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November 2020
Magic Music: A Festival Finale Opening Doors to Magical Places
Closing the festival, this special event features the talents of our 2020 Artist in Resident Dr Sandy Evans OAM, alongside long-time collaborators Satsuki Odamura and Steve Elphick for Magic Music.
Find out more »January 2021
Sandy Evans & Bobby Singh at the Sydney Festival
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.
Find out more »May 2021
Ahisma – Meditations on Ghandi
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.
Find out more »Ahimsa – Meditations on Ghandi
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.
Find out more »Masterclass: Sandy Evans
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.
Find out more »Sandy Evans Trio
One of Australia’s great jazz luminaries, with a reputation for fearless collaborations and monumental projects, Sandy Evans crowns the Sessions@Verity series by returning to her roots in a straight trio set. Pure unbridled music making.
Find out more »August 2021
The catholics 30th anniversary
Formed by bassist and composer Lloyd Swanton in 1991, The catholics are a distinct and much-loved ensemble which has built up a body of beautifully crafted work taking in various African, Caribbean, Latin and Eastern influences, with their performances blending exuberance and joy with tough jazz blowing. This tour celebrates that incredible 3 decade legacy
Find out more »The catholics 30th anniversary
Formed by bassist and composer Lloyd Swanton in 1991, The catholics are a distinct and much-loved ensemble which has built up a body of beautifully crafted work taking in various African, Caribbean, Latin and Eastern influences, with their performances blending exuberance and joy with tough jazz blowing. This tour celebrates that incredible 3 decade legacy
Find out more »Postcards from the Anthropocene
Postcards from the Anthropocene is presented as part of the WinterJazzFest Freedom Jazz Dance series | 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 Evans, Adam Hulburt and Hamish Stuart recorded this series of improvisations at UNSW reflecting on photographs they had taken during the preceding period of crisis and devastation. This music is offered as a protest against environmental destruction and climate change. The themes Mirage, Embers, Inferno, Skyline, Resistance and Aftermath inform these improvisations and reflections. The results are stunning- traversing ambient soundscapes, spacious grooves, troubled cries, dissonances resolution, surprise, peaceful reflection and even humour. It is not often that a project can genuinely speak of ‘original sounds’ but this is one such project. | Sandy Evans, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Suling, Flax | Hamish Stuart, Drums | Adam Hulbert, Euroback modular synthesiser with theremin and wind controller.
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