Lake School-2024

Ewen Baker

Advanced  Fiddle and Mandolin

Ewen Baker is a fiddle and mandolin tutor. Ewen has a relaxed and down-to-earth teaching style that gets the basics of Celtic style across to his students. He has toured extensively with South West Victorian icon singer and songwriter Shane Howard and plays with a number of Celtic music combinations in Melbourne. Ewen has released a solo album, The Inch Before The Saw, and has recently produced Paddy Fitzgerald’s CD – From Clare To Here.

Advanced Fiddle

Mandolin

Rosie Luby     

Beginner Fiddle and Cello  

Rosie is a cellist, fiddler and singer/songwriter. She was one of four recipients of the Stars on the Lake award in 2014 which led to the formation of Beyond High Street, a four-piece ensemble.

In this group Rosie performed at a range of festivals including The Port Fairy Folk Festival, Newstead Live and The National Celtic Festival. In 2015, Rosie recorded on prolific Australian singer/songwriter, Shane Howard’s 13th solo album, Deeper South. She now plays as part of dobro/cello/voice duo, Come Heavy Sleep, with Kier Stevens. Rosie has a great love of music with a particular interest in the traditional Celtic repertoire and is looking forward to working with fellow fiddlers and cellists at the Lake School Online.

Beginners Fiddle Online January 

Cello January 

Merran Moir   

Intermediate Whistle and Stars On The Lake

Merran continues the family piping tradition, and while growing up music was the centre of family life- travelling for performances, competitions and céilidhes. A multi-instrumentalist, she is active in numerous community music groups, sessions and bands, and in 2019, toured Ireland with The National Youth Pipe Band Of Australia, as assistant tutor . A music teacher by profession, Merran’s relaxed approach will ensure students enjoy their whistle classes. Merran is also the Stars On The Lake Tutor for 2021.

Intermediate Whistles Online – January

Stars On The Lake  Concert Thursday January

Andy Rigby

Flute & Harp

Andy Rigby returns to Lake School again to teach flute and harp online in 2021. Andy is a regular tutor and performer at the annual Turramurra Music Camp (In 2021 being staged in at Easter) and programmer for the Rosewood Music Camp (Strathbogies, September) which went on online in 2020.  Andy was inducted as the 2019 Lake School Legend of the Lake at the Trentham Mechanics Institue Hall. 

Flute  January
Harp  January

Peter Moir    

Bodhran     

Peter Moir is a Warrnambool based drummer and bodhran player.  He took up drumming as a young adult and took to it like a duck to water, playing in pipe bands here and on tour overseas, as well as immersing himself in the wider Celtic music scene. Over the past 30 years, he has passed on his passion for drumming by tutoring community and school groups. While this is his first year as a Lake School tutor, he has played many a Lake School Session and assisted during bodhran classes. Peter looks forward to adding his own twist to the lessons, and passing on the love for the addictive wee drum.

Bodhran  January

Cora Browne          

Singing

Cora is a regular performer in many musical line ups around Melbourne, including with fellow Lake School tutors Pat Evans and Ewen Baker as “Play It Martha.” She can also be found treading the boards in several plays written by our own Felix Meagher (Lake School Program Director), including The Man They Call The Banjo, Barry Versus Kelly, and his newest work, Runaway Priest. Cora welcomes you to come along and experience the joy of singing and developing your Celtic repertoire.

Singing  January

Lucinda Clutterbuck.  

Art Shed Youth 

Lucinda, based in Sydney, have been regulars at the Lake School since 2002, and this year we benefit from some of the many online art programs they have developed over the years.  They have described Arts Shed Youth  – An interactive Art Shed with poetry, narrative and story telling culminating in an online newsletter. A black board concert online with text! Performance and hilarity! Participants are encouraged to practice online empathy skills. Lucinda Clutterbuck quotes Faith Jegede as a guide for the artistic direction for Arts Shed, “The pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.”

Art Shed Youth  January

Louey Hesterman and Cyril Moran

Louey Hesterman and the Apollo Bay Sound Team have been doing the sound at Lake School for a number of years now, and Louey is The Lake School Committee’s Vice President. In 2019 and 2020 Louey also lead the Lake School PA Workshop where Lake Students were tutored on setting up a PA, use of microphones on stage, and mixing sound.