The Beggars

The Beggars with Trev Warner at The Folk Centre on 20/11/10

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:22:44 +0000

The Beggars at Murraylands Music Festival on 30/10/10

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:16:52 +0000

The Beggars at The Wheatsheaf Hotel on 24/10/10

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:13:10 +0000

The Beggars with Trev Warner at Breakout Creek Wetlands Launch on 18/09/10

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:05:05 +0000

Dreams

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:54:43 +0000

The Beggars Dreams EP is getting an exclusive iTunes release today. – We did an album called Exquisite Ballads for Silkroad Music in Hong Kong. These four tracks come from those sessions.

Exquisite Ballads was released in SE Asia and China where iTunes is not available. So this is the first time you can get these tracks in Australia, Europe the US etc… If you click on the album cover you should be able to listen to the tracks in a new window.

The title cut is the Stevie Nicks tune Dreams followed by California Dreaming originally by the Mommas and the Poppas Wonderful World the Sam Cook tune and finishing off with the Pete Seeger tune Turn Turn Turn which the Byrds made famous.

iMix – Australian Songs

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:14:48 +0000

I made an iMix of some fine Australian songs. They are all available at iTunes follow the links.

If you like this iMix please give rating on iTunes.

Folk Center Flyer

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:17:37 +0000

The Beggars premier show at the South Australian Folk Center.

Single Release – Ill Never Find Another You

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:13:13 +0000

This month “Ill Never Find Another You” from the Desert Flower album gets a limited release so it will be on iTunes only. Yes its The Beggars take on that great Tom Springfield tune that the Seekers had a massive hit with.

The Beggars have always been fans of The Seekers. When Stuart was a boy he saved his pocket money to buy his very first album I think it was a $2 investment in The Best of The Seekers and Quinton was fortunate to play bass with them one of their Australian tours in 1992.

This is the cover art and you can find the tune at

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/au/album/ill-never-find-another-you/id375704601

The Beggars play The Folk Centre July 17

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:50:37 +0000

The Beggars premier performance at The South Australian folk Centre is coming up on July 17th and as our guest we have the fabulous Trev Warner. Tickets For The Folk Centre Concert – are $18/ $16/$14 and you can book through the SA Folk Centre 8354 4606.

If you don’t know Trev just let me just say he has played with some great artists and won numerous awards including two golden guitars: he is a legend! In February we preformed a series of concerts called “Bound For Australia” in six theatres around Adelaide and they were just fantastic – You can follow the link to see some video from the Star Theatre concert- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA-t5RqKXSY- You can find Ill Never Find Another You and all our other songs from the Desert Flower album at iTunes by following the link – http://itunes.apple.com/album/desert-flower/id331111703

Promote our music on iTunes

Tue, 25 May 2010 03:13:27 +0000

If you are an iTunes user and have an account, you can promote The Beggars music on your countries iTunes. It’s very easy, Ill describe how in detail a bit later. You can make an iMix containing music you like and including your favorite Beggars songs. You can also write a review for our albums and give them a rating. This is all really helpful especially on iTunes platforms outside of Australia where our Australian fans don’t have accounts. Of course I would be happy to do the same for international bands on the Australian itunes platform.

How to create an iMix

Here is is as a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u782vzrSi7U

An iMix is a playlist (that is, a list of songs) that you’ve chosen to publish and make available to others in the iTunes Music Store. You can only make an iMix playlist using the iTunes software.

To make a playlist, open your iTunes software and:

Click on File and then select “New Playlist”.

Under the Source bar on the left, the words “New Playlist” will appear. You then need to name your playlist. The name you give it is how it will appear in the iTunes Music Store. It could be that the songs have a theme or are a good soundtrack for an activity this could be the title of your iMix.

Add songs to your playlist. You can click and drag songs from your iTunes library into your playlist, and/or you can also drag any song (even songs you don’t own!) from the iTunes Music store into your playlist.In your iMix, place one or two Beggars songs and some songs from other artists that you like. Make as many iMixes as you like.

Click on the arrow next to the playlist to publish. When you are publishing the mix check out the “iMix Notes” field. Take a few moments to write something and describe/talk about your playlist. A great description combined with high rating increases the odds people will discover your playlist.

Reviews and ratings

Positive reviews also help introduce new people to the music. The iMix, album and reviews can all be rated.