Purchase tickets This is a concert within a recording session for an intimate audience. Be a part of a recording with a front row seat. This ensemble will explore many musical pathways and every member brings their own branch of musical direction. What will grow? High Fi Sessions is a quiet space 2 sets as normal. doors 7:30 music at 8. BYO everything
The focus is on the capture of sound and the process of recording. All tickets include additional access to the recording when finalised a week after the performance.

Sandy Evans - Sax (Syd), Zela Margossian - Piano (Syd), Greg Sheehan - Percussion/Drums, Peter Hunt - Trumpet, Benjamin Walsh -Percussion/Drums.

Purchase tickets Even Quiet Embers Carry Fire is the debut album from a collaboration between guitarist Jess Green and saxophonist Sandy Evans, with Melbourne-based drummer Dylan van der Schyff. It is a deeply attentive exploration that evokes experiences of space and nature, through shifting patterns of light, sound, and feeling.

he trio draws on shared sensibilities spanning ambient music, noise, and free jazz, creating music that unfolds patiently and with quiet intensity. All three artists bring deep histories in improvisation and experimental music. Jess Green is a genre-defying guitarist whose work spans jazz, new music and contemporary classical contexts. Sandy Evans OAM is one of Australia’s most revered saxophonists and composers, with a four-decade career marked by innovation, collaboration and international recognition. Dylan van der Schyff is a globally respected drummer whose work bridges texture, rhythm and sound design across avant-garde traditions.

Together, Even Quiet Embers Carry Fire offers music of restraint and power – a reminder that subtle forces can still carry immense energy.

Purchase tickets Australia’s much loved jazz-worldbeat band are back with their tenth album, Shelter a double CD just jam-packed with the sort of exuberance and imagination we’ve come to expect from this venerable ensemble over their 35 year existence.

With compositional contributions from almost the entire ensemble, “Shelter” is alive with influences from gospel, soul, funk, the Caribbean, Africa, and the East – all tied together with visits to those indefinable musical locations that only The catholics seem to know about.

Apart from showcasing for the first time the work of most recent recruit Julian Curwin on guitar, slide guitar and banjo (and two very fine compositions), “Shelter” also features long-time piano accordionist Gary Daley on two more firsts, with appearances on melodica and grand piano. (You have not heard melodica played like this!)

The perpetually-youthful catholics were never in any danger of going stale, but this big new release may surprise even those who thought they had the band pigeonholed.

Come along and join in the joyous celebration that is always the hallmark of the release of a new catholIcs album.

Sandy Evans saxophones, James Greening trombone and pocket trumpet, Julian Curwin guitar and banjo, Gary Daley piano accordion, melodica, piano, Hamish Stuart drums, Fabian Hevia percussion, with the leader on acoustic and electric bass, Lloyd Swanton double bass

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

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, Jenny Barnes, Sandy Evans, 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