Presented by the Arts Centre Melbourne in association with Multicultural Arts Vicotria...

Saturday Sessions: Music from Around the Globe

The Famous Spiegeltent, Arts Centre Melbourne
2pm, Sat 11 Feb - Sat 21 April

What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than listening to the finest, funkiest, toe tapping tunes influenced by traditions, cultures and places from around the globe?

From Saturday 11 February, spend your Saturday afternoons at the Famous Spiegeltent and enjoy the myriad of cross-cultural melodies on offer.

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Program

11 Feb Gospel Shakedown
Featuring artists from Africa to Mauritius to the Pacific, the Gospel Shakedown will take you to a higher place. Deep Congolese gospel vocals and rumba rhythms by the Jerusalem Gospel Band will be followed by thick, layered vocal harmonies, funky bass lines, dynamic rhythm sections and soul stirring melodies of Gospel Sundays...Purchase tickets

Jerusalem Gospel Band (phtograph by Damien Vincenzi)

18 Feb Loved Up Latin
Spend the most romantic week of the year snuggling into a Spiegel booth for Simon Palomares' authentic tango outfit El Boliche. Los Romanticos mariachi band, with full mariachi outfits, will then turn the Latin love passion up to 11...tickets

Los Romanticos

25 Feb Turn the Funk Up!
Raw, loose and nasty funk - administered directly to the soul! From the teenage funksters of Cactus Channel, breaking down funk originals with a musical maturity way beyond their years, to Afro-beat maestros, The Afrobiotics, you will be hit with a high dose of butt-shakin' action...tickets

Cactus Channel Group

3 March Jazzalicious
Two unique ensembles that combine dynamic afro-latin sounds and rhythms, radiant vocal explorations, improvisation, original compositions and fresh arrangements of standards from various genres. Featuring percussionist-composer Alex Pertout with vocalist-composer Nilusha Dassenaike, and Mimi Zaetta-Thomas and her ensemble...tickets

Nilusha

10 March Big & Brassy
Swing along to the vintage sounds of 20s, 30s and 40s hot and sweet dance tunes with Melbourne's own Cairo Club Orchestra before being swept away to the Balkans with traditional brass sounds and earthshaking rhythms of Opa!..tickets

Opa!

17 March Celebrate St Pat's
Come along and enjoy two of Melbourne's finest traditional Celtic music acts as they offer their finest Irish music repertoire in celebration of St Patrick's Day. Saoirse and Adharc will deliver heart wrenching love songs, beautiful ballads, hand clapping, toe-tapping jigs and reels and some spectacular Irish dancing to get the place jumping...tickets

Saoirse

24 March Rockabilly Blues
Archer is an enigmatic blues man from the country who defies explanation but captivates hearts and minds with his guitar and voice. When you have had your fix of contemplation, get your dance shoes on for a serious hillbilly boogie, western swing, bluegrass, rhythm & blues, rock-a-billy, juke-joint showdown with the ReChords...tickets

The Rechords

31 March Klezmer Party
From Melbourne, Flap! play original music that is both old and new, inspired by 1920s jazz, Gypsy brass, English folk and Trinidadian Calypso. The London Klezmer Quartet (UK) will then keep the frenzy alive with authentic Klezmer music and dance, evoking a joy reminiscent of the minstrels who kept people dancing, laughing and crying in the 'shtetls' of Eastern Europe for hundreds of years...tickets

Flap Band

"The best exposition I've come across of Eastern European-style Jewish fiddle playing - Highly recommended." Folk Roots magazine

7 April Singing Stories
A unique showcase of singer songwriters featuring musicians from Australia, East Timor, the Pacific and beyond. Experience the time-old art of storytelling through song, and be moved by this line-up of home-grown talent as they sing heartening - and heartbreaking - tales of the love, loss and the land. Float away with stunning folk harmonies, sweet pop melodies and toe-tapping rhythms of Sunshine Sisters feat. Emma Donovan and King Kadu, James Henry, Paulo Almeida and Saritah...tickets

Emma Donovan (photograph by Claudia Sangiorgi)

21 April Gypsy Punk
Is there a thread between the frenetic tempo of gypsy and punk rock? Melbourne's Barons of Tang and Sydney's Crooked Fiddle Band will prove it with their energetic and highly entertaining performances of twisted Celt, Balkan rock, thrash folk and whirlwind gypsy...tickets

Barons of Tang

Tickets

Tickets on sale now, visit www.theartscentre.com.au or phone 1300 182 183.

Media Enquiries

For further information, images or interviews, please contact: Jessica Bendell, 03 9281 8442, 0427 040 086 or jessica.bendell@theartscentre.com.au Timothy Jones, 03 9281 8526, 0412 620 003 or tim.jones@theartscentre.com.au

Produced and presented by

Multicultural Arts Victoria www.multiculturalarts.com.au

For more information about programming, please contact Andrea Makirs, Operations and Events, Multicultural Arts Victoria, phone (03) 9188 3681 Email: projects@multiculturalarts.com.au.

Partners

Multicultural Arts Victoria's partner for Visible Sessions is The Arts Centre

         

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