April/May/June 2013

Hello everyone I hope all is well out there for you all.

I have some shows coming up soon and will fill you in with the latest ramblings below

As some of you know my re-release of 'Trip To Dingle' made it Album of the Week in Ireland on Charlie McGettigan's Arts Hour Program, It also was featured on Radio National's 'The Daily Planet' with host and great musician Lucky Oceans. Turns out Lucky and myself have haunted some of the same places along the south west and west coasts of Ireland.

Thank you Lucky for the Airplay!

Here is his show on this link

You Can also still purchase my music direct from me here if you like or itunes and CD Baby.

Tour:
I have some cool shows coming up!
Australian Celtic Festival, including the Australian Celtic Music Awards on
MAY - 3,4 and 5th May at Glen Inness, NSW


11th MAY I'm playing guitar for Mother Natures Orchestra at a 'Lock the Gate' concert
Details will be on my facebook page or here at the MNO Facebook page

Richard Gilewitz is making yet even another return to Australia ( yes another, Seems he getting popular down here) and I'll be sharing the stage with him at Zamia Theatre on Tamborine mountain, Saturday 25th May 7.00 pm.
Tickets will be $15 pre book and $20 at the door. The Show with my mates the 'Nearly All Irish' trio sold out and I have decided to hire the sweet little hall and try again.

For enquiries concerning this event;
Steve Seaton on 0403 124 200  or
email info [@] looseacoustic.com.au

JUNE:
9th June I'll be taking part of a brand new festival near Nerang,QLD with Coast Acoustics who organise some great shows. This will be the first Folk and Bluegrass festival on the gold coast. I'm up first in the morning. Details will appear on my facebook page nearer to the time, Feel free to send me an email asking about any of my events, I'll let you know as mush as I know!! You can also ask about this festival here at Coast Acoustics


I'll be doing plenty of recording over May and June also Hopefully

And remember My Friends Ben Jordan and Greg Humphreys would love to visit Australia for a tour, not by any means at the same time but that wouldn't hurt either I'm sure.  Please email me if you like to try and organise something for them or you can contact them below.

Here is Ben and here is Greg

I met Ben and Greg in Prague a couple years and and really liked the music they were playing.
I met so many great new friends and musicians on that trip, I hope to return.

Coal Seam Gas!
My Friends have written a anti Fracking song, I am happy to be involved with this and be apart of this great movement.
Our Friend Andrew Mitch set up his little camera and we recorded it live on the Balcony and it came out pretty good for a live take. I like the kids holding the signs :)  .
have a look here

I had the privilege of being able to see The Waterboys perform twice on their first ever visit to Australia, Wow! What a live band. One of the best live acts I've seen. I saw them in Brisbane doing one of their 'standard' shows and in Sydney performimg their 'Mr Yeats' Show. With flute and Vocal by no other than Local girl Sarah Calderwood! Rock on Sarah.

I was also very blessed and was able to see the amazing Paul Brady , What a songwriter and performer! Thanks for coming way down under Mr Brady, And thanks to Troubadour Touring for getting me in the door. I'm spoilt so I am.

A Special Hello to my Europe/UK friends,
Hope to share the stage with you all again some time soon.

Thanks To Chris Melville a great guitar repairer,maintainer and world class luthier
http://www.melvilleguitars.com
and also G7th Capos
http://www.g7th.com/

Well that's about it from me. Hope you enjoy this little read and take care out there and feel free to email me and say hi, and once again sorry about the first few newsletters sent, Somedays I just can't seem to work some html code stuff!

You can follow me on the below social network sites

     
www.peter-miller.com

Peter Miller
Po Box 8533 GCMC Bundall
Queensland Australia 9726

September/October

Hello and welcome to the September and October Edition of my Newsletter. I'm happy to announce my CD 'Trip to Dingle' completely sold out and I decided to do the re-release with extra tracks and 12 page booklet. It's only been out a couple weeks and I still need to get on the publicity vehicle and drive it everywhere. It's already up on itunes and all and you can also purchase it direct from me on my website. It has also been re-mastered buy guitar legend Michael Fix. Michael is also a recording engineer and producer of fine quality. You can visit him here

You Can purchase my music direct from me  here if you like.



I hope to soon have my own mp3 download store as well.
I Still have quite a few tracks left for my 3rd full length CD and am slowly working on that too so I will keep you posted.

The first ever Australian Celtic music awards will take place in 2013 and they have just started their new website, it will be updated over the coming months with more artists and information. As most of you know I'm nominated for some of the wards, fingers crossed!
Their website can be visited here http://www.acma.giservices.com.au/


GIGS
My Next solo gig is at the coast acousitc Festival on Sunday 23rd September at 11.00am. It is at Broadwater Park lands Southport QLD.  You can see the artist lists for both Saturday and Sunday hereI'm looking forward to the Festival very much, Lets hope for some fine weather.


'Nearly all Irish' is a show I'm doing with Irishman Mick Mchugh and Jack O'Leary. It's a great concert filled with song stories and some onstage banter. I'm really proud to be involved with this one. The next show is at Tallebudgera Hall on Friday 12th October 7.00pm. Advance tickets $16 or $20 at the door. go to KJ Promo for details.  Tickets can be booked at MOSHTIX. This will be a most enjoyable night full of variety

                      
                     

You can follow me on the below social network sites 

              

www.peter-miller.com

Peter Miller
Po Box 8533 GCMC Bundall
Queensland Australia 9726

April May Ramblings

Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. April and May was a little quiet musically for me. However I did share the stage with Australian icon Kavisha Mazzella at Montsalvat in Victoria. It's a great venue and I once saw the classical guitarist John Williams playing there on a TV show. I always wanted to play there.It's an old Artists colony and it sill has resident artists staying there. painters, Luthiers and all other kinds of art.

  I also for the 2nd year in a row played the Australian Celtic festival. It was great to be involved in this event in the town of Glen Inness , New South Wales.

Fans of Richard Gilewitz in Aus/NZ would be happy to know he has returned. It's his 2nd tour of Australia.

And Michael Fix is forever keeping busy bringing a guitar show to all parts of the globe.

 Sadly I had to knock back an opportunity to perform in Ireland once again, The cost of the airfare which coincided with the Olympics was far too expensive for me to justify going over for that time. Although I would have flown into Dublin, it seems all fares to that corner of the globe were pushed quite high unless you got in very early.
However, I will return to Eire. It's my 2nd home!!

John Spillane made a short visit to Australia, It's his 3rd tour I do believe. He's a gas character and I always love to join him for a tune or two.

My good buddy Mick McHugh has just finished a tour with Ralph McTell. He had a cracking tour!!!
http://mickmchugh.com/

http://www.ralphmctell.co.uk/

One of my Favorite guitar players Phil Keaggy had a short stay in hospital and I'm glad he is now well.... Thanks for the tunes Mr Keaggy!


Hope you enjoyed this little read and I will keep on playing and writing new tunes for as long as I'm breathing... yours in music,

PM
www.peter-miller.com

Guitar Tuition DVD

Hi Everyone, For fans of rich sounding fingerstyle guitar with alternative tunings I highly recommend Simon Fox's new DVD. It comes in a 3 disc package.
Here is the link to his page

He has many other tuition sources on his site as well.
Stop by and have a visit, He'd love to hear from you



He's an amazingly clean and accurate player.

Cygnet Folk Festival

I was very honoured to be able to play the 30th Anniversary of the cygnet folk festival. It was great. USA guitar legend Dale Miller made his first visit down-under. Other highlights were Kavisha Mazzella , The Lamplights, Steve and Marjorie Gadd, Silkweed, Miles to go Band, Nano Stern, Kym Pitman band and many more. Cygnet is in a Beautiful part of the world in Southern Tasmania. On my Second show I asked flute player Brian Owens to join me and we played a couple tunes together. what a gas!! I hope to return and hope the festival goes on and on for years to come....

January News snippet

Hello everyone, Happy New year.
Let's hope 2012 will be a great year full of music and I hope you enjoyed the celebrations.
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I'll be playing at the 30th Cygnet folk festival in Tasmania on 6th-8th January. I'm really looking forward to being back in the lovely town. I'm also doing a spot at a showcase night at The Lark in Hobart on Thursday night (5th).Looking forward to seeing Kavisha Mazzella, Dale Miller, The Lamplights and many more playing.

Then on Friday 13th January 6.30 pm I'm opening for a friend at her CD launch. It's at Mandala Arts at Mermaid beach. It's the old 3 worlds shop. After my spot I'm sitting in with a band called Natures Orchestra. Then Kate's band (Leopold's treat) will do their thing.

I've also got another spot on the 1st February working with the local council and supplying some entertainment in old Southport town

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Remember to keep an eye out for some 2012 shows in Australia.
Guitarist Richard Gilewitz is returning, Mick McHugh is supporting the legend Ralph McTell on his tour and hopefully you will see me again too.Pierre Bensusan is also returning to Australia. Beoga the Irish trad band are coming back downunder, They are brilliant a real driving force in Irish trad. They get a massive sound live. The Pogues are returning but it's unclear weather Shane MacGowan will be with them. I hope he is travelling with them and is in good health and spirits.

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CAPOS
I'm still using the G7th Capos and just recieved a new model to try out. It's called the Newport. It's a very small lightweight capo and works great. The G7ths models all look great and you can order a customised one with your own logos etc if you want to. G7th Capos
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My friend Dan Hannaford had his CD launch the other day in Byron bay and I went down for that. I really enjoyed it and hope he has a long successful career.
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In the words of John Spillane-
"Please God may I see you all again, Where? in the future that's where."

December News

Greetings everyone.

I hope this post finds you all well


It's that time of the year again . 2011 was a great year and full of suprises . I had no tour planned but all of a sudden found myself back in Ireland which is always a treat. As a bonus I got to play at United Islands Festival in Prague(Praha). Prague is in the Czech Republic and is an amazing city with lots of little music hide-aways hidden from the tourist traps and filled with warm friendly locals. Some of the Musicians I played with at the Festival were amazing and I hope to return. Freiburg in Germany I also went to and got to play with the "best little band in the world" called Pony und Klyde. Freddy and Charly (friederike & Lena) are great musicians and we did a double bill in a little place that the owner opened especially for us, it was very hot I remember. Like summer here.



Fund-raiser

I recently played a fund-raiser for the Southport special school and they raised well over enough funds for what they needed to do. It was a real mixed bag of talent, Myself doing whatever it is, Kathleen Proctor-Moore and Charles Cooper doing opera/pop/celtic crossover singing. Alison Ahearn singing country/rock and Chris Harvey with some Jazz and easy listening.



Highlights for the last couple years were


Playing for John Spillane.
Being Involved in Cloughjordan Festival.
Playing guitar with Jim 'kimo' West.
seeing Michael Fix play again.
United Island Festival -Prague.
Freiburg-Germany.
Christchurch Cathedral - Waterford.
sneaking in a couple gigs at unplugged in the Basement.
Hanging out with Stephen Housden.
Drinking coffee in a little local Czech cafe.
Sneaking a tune or two in after Sunas.



and I'm sure there is more....



Keep an eye out in 2012 in Australia.
Guitarist Richard Gilewitz is returning, Mick McHugh is supporting the legend Ralph McTell on his tour and hopefully you will see me again too. Google away and find info on this!! I'll be in Tassie in January at the Cygnet folk festival and also doing some local work with the council here. also playing at my Friends CD Launch at Mandala Arts Mermaind beach Fri 13th. "Leopold's Treat" That Should be a great night. Pierre Bensusan is also returning to Australia.

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I've updated my website and it's slowly getting filled with content and new info as the weeks go by.

Electric Guitar.
Just recently I've revisited my electric guitar.
I spent a few hours soldering new parts in to get the lovely lady up and running again. She's sounds sweet and have been playing a little with a local jam/ethereal/rock/everything band.

Acoustic Guitar.
My Main guitar, the Maton 808 had been playing up a little. I have some local friends here who are great guitar repairers. However, With a little coaxing though I decided to give someone in Brisbane a look at my guitar. Chris Melville a Luthier in Brisbane who has made guitars for Tony McManus, Tommy Emmanuel and many more totally changed my guitar into a performance wonder instrument. It has been tonally changed through some nifty work on the insides( I've been sworn to secrecy), Stainless steel frets. bone nut and saddle. It's a totally new instrument in plain clothed disguise. I highly recommend Chris to anyone who is a real fussy bugger. There are only a hand full of high-end luthiers like this in Australia. Karen Schaupp the classical guitarist recently borrowed one of his masterpieces for a show with Katie Noonan

~ Melville Guitars ~ in case you are interested.

Happy Christmas everyone, Especially my dear friends in UK,Ireland, Czech Republic, Germany, Colombia, Canada, Holland and USA.

And a tip of the hat to my Aussie pals too ( I hope I havn't missed anyone)