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The Velvetones present: Christmas Cheer

Season’s greetings!
 
We hope this finds you all well and enjoying the beginning of the festive season.
 
We are super excited to be singing our (Christmas themed) socks off and helping out a great cause this Sunday afternoon! On the 9th of December we are throwing a fundraising concert in Pakenham for Need for Feed, an organisation delivering emergency fodder to farmers in need. This wonderful group was recommended to us by Claire’s uncles, who are both farmers and often donate hay themselves. 
 
A delicious afternoon tea will also be provided! Please join us in helping raise funds for this great organisation and spreading some Christmas cheer far and wide with some carols, our usual collection of fun n’ fab songs, a cuppa and a yummy bite to eat.

To celebrate the beginning of the festive season (and because we love Christmas carols and songs, even when it’s not Christmas), here’s our latest jazzy Christmas song release.

Wishing you all a wonderful season and we look forward to see you soon!

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Big News!

So much visible plaque – clearly we forgot to brush our teeth. 
You are looking at the AUSACA National Champions! For those of you not following us on Facebook  (which we thoroughly recommend), we competed at the Australian A Cappella Awards (AUSACA) finals on the 8th of September against five other fantastic a cappella bands, and were awarded:Band ChampionsAudience FavouriteBest Jazz SongBest Comedy SongAnd our fearless musical director and soprano extraordinaire, Claire Patti, won Best Soloist
Claire has been absolutely bending over backwards for The Velvetones.
The winner of the Ensemble Division, the QUT Aca-Demics and The Velvetones then sang their arrangements of Advance Australia Fair  to compete to be named Overall National Champions. Not only did Claire and friend-of-the-Velvetones Matt Booth win Best Arrangement for our Australian birdsong inspired Anthem, but we also won the AUSACA Overall National Championship! 

We worked super hard in the lead up to the competition, and we are honoured and extremely chuffed to have received these awards. We’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to the a cappella community, the judges, and to you, our fabulous fans!

To thank you for your support and celebrate our triumphs, we decided to do what we love best – put on a show!
 Join us for a Spring SingOn October 28th we will be putting on our very own boutique Melbourne concert, “Twilight Jazz with The Velvetones” at the Kinross Arts Centre in Toorak.

This will be an intimate acoustic concert followed by wine, cheese, and chats. We are hoping for a balmy spring evening with the scent of blossoms in the air to accompany the warmth and sweetness of our performance🌼🌼🌼

With less than 50 seats available we suspect not everyone who wants to come will be able to, so please book quickly! We would love to see you there!
After that? Well, we are working on some Christmas music now, which has been playing havoc with our internal clock, but starting early means it will be pristine and polished by November! So get in contact if you would like a Christmas event with a touch of Velvetones flair, and keep an ear out for a few demo recordings in the coming months.  

Exciting times ahead!
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WIN A DOUBLE PASS TO SEE AUSTRALIAN ACAPPELLA AWARD FINALISTS PERFORM LIVE!

During our Velvetones Veekend aVay we decided to create a sneaky video submission to the Australian A Cappella Awards. The National Finals live performances are held on the 7th and 8th September in Melbourne. We reckon we are in with a shot to not only get through to finals, but maybe even win! What do you think?
Watch our video
We have ‘Faith’ you will love us! 
If you like what we are doing, we really hope that you will:Vote for us as your Fan Favourite! It means a lot to us to know we are lovedShare it with your friends! The Velvetones are very shiney and new, and we need your help to make sure people find out about usBuy tickets to AUSACA (unless you win a double pass by voting for us!)