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Nathan Taylor catches up with Australia’s ‘Queen of Yodelling’, Mary Schneider, to talk about her remarkable career and releasing her latest record 50 years in the making…

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he wonderful Mary Schneider is one of Australia’s true national treasures. This inspiring woman has done it all time and time again, with nothing standing in her way.

Recently, Mary released one of her most important albums to date, which featured one of the most important people in her life – her late sister, Rita.

The Schneider Sisters – Rita and Mary – ‘The Early Years’ is a rare and treasured part of Australia’s rich music history.

More than 50 years may have passed but now these timeless classics have, for the first time, been remastered and made available digitally and on ‘oldfashioned’ compact disc.

‘The Early Years’ showcases the careers of two of Australia’s most beloved performers and songwriters.

Rita and Mary Schneider became household names through their live shows and recordings, and this album celebrates the first recordings they did together way back in the ‘rocking’ 1950s.

Mary said there was plenty of history around the making of the album all those years ago.

“We wrote and recorded all those tracks in the 1950s, including one of our best known hits ‘Washboard Rock N’ Roll’, which came out in 1956,” she said.

“My sister and I were originally from Brisbane but lived in Melbourne and people back then were saying rock n roll wouldn’t last more than six months, so we hurriedly got together to produce a four-track EP. “We had already recorded three tracks for the EP and needed one more.

We wrote our famous ‘Washboard Rock N’ Roll’ in an hour and recorded it the next day. That song was the first rock

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n roll song written and recorded by an Australian artist in Australia.”

Fast-forward 50 years and a countless number of hits later, Mary decided it was finally time to dust off her old vinyls and get them digitally remastered, not only for her huge fanbase to enjoy but to pay tribute to her late sister, Rita.

“I really wanted to release this record because I lost my sister three years ago and I’m still really sad about it. We always wanted to put those early tracks together on a CD for historical reasons and to remember what country music was like in those days,” Mary said.

“We would have loved to release this CD a lot earlier but we were both far too busy recording other albums and touring all over the place, we just couldn’t get around to it. But after everything that happened with Rita I was just determined to do it in memory of my beautiful sister.”

Mary was an important part of the Australian country music scene throughout her successful career.

Listening back to some of her tracks featured on ‘The Early Years’ album you can tell country and western music has come along way, but still possesses those same values we hear today in modern day country music.

“Country music has changed in a way,” Mary said.

“I like that old-fashioned westernstyle country music because that’s what I remember from my childhood, but I think we have some wonderful artists around now who are great songwriters and I like that sound, too.”

Mary believes Australian history is very important and wishes more music from Australia’s golden era was available to the people of today.

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“We need to cherish our Australian history, we are trying to collect a lot of things down in the archives but we haven’t kept enough,” she said.

“We did hundreds of those variety television shows like ‘The Graham Kennedy Show’ and people just taped over them and never kept them, it’s a real shame.”

Luckily for fans of the Schneider Sisters they’ll get to own a special piece of Australian history with the ‘The Early Years’ and so far, according to Mary, people have been ‘jumping at the bit’ to snap up their copy.

“The feedback from the fans has been wonderful, with people saying ‘I’ve always wanted to get that’, I’ve truly been over-whelmed by the response,” she said.

Mary and Rita stayed together musically for 25 years before they went their own way. In 1971, Mary gave birth to her daughter Melinda (Schneider), who now is a successful country recording artist herself.

After the birth of Melinda, the pair broke up amicably with Rita carving out a successful comedy career and Mary turning her sights to yodelling.

Yodelling took Mary all over the world and she has since been given the

title of the ‘Queen of Yodelling’.

Mary’s career in yodelling was enormous. Her music appeared in a number of well-known movies and television shows including the Disney movie ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’, ‘Just Married’, ‘Dirty Deeds’, ‘Dudley Do Right’, as well as international commercials for McDonalds and Miller Beer.

Throughout the United States, Mary has appeared on some big time shows including ‘Regis and Kathy Lee’, ‘Good Morning America’, ‘Good Day New York’, CNN’s ‘Showbiz Tonight’ and the infamous ‘Howard Stern Show’.

“People had to twist my arm to do ‘The Howard Stern Show’,” Mary said.

“I was a bit ‘iffy’ about it but he loved what I did, so I ended up going in there with my daughter, Melinda.

“I went in there because he wouldn’t stop playing my records.”

The Schneider Sisters album ‘The Early Years’ is currently available in stores and online. Later this year, Mary hopes to release a Schneider Sisters DVD featuring classic television performances of her and her sister Rita.

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But this week the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre will open our minds and ears to the gorgeous groove and hot-foot Yiddish style of Europe’s most talented and acclaimed klezmer musicians – London Klezmer Quartet (LKQ).

LKQ evoke the passion and joy of the travelling Jewish troubadours who kept people dancing, laughing and crying in the shelters of Eastern Europe for hundreds of years.

Their deep understanding of the soulful Yiddish music of Eastern Europe is reflected in exuberant, passionate and accomplished performances.

The band’s traditional and self-penned melodies take audiences on a Jewish odyssey from Eastern Europe to Australia via the Balkans, Turkey, the United States and London.

As innovators and emerging leaders in the international klezmer scene, this is LKQ’s first Australian tour and is sure to have audiences dancing in the aisles on a 20-date schedule, which takes in Penrith on April 4.

The band’s winning combination of exuberance, passion and accomplishment is proving popular. Within a year of its formation in 2009, the LKQ was booked by leading UK world and folk music promoters.

The London Klezmer Quartet is made up of Ilana Ctavitz on the fiddle, Susi Evans on the clarinet, Carol Isaacs on the accordion and Indra Buraczewska on the double bass.

The four band members are also well-known on other world and pop music stages having recorded and toured with artists ranging from Sinead O’Connor, Natacha Atlas, oud master Ahmed Mukhtar to the klezmer/Balkan outfit She’Koyokh.

Many top award-winning artists have also become fans of the LKQ. Frank London of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics said: “The LKQ bring a wealth of knowledge, experience and excitement to their performances.”

Deborah Strauss of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo said: “The LKQ are educators, innovators and emerging leaders in the international klezmer scene.”

Whilst Amy Ray of the American folk group the Indigo Girls said: “The London Klezmer Quartet brims with musicality and elicits every emotion possible in my soul… I want to laugh, I want to cry, but most importantly I want to dance.”

So why not judge for yourself? Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear something a little different when the London Klezmer Quartet play at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre on Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm.

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he follow-up to 2010’s ‘Clash of the Titans’ blasts into cinemas this week and is sure to have people talking.

Australian action star Sam Worthington returns for the sequel called ‘Wrath of the Titans’ and is accompanied by an all-star cast consisting of Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Danny Huston and Bill Nighy.

The movie is centred on Perseus (Worthington) a decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken. We see Perseus attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman, whilst looking after his 10-year-old son Helius. Whilst this is going on, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans.

Dangerously weakened by humanity’s lack

of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans led by Kronos – father of the long-ruling brother Zeus (Neeson), Hades (Fiennes) and Poseidon (Huston).

The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld.

Perseus can’t ignore his true calling when Hades and Ares make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titians’ strength grows as Zeus’ remaining godly powers are siphoned and hell is unleashed on Earth.

Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda, Poseidon’s demigod son Agenor and fallen god Hephaestus (Nighy), Perseus

bravely embarks on a treacherous quest.

There are plenty of expectations on this film to do well. Producers will also be eager for the second installment to do as well, if not better than the first, as a third ‘Titans’ movie is set to be in the works called ‘Return of the Gods’.

‘Wrath of the Titans’ is now showing at Hoyts Penrith in 2D and 3D and is rated M.

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Host Sonia Kruger said ‘Big Brother’ was a return to all that was good about the format.

“A mix of big event television, totally watchable Australians, engaging conversation and most importantly, humour,” Ms Kruger said.

“Big Brother’ 2012 will focus on what made the show most successful – people we simply love to watch.”

Mr Mavroidakis has just one piece of advice for those locals wanting to audition for this year’s ‘Big Brother’ series.

“Do not try to second guess what we are looking for. The truth is there is no Big Brother type. Be yourself, be engaging and you might just win us – and Australia – over,” he said.

Penrith auditions will take place on Sunday, April 29 at Penrith Panthers. For more information visit www.ninemsn.com.au/bigbrother or www. facebook.com/bigbrotherau.

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The former Channel 10 ‘Big Brother’ television series was axed in 2008, but the Nine Network and Southern Star Entertainment have announced its revival for a 2012 season.

It has a new network and a new host in Sonia Kruger – now all it needs is new housemates.

‘Big Brother’ will kick of its selection tour for new housemates in Western Australia on April 14, before coming to Penrith Panthers on April 29.

“We are looking for people who have warmth, intelligence, humour and no agenda,” said ‘Big Brother’ 2012 executive producer, Alex Mavroidakis.

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