela will teach you how to make your very own soft toy critter and get to take one home.

HUMNA MUSTAFA - Henna Tattooing
Humna will transform your hands or feet into pieces of art using temporary henna tattoos.

FREE CONCERT AT THE WHITMORE SQUARE ARTS FAIR

BRILLIG
Driven by the vocal harmony & interplay between lead singers and multi-instrumentalists Matt Swayne & Elizabeth Reid, Brillig's sound features a graceful combination of acoustic guitar, viola, autoharp, harmonica, banjo, piano accordion and ukulele. The band have shared the stage with many acclaimed acts including The Handsome Family (USA), The Audreys, CW Stoneking, Ned Collette, Sime Nugent, Martin Martini & The Bone Palace Orchestra, and The Yearlings, and have enjoyed performances across Australia. Brillig’s new EP ‘Jack Davey’ is released 31 October.

THE SEA THIEVES
The sea thieves are Naomi Thompson and Zac Coligan, an independent band from Adelaide, South Australia. Their amazing debut album ‘Hiding in the shade’ features a collection of dusty samples and old instruments, recorded with just a few basic microphones and imbued with the echo of wooden floorboards and bluestone walls. In their music you will hear the pluck of the ukulele, the wheeze of accordion bellows and the singing of a saw.

COOKIE BAKER
An effervescent yet relaxed and personable performer and an introspective songwriter, Cookie Baker has shared stages with Augie March, Little Birdy, Ben Lee, Kate Miller-Heidke and The Audreys. Uplifting, wry, observant and downright honest in her approach to life’s little tricks, flips and whimsies, Cookie Baker’s debut album ‘Gala Day’ is at once gently arresting, mature yet playful – story time for grownups – an aural novella laden with haunting strings, barnyard percussion and a rich, raw and melancholic vocal quality aimed square at the heart.

NICE VERDE
Danceable and uplifting, blending traditional music with their original compositions, Nice Verde create their own world fusion. Nice Verdes have, and continue to travel, learning, studying, and collecting tunes and influences from around the world, especially from Africa and Latin America. Their sound is unique and hard to categorize, all at once bluesy, latin, gypsy, jungle, folk, and constantly growing - remaining true however, to the spirit of the peace march, celebrating unity in diversity, equality, and sound 'ecology'.

SECOND-WIND ENSEMBLE
The Second-Wind Ensemble is unique in that it originated as a band begun specifically for beginners who were late starters to music. When the group began most of the members were taking up an instrument for the first time. The name of the band arose from this rejuvenating lifestyle change. The name also reflects the fact that the band is made up almost entirely of wind instruments. Music played by the ensemble varies in style from the more classical to popular music over different eras.