Event Type: Events

Presented by Footloose Dance Party

Friday 4 October 2024
Doors @ 7:30pm | Music from 8:00pm – 11:00pm

Tickets :
Final Release $20 (+BF)
Tickets may be available on the door if not sold out

*All Ages Event * People under 18 are allowed to attend this event but need to be accompanied by an adult and are not allowed to consume alcohol

The SAC Bar will be operating throughout the event, providing both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments

Hobart’s favourite dance party returns… it’s time to get Footloose AGAIN! Come and shake your groove thing with Hugo Bladel for a special 2 hour DJ Set, jam-packed with Disco Classics

We will be spinning artists such as :
Chic
Sister Sledge
ABBA 
Diana Ross 
Earth, Wind and Fire
Bee Gees
Kool & the Gang
KC &. The Sunshine Band
Patrice Rushen
Madonna
Pointer Sisters 
Hall & Oates

Located in the Founders Room on a Friday Night – starting right after Rektango!

Music kicks off at 8:00pm with support from local legend JUNIPER

See you on the Dance-floor!  

Performance :
Monday 23 September 2024, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Duration : 60 minutes | No Interval

Tickets :
Adults $15
Children $10

Young Voices of Hobart present a choral concert of pop, folk, music theatre and Australian compositions.

This End of Term Choral Concert features both junior and senior ensembles performing a range of choral repertoire.

Conductors : Aaron Powell and Gabby Cousins
Accompanists : Anna Chilcott and Nic Courto

Young Voices of Hobart is proudly supported by Salamanca Arts Centre in 2024.

Presented by Hot Wet Records

Friday 16 August 2024
Music from 7:45pm – 11:00pm

Tickets :
General Admission $20 (+BF)

Kate Wilson | Scholfield | Miah Aplin | Molly O’Brien

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Katie Wilson
Born a tiprat, Katie is a country folk singer songwriter hailing from the NW coast of Tassie. She now resides in the Huon Valley.
She mostly sings earnest sad songs about hard times, but with an honest heartfelt glimmer shimmer of hope somewhere in there.

Schofield
Scholfield is an Anachronism. The lost spirit of a bygone age, winking, snarling, brooding and crooning. Always unpredictable and off beat, expect an experience that is at once familiar, calling as much to the traditions of Greenwhich Village folk as to Brunswick Bohemian.

Miah Aplin
If the world was to end tomorrow, you would find Miah Aplin carefully packing her Takamine guitar into its case, rounding up her family and friends and gathering wood for one last evening of music around a fire. Miah loves to feel connected with others, and through her music this has materialised in an indie/folk form. She enjoys hunkering down with a cup of tea and listening to Chet Baker, or driving the coastal route home to get the end of the Missy Higgins album she’s been singing along to. Other artists Miah has been loving of late include Eloise, Lizzy McAlpine and Ben Abraham.

Molly O’Brien
Hailing from the south of Lutruwita / Tasmania, Molly O’Brien perform original songs rooted in the realms of folk and soul. With warm enriched melodies and intricately crafted lyrics she presents a series of serenades that explore story tellings of hope, homicide, love and loss.

Film Screening :
Friday 27 September 2024, 7:30pm – 9:30pm (includes interval)
Doors @ 7:00pm | Screening from 7:30pm

The Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) returns for its eighth year, celebrating extraordinary women and their thrilling adventures. 

Get ready for an adrenaline-fueled showcase of courage and triumph that will ignite your spirit.
Don’t miss this unforgettable adventure!

Every year, our unique films are carefully chosen to show awesome women achieving their personally adventurous goals. Being adventurous doesn’t always mean being the fastest, going the highest, or doing the most extreme things. Adventure for most of us is stepping outside our comfort zone and climbing our own Everest. The films showcase real stories about women from a variety of cultures and sports around the world.

TICKETS : 
Adult $28
Concession $22

• Family & Group Ticket Options

Presented by Footloose Dance Party

Friday 9 August 2024
Doors @ 7:30pm | Music from 8:00pm – 11:00pm

Tickets :
First Release $20 (+BF)
Final Release $25 (+BF)
Tickets may be available on the door if not sold out

*All Ages Event * People under 18 are allowed to attend this event but need to be accompanied by an adult and are not allowed to consume alcohol

The SAC Bar will be operating throughout the event, providing both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments

Hobart’s favourite dance party returns… it’s time to get Footloose! Come and shake your groove thing with Hugo Bladel for a special 2 hour DJ Set, jam-packed with Disco Classics

We will be spinning artists such as :
Chic
Sister Sledge
ABBA 
Diana Ross 
Earth, Wind and Fire
Bee Gees
Kool & the Gang
KC &. The Sunshine Band
Patrice Rushen
Madonna
Pointer Sisters 
Hall & Oates

Located in the Founders Room on a Friday Night – starting right after Rektango!

Music kicks off at 8:00pm with an ALL-VINYL DJ set from local legend Sexy Lucy

See you on the Dance-floor!  

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PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 1 and 2 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

Presented by the City of Hobart Highland Pipe Band

Saturday 21 September 2024
Doors Open @ 7:45pm | Event from 8:00pm – 11:30pm

Tickets :
Adults $25
Children $15
Family (2 Adults / 2 Children) $50

Bar service available. Supper included.

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Join us for an evening of Scottish culture and dancing : Enjoy the majesty of the pipes and drums in this iconic venue for an evening of Scottish culture and interactive ceilidh dancing.

Performances by the Pipes and Drums of the City of Hobart Highland Pipe Band.

Performances highlighting the finest of Highland Dancing.

Scottish country (ceilidh) dancing, complete with a dance caller and ceilidh band catering for absolute beginners through to the hardened highlander.

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Friday 21 March 2025
Doors @ 7:30pm | Music from 8:00pm – 11:00pm

Tickets :
General Admission $20 (+BF)
Concession $15 (+BF)
Limited tickets are available for purchase at Eventbrite, so get in quick!
Plus : Everyone who buys a ticket will have their name placed inside the album!

*People under 18 are allowed to attend this event but need to be accompanied by an adult and are not allowed to consume alcohol

The SAC Bar will be operating throughout the gig, providing both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments

Get ready to dance and laugh along to the infectious jump jive tunes of Uncle Gus and The Rimshots as this fun-loving and goofy band records the next album live at The Founders Room!

Join us for a night of high-energy entertainment and ban(d)ter with Uncle Gus and The Rimshots as they record their upcoming album Live in The Founders Room on Friday 21 arch 2025!

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Uncle Gus and The Rimshots

Uncle Gus and The Rimshots are a Hobart-based jump jive/swing band that keeps its audience dancing, singing, and laughing, along with the swing hits of yesterday and today. Playing both original music and the repertoire of swing/jive greats like Louis Jordan, Louis Prima and Bull Moose Jackson, these swingers create a fun-loving atmosphere filled with energy and ban(d)ter that will surely get everyone buzzing.

Gus Leighton fronts the band on lead vocals and roaring saxophone, while Dave Cavallo squawks away on trumpet and Adam Davenport-Hortle slides around on the trombone. Piano player Mathew Olivier, guitarist Aleks Folvig, double bassist Sasha Gavlek and drummer Damien Oliver-Black work together to provide a cookin’ rhythm section that your feet won’t be able to stop dancing to! So dust off those dancing shoes, and put on your suspenders – with Uncle Gus and the Rimshots you will swing the night away.

Sat 28th September 2024
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$27 +bf each
$50 +bf for 2 x tickets
$88 +bf for 4 x tickets

‘Salamanca Jazz’ is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with 
Spike Mason’s ‘OXIMETRIC: a blend of beauty and tension‘.

Saturday 28th September 2024
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

Spike has been a PhD candidate at UTAS for the past four years researching his original Oximetric music.
The oximetric concept involves the execution of a largely unfamiliar performance practice within jazz ensemble music.
Each musician within the ensemble plays melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material, either composed or improvised, within their own unrelated pulse. 

The musicians, although playing at the same time, do not adhere to a shared pulse, time signature, or groove.
Each of the pulses are played with the goal to maintain a sense of the individual. There is no need for them to start or finish together. The pulses are not rhythmic subdivisions of each other or related mathematically. They are separate voices that create a synergy by being sounded together in the same sonic space, and sharing a common intent, or mood. 

The oximetric concept incorporates archetypal rhythms that are expanded and compounded by each of the performers in the ensemble at their discretion. The rhythms are to be executed ‘phrasically’, so that each melodic or rhythmic segment is not strict but flows and breathes as in our natural bodies.

“The object is not the random juxtaposition of hostile pieces of music, but the creation of something entirely natural, despite its divergent pulses and harmonies. The result is not a jumble of sounds but often a strange serenity, with points of convergence. Rather than being unrelentingly busy, the multiple layers tend towards discerning restraint, engendering a blend of beauty and tension.” John Shand – Sydney Morning Herald

Spike Mason’s OXIMETRIC comprises Damien Kingston – guitar; Hamish Houston – double bass; Konrad Park – drums; Spike Mason – saxophone.

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre.

Tickets are only $27 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $50 +BF, or buy four tix for only $88 +BF.

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Sat 31st August 2024
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$27 +bf each
$50 +bf for 2 x tickets
$88 +bf for 4 x tickets

‘Salamanca Jazz’ is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with 
The Projekt.

Saturday 31st August 2024
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre

The Projekt began in 2016 as a collaboration between musicians from the North and North West Coast of Tasmania, all of whom share a love of challenging musical projects!
The Projekt is a jazz session band at heart, and has performed at Clarence Jazz, the BOFA film festival, Live at the Wharf, and the Launceston Jazz Club. With solid roots in modern and vocal jazz they have traversed everything from Nile Rodgers disco, blues dance classics, and tackled Esperanza Spalding and Hiatus Kaiyote originals.

The Projekt comprises:
Sophie Leslie – vocals (resident vocalist with ‘Viktor Zappner Swingtet’, ‘Women of the Moon’, ‘Sparrow Grass’) and who studied with Vince Jones at ANU School of Music.
Allison Cornish – piano/keys (band leader of Fusion Funk band ‘Synthesis’ and (mostly) all-girl mini big band ‘The Chromosomes’,
Nick Hart – bass/guitar (‘Ade Ishs Trio’, ‘Wendy & Nick’, ‘Viktor Zappner Swingtet’ and stalwart of the NW jazz scene)
Bruce Innocent – drums/percussion (‘Ade Ishs Trio’, ‘Richard Steele Trio’, ‘Synthesis’, ‘The Chromosomes’, ‘Viktor Zappner Swingtet’ and other N/NW jazz groups).
The Projekt plays a range of much-loved jazz standards, ranging from traditional to modern, including fresh originals.

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre

Tickets are only $27 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $50 +BF, or buy four tix for only $88 +BF.

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Saturday 20 July 2024
Doors @ 7:00pm | Music from 7:30pm – 10:00pm

TICKETS : $40

Dana, a contemporary vocalist, is joined by some of the country’s top musicians for her last performance in Tasmania before embarking on the adventure of a lifetime to study music in the United States under a Fulbright Scholarship at one of the most prestigious jazz schools in the world.

Join us for an unforgettable evening as we bid farewell to Dana, who is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. In August, Dana will be heading to the U.S. to pursue postgraduate studies, proudly supported by the prestigious Fulbright scholarship.

Mark your calendars for the 20th of July at 7pm and head to the Founders Room on Wooby Lane for Dana’s final performance in Tasmania. This is not just a concert — it’s a celebration of Dana’s incredible journey and achievements over the past six years in Hobart.

Dana is pulling out all the stops for this spectacular event, featuring a star-studded lineup of her favourite Tasmanian and interstate musicians. Prepare to be amazed by the talents of Maria Lurighi, Andrew Legg, Belle Richardson, Daniel John, Nathaniel Andrew, Naomi Andrew, Karai Hemara, Konrad Park, Michael Chater, Angel Wong, and Prophecy Mudzingwa.

All proceeds from the concert will go towards Dana’s tuition fees. If you would like to learn more about how you can support her endeavours, please reach out.

Don’t miss this night of exceptional music and heartfelt farewells. Let’s come together to celebrate Dana’s contributions and wish her the very best as she takes the next step in her exciting journey.