Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival ‘08
18th to 27th April 2008
Presented by: Lebowski’s, La Mama Musica, Melbourne Jazz Coop, Make It Up Club, Jazzhead and Jazzgroove
Tickets to the Commission Concert and Big Arse Sunday are now available through Moshtix. Click here to book so you don’t miss out:
The Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival was formed in 2005 to celebrate Melbourne’s burgeoning creative jazz scene. Building on the unprecedented success of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 festivals, we are once again ready to party with ten days and nights of original music featuring Melbourne’s most celebrated improvisers plus interstate guests.
The Melbourne Jazz Fringe features a series of performances at venues including Lebowski’s, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Café 303, La Mama and the Northcote Uniting Church; all of which are venues committed to nurturing Melbourne’s creative music scene. Come and hear some of the musicians that give Melbourne the right to claim to be the jazz capital of the southern hemisphere including: Shannon Barnett, Erik Griswold, Kate Vigo, Ren Walters, Frank Di Sario, Matt Keegan, Zoe Hauptman (Zoe and the Buttercups), Anthony Pateras, Marc Hannaford, The Snappers, Dave Brown (as Candlesnuffer), Paul Grabowsky and Megan Washington, Joe Talia Solo, the Antripodean Collective… and more
The festival begins in Federation Square on the big outdoor stage with a free concert by the Fela Kuti inspired ‘Big Fela’, led by our Big Fella of saxophone, the brilliant and irrepressible Phil Bywater. The festival continues throughout the week with innovative programming such as the inaugural New Standards concert (at Arts House in North Melbourne), in which three duos play material by other Australian composers (Di Sario and Magnusson are doing Cold Chisel), then there’s a whole bunch of other great stuff happening during the course of the week including the 2008 Jazz Fringe Commission Concert at BMW Edge on Friday 25th April 7.30pm.
The festival finally winds up with Big Arse Sunday. ‘Big Arse’ has become one of the ‘not to be missed’ events on Melbourne’s musical calendar. This year the lineup is truly mindblowing: prepare to be intrigued, soothed and perplexed, by bands ranging from Ben Winkleman Trio, Matt Keegan, and Flap! before being finally destroyed by Alex Masso and Kris Wanders’ power quartet, ‘Spontaneous Acts of Provocation.’
The Atlantis Studio performer award is also in its second year this year, the winner will be announced at Big Arse Sunday…Major sponsors Victoria University, Big Trousers, APRA, Federation Square, Arts Victoria 2008For media enquires phone Peter Knight on 0409 797 852 or email peter@melbournejazzfringe.com Please visit our Myspace page
