Clarence Jazz Festival – 2008

19 – 24 February

The Clarence Jazz Festival is Tasmania's premier jazz festival featuring six days of concerts in a distinctive range of riverside settings. It is renowned among patrons for its great locations and unrivalled good vibes.
In 2008 the Festival welcomes the return of the very popular George Washingmachine as Festival Ambassador. The Sydney based musician is a brilliant jazz violinist and vocalist who will jam with over a dozen different bands during the festival.
In addition to the regular series of twilight and evening concerts, the Jazz Lounge will take the music well into the night. Set in one of Tasmania's oldest surviving stone barns (c.1815), the Jazz Lounge will feature contemporary groove jazz, video installations by Scot Cotterell and a bar and cafe.
Festival Ambassador George Washingmachine is one of Australia and the jazz world’s most sought after entertainers, renowned for his knuckle-busting feats on the violin and seductively smooth vocals.
Known for his delightful sense of humour and superb musicality, George is a multi-instrumentalist, dazzling as a violinist and vocalist yet more than proficient on the double bass, guitar or anything with strings.
George has toured the world for the last ten years performing in countries including France, Holland, Scotland, Germany, Sweden, and Finland and continues to appear at all the major jazz and arts festivals in Australia.

PROGRAM

Tuesday 19 February
Simmons Park, Lindisfarne
6.00pm Clarence Stage Band
6.45pm Bailey’s Blokes

Wednesday 20 February
Bellerive Beach Park
6.00pm Ian Pearce Quartet
6.45pm Cardinal Swing
Jazz Lounge
8 – 11pm Hazel, Blue and Green

Kelly Ottaway – Fender Rhodes piano
Hamish Stevenson – double bass
Mark Joseph - vocals

Thursday 21 February
Rosny Farm, Rosny
6.00pm Melinda Risby & Friends
6.45pm Guitar Quartet
Jazz Lounge
8 – 11pm The Turn

Friday 22 February
Bellerive Boardwalk
6.00pm Andy Young Quintet
7.00pm Young Jazz Players Competition Final
8.00pm James Maddock Swing 4

Jazz Lounge
9pm – midnight Recliner

Randal Muir – Hammond Organ
Dean Stevenson – drums
Ralph Foprehead - guitar
Kelly Ottaway - vibraphone

Saturday 23 February
Bellerive Boardwalk
4.00 – 5.30pm    Jazzmanians
5.45 – 7.15pm    The Organ Doctors
7.30 – 9.00pm    eKlectiKa
The Jazz Swing Dancers will be swingin’ during the breaks
Jazz Lounge
9pm – midnight MIQ (Matthew Ives Quartet)

Matthew Ives – drums
Alex Howroyd – horns
Charles Harris – bass
Steve Bumford – keys
Nick Parish – guitar

Sunday 24 February
Bellerive Boardwalk

11.00 – 12.45pm     Dixieland Express
1.00 - 3.30pm        Deluxe
3.45 – 5.00pm         George Washingmachine Festival Allstars

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