Special Upcoming Concerts and Events:

Dear Friends,
Evripides and I have been working on a new duet album which is to be released later this year. If you attended the coffee concerts each Spring in the gardens over the last couple of years, you will know that we were composing in real time, inspired by the experiences of sitting in the natural world.

This project is called, "Breathe" and features both Evri's and my meditative style of composing for harp, guitar, bass and piano.
Listed below are a series of concerts which showcase these pieces and give a sneak preview of the upcoming album.
Breathe will be featured as part of the Music and Mindfulness seminar at the Botanic gardens Melbourne (below). If you would like to see the concert on its own please follow the link for this.
It will be lovely to see you at one or more of these.
Many warm wishes
Michael

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Music & Mindfulness Day Seminar
- March 11th at 8.45am

The next major event in March is a peaceful introduction to music as a tool for mindfulness meditation in the form of a day seminar, held at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.

Note: This is a day version of the Music and Mindfulness Weekend Meditation Retreat held each September at the Gawler Foundation (for more information on the September retreat click Here )

The Music and Mindfulness Day Seminar at Mueller Hall, Botanic Gardens Melbourne will be held on March 11th and starting at 8.45am. Meet first at the visitors centre.
The seminar uses harp music to mindfully inspire creativity and a peaceful way of  being. It includes a day of meditative music, a walking meditation in Fern Gully, Art, Writing and Mindfulness and concludes in a concert with the Light Duo.

(This is the same concert that is put on by the Botanic Gardens, however for the participants of the seminar, concert is included in the seminar ticket.)

Lunch, morning and afternoon teas are provided. Seminar $125

For Seminar Tickets Book online Here: 

***To book for the 1.30pm concert on its own, please  read "Harp in the Gardens "Below***

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Harp in the Gardens - Sunday, 11th of March. 1.30pm

Royal Botanic Gardens 
Birdwood Ave. Melbourne
This is one of the Harp in the Gardens: Harp Meditations  concerts featuring the Breathe project with Michael Johnson & Evripides Evripidou . This will be held in the historic Mueller hall
(meet first at the Visitors centre at 1.15pm). 
Bookings can be made by phone on (03)9252 2429.

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Harp on the Lake

Harp on the Lake with Michael Johnson - Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
Sunday, Mar 11, 2018 - 5:30PM
Sit back and relax to a beautiful harp concert while floating around the islands and inlets of the Royal Botanic Gardens ornamental lake. Michael Johnson, the resident composer and harpist, will treat you to a series of compositions written over the last seven years at the Gardens. Arrive 15 minutes before outside the Terrace (5.15pm) Through gate A , Corner Alexander  Ave. and Anderson streets Melbourne.

Booking Essential:

Book Here:  

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Breathe:
with Evripides Evripidou &  Michael Johnson

A concert for Harp, Piano, Guitar and Bass.
at Paris Cat Jazz club
6 Goldie Place Melbourne
on Saturday 17th of March at 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm)

Two of Australia’s premier instrumentalists with backgrounds in Jazz, Folk and Classical, with original compositions drawing influence from Ireland, Spain and South America. 

Between Michael and Evri they have performed alongside such artists as James Morrison, Joe Chindamo, David Herschfelder, Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny) & Greaham Goble (Little River Band) and many more.

All of the pieces are inspired by elements of the natural world.

Booking Essential: tickets $25 

Warm wishes
Michael Johnson

For more information on all of these events, please phone: 
0407 302 771
or log on to the concert page: 
http://www.michaeljohnson.com.au/concerts.php