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Featuring Jonathon Welch

and the Voices from Inside choir

AS SEEN ON ABC TV

1 By the Waters of Babylon 3’25Traditional arr. Jonathon Welch / Stephen BlackburnCopyright control.

2 Let’s Get Loud 3’26Gloria Estefan / Kike SantanderForeign Imported Prod. & Publ., Inc. / Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd.

3 Voices from Inside With Kasey Chambers vocals 3’35Kasey Chambers / Voices from InsideCopyright control.

4 Fix You 4’07Guy Berryman / Will Champion / Chris Martin / Jonny BucklandUniversal Music Publishing MGB Australia Pty Ltd.

5 Time After Time 3’27Rob Hyman / Cyndi LauperDub Notes and Rellla Music Corp (by kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia).

6 Gates of Tarrengower 2’56Stephen Blackburn / Voices from InsideCopyright control.

7 Rock Those Blues Away 3’08Stephen BlackburnCopyright control.

8 I Wanna See Rainbows 2’57Jonathon Welch / Voices from Inside Copyright control.

9 Breakaway 4’01Avril Lavigne / Matthew Gerrard / Bridget BenenateBlotter Music/Bug Windswept Inc. / Shock Music Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd / WB Music Corp. / G Matt Music / Almo Music Corporation / Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd / Avril Lavigne Publ. Ltd / Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd.

0 Go Figure 3’41Jonathon WelchCopyright control.

! I’m Coming Out / Get the Party Started 3’34Bernard Edwards / Nile Rodgers; Linda PerrySony/ATV Music Publishing / Warner/Chappell Music Australia © Bernard’s Other Music and Sony Songs, Inc. by kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd. Licensed courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing; Sony/ATV Harmony / Stuck in the Throat / Amy Cranford.

Voices from InsideJonathon Welch music director

All tracks arranged by Jonathon Welch and Stephen Blackburn.

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Three years ago with my dear friend AngelaTeasedale, who works for Corrections Victoria.we discussed the possibility of taking a choirwe were both involved in to sing for thewomen at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre,Melbourne’s women’s prison. But I neverthought it would result in me writing thisintroduction to a CD cover for a recording of songs that I would make with the prisoners themselves.

It has been such an honour to be allowed intotheir world and into their lives to share mypassion for music and singing, and I can only hope they will be so proud of theirachievements as they listen to this CD for the first time, wherever they may be now.(Some of the women were released fromTarrengower Prison during the recordingsessions, and some have been released sincewe finished in April 2009.)

The experiences that we shared togethercollectively have left an indelible mark on myheart and on how I value my freedom today –something that I’m sure most of us never give a second thought about as we go aboutour day to day lives, perhaps makingdecisions that could in a moment land us inthe same predicament that led these women to their incarceration.

The creation of a choir and the ability to feelthat you are free to express yourself throughsinging is not something that prison life wouldnormally be a natural home to. In fact I couldhonestly say that it is the antithesis of aconducive music-making environment, giventhe rigours and ever-present scrutiny of theprison guards, and strict regimes of ‘musters’and the like. The ‘system’ was initiallycautious, but eventually opened its heart andmind to all my weird and wonderful musicaland vocal tricks and antics, that were reallydesigned to help gain the women’s trust andbuild their confidence and self esteem – nomean feat in a prison, I can assure you.

There are so many people I would like tothank for their extraordinary support of mydream to implement this project, in particularthe entire staff and team at CorrectionsVictoria and Tarrengower Prison itself (KelvinAnderson, Rod Wise, Christine Panayotou,Mandy Smith, Deb Trowell to name a few);Dasha Ross at ABC TV; the amazing teamfrom Renegade Factual (in particular AlexWest, Lucy Maclaren, Tarni James, LynneButler and ‘Cameron the Cameraman’) thathelped negotiate, support, craft and deliver atthe ‘coal face’ such a beautiful experience forthe women in particular, and navigate throughthe daily twists and turns of working within

the Corrections system; and master filmmaker and story teller Bruce Permezel,Director of the Choir of Hard Knocks series: itwas a great privilege to work with him then,and without him I would not have evenconsidered taking on such a project as this.

The other most important person whom I feelso honoured to have had by my side again,each step of the way – we worked together onall the Choir of Hard Knocks CDs andarrangements, and three years later he is stillthere with me each week, with the Choir nowknown as Hope and Inspiration – is StephenBlackburn: accompanist, songwriter andextraordinarily unassuming talent, and a manI am proud to call my friend. Stephen indulgedall my daring and wild schemes for the womento move beyond just singing as a choir in thisproject, and to allow them to really expressthemselves through the songwritingworkshops and subsequent recordings.

It was also such a treat to have the amazingsupport and talents of Australia’s first lady ofcountry music, the pint-sized, enormouslygenerous and big-hearted Kasey Chambers,whose voice, great songwriting skills andmusic touched each and every one who had thepleasure of working with her – thank you,Kasey, for being so generous with your time,and thanks also to Nash (Kasey’s brother and

manager) for assisting with Kasey’sparticipation and the recording of the fantastictheme song for Voices from Inside with lyricsfor the verses written by the women (in halfan hour over a cup of coffee, I might add).

Huge thanks also to the support of the localcommunities in Castlemaine and Maldon, in particular Mickey Levis and theInstrAmental Music Centre for their patienceand support during the 40 recording sessions,and the Theatre Royal Castlemaine forallowing us to use their fabulous facilities tobring the women in to record these tracksand have the ‘real experience’ of working in a professional environment.

And finally to the women that helped createthe Voices from Inside choir. I cannot nameyou for obvious legal reasons, but to each andevery one of you, I cannot tell you how much I miss making music with you each week, and how proud I am, not only of what youachieved, but of your support for each other,overcoming so many obstacles and emotions toproduce such beautiful music in just five short months.

Thank you for trusting me, for allowing me toshow you and the world what a wonderfullyeuphoric experience music-making can be, andthat if you open your heart and mind to other

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experiences and possibilities, you will be ableto look back at your time at Tarrengower asmore than a life crisis, but see it as a turningpoint, to look forward to filling in those ‘blankpages’ that are your future, however and withwhomever you choose to write them, andalways with a song in your heart.

Dr Jonathon Welch AM

Founding Music DirectorVoices from InsideTarrengower Prison

Executive Producer Jonathon WelchRecording Producers Jonathon Welch, Stephen BlackburnRecording Engineer Mickey LevisEditing Stephen BlackburnMastering Virginia Read (ABC Classics)

Recorded in Castlemaine, Victoria, at The TheatreRoyal and the InstrAmental Music Centre Studio.Mixed at knockhardstudio.com.au by StephenBlackburn. Instrumentation and programming byStephen Blackburn 1, 2, 4-!. Backing for ‘Voicesfrom Inside’ 3 produced by Nash Chambers.

Kasey Chambers appears courtesy of Essence Music.

For the ‘Jailbirds’ TV SeriesDirector/Camera Bruce PermezelSeries Producer Tarni JamesProducers Alex West, Lucy MaclarenConsultant Producer Jonathon WelchExecutive Producers Alex West, Joe Connor,Ken Connor© 2009 Screen Australia, Film Victoria andRenegade Films (Australia) Pty Limited.

For ABC ClassicsExecutive Producers Martin Buzacott, Robert PattersonEditorial and Production Manager Hilary ShrubbPublications Editor Natalie SheaBooklet Design Imagecorp Pty LtdCover Concept Bruce Permezel, Matt TimsonPhotography Tarni James

ABC Classics thanks Alexandra Alewood andKatherine Kemp.

A percentage of royalties from the sale of this CDwill be donated to the Royal Children’s Hospital,Melbourne.

� 2009 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. � 2009 AustralianBroadcasting Corporation. Distributed in Australia and NewZealand by Universal Music Group, under exclusive licence.Made in Australia. All rights of the owner of copyright reserved.Any copying, renting, lending, diffusion, public performance orbroadcast of this record without the authority of the copyrightowner is prohibited.