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Leigh Barker performing with Branford Marsalis at the Sydney Opera House
News
2012 Tour Dates are now ready!
See below for all our dates, or check out http://listn.to/leighbarkerjazz for the dates, and samples from the new CD (which will be available at all the gigs on tour!).
Also check out some videos from last year at:
www.youtube.com/leighbarkerjazz
Wednesday
April 4th
Hippo
Lounge Bar
17
Garema Place Canberra City, ACT
9pm,
bar open at 5pm
$:TBC
Ph:
(02) 6257
9090
http://www.hippobar.com.au/
management@hippobar.com.au
Friday
April 6th
Illawarra Jazz Festival
Illawarra
Master Builders Club, 61
Church Street, Wollongong
8pm, in the main
Auditorium
$: Different rates for
day/weekend/sessions
Please find all details
about festival at:
http://www.illawarrajazzclub.com/jazzfestival.htm
Ph:(02)
4285 1903
Sunday
April 8th
Newcastle
Jazz Club
The
Adamstown Club, 282
Brunker Road Adamstown
2
- 5pm
$15/10
for Jazz club members
Ph:
(02)
4929 6315
http://www.newcastlejazz.com.au/
Tuesday April 10th
Jazz at the Loft
Upper room studio, Majura
medical centre unit 2-3/151 Cowper St Dickson
8:00pm – No bar, no
restaurant – BYO drinks
$15/12
GET THERE EARLY TO
GUARANTEE A SEAT
Ph: 0413 037 870
jazz.at.the.loft@gmail.com
Thursday
April 12th
Down
South (Merimbula) Jazz Club
Lakeview
Hotel,
1 Market Street, Merimbula
7:30, Dinner available
from 6pm
$20 ($15 for Jazz club
members)
Ph: (02)
64951202
http://www.merimbulalakeview.com.au/entertainment.htm
Saturday
April 14th
The Quarterdeck
Riverside Drive, Narooma
7:30pm, Bar and Kitchen
open from 6pm
$25 PRE-BOOKINGS
RECOMMENDED
Ph: (02) 44762723
quarterdeck@narooma.org.au
http://www.narooma.org.au/quarterdeck.html
Sunday April 15th
'A Bite to Eat' Cafe
Chifley Shops, Eggleston Cresc, Chifley ACT
5-7pm, Cafe open all day
$TBC
Ph: (02) 6260 3703
contact@bitetoeat.net.au http://www.abitetoeat.net.au/
Thursday April 19th
Babushka Bar
59
Humffray St Nth, Ballarat
9pm,
bar open at 6pm
$10
at Door
Ph:
(03) 53318459
http://evileye.com.au/babushkalounge.com/
info@babushkalounge.com
Friday
April 20th
Soggy
Bottom Jazz Club
at the 'Earth Harmony' shop,
246-250 Yarra St, Warrandyte (at rear of shops)
8pm, cafe open for snacks and
drinks from 7:30
$25 pre booked, ($22 Concession),
$29 at the door
PRE-BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED
Ph: (03) 9844 5155
http://www.earthharmony.com.au/
info@earthharmony.com.au
Saturday
April 21st
Paris
Cat Jazz Club
6 Goldie Place, Melbourne
9:30pm, doors at 8pm
$20 PRE-BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED
Ph: (03) 9642 4711
http://www.pariscat.com.au/
info@pariscat.com.au
Sunday
April 22nd
Womboota
Hall
Womboota Siding Rd, NSW (near
Moama)
2pm, BYO food and drinks, but
concert also followed by BBQ
$25 PRE-BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED
Ph:0488 300 007,
(03) 5889 5124
ross_berryman@hotmail.com
Australian Jazz Bell Awards 2011 We won!!! 'The New Sheiks has been awarded the 2011 award for 'Best Traditional Jazz Album' which is a great honour. Please check out the Bell Awards website and maybe buy the album off CDbaby as well! You can get it as a digital download for instant gratification! http://www.bellawards.org/index2.php Also come hear us at the Stonnington Jazz Festival on Friday May 27th, that will be a cracker of a concert!

'The New Sheiks' has been officially launched and is now available for purchase at Cdbaby.com. It will also be available on iTunes shortly, as well as all the other major internet music downlaod sites. Look out in 2011 for the band around Australia on tour.
OLD NEWS
National Tour Spring 2011 We are hitting the road again to promote the new album, look out for us at these venues! ‘The New Sheiks’ with special guest Heather Stewart on vocals and violin, and featuring the triumphant return from Paris of our pianist and accordionist Matt Boden! Formidable! (read it in a French accent….) We will put up FULL gig details soon – plus some more gigs, so keep looking and get googling….
please go here for full gig details and links for booking:
http://listn.to/LeighBarkerJazz
WEDNESDAYS OCT 12th (with special guests - Sarah McKenzie and Mark Sutton) and 19th – Bennetts Lane Jazz Cub, Melbourne
THURSDAY OCT 20 - Babushka Bar, Ballarat
FRIDAY OCT 21 - The Jazz Basement, Wodonga
SATURDAY OCT 22 - Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
SUNDAY OCT 23 - Brookfield Margate Winery, Hobart 5pm
TUESDAY OCT 25 - Launceston Jazz Club, Royal Oak, Launceston
FRIDAY OCT 28 - The Palais, Hepburn Springs - 'Swiss Italian Festa'
SATURDAY OCT 29 and OCT 30 - Wangaratta Jazz Festival
TUESDAY NOV 1 - Venue 505, Surry Hills, Sydney
WEDNESDAY NOV 2 - Lunchtime concert - 12 - 3pm in Wollongong, Corrimal Leagues Club, ph 4285 1903
WEDNESDAY NOV 2 - Hippo Bar, Canberra
THURSDAY NOV 3 - ‘Jazz at the Loft’ – Dickson, Canberra
FRIDAY NOV 4 - Air Raid Tavern, Moruya
SATURDAY NOV 5 - The Quarterdeck, Narooma
SUNDAY NOV 6 – The Camelot Lounge, Marrickville, Sydney
Also check out our new CD buying widget to the right – but it won’t work on your iphone yet!
In November 2010 we are touring again!! Leigh Barker and the New Sheiks, launching the brand new CD 'The New Sheiks' at these venues and dates. Featuring various guest at various gigs, including Sarah McKenzie on piano, Heather Stewart on vocals, Don Stewart on trombone, Anthony Schulz on accordion. It's going to be a big month! Come down, say hi, and buy the new CD!
MONDAY NOV 1 - 303 Club, 303 High St Northcote
TUESDAY NOV 2 - 505 Jazz Club, 280 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, Sydney
WEDNESDAY NOV 3 - God's Cafe, Australian National University, Canberra
FRIDAY NOV 5 - Paris Cat Jazz Club, Goldie Place, Melbourne
SUNDAY NOV 14 - Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne
MARCH 2010 NEWS
Its 2010 and I have the great honour of being the featured support artist for the Branford Marsalis Quartet tour of Australia! Budget restrictions mean it will be a trio, the first time I've toured with a trio under my own name. I will be joined in Perth, Brisbane and Sydney by my great colleagues Tom Vincent on Piano and Hugh Harvey on drums. In Melbourne, for the Hamer Hall concert, we will be joined by my longtime favourite collaborator, Eamon McNelis on trumpet.
This tour is in March, and look out for our extra club shows, on Sunday March 14 at the Ellington Jazz Club in Perth, and Saturday the 20th of March at the brand new '505' club in Sydney. You never know, we might even get some very special guests.....
Check out Branford's dates on the web.
March 15th - Perth
March 16th - Melbourne
March 18th - Brisbane
March 19th - Sydney
In 2009 I decided to focus on our spin off group, 'The Sheiks'. The Sheiks have held the sunday residency in the Federation Square Atrium for the last 3 years. Usually just bass, trumpet and accordion, I would often add drums or another horn, so it was a very blurry line between the Leigh Barker Quintet and the Sheiks! Our pianist Matt Boden has been playing accordion when there is no piano available, and as he lives in Paris now we usually feature Anthony Schulz on accordion.
Therefore this year I booked a few gigs around Melbourne as 'The New Sheiks', and we had three different lineups, including Al McGrath and Phil Collings on drums, Eamon McNelis on trumpet, Julian Banks on saxophone, Don Stewart on trombone and Anthony Schulz on accordion. So we had a great mish-mash of the Leigh Barker Quintet and The Sheiks, and three great swingin nights out.
I'm off to France, Denmark and America this winter so keep a look out for more Sheiks gigs later in the year. |