LOCAL talent and local themes are the feature of the recently launched CD “Binda Picnics - The Best Day of the Year,” all aimed at helping retain this great local event on our calendar.
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All profits from the sale of the CD will go to the Binda Picnic Race Club, which will be back in action next year after making $30,000 worth of improvements to the track and environs in order to retain its licence to operate.
Production of the CD is purely local , with production credits going to Stephen Lindsay and Trevene Mattox.
Stephen’s state of the art recording studio at his Wades Hill home was used in its many capacities to create the CD.
Most of those contributing are local – and include High School student Eliza Stephens, Heather Kerr (in triple thanks to Stephen’s mixing skills), Peter Warn (with the Crookwell Bush Band), the High School Vocal Ensemble, Mike and Elaine Delaney, Margaret Hudson and Gina Hill, Lionel Barber, Shandara Hill and Keith Robinson – and, of course, Trevene Mattox and Stephen Lindsay.
A feature is the number of compositions created locally, from Stephen and Trevene and Marion Jordan.
Marion’s “Crookwell Country” is performed by the High School Voice Ensemble, a fine contribution recorded by Stephen “on location” in the School’s music room.
“Funny Hill” owner James Carr also plays a part – vocally, but in speech only as he traces the long history of the Picnics and the important part it plays in our community.
The Crookwell Bush Band reprises “Binda Ball” – first introduced by Peter Warn’s father many years ago – it tells the true story of the attendance at the Binda Ball by bushrangers Ben Hall and Johnny Gilbert – when they danced with the local girls and burnt down the store!
One of the few contributors not local is Laura-Leigh Smith, a contestantt on the TV show “The Voice” who performed at the Crookwell Potato Festival a couple of years ago.
She has been a fairly frequent visitor (seeking Stephen’s recording and musical skills), and now is living permanently in Sydney.
A striking composition by Stephen, “Brothers in Wattle,” on a Gallipoli theme, is given a strong and dramatic interpretation by Lionel Barber.
The last track on the CD is “Make a Difference in our Town”, by Trevene Mattox – an appropriate note for a local product aimed at retaining a local icon.
And at only $15, the product should become widely popular.
