JUANITA TIPPINS has spent years touring & recording with some of the most accomplished Australian & international artists, lending her signature vocals to everyone from Joe Bonamassa & The Brand New Heavies, to Marcia Hines, Ian Moss & Cold Chisel.  She’s long been a favourite on the Sydney soul scene due…

A collaboration between SIMA and The Vanguard, ‘In Residence’ highlights the sound of Sydney music by presenting some of the city’s most distinctive creative voices in performance over the course of a month. Across weekly shows audiences are allowed to witness the construction, development and refinement of a musical conversation…

Rising Jazz vocalist Leah Berry will be spotlighting the sounds of Betty Carter at SIMA’s International Women’s Jazz Festival with her quartet. Featuring Hugh Barrett on piano, Jacob Graham on double bass, and Tim Geldens on drums, they will be presenting an array of Betty’s compositions, electric arrangements, and their…

Drummer ABBY CONSTABLE is proud to present a sparkling night of swinging jazz featuring some of Sydneys finest musical gems, in celebration of Sydney’s International Women in Jazz Festival. Abby is honoured to share the stage with HILARY GEDDES on guitar, TILLY STREET on vocals, SARAH PURDON on trumpet &…

For one special night, Emma Pask invites you on a journey through the songs that shaped her, inspired her, and made her fall in love with music again and again. Accompanied by her world class trio, Emma brings warmth and depth to every note as she artfully traverses jazz standards,…

Led by intrepid viola da gambist, Jenny Eriksson, Elysian Fields follows up their much-praised 2020 Scandinavian-inspired jazz-folk-fusion album, FIKA, with a genre-defying musical dialogue between past and contemporary musical realms. Swirling Flame is stimulated by, and draws its title from, the semi-improvisatory art works of leading Australian wood-fired ceramic artist,…

Seven years after first crossing paths in Los Angeles, pianist-composer Liv Andrea Hauge (NO) and drummer Chloe Kim (AUS) reunite to fulfil a long-held promise — to make music together. Back then, they connected instantly through jazz, humour, and the kind of easy laughter that only happens with the right…

Join Lauren White and her trio of Ben Hauptmann (guitar) and James Hauptmann (drums) for a post festival celebration at the beautiful Eveleigh Hotel. Relax with a drink as the genre-defying bassist and vocalist opens up the afternoon with a choice selection of standards and originals before some of Sydney’s…

Hear the future of Australian jazz. The Freedman Fellowship presents a concert featuring performances by finalists for this years award, all vying for a career changing opportunity. This concert will feature performances by four finalists for this years award: Holli Scott (vocalist, WA), Niran Dasika (trumpet, VIC), Sam Gill (sax,…