Purchase tickets The Kandola Allstars are a group of virtuosic, eclectic musicians who represent some of the finest talent Australia has to offer. Friendship and shared musical projects have seen these artists performing and touring together for many years, most recently as part of the Bobby Singh & Friends project. Due to circumstances beyond our control, Bobby is unable to travel to Darwin, but his friends in the Kandola Allstars will represent him in both music and spirit.
Purchase tickets The catholics. I know. A dream team of Sydney musicians, led for 35 years by bass player Lloyd Swanton (The Necks), they've recorded nine albums with three ARIA nominations and a Mo award. I was looking for a quote that represents how profoundly musical and yet bouncingly accessible they are, and it turns out all the quotes say that.
The richness, diversity and accessibility of The catholics suffuses every track. It Is their virtuosity, imagination and the inventiveness of Lloyd Swanton’s writing which makes this music so successful … no written description can do justice to this music. If you’ve heard the whisper, which is now becoming a roar, that the new Australian jazz Is great fun, then search out a copy of this superb album - Rolling Stone
Lloyd Swanton - leader, acoustic and electric bass, Sandy Evans - soprano and tenor saxophone, James Greening - trombone, pocket trumpet, Gary Daley - piano accordion, Julian Curwin - guitar, Fabian Hevia - percussion, Hamish Stuart - drums
Purchase tickets The fourth edition of the Inner West Jazz Fest returns with a line up of remarkable new jazz and improvised music for audiences who want to be planted firmly at the edge of their seats. With artists coming from Melbourne, Adelaide, Stanmore, Newtown (and beyond!) expect the radical, beautiful and straight up amazing across three focussed nights at 21 Shepherd Street, Marrickville. This year's festival sees the launch of the new trio album from Jess Green and Dylan Van Der Schyff with Sandy Evans.
Jess Green guitar and electronics, Dylan van Der Schyff drums and electronics, Sandy Evans saxophones
Book tickets | Hamed Sadeghi presents Comfortable, a new work for an 8-piece ensemble of tar, woodwinds, brass, double bass and percussions that weave together ancient Middle Eastern resonance and contemporary jazz. This is music that fills a room with something hard to name but impossible to ignore.
Purchase tickets Resonance brings together four world-renowned improviser-composers who use their collective voice to shatter against the glass ceiling.
Co-leaders Sandy Evans (saxophones) and Andrea Keller (piano) stand among Australia’s most distinguished contemporary jazz musicians. They are joined by Kristin Berardi, an internationally renowned Australian jazz singer now based in Switzerland, and Jenny Barnes, whose vocal practice grows out of her deep study of linguistics in improvisation.
The suite draws on their shared experience of building a creative life while caring for partners, children, aging parents and community. It speaks to the demands placed on mid-career and elder women, and to a jazz scene, and a society, still slow to recognise them. Lyrics for the project were commissioned, premiering new works by Michele Morgan, Hazel Smith and Andrea Keller alongside poems by Sara Teasdale and Jeannie Greensfelder.
Pictured: l-r Kristin Berardi, Sandy Evans, Jenny Barnes, Andrea Keller. Image credit Hayley Miro
Purchase tickets Resonance brings together four world-renowned improviser-composers who use their collective voice to shatter against the glass ceiling.
Co-leaders Sandy Evans (saxophones) and Andrea Keller (piano) stand among Australia’s most distinguished contemporary jazz musicians. They are joined by Kristin Berardi, an internationally renowned Australian jazz singer now based in Switzerland, and Jenny Barnes, whose vocal practice grows out of her deep study of linguistics in improvisation.
The suite draws on their shared experience of building a creative life while caring for partners, children, aging parents and community. It speaks to the demands placed on mid-career and elder women, and to a jazz scene, and a society, still slow to recognise them. Lyrics for the project were commissioned, premiering new works by Michele Morgan, Hazel Smith and Andrea Keller alongside poems by Sara Teasdale and Jeannie Greensfelder.
Pictured: l-r Kristin Berardi, Sandy Evans, Jenny Barnes, Andrea Keller. Image credit Hayley Miro
Purchase tickets Resonance brings together four world-renowned improviser-composers who use their collective voice to shatter against the glass ceiling.
Co-leaders Sandy Evans (saxophones) and Andrea Keller (piano) stand among Australia’s most distinguished contemporary jazz musicians. They are joined by Kristin Berardi, an internationally renowned Australian jazz singer now based in Switzerland, and Jenny Barnes, whose vocal practice grows out of her deep study of linguistics in improvisation.
The suite draws on their shared experience of building a creative life while caring for partners, children, aging parents and community. It speaks to the demands placed on mid-career and elder women, and to a jazz scene, and a society, still slow to recognise them. Lyrics for the project were commissioned, premiering new works by Michele Morgan, Hazel Smith and Andrea Keller alongside poems by Sara Teasdale and Jeannie Greensfelder.
Pictured: l-r Kristin Berardi, Sandy Evans, Jenny Barnes, Andrea Keller. Image credit Hayley Miro
Purchase tickets Resonance brings together four world-renowned improviser-composers who use their collective voice to shatter against the glass ceiling.
Co-leaders Sandy Evans (saxophones) and Andrea Keller (piano) stand among Australia’s most distinguished contemporary jazz musicians. They are joined by Kristin Berardi, an internationally renowned Australian jazz singer now based in Switzerland, and Jenny Barnes, whose vocal practice grows out of her deep study of linguistics in improvisation.
The suite draws on their shared experience of building a creative life while caring for partners, children, aging parents and community. It speaks to the demands placed on mid-career and elder women, and to a jazz scene, and a society, still slow to recognise them. Lyrics for the project were commissioned, premiering new works by Michele Morgan, Hazel Smith and Andrea Keller alongside poems by Sara Teasdale and Jeannie Greensfelder.
Pictured: l-r Kristin Berardi, Sandy Evans, Jenny Barnes, Andrea Keller. Image credit Hayley Miro