PREVIEW: 17th Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club and The VCA Grant Street Theatre, December 7 to 14, 2014 This festival is always one to look forward to as the year’s end approaches and this year Sonja Horbelt has put together a comprehensive program. Budgets are often a constraint, but this year the MWIF has a little more funding and it shows in the line-up, … Continue reading MELBOURNE CELEBRATES WOMEN IN JAZZ
REVIEW: Wangaratta Jazz 2014 Ausjazz samples 25 concerts in the 25th year of the Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival and finds many expectations fulfilled and many unexpected moments of magic The 1948 film entitled The Naked City closed with the line, “There are eight million stories in the Naked City and this has been one of them.” Well, one story to come out of the Wangaratta Jazz and … Continue reading JAZZ STRIPPED NAKED — WELL, ALMOST
BREAKING NEWS APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the AMC (Australian Music Centre) have announced the finalists for the 2013 Art Music Awards, “an event which celebrates the outstanding achievements of composers, performers and educators in the dynamic fields of contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music”. Awards in 11 national categories will be presented on Monday, August 26, at the NIDA Parade Theatre in Sydney. … Continue reading ART MUSIC FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
