Rockin' Picnic

By Mr Lachlan Coventry, Director of Ensembles

Last weekend, the Co-Curricular Contemporary Ensembles program held its annual Rockin’ Picnic – a mini music festival held on the Morison lawn. This event showcases pop and rock music selected, rehearsed and performed by our students.

There were seven bands on the bill – six student bands and one professional group. The Year 7 group, The Coworkers, started us off by delivering an energetic performance. Next, Current from Year 10, played a unique arrangement in which they combined Take Me Out by the Strokes and Blur’s Song 2.

Year 11 band, The Greeks Freaks, then took to the stage with Gravity by Against the Current and Mess it Up by the Rolling Stones. R3DV3IL from Year 8 performed Animal I Have by Three Days Grace and Karma Police by Radiohead. Another Year 8 group, Ouch!, played three songs, including an original piece written by their frontman, Cody.

Our Year 12 jazz fusion powerhouse, Is The Ocean a Soup?, played two songs by Japanese band Casiopia. Finally, The Koebi Faumui Band, featuring Radford’s own Ms Olivia Faletoese on bass guitar, delivered a professional and exciting series of original offerings by Koebi Faumui, a celebrated Canberran musician and producer.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an afternoon of music and sunshine.