Hayley helps fly flag for CQUni at Village Festival
Published on 17 August, 2011
CQUniversity music lecturer Hayley Cox is a champion for substance as well as style.
She will be among the 'guest artists' when our Bachelor of Music staff and students provide eight hours of performances at the forthcoming Village Festival in Yeppoon from August 19-20.
The CQUniversity contingent will also welcome guest artists Gustavo Cereijo (vocals and congas) and Shane Hannan (trombone) from Australia's premier salsa ensemble, Chukale.
Details about the Village Festival program are via http://www.thevillagefestival.org.au/
Hayley flies into Rockhampton each week from her base in Brisbane to tutor students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music degree. She brings a very fresh impression of what it takes to succeed on the live circuit in a capital city.
The graduate from our Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Mackay has been gigging around Brisbane for several years, working in a range of bands and duos.
"I love singing jazz but I also get a range of work with rock and pop covers. If I could do all jazz gigs I would be happy," says Hayley, who can be heard at various music venues and cocktail lounges around the capital on any given weekend.
Hayley says she teaches vocal skills in the context of performance presentation.
"If they are looking to be employable musicians and want to get out there in the real world they need to know certain things to help them for getting gigs and being better performers," she says.
"They need technique and to be improving their style within whatever genre they are in, but also how to be part of the music industry.
Hayley performs at Big River Jazz in Rockhampton
"It's great to see super singers like Adele and Jessie J in the pop charts ahead of techno-pop acts who can't really sing that well."