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
Join the waitlist 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 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 Michelle Nicolle*, one of Australia's finest jazz vocalists, 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.
* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kristin Berardi is not able to travel to Australia. Michelle Nicolle will take her place for the Resonance tour.
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 Michelle Nicolle*, one of Australia's finest jazz vocalists, 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.
* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kristin Berardi is not able to travel to Australia. Michelle Nicolle will take her place for the Resonance tour.
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 Michelle Nicolle*, one of Australia's finest jazz vocalists, 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.
* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kristin Berardi is not able to travel to Australia. Michelle Nicolle will take her place for the Resonance tour.
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 Michelle Nicolle*, one of Australia's finest jazz vocalists, 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.
* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kristin Berardi is not able to travel to Australia. Michelle Nicolle will take her place for the Resonance tour.
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 Michelle Nicolle*, one of Australia's finest jazz vocalists, 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.
* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kristin Berardi is not able to travel to Australia. Michelle Nicolle will take her place for the Resonance tour.
Pictured: l-r Kristin Berardi, Jenny Barnes, Sandy Evans, Andrea Keller. Image credit Hayley Miro