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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
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/ 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/
Saturday April 21st Paris Cat Jazz Club 6 Goldie Place, Melbourne 9:30pm, doors at 8pm $20 PRE-BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED Ph: (03) 9642 4711
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
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. |
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