The ten-day festival will feature music by Mahalia Barnes, Elysian Fields, Gai Bryant, Melody Riviera and many others, as well as Brazilian bossa-nova singer and nylon string guitarist Anna Setton of Sao Paulo.
The Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival has announced that the 10-day festival will take place from October 30 to November 8, with live events at the centre of the festival, Mary’s Underground (the former The Basement), as well as at Foundry616, Joynton Ave Creative Center, the Australian Institute of Music and Headquarters 505.
Champs Elysion. Photo courtesy of the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival
“We are very pleased that the 2020 festival will take place, jazz is an ideal means of sitting and socially remote environments,” said the festival’s co-artistic directors Zoe Hauptmann and Peter Rechniewski. “This year is an exclusive opportunity for music lovers. to revel in the magic and intimacy of jazz.
While restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic prevent the festival from attracting guest artists from abroad, SIWJF 2020 will adopt local foreign skill with intercultural projects with artists from Japan, Cuba, Peru, Sweden and Armenia.
The opening night at AIM will feature the 10-member band Gai Bryant, Caribe, and their sextet AllY, accompanied by Peruvian singer Melody Riviera.
Mahalia Barnes. Photo courtesy of the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival
It will also feature artists such as Mahalia Barnes, Elysian Fields, Emma Pask, Elana Stone, Monica Trapaga and many more.
A favorite of the 2019 festival, Brazilian bossa-nova singer and nylon string guitarist Anna Setton will also be broadcasting from Sao Paulo.
Sandy Evans, recently awarded its functionality of the year at the 2020 Art Music Awards, will close the festival with a world premiere, accompanied by Japanese koto master Satsuki Odamura and bassist Steve Elphick at Venue 505.
“Few Australian musicians have played live since the start of the coronavirus,” Said Hauptmann and Rechniewski. “These artists are delighted to play for the audience at this year’s festival. “
The Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival will be held from October 30 to November 8 at Sydney locations
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