Day Two of the JazzFest begins with Mike Nock's Masterclass - a truly unique opportunity! During the day, listen to the decadent sounds of Jazz in the open air at the MoreFM Jazz Village and the Earnslaw Park Arts & Crafts Market down by the lakefront..and by night our musicians will be performing at featured venues all across town as part of our free Gig Programme.
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Presenting the Queenstown community with a fantastic opportunity for a behind-the-scenes, conversation and interaction with one of the most prominent Jazz artists in Australisian.
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Roger Manins, one of New Zealand's premier tenor sax players, brings together a stellar trio with Reuben Bradley on drums and Brett Hirst on double bass to perform original New Zealand Jazz music f...
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Jazz
Jazz
The Trio version of Dunedin based quartet ‘Nitro’, Trevor Coleman - keys/keybass/trumpet, with Nick Cornish - saxes, Rob Craigie - drums. This dynamic and versatile trio will perform their spon...
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Jazz
The Queenstown Jazz Orchestra plays a wide range of big band style tunes from Glenn Miller, Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie through to Michael Bubble and Chicago. The first big band in th...
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The dynamic duo of Richard Adams and Nigel Gavin and Richard Adams (one half of iconic NZ Jazz act the Nairobi Trio) bring you an afternoon of original composition and well known jazz standards as ...
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Flor de Luna (otherwise known as Mark Wilson and Janelle Aston), have been playing music for over fifteen years. A mouth-watering-melting-pot of unique ingredients, with flavoursome Latin and sw...
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Jazz
Will Martin is a Dunedin based pianist who teams up with double bassist Craig Sinclair and Roy de Hamel to form "The Will Martin Trio" for this concert . At the festival, this group will present ...
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Improvisation experts Trevor Coleman - grand piano and Nick Cornish - saxes share some spontaneity with bassist Adrian Laird - double bass
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Winner of the 2013 Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year and runner-up in the 2013 National Jazz Awards, Steve Barry is a pianist, improviser and composer based in Sydney, Austr...
more >Caroline Manins is a multi lingual, improvising vocalist with a passion for medieval and traditional world musics.The Blue Kanu will host Manins and her trio of piano and double bass, playing stand...
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Bluestone are a high energy 5 piece band from Dunedin that play a gritty blend of electric blues. Their influences are broad, from Texas and Chicago artists like Freddy King and Junior Wells, to...
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A wonderful tribute to one of the great singing legends of our time. During the course of her 59-year career American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy Awards and sold more than 40 millio...
more >Best described as a group of New Zealand's finest session players that do live gigs. The repertoire has a wide range of textures, sounds, rhythms and styles. Vocal sounds are dynamic, cool and blue...
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Karin Reid is renowned for the hypnotising notes of her "sultry voice”, her deep vocal tones expressing the darker side of the jazz tradition. The Karin Reid Trio presents her modern take on ...
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New Zealand’s very own guitar hero Kara Gordon has shared the stage with some of the world’s greatest musicians and he is sure to delivery another mind blowing exhibition of guitar wizardry for...
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Very fast and very flash! Right before your very eyes, Kiwi virtuoso drummer Dylan Elise will drum the impossible with stick tricks and his own brand of razzle dazzle. Watching just one video cl...
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Funk/Soul