The Jazzgroove Association is fulfilling a longtime dream this January by staging a festival of local music, all by itself. If you have ever been a patron of Jazzgroove’s regular presentations on tuesday nights in Surry Hills, or perhaps caught one of the great Jazz:Now Festivals at the Opera House studio, this is definitely worth checking out.
The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra play the Surry Hills Excelsior on January 17th as part of the festival.
One of the exciting details about this (which is kind of a sneaky fringe fest to the gargantuan Sydney Festival) is that it includes a couple of great venues in Surry Hills, (the Macquarie Hotel and the Surry Hills Excelsior) and some great free music, as well as workshops; this is a great expansion of the Jazz:Now spirit which included wonderful programming, but was bound to one small venue and one presentation style. In addition to the official venues there’s also going to be a city-wide influx of Jazzgroove buskers to grab potential audience’s attention.
Jazzgroove Futures Festival
15-17 January 2010
This January Jazzgroove kicks off the year with a bang. We are taking it to the streets and filling Surry Hills with jazz and groove.
A grass-roots, community based festival which will delight, entice and entertain. We’ve invited our best and brightest to come in from the beach, the cricket or their backyard, and a couple of buddies from out of town, to celebrate the best our local music community has to offer.
3 days of music
3 venues
23 bands play the future of jazz & groove
Featuring:
James Muller Trio, Tina Harrod Quartet, Elana Stone Band, Numerology, Gerard Masters Trio, Mark Ginsburg Band, The Vampires, Casey Golden Trio, Macklin & Newcomb Duo (BRIS), Hammeriver, Dan Junor Trio, The Dilworths, Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, Waples Bros + Hugh Barrett.
Free Gigs!
Cope St Parade, Marty Wieczorek 5tet, Glitch Jukebox, Doig Collective, Shannon Barnett (MELB), The Turbs
Free all-ages workshops/concerts:
BAZ, Greg Coffin Trio
+ loads of summer fun like a BBQ at the Ex, a JG committee closing night jam, afternoon vinyl jam sessions, buskers, marching band
Tickets available from Moshtix
Venues: The Excelsior Hotel, The Macquarie Hotel, Redfern Town Hall
Lucian McGuiness is a musician. He plays trombone. He runs a media lab and studio for Sydney music-makers called Impermanent. He teaches academic classes at AIM. The jury is still out on his Masters thesis.
