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)

a Little Update

Hi Everyone.
We've put some more CD buy options on the store page..
Trying to find a price to compare with countries where CDs are not so expensive.
Added a new captcha protected contact page and are still working on a newsletter sign up box.
The flash website elements will not work on iphones and ipads etc. Apple's refusal to accommodate such a great format is really quite annoying... So many artist websites and applications are still made in flash, even some website stores from large sellers.

I'm off to Tasmania in January 2012 for the Cygnet Folk Festival and there is also a few little local gigs coming up.
Ralph McTell is coming to Australia in 2012 and my Friend Mick McHugh is opening for him.

I been having a little fun lately making sill pictures. here is one below.
I been spamming the facebook with some other meaningless sillyness,it gets a laugh

New website

Hi All we've been busy building a new website!
I hope you enjoy the new look
www.peter-miller.com : for those of you reading this from the blog page.

We are hoping to have some new content added as the days go buy.