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Sydney Band - Viva the Band at Australia Day Celebrations 2009
Whether you’re in the city, on the coast or in a regional area of Australia, there are over 5,000 events that celebrate everything that’s great about being Australian. On The Northern Beaches on Sydney, Warringah Council will be conducting a Circus theme for Australia day with events to delight all family members. The multicultural aspect of ...
Berklee to Hold Scholarship Auditions in Australia for the First Time
Berklee College of Music, the world's premier college of contemporary music, will be holding audition and interview (A&I) events in Australia for the first time as part of the college’s World Scholarship Tour. Berklee’s A&I events offer talented musicians the chance to be awarded scholarships to attend the college. Auditions will be held in Melbourne on ...
Australia' Boasts a Banquet of Music
Australia boasts one of the more complicated and diverse soundtracks in recent memory. But will the Academy reward what director Baz Luhrmann calls “as musically layered a world as the film is culturally layered"? The Australia score is a patchwork quilt of David Hirschfelder's orchestral underscore, spiced with such indigenous Australian instruments as the digeridoo, wobbleboard ...
Sydney Bands Appearing at the Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival 2009
The 22nd annual Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival features something for everyone, the event will be celebrated on the 13th, 14th, 15th of March 2009 and will feature: Free jazz and blues in the park, concerts, cabaret, dance, eat to the beat, dinner jazz, breakfast jazz, jazz gospel service and an exhibition of previous Kiama jazz ...
Viva the Band at the Paradise Room, the Mecca for Jazz Entertainment on the Gold Coast QLD
The Gold Coast is Australia’s premier tourist destination with miles of white sandy surf beaches, lush green hinterland rainforests, world-class golfing greens and famous theme parks. With a diverse range of accommodation from exclusive 5-star hotels to sunny beachside apartments and backpacker hostels. The Gold Coast has a Council that is pro active in the development ...
Jorn Utzon Danish Architect of Sydney Opera House Dies
Jorn Utzon, in 1957 at age 38, received word at his home in Denmark that he won an international competition to build the opera house, beating out 232 other competitors. The project whose overrun budget and delays sparked controversy was a mixed blessing, giving the architect fame but also heartache. Utzon, the Danish architect whose eye-catching, ...
JAZZ: NOW Festival 2008, Sydney, Australia
by Barry O'Sullivan
JAZZ: NOW Festival Sydney Opera HouseSydney, Australia September 11, 2008Programmed by SIMA (Sydney Improvised Music Association) and the Jazzgroove Association and now in its fifth year, the JAZZ: NOW 2008 Festival purports to be a snapshot of “the best" in modern jazz sounds this country has to offer, with four nights ...
Future of New Zealand Jazz in Good Hands
A line-up of talented young musicians from around New Zealand gave their all in the finals of the AJ Hackett Bungy JumpStart competition, part of the ASB JazzFest Queenstown, at Rydges Queenstown last night (Sunday October 19). Three bands, four solo vocalists and six solo instrumentalists played to an appreciative audience and three judges for the ...
Trio Apoplectic: Trio Apoplectic
by Barry O'Sullivan
Ambitious, passionate, but at times a little tentative, the debut recording from Sydney, Australia-based Trio Apoplectic focuses primarily on original composition, as well as one contribution each from jazz giants Thelonious Monk ("Boo Boo's Birthday") and Mal Waldron ("Fire Waltz"). Waldron was Billie Holiday's pianist in the late '50s and the composer ...
Debut Release from Subject2change
Subject2change (Trevor Coleman - keyboards and trumpet, Rob Burns - bass, Paul McLennon-Kissel - drums, Dr Dan Bendrups - trombone, Dave Harrison - guitar, Nick Cornish - saxophone) is a jazz fusion ensemble of international standard hailing from the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Individually they're impressive and diverse, collectively they're producing some of the finest ...
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