Crafts – The Valley Market

Sunday, 6th October 2024

Please join us for The Warburton Valley Market in conjunction with The River Folk Festival on Sunday 6th October for a family fun day out in beautiful Warburton!

Set along the banks of Birrarung (Yarra) River behind The Arts Centre Warburton.

There will be live entertainment for all to enjoy, with Awol Monks, Mandy Connell & Lothlorien.

AWOL Monks:

AWOL MONKS are an acoustic duo from The Yarra Valley. The band formed in 2020 from two music loving friends who met in their teens and reignited their passion for music with a shared love of Artists such as Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Jimi Hendrix.

AWOL MONKS brings a unique brand of entertainment fusing soaring vocals and enchanting rhythms, captivating audiences with their engaging and theatrical performance. Boasting a mixture of originals and unique interpretations of covers, AWOL MONKS will make you want to dance and sing along. Their musical chemistry and passion is known to silence the room!

Mandy Connell:

Mandy Connell’s openness is what stands out from any performance. A forceful singer, and a competent guitar player in multiple tunings, Connell’s personality stands out and has done so in her session work, her interview series An Otherwise Quiet Room, collaborations, and of course songwriting and her captivating solo shows.

Connell is part country and part folk. Trills and affectations straight from Celtic tradition cut through songs as fresh and original as if they were written in your backyard.

Lothlorien:

90s festival Afro Celtic Folk Funk band Lothlorien have formed again after a long hiatus. This line up takes the best of Lothlorien’s past and mixes it with new found instrumentation bringing back some of the classic world folk/funk dance fusion hits as well as the collection of new and beautiful lyric in the bardic genre and song penned by Nic Morrey.

With 30 years on stage and in the making, this music is a genre of its own. The closest description given is mixing the incredible string band with Donovan and Andreas Vollenweider. The performance will take the listener on a journey with music from Greece, the Andes, Ireland, through middle earth and back again, unsure if you should sit and listen or dance it all out, either way this formation is hot off the press and calls to those in search of a musical experience.

With Nic Morrey on 12 string and vocals, Llewellyn Osborne on violin and viola, Michael Arvanitakis on cello and double bass and Roderick McLeod on djembe kit, hand pan and kora.

Craft:

We love to support local Arts, Crafts and Produce.

Enjoy a weaving activity with Monika Poray.

Enjoy various weaving activities for all ages with artist Monika Poray. Have a try at stitch weaving with raffia or simple loom weaving with various yarn. Colouring in options available also. (Ages under 8 require adult supervision.)

Warburton Valley Market Sunday 2nd July 2023

Come and join us for a day out by the river in beautiful Warburton. With a large array of art, craft, local produce stalls and more… There is something for everyone!

Zephlyn will be running a free craft activity. This will be a fun, hands-on crafting activity suitable for all ages.

Crafts at Valley Market Warburton

We are delighted to have Afro Moses returning to the market with his energetic and culturally enriching performance. Joining him on stage we will have our very own local percussionist Leanne Hall, adding to the performance to create an uplifting show, sure to get you dancing!

Afro Moses and Leanne Hall

Afro Moses Bio:

Afro Moses, also known as Moses O’Jah, is a multi-talented Ghanaian-Australian singer/songwriter who is widely acknowledged as one of Ghana’s most internationally renowned artists. Because of his enthusiastic and somewhat quirky performances, he is frequently referred to as the African James Brown.

Afro Moses

He grew up in the Ghanaian hamlet of Ateiku, where he began gathering local youngsters at an early age to teach them how to make their own instruments and perform.

He holds high regard for African culture, which is shown in all of his songs and performances. Afro Moses is a natural-born entertainer and speaker with a magnetic presence that draws crowds in the thousands to his concerts, where he has shared the stage with great names such as Ziggy Marley, Angelique Kidjo, Salif Keita, Michael Franti, Xavier Rudd, and Richard Tognetti.

His solo performances are instructive, incorporating 14 traditional African instruments that not only inspire and soothe the mind, body, and soul but also make you want to dance! His use of classic instruments combined with modern methods astounds his audience, particularly the young.

He also performed and composed music for the short film Inja, which received an Academy Award or Oscar nomination in 2003. He is a member of the Moses Ojah Band, which he leads.

Debi, No Victims, Do Me Wrong, Mama Africa, Ka ne Wu, Home Sweet Home, Judas, African Market Makola, Yele yele, Dabi Nsroma, Nsama, Nice Girl, and Highlife Carnival are just a few of his songs.