Gamelan DanAnda Spring Concert ft. Yande King's, Putu Ayu Lestari, Sanggar Lestari & Yarra Irama @ Collingwood Town Hall

Naarm's own Balinese gamelan orchestra Gamelan DanAnda welcome you to their Spring Concert, where they will be joined by special guests from Bali--master composer/musician Yande King's and dancer Putu Ayu Lestari--to premiere a new Balinese-Australian gamelan and dance work Tari Puspa Banksia, commissioned for Gamelan DanAnda and local dance troupe Sanggar Lestari.

Local dangdut/koplo band Yarra Irama will close the afternoon. Come down and enjoy the tunes, and the delicious food from Diana's Kitchen.

The performance will include an interactive kecak vocal percussion workshop and a dance workshop for all ages and abilities.

Get your tickets quick because the last one sold out!

This is an all-ages, family friendly event. Those with sensitivities to noise, including young children may be more comfortable with hearing protection. We will have a limited number of pairs of cans to borrow for free, and some for sale for $10 on the day. Foam earplugs will be available free on the day.

The Collingwood Town Hall is a wheelchair accessible venue, and companion card holders are eligible for free tickets.

Run sheet:
12:30 - Doors open
12:45 - Gamelan DanAnda
1:25 - Dance workshop
1:40 - Kecak workshop
1:55 - Break
2:10 - Yarra Irama
3:15 - Yarra Irama finish
3:30 - Event finish

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Delicious food will be there for sale on the day, but turn up early, because it always sells out!

• Nasi Bakar Ayam - Nasi Gurih (spiced rice), Ayam Pelalah (chicken with Balinese spices), Gulai Kale (kale stew), Oseng Tempe (fried tempe), Teri (anchovies) wrapped in a banana leaf

• Nasi Kuning (Yellow Rice) Ayam - Ayam Pelalah (Balinese pulled chicken - mild 🌶️), Balado Telur (egg with mild chilli sauce) Perkedel, Kering Tempe, Cucumber Tomato Sambal (optional)

• Nasi Gudeg - Sambal krecek (beef skin stew in chilli sauce), gudeg (green jackfruit stewed in spices), opor ayam (white chicken and egg curry with coconut milk)

• Nasi Kuning (Yellow Rice) Rendang Kacang- Rendang Kacang (red kidney beans rendang), Balado Telur (egg with mild chilli sauce), Perkedel, Kering Tempe, Cucumber Tomato Sambal (optional) - VEGETARIAN

• Nasi Bakar Vegan - Nasi Gurih (spiced rice), Rendang Kacang (red kidney beans rendang), Gulai Kale (kale stew), Oseng Tempe (fried tempe) wrapped in a banana leaf - VEGAN

All options are gluten free.

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Gamelan DanAnda (GDA) is a Balinese gamelan percussion orchestra based in Darebin, Naarm. They mostly perform in the traditional Gong Kebyar style, which features shimmering cascades of metallic sound, virtuosic rhythms and breathtaking crescendos. 

Open to public membership, GDA is dedicated to increasing awareness of the unique features of Balinese Gamelan music, for audiences to enjoy, performers to understand, and composers to be inspired.

Modelled on a Balinese organisation style known as a Sanggar and with a community orchestra at their core, beginners and experienced players, students and professional performers come together to create a dynamic network of musical ensembles under one roof. Head down to their studio in Thornbury to give it a shot sometime, more info on lessons here. 

GDA regularly perform at Australia’s leading festivals including OzAsia Festival, Brunswick Music Festival, AsiaTOPA, the National Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival and more. Recently they have been taking this music to new spaces and audiences with collaborations with Oz hip-hop legend Joelistics, Balinese-Australian neo-soul singer/producer Komang, and electro-jazz-fusion band Firetail. 

“A new–and thoroughly beguiling–musical language”, “wooden hammers dancing in perfect unison or forging intricate, interlocking patterns on shimmering metallophones, bamboo xylophones, gongs and double-headed drums”. The Age. 

“mind-boggling polyrhythmic avalanche of shifting pulses…This was a music fusion like no other…I cannot recommend this show highly enough.” BroadwayWorld review of Saudara Sound System at OzAsia Festival.

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Yarra Irama are Melbourne's newest dangdut band. Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian folk fusion music that first emerged in the 1970s, bringing together sounds and instruments from Indian, Arabic sounds and indigenous Indonesian traditions to create an intoxicating blend of melodies, rhythms and harmonies. If that sounds fun, wait until you hear about koplo!

Check out their debut single Touch On for a taste of what they do.

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Sanggar Lestari is a traditional Indonesian dance group based in Melbourne, Australia founded in 1989. We specialise in traditional and modern Indonesian dances from the East to West and perform dances with our group of adults and children throughout Australia and abroad.

Sanggar Lestari specialises in Indonesian Culture including Angklung, Batik, Dance & traditional fashion parades for school incursions and workshop settings. Our current dance group includes over 30 adults and children from Indonesian, Australian and mixed backgrounds. We are proud to be a diverse group who share the passion to promote cross-cultural understanding through the fun and art of Dance and Theatre!

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This event is generously supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, the Indonesian Government through the Ministry of Culture, and the City of Yarra.