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Anthony Green and Terra Firmer

Terra Firmer consists of Anthony Green on guitar and lead vocals, Matt Griffin on guitar and back up vocals, Richard Lockwood on drums and Tony Green on bass guitar.

The band are guaranteed not to miss a note, while leaving punters gobsmacked at their musical prowess as each member boasts years of experience.

Anthony and Richard have been playing since the age of eight and Matt since the age of 10, while Tony has been a playing for more than 30 years.

Each band member has performed at various venues around Australia. Tony has toured and is still performing with country music legend Jimmy Little. Anthony was nominated for a prestigious Deadly award in 2009 in the most promising new talent category, the Deadlys being the awards of note for Indigenous musicians, actors, entertainers and sports people. 

Anthony and Terra Firmer recently performed on stage in Sydney's Victoria Park for the Yabun festival. The Yabun festival is held on Australia Day each year and is the premier festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Yabun was a huge success this year with 10,000 passers throughout the day.

ANTHONY GREEN carries on a wonderful tradition of talented Indigenous artists in Australian country music. The young singer/songwriter from Armidale, Northern NSW, draws inspiration from his father Tony and Grandfather Cyril, as well as TROY CASSAR-DALEY, PAUL KELLY, KEITH URBAN and JOHN FOGERTY. Anthony graduated from the CMAA Australian Country Music College in Tamworth in 2008 after receiving the inaugural Troy Cassar-Daley scholarship.

Anthony joins with award-winning producer GARTH PORTER to co-write songs for his debut EP “Whichway Up” - an excellent showcase of Anthony's talents. First track “I Got You” pairs him with Deadly Award winner SHARNEE FENWICK in a great duet underpinned by the expert Porter production.

Music has always played a major role in Anthony’s life. Since learning guitar at age 8, his father Tony and Grandfather Cyril encouraged and inspired him.

Having performed international and national with Indigenous rising stars Todd Williams and Emma Donovan it was time for Anthony to go solo. In 2008 Anthony graduated from the ‘College of Country Music’ in Tamworth. It was clear to anyone who knew Anthony that Music would become his life, his Passion, His Dream. It was the Natural progression for Anthony to go on and co write his debut EP with Australian music great Garth Porter who also produced the EP.

The EP’s lead track, a duet “I Got You” that features fellow Indigenous rising country star Sharnee Fenwick is bound to be a classic. The EP truly showcases Anthony’s versatility as a country artist with the very rockin track “A Long Weekend”, which is an excellent track to kick off any party. The balled “Giving it all to you” is a beautiful track inspired by Anthony’s Partner and daughter.

Anthony lives in Armidale, Northern NSW and has been playing with bands and local artists in the area. The music of legendary Australian entertainer Jimmy Little and his band was the inspiration for Anthony Green to apply for the inaugural Troy Cassar-Daley scholarship to the CMAA Australian College of Country Music.

Anthony’s grandfather, Cyril Green, was lead guitarist in Jimmy’s band, so Anthony’s early recollections are of attending many a Jimmy Little concert with his father, Anthony Green Snr, and his grandfather. Anthony said “There has always been music in our house, it’s what comes natural to me”. Like his father and grandfather, Anthony’s preferred instrument is the guitar but when he came to joining a band, it was a rock band. As bands do, it broke up and Anthony returned to his country roots, and being accepted into college was a great step up. I've always wanted to be a guitarist. I take inspiration from my dad and my grandfather, as well as Troy Cassar-Daley, Keith Urban and Tommy Emmanuel. Graduating from college has helped me improve my musicianship and become a better all round performer.

When: February 27 2010
Where: Wauchope Arts Hall
Time: Tickets on sale at the door from 7:30pm
Cost: $12 Members and $15 Non-Members

Lemon Tree

Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), a 45 years old widow from a small Palestinian village in the West bank, finds herself at war with the Israeli Minister of Defense (Doron Tavory) who built his house on the green line border between Israel and the occupied Territories on the edge of Salma’s lemon grove.

Soon enough the Israeli security forces claim that the grove is a threat to the safety of the minister and issue orders to uproot the lemon trees. Salma, whose son is in America and daughter live far away from her, decides to fight for her trees. She embarks on a legal journey all the way up to the Israeli Supreme Court. Salma is joined by a young Palestinian lawyer, Ziad Daud (Ali suliman), who fights against a wall of clever military lawyers who have the backing of the government. Ziad, 34, divorced from a Russian woman he met while attending law school in Moscow, falls in love with Salma. Their love affair is a complicated and dangerous one as Palestinian widows are not free to do whatever they like, certainly not fall in love, certainly not with younger men…

Salma realizes that she has inner strengths that allow her to continue her lonely quest, despite the pressures put on her from both sides – Israeli and Palestinian. Salma is fighting for trees that were
planted by her father over 50 years ago, trees that have absorbed blood, sweat and tears like the whole region. She will not let them be cut down just to satisfy absurd security requirements.

On the other side of the grove, Mira Navon (Rona Lipaz-Michael), the Minister’s wife, is also undergoing a major change in her life. After fulfilling her duties for so many years, and despite the new house and her husband’s new and powerful job, she feels unhappy. The clock is ticking away and there must be more to life than her share so far. The events around her invisible new neighbor gradually raise her awareness to her husband’s approach to the whole affair and she finds herself defying what is expected of her. A virtual bond is created between the two women, each of them discovering a new life ahead of them, each in her own territory across the seamless yet deep borders between them.

Lemon Tree is about struggles. Struggles to protect what is yours, struggles over principles, humanity, land, history, years of bad blood and bloodshed, all through one woman’s struggle to protect her lemon trees. It is a story about solitude, about the loneliness of all the people and issues involved in this region and beyond.

When: 13 March 7.30pm
Where: Wauchope Arts Hall
Cost: Members free Non members $5.00

Peter Denton on Piano from 7.15pm

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