THREE TUNE TUESDAY- keeping it local with sensational Australian Ja...

Hey there all you music aficionados around the world, thanks so much for introducing me to all of your tunes for @ablaze #ttt #ThreeTunesTuesday.

I now have a fantastic new playlist on my spotify account to dance to thanks to all of you guys, so thanks once again and I look forward to hearing more of your playlists!

So for my first week here, I shared with you one of my bestest favourite Aussie bands from the 1970's with Skyhooks here @chocolatescorpi/throwback-to-the-sensational-seventies-for-three-tune-tuesday

Then I took you into the 1980's with another awesome Aussie band with Pseudo Echo here @chocolatescorpi/three-more-top-aussie-tunes-for-3-tune-tuesday-the-sensational-pseudo-echo

Then last week I took you into the 1990's- 1999 to be precise, with another all time favourite Aussie band, the Cat Empire here @chocolatescorpi/and-into-the-1990s-for-the-cat-empire and don't forget, these guys are just about to embark on a world tour so you too can see them live! https://thecatempire.com/#

And this week, I'm keeping it local and a little more low key than those guys, but just as wonderful, amazing and brilliant.

This internationally renowned, award winning singer, songwriter, performer, composer and educator is a powerhouse, both in front of and behind the microphone and in 2022, won the Humanitarian Award from the Australian Women In Music Awards for her outstanding work coordinating mentoring programs for young musicians in regional, rural and isolated areas of Australia. And that is a pretty BIG deal for little ol Australia...https://leighcarriage.com/about

LEIGH CARRIAGE is a consummate performer, composer, educator, author and a creative powerhouse. Leigh delivers unforgettable performances with passion and mastery. Covering obscure gems, intriguing originals encased by deep delicious grooves. Leigh has captured the hearts of audiences at festivals including the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival (USA), Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival, Noosa Jazz Festival, Melbourne International Women’s Jazz Festival, Woodford Folk Festival and the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival.

So without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to DR Leigh Carriage, songstress extraordinaire, one of Australia’s pre-eminent jazz vocalists and composers with her original compositions that are fast becoming “new standards” for aspiring Australian jazz singers AND my gorgeous, wonderful, warm, compassionate, kind, creative and clever cousin! https://leighcarriage.com/about I am Sooooo proud of her, to have come from a small and isolated country town, sitting singing together on the trampoline when we were kids, to where she is today, one of the most successful Jazz singers in Australia with her gorgeous Husband, Steve Russell, Long regarded as one of Australia’s finest jazz pianists and accompanists and a highly accomplished composer and arranger, Steve Russell - who you will meet next week! RESPECT.

Keep it to the Letter

I'd also like to tag @wrestlingdesires to join in the fun with her picks here too!

Dr Leigh Carriage, a senior music lecturer at Southern Cross University, has taken out the Humanitarian category at the Australian Women in Music Awards.

The AWMA recognised Dr Carriage with its Humanitarian Award for her tireless educational work, particularly over the past decade coordinating the Visiting Artists Mentoring Program for Women in Contemporary Music directed to regional areas of Australia. https://www.scu.edu.au/news/2022/educator-receives-national-recognition-at-australian-women-in-music-awards.php

All While You Sleep

I'd also like to tag @littlebee4 to join in and share her faves from all over the world too.

“The Award gave me an opportunity to shine a light on Lismore, on regionalism, on the absolute generosity and consistency of APRA-AMCOS to support the grants that I’ve applied for over the 16-year duration of the APRA-AMCOS Songwriting Workshops at Southern Cross University. It’s the consistency of that funding that allowed me a platform to keep bringing some of the best singer-songwriters, composers and instrumentalists from Australia and New Zealand to the Northern Rivers.” https://www.scu.edu.au/news/2022/educator-receives-national-recognition-at-australian-women-in-music-awards.php

And I'd also like to tag @bemier to join us here too!

Artists like Bernard Fanning, Mia Dyson, The Stiff Gins, Hiatus Kaiyote, Troy Cassar-Daly, Katie Noonan, Lior and more have all come to the University’s Lismore campus to share their skills, insights and inspirations with Southern Cross music students.

“I was in very good company with the industry’s best of the best,” Dr Carriage said. “Seeing Tina Arena perform her tribute to Olivia Newton John was breathtaking. And Emma Donavan singing so magnificently; it was terrific to reconnect with Emma who I taught for a short time at TAFE on Eora land in Sydney many years ago. https://www.scu.edu.au/news/2022/educator-receives-national-recognition-at-australian-women-in-music-awards.php

So if you like the sound of silky smooth vocals jazzing it up and dancing around and out of the mouth of a beautiful, classy women, then please don't let me interrupt you and hear more of the lovely Leigh Carriage here and show her some love too!https://www.youtube.com/@leighcarriage8454/videos OR here https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kmF1oyy92SlT1UvnCKNAk?si=gVEOKrW0RlyIaI9YU1dXPQ

And ofcourse, because I love Leigh so much and you guys too ofcourse, I'm going to give you a bonus track too!

And here is a rare photo of ChocolateScorpi AKA me, with my beautiful and talented cousin in Bryon Bay 18months ago.

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ChocolateScorpi is so incredibly grateful to the the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, the traditional custodians of this beautiful land that I call home and I thank you for caring for it for so long.

I pay our respects to elders, past, present and emerging and offer our hand to all first nations hands in order to help heal all of our relationships to the earth on this truly magical and extraordinary island nation that we now all call home.

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Thank you so much for reading my post, I really hope that you enjoyed it and look forward to your comments and thoughts.

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