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Sydney Band Viva - Concert at Unveiling Ceremony for Sydney's Welcome Wall

September 22, 2008

Twice a year an unveiling ceremony to celebrate new arrivals to Australia and to register new names on a Welcome Wall. The wall is 100 metres long and is next to the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney. The wall was initially created to honor more than six million people that have crossed the ...

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Manly Jazz Festival Features Parker Tribute

September 16, 2008

This year's Manly Jazz Festival is scheduled to feature a special tribute to popular jazz musician Charlie Parker, in front of up to 20,000 fans. The Sydney suburb of Manly, especially popular amongst travelers and backpackers seeking to experience a more laidback side to Sydney life, will host a tribute to the great jazz musician on ...

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Jazz Giant Comes Home to Celebrate and Listen

September 15, 2008

Pianist Graeme Bell and his brother Roger formed their first jazz band, a four-piece group called the Portsea Four, in Melbourne in 1940. Yesterday, the Sydney-based Bell returned for what might be his last public appearance. The occasion was a concert organised by Jazz Australia at the Bentleigh Club to mark Bell's 94th birthday with the ...

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Iconic Queenstown Jazz Festival Celebrates 30th Anniversary

September 6, 2008

An iconic Queenstown jazz festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an exhilarating ten-day programme of live music and a star-studded line up of performers. From 18 to 27 October more than 50 bands and 200 performers will inspire and entertain at the ASB JazzFest Queenstown with a programme of 80 free events and ticketed headline ...

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Popular Sydney Band Entertain at the 21st Newcastle Jazz Festival 2008

September 5, 2008

The Newcastle Jazz Festival was held at the Town Hall at Newcastle NSW on the 30th, 31st August and 1st September. The line up of bands and artists were: Lee Gunness, Paul Griffith Orchestra and Quintet, Cary Bennett and Swingout, Hendo’s Early Roots, Dan & Howler Strictly Swingin’, Trevor Furner Unsafe Sax, Daryl Aberhart Trio, Ben ...

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Australia's Giants of Jazz

August 16, 2008

Giants of Jazz QPAC is getting all jazzed up to host some of Australia's biggest names in jazz. For an entire weekend in August, jazz fans will be treated to two days of non-stop music by some of the country's finest performers and bands. Jazz music will weave its way through QPAC with known and local ...

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Australian Jazz Meets Indigenous Music for Unique Show

August 16, 2008

A MODERN abstract jazz band will combine with indigenous musicians - both traditional and contemporary - at a unique show in Darwin this weekend. The project is the result of a four-year collaboration between the Australian Art Orchestra, the Wagilak Gujarra/Nyilapidji musicians from Ngukurr and singer Ruby Hunter. In Darwin yesterday AAO artistic director Paul Grabowsky ...

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Sun, Surf and Jazz at the Manly International Jazz Festival 2008

August 4, 2008

Manly Council on the Northern Beaches of Sydney will be conducting their 31th Manly International Jazz Festival over the October long weekend on the 4th, 5th, 6th of October 2008. With a vibrant family atmosphere and a breathtaking ocean beachfront backdrop, the festival location is considered to be the best for a Jazz Festival in Australia ...

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Bands Performing at Ferragosto 08, a Multicultural Festival in Sydney Australia

July 31, 2008

The City of Canada Bay's annual festival, Ferragosto is back for it's 11th year and will be held on Sunday, 17 August at 10am to 4pm on Great North Road, Five Dock. Ferragosto is one of Sydney's favourite cultural events and entry is free. There will be a great range of entertainment throughout the day from ...

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New Zealand Iconic Jazz Festival Appoints New Director

July 28, 2008

For 46 years Tauranga has been the stage for the National Jazz Festival delivered to thousands of Jazz fans from around the country. What only a few people realize is that this iconic event has been organized by volunteers all this time. “But we can only take this Festival so far." says Tauranga Jazz Society President, ...