Past Events

As part of her Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence role this is the launch of “Postcards from the Anthropocene” with collaborators Hamish Stuart (drums) and Adam Hulbert (eurotrack modular synthesiser and theremin) from Halfback Books on Sydney’s northern beaches.The album was recorded during last year’s bushfire crisis and is offered as a protest against environmental destruction and climate change.In December 2019, Sydney was enveloped in a thick blanket of smoky haze. It was on one of the worst days for bushfire smoke that Sandy,…

Jazz innovator Sandy Evans and tabla master Bobby Singh continue their long friendship and collaborative partnership with a performance exploring the intersections between jazz and Indian classical music.

Created and directed by Sandy Evans 150 years after Gandhi’s birth, Ahimsa fuses jazz, Hindustani and Carnatic chant with contemporary electronic sounds. Each of the movements is a musical response to a fundamental idea from Gandhi’s writings on Ahimsa (non-violence), translated into Sanskrit by Chris Whiteman and Vasudevacharya, and sung by the charismatic Sriranganathan.

Created and directed by Sandy Evans 150 years after Gandhi’s birth, Ahimsa fuses jazz, Hindustani and Carnatic chant with contemporary electronic sounds. Each of the movements is a musical response to a fundamental idea from Gandhi’s writings on Ahimsa (non-violence), translated into Sanskrit by Chris Whiteman and Vasudevacharya, and sung by the charismatic Sriranganathan.

Multi-skilled, immensely versatile and ever dedicated, Sandy Evans is one of the great dames of Australian jazz. Here Sandy interacts with the youngest generation of improvising musicians.