Rochelle Wright and Rob Shannon

Rochelle Wright and Rob Shannon

BIO - ROCHELLE WRIGHT
Rochelle is a singer, guitarist, tabla player and songwriter based on the north coast, NSW. She has a B.A in contemporary music which involved intense studies in India of Nth Indian classical singing and tabla. Throughout the 90's Rochelle performed and ran workshops at all major folk festivals throughout the east coast with bands including 'the Hottentots', 'Magenta' and 'Masala'.
Since becoming a mother, Rochelle's focus shifted towards sharing her love of music with parents and children, through lullaby classes and her group 'sing by the sea', which sponsors a widow and her children in Afghanistan.
Bio - Rob Shannon
Rob Shannon is one of Sydney's more colourful musicians; his musical palate encompasses many styles and traditions.
Originally from central west NSW, Rob played drum kit in local rock bands, before moving to Sydney at age 16 to pursue a career as a professional musician.
As things evolved Rob eventually found himself on a plane to India, to study Tabla. This sparked a love affair with Hindustani classical music, and lead to regular trips to New Delhi to live and learn with his Guru Shree Gladwin Charles, studying in the traditional Gurukal (teacher/ student) system, a rare honour for a western student. These studies spanned the best part of a decade. During this time he performed with local world ensembles NAC (New Acoustic Collective), Trio Roshani, JuJu (Melbourne based Indo' fusion), Heval (Sydney based Kurdish/ indo' fusion)
Rob also plays guitar professionally, playing various styles of Jazz, focusing on the music of Django Reinhardt, leading his band The Straight Back Fellows for 5 years.
These days he can be found performing with Arabesk' on Guitar and D'rbukka along side some of Sydney's finest World musicians.
Rob is also the head teacher at Einsteinz Music, a small independent company specializing in early childhood music workshops, where his classes have gained a reputation for their high energy, percussion based style.