Daily Archives: 14/08/2014

Radio 16 Live Broadcast of the Dubbo Jazz Festival

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This year again we’ll be at the Dubbo Jazz festival on the 15th, 16th and 17th of August 1004829broadcasting live from the many venues that make up the festival this year.

Continuing in the footsteps of their proud history, while keeping a focus on Trad Jazz, the Dubbo Jazz Festival will be expanding the Jazz genres to include some blues, swing, funk and soul. The Festival will present ‘jazz around town’ highlighted locations will include Dundullimal Homestead and Red Earth Estate.

Please note change of location this year – West Dubbo Bowling Club at 82 Whylandra Street, Dubbo. Main stage – ‘Dubbo Basement Jazz Club’ all weekend including Gospel Service at St Andrews Chapel, Wingewarra Street, Dubbo – Sunday morning 10:30am.

Jazz Around Town events include Pastoral Hotel Friday 10pm & Sunday 1pm, Taronga Western Plains Zoo Sat & Sunday 10am, Outlook café/ Western Plains Cultural Centre Sunday 10am, + Soup Plus Jazz (swing dance workshop venue) at Dundullimal Homestead (23L Obley Road, Dubbo) Saturday 12 midday onwards.

Download the full program guide here.

Bruce Cockburn plays rare FREE show during Markham Jazz Festival Friday August 15th

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On August 15th you can find Bruce Cockburn performing a rare FREE show at the Markham Jazz Festival at 9pm, with special guests American sax great Craig Handy, trumpeter Kevin Turcotte and guitarist Michael Occhipinti.
One of Canada’s finest singer-songwriters, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and world beat styles while travelling to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, and Nepal, and writing memorable songs about his ever-expanding world of wonders. “My job,” he explains, “is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.”
Michael Occhipinti –
A seven-time Juno Award nominee for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, guitarist/composer Michael Occhipinti’s modern and eclectic approach to jazz and creative music of all kinds has earned him a broad array of listeners and the respect of critics and musicians alike.  As a leader of the acclaimed jazz orchestra NOJO, his own quintet, and The Sicilian Project, Michael has established himself as an inventive composer and arranger, and his recording Creation Dream – The Songs of Bruce Cockburn remains a favourite instrumental jazz recording among critics and fans.

A LITTLE LUNCH MUSIC: MOZART & MENDELSSOHN City Recital Hall menu

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A LITTLE LUNCH MUSIC: MOZART & MENDELSSOHN

Classical music is on the City Recital Hall menu, with a delightful lunchtime performance of Mozart and Mendelssohn for just $15.

Now in its seventh year, A Little Lunch Music is a favourite with Sydneysiders, who are encouraged to bring their lunch into the hall as they listen to a range of works by renowned artists.

On Friday August 22nd, Principal Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton leads the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, with guest soloist Artistic Director Kathryn Selby AM playing a Mozart concerto.

“Every time I stand on stage to conduct, I feel proud, honoured and humbled to have the privilege to make music with these wonderfully engaged and passionately enthusiastic musicians” Dr Nicholas Milton.

The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra has long been recognised as Australia’s finest community orchestra. Founded in 1965, it is lead by Chief Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton, an internationally-renowned conductor and concertmaster. He will be joined on stage by Australia’s pre-eminient chamber music pianist, Kathryn Selby AM.