Jazz in Concert at The Gods 2009

Tues Feb 3 Errol Buddle Quartet (Syd)
Wed Mar 25 Way Out West (Melb)
Tues Apr 7 Space Cadets (Syd)
Tues May 5 Citizens of Earth (Syd)
Tues Jun 2 Vertical (Canb)
Tues Jul 7 Julian Banks Meets the Hauptmanns (Melb/Syd)
Tues Aug 4 Dale Barlow Quartet (Syd)
Tlues Sept 1 James LeFevre Quintet (Canb)
Tues Oct 6 Miroslav Bukovsky Quartet (Canb)

Admission $18/$12(conc). Series tickets available for $120 but seats need to be re-booked for each concert on 6248 5538

Light meals available from 6pm. Please book on 6248 5538. Patrons who wish to eat beforehand are asked to arrive by 6.30 so that the music can begin at 8pm.

Patrons who want to be sure of hearing particular musicians are advised to have a light meal beforehand to ensure a good seat. 'Non-eating' seats can also be booked however. Seating is limited to 80.

Personnel
Australian multi-instrumentalist Errol Buddle first became known in Detroit, USA, playing with musicians such as Elvin Jones, Barry Harris and Tommy Flanagan in the early 1950s. He was also a member of the Australian Jazz Quintet which was one of the most popular jazz groups in the US at this time. His current quartet includes Marée Steinway (piano), Eric Ajaye (bass) and Bob Baird (drums). Marée has played in festivals around Australia since the mid-1980s and is highly-regarded as an arranger. Eric Ajaye teaches at the ANU School of Music and is very well known to local audiences, as well as in the US. Bob Baird has played at various venues including major festivals throughout Europe and Australia for more than 40 years.
Eclectic trumpeter/composer Peter Knight, and Vietnamese traditional music virtuoso Dung Nguyen (dan bau, dan tranh, modified electric guitar) are at the heart of Way Out West which also features West African percussion specialist, Ray Pereira, along with reed man Paul Williamson, bassist Howard Cairns, and drummer Rajiv Jayaweera. Inspired by the cultural vitality and diversity of Melbourne, Way Out West's latest CD is Old Grooves for New Streets (Jazzhead).
Space Cadets are a well-known Sydney group featuring Matthew Ottignon on tenor sax, Warwick Alder on trumpet, Greg Coffin on piano, Cameron Undy or Zoe Hauptmann on bass and the legendary John Pochée on drums. Their music could be described as hard bop with some further surprises. It really is an all-star group.
Citizens of Earth is a kaleidoscope of colour, rhythm and melody. Its music is highly melodic, very percussive and takes a unique approach to the fusion of jazz and Indian music. It features Sandy Evans (saxophones), Sarangan Sriranganathan (sitar, vocals), Tony Gorman (clarinet), Ben Walsh (percussion), Bobby Singh (tabla) and Steve Elphick (bass).
Vertical features three of Canberra most prominent jazz musicians; Eric Ajaye on bass, Christopher Thwaite on drums & Paul Dal Broi on electric piano. Eric came from Los Angeles and teaches as the ANU School of Music Jazz Department. Christopher Thwaite and Paul Dal Broi are both graduates of the ANU School of Music Jazz Department and have played extensively here and in Sydney with musicians such as Miroslav Bukovsky, Carl Dewhurst, Brendan Clarke, Kristen Cornwell and trumpeter Warwick Alder. Paul also teaches jazz piano privately in Canberra.
Julian Banks Meets the Hauptmanns. After graduating from the ANU Sschool of Music with Honours, Julian travelled around Europe and performed at some of Paris's top Jazz venues. On returning home, he soon moved to Melbourne where he now performs extensively in groups ranging from Cuban Salsa, Jazz, Blues, Folk and Reggae.  Julian is presenting his concert with the 'Hauptmann Trio', originally from Canberra and comprising brothers Ben (guitar),  James (drums) and sister Zoe (bass), all of whom are renowned in Sydney, throughout Australia and internationally. 
Dale Barlow (tenor sax and flute) has played extensively in Europe and America, including with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. His quartet for this date includes a remarkable line-up of Canberra-generated talent: Mark Sutton (drums), Ben Hauptmann (guitar) and Brendan Clarke (bass). Brendan won the National Jazz Award at Wangaratta in 2001 and is one of Australia's most sought-after bass players.
 The Canberra-based James Le Fevre Quintet toured Australia at the end of last year. It currently features James on tenor and baritone saxophones, Rob Lee (trombone), Matt Lustri (guitar), Chris Pound (bass) and Kay Chinnery (drums). Its music ranges widely within the jazz tradition and it is very much a working group.
Internationally-known trumpeter, Miroslav Bukovsky, leads a new quartet of outstanding recent graduates from the ANU School of Music: Luke Sweeting (electric piano),Bill Williams (bass) and Ed Rodriguez (drums)

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Poetry at The Gods 2009

Tues Feb 10 Alan Gould (Canberra)
Jaya Savige (Brisbane)
Tues Mar 10 Mariko Kitakubo (Japan) with translator Amelia Fielden (Newcastle) and shakuhachi player, Rupert Summerson
Robert Adamson (Hawkesbury River, NSW
Tues Apr 14 Peter Bakowski (Melbourne)
Brendan Ryan (Geelong, Victoria)
Tues May 12 John Leonard (Canberra)
M.T.C Cronin (Maleny, Queensland)
Tues Jun 9 Alan Wearne (Wollongong, NSW)
Susan Hampton (Canberra)
Tues Jul 14 Paul Kane (USA)
Michael Farrell (Melbourne)
Tues Jul 28 Dead Poets’ Dinner
Tues Aug 11 P.S. Cottier (Canberra)
Suzanne Edgar (Canberra)
Melinda Smith (Canberra)
Tues Sep 8 Judith Bishop (Sydney)
Alex Skovron (Melbourne)
Tues Oct 20 (third Tues) Andrew Taylor (Perth)
Vincent O’Sullivan (Wellington, NZ)
Tues Nov 10 David Gilbey (Wagga Wagga NSW)
Kathy Kituai (Canberra)
Amelia Fielden (Newcastle, NSW)
Tues Dec 8 Judith Beveridge (Sydney)
Stephen Edgar (Sydney)


Light meals are available from 6pm. Please book at The Gods on
6248 5538. Entry fee: $5. Patrons intending to eat are asked to arrive by 6.30 to ensure that the readings can begin at 8pm. Seating is limited to 80 people. To be sure of hearing a particular poet it is advisable to eat at the venue beforehand but ‘listening only’ seats can also be booked.

Sponsors: Aldo Giurgola, Collaery Lawyers, z4 Wines, Daltons Books, artsACT

Alan Gould won the 2006 Grace Leven Award for his Selected Poems, The Past Completes Me. His twelfth collection Folk Tunes and his seventh novel, The Lakewoman are both due to be published in early 2009.
Jaya Savige is moving from Brisbane to Cambridge, UK, this year to write his PhD. His first book is Latecomers (UQP 2005). He also edits poetry for the Australian Literary Review.
Tokyo poet,Mariko Kitakubo, is one of Japan’s best-known tanka poets.
Amelia Fielden is well known both as a tanka writer in English and as a translator from the Japanese. Rupert Summerson is a Canberra-based shakuhachi player.
Robert Adamson has been a central figure in Australian poetry since the 1970s. His most recent book is The Golden Bird: New and Selected Poems (Black Inc 2008)
Peter Bakowski is a best-selling Melbourne poet. His most recent books are Days That We Couldn’t Rehearse (Hale & Iremonger 2002) and the forthcoming Beneath Our Armour
Brendan Ryan grew up on a dairy farm at Panmure in Western Victoria. His first and second collections, Why I Am Not a Farmer and A Paddock In His Head were both published by Five Islands Press. His third, A Tight Circle, was published by Whitmore Press last year.
John Leonard was born in the UK and arrived in Australia in 1991. He has four collections of poetry, including New and Selected Poems published this year by Salt (UK). He was Poetry Editor of /Overland from 2003-07.
MTC Cronin lives in Maleny Queensland. Most recent of her many books are Our Life is a Box./ Prayers Without a God (SOI 3) and Notebook of Signs (Shearsman Books)
Alan Wearne is best known for his prize-winning verse novels, The Nightmarkets and The Lovemakers. His most recent collection of individual poems, The Australian Popular Songbook, was published by Giramondo last year.
Susan Hampton lives in Canberra and has written 5 books of poems. Her new book Insect is due out from Five Islands Press in 2009. Her last book The Kindly Ones was shortlisted for five awards, and won the Judith Wright Poetry Prize for 2006.
Paul Kane is an American poet who teaches at Vassar College and edits an American magazine for Australian writing, Antipodes. He is also a key organiser of the Mildura Writers Festival and lives in Victoria for part of each year.
Michael Farrell has published three books of poetry: ode ode (Salt UK 2002); a book of cartoon poems called BREAK ME OUCH (3 Deep, 2006); and a raiders guide (Giramondo, 2008). His M.A. thesis topic was the billycan in Australian poetry. He lives in Melbourne.
The Dead Poets’ Dinner (Tues July 28) is a well-established Canberra event where poets and poetry lovers meet to present a couple of poems by their favourite dead poets to an appreciative audience. It will include a substantial two-course meal, including espresso coffee, for $25. There is no entry fee. Bookings directly to The Gods on 6248 5538. Reading order is on a ‘first-in first-served’ booking sheet on the night but not everyone needs to read.
Melinda Smith is the author of Pushing thirty, wearing seventeen (2001) and Mapless in Underland (2004). She won the 2006 David Campbell Prize and was a featured poet in Poetry in Action for 2007.  She lives in the ACT.
PS Cottier has worked as a university tutor, a union organiser, a lawyer and a tea lady. Her first book, The Glass Violin (Ginninderra Press), has just been published.
Suzanne Edgar’s first book of poetry was The Painted Woman (Indigo). She has also published short fiction (Counting Backwards, UQP) and worked for the Australian Dictionrary of Biography.
Judith Bishop lives in Sydney. Her first poetry collection, Event (Salt UK 2007), won the 2007 Anne Elder award and was shortlisted for four other awards.
Alex Skovron’s most recent book is Autographs: 56 Poems in Prose (Hybrid Press 2008). He also works as an editor in Melbourne. He published a novella, The Poet, in 2007.
Andrew Taylor’s Collected Poems were published by Salt UK in 2004. He lives in Perth and lectured for many years at Edith Cowan University. His new collection, The Unhaunting, will be published this year by Salt UK.
Vincent O’Sullivan from Wellington, NZ, is a poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, biographer and the editor of the five volume Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. His new collection Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998-2008, will be published this year.
David Gilbey’s first collection of poems Death and the Motorway  was published in 2008 (Interactive Press). He is also a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University and President of Wagga Wagga Writers Writers.
Kathy Kituai has reently produced Straggling into Winter (Interactive Press), In Two Minds: A Tanka Diary (with Amelia Fielden) and a CD with musician Nitya Parker, The Heart Takes Wing. She has also worked for many years teaching creative and community writing.
Judith Beveridge has published three books of poetry, including The Domesticity of Giraffes and Accidental Grace. Each of them has won several major prizes. Her latest is Wolf Notes (Giramondo 2006)
Stephen Edgar is Australia’s best-known and most consistent exponent of formal metres and rhyme. His latest book is Other Summers (Black Pepper 2006).