Award winning saxophonist Sandy Evans leads a brilliant collaboration between leading Australian and Indian musicians. Featuring 22 artists on stage, this is a glorious exchange of ideas between Australian jazz and the rich Indian musical palette
The Sandy Evans Indian Project returns to the Riverside Theatre due to popular demand after a sell-out education season in 2016.
An entrancing evening featuring two Indian-jazz intercultural projects by some of Australia’s leading jazz and Indian musicians, directed and composed by Sandy Evans whose recent collaboration, Bridge of Dreams received rave reviews from a sold-out performance at The City Recital Hall for the 2019 Sydney Festival.
Sandy Evans, one of Australia’s most well-known jazz saxophonists and composers, directs this musical interpretation of Gandhi’s writings on non-violence, joined by Australian-Indian musicians Sarangan Sriranganathan (sitar/vocals) and Bobby Singh (tabla), and her all-star band.
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 […]
“This is a major accomplishment for big band jazz in this country. The writing is superb on this enthralling, entertaining exploration of old and new sounds.” - Eric Myers
“This is a major accomplishment for big band jazz in this country. The writing is superb on this enthralling, entertaining exploration of old and new sounds.” - Eric Myers
Riverside welcomes the world premiere of Zashto? in March as part of SIMA’s Jazz Now Summer 22 Festival. The theme of the Mara! Big Band’s new 60-minute musical suite “Zashto?” (“Why?” in Bulgarian language) is the experience of migration to Australia and the spectre of incarceration (physical and psychological) that has hovered over each wave of migration in the past 230 years. Through the stories of three women who arrived in Australia at very different times in our history, we investigate the fact that deprivation of liberty or trauma has scarred the migration experience of many in our community and we pose the question “Zashto?”
Formed in 1991, the catholics are one of Australia’s most distinct contemporary ensembles. Over three decades, they have formed a unique body of beautifully crafted music that takes in various African, Caribbean, Latin, and Eastern influences.
The Mara! Big Band is a 12-piece ensemble that straddles the Eastern European gypsy brass band and jazz big band traditions. It is a kaleidoscope of musical colours including brass, piano accordion, percussion and voice.
