Event Type: Performances

Sat 22nd June 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 an enchanting evening as Charlie McCarthy brings the music of the legendary Stéphane Grappelli to life.
Experience the magic of jazz violin with classics and hidden gems that celebrate Grappelli’s legacy.
Don’t miss this unique tribute!

Prepare for a captivating musical journey as Charlie McCarthy pays homage to the iconic Stéphane Grappelli in a special concert dedicated to the jazz violin maestro. Grappelli, known for his virtuosity and lyrical improvisation, co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France and left an indelible mark on the world of jazz. Charlie McCarthy, a renowned violinist in his own right, will bring Grappelli’s timeless compositions and beloved standards to life, weaving through a tapestry of melodies that showcase the brilliance and elegance of Grappelli’s music.

Join us for an unforgettable evening filled with soulful interpretations, vibrant rhythms, and a celebration of jazz’s rich heritage.

This is a tribute you won’t want to miss!

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

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

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
{Enter via the stairs off Woobys lane}

Please note that the Courtyard Lift is NOT Operating.  
Salamanca Arts Centre understands that this will cause great inconvenience to some people, and we are awaiting an update from the Dept Natural Resources and Energy as to when the Lift will be operating again.
Until the Lift is repaired, please enter via the stairs off Wooby’s lane.

Sat 27th July 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

Please note – Tickets have now sold out, but there will be a small number of door sales on the evening.

$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 
Vibración, the newest Latin Sextet, featuring Louise Denson + Kelly Ottaway + Tom Robb + Maggie Abraham + Elias Solis + Hamish Houston.

Louise Denson (piano), Kelly Ottaway (vibes), Hamish Houston (double bass) Tom Robb (drums), Maggie Abraham (congas) & Elias Solis (perc) pay tribute to the classic Cal Tjader recording Live at the Funky Quarters, and cook up some spicy original recipes on the side.

For your musical delectation – and dancing pleasure!
Multi-instrumentalist/composer/arranger Cal Tjader played a big part in the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s and ‘60s, working with such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz and Vince Guarladi, among many others. His album ‘La Onda va Bien’ earned a 1980 Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording. His compositions form an important body of work in the vast cannon of ‘Latin jazz’ repertoire.

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

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

Please note – Tickets have now sold out, but there will be a small number of door sales on the evening.

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
[ Enter via the stairs off Woobys lane or lift in The Courtyard}

Friday 19 July 2024, 11:00am – 12:00noon
Duration 60 minutes | NO Interval

TICKETS : 
General admission $25 
Concession/Child (1 – 16 years) $15
Babes in arms (0 – 1) FREE 
Family ticket (4) $70

Whistle & Trick is an ARIA-nominated children’s band who are always ready to sing, dance, and cause mischief. Their high energy live show features songs off their debut album along with a visit from friends Frank the Monster and Melindu the Emu!

Whistle & Trick is a Melbourne based children’s band made up of childhood friends Esther Holt and Maddy Kelly, who are always ready to sing, dance, and cause a bit of mischief. Having shared the stage back in their goody-goody, high school choir days, this dynamic duo have now reunited and joined forces to bring their newest love of children’s music to life.

Whistle & Trick released their debut album ‘Bananas and Other Delicious Things’ in June 2023 through ABC Music, which has launched them into the scene, earning them a 2023 Aria Nomination for best children’s album alongside renowned children’s music acts Peter Combe, The Wiggles, Emma Memma and Playschool.

Esther and Maddy both come from abundant musical backgrounds, with Esther growing up in a household of professional orchestral musicians, and Maddy Kelly being the daughter of Australian music legend, Paul Kelly. Growing up in such musical environments fuelled their interest in music, and between them they have performed in many bands all over the world. All the while, they could never shake their love for working with children, resulting in both Maddy and Esther taking up careers in music education.

Finally, they realised that with their knowledge of children’s education and their natural musicianship, it seemed only fitting to bring these skillsets together and thus, Whistle and Trick was born.

You can expect a Whistle & Trick live show to be high energy and get the whole family up and moving, with their special friends Frank the Monster and Melindu the Emu also making an appearance!

10 June – 7.30pm

Williams new play IMPROVISED

You’ve heard of 48-Hour Shakespeare where performers have 48 hours to rehearse and prepare a Shakespeare play. Well in this version, the performers have 0-hours and have to create the show on the spot, and an unwritten one at that! Yes, the cast are making up the play as they go along, in Shakespearean style! Will it be a comedy, a tragedy, a history or a bit of each?

Join PROTEA Impro as they bring to life the excerpts of the best of Shakespeare’s unwritten plays!* What happens when Shakespeare is given a modern context to set his plays? What is the name of the Bard’s best play that Shakespeare never wrote?

This show is improvised with content often inspired by suggestions from the audience. Other than the opportunity to provide a suggestion, there is no audience involvement in this show. As the content is improvised, we suggest the show is for mature audiences.

*As Shakespeare never wrote these plays, no one can be certain that they weren’t originally his ideas!

“Above all, this play should not be well behaved.”

Alice Birch’s play is dark, but playful, melancholy, but hopeful. Through a series of striking vignettes and nameless characters, Revolt taps into the legacies of twentieth-century feminist theatre: the institution of marriage, the bond between mothers and daughters, sisterhood/solidarity among women, the glass ceiling, gender stereotypes, the impacts of commodifying and sexualising the female body to satisfy male heterosexual desire, and how we are all impacted by language.

Directed by Megan Kenna

Featuring :
Peter Brown
Tommy Howard
Nicola Ingram
Georgie Perry
Amy Wells
Ella Wescombe

Stage Managed by Jess Brough
Produced by Emma Skalicky and Tai Gardner
Sound Design by Gianni R. Posadas-Sen
Lighting Design by Katarina Cubit and Wolfe McBride

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SEASON :
Friday 7 – Saturday 15 June 2024

Performances :
Friday 7 June 2024 @ 8pm
Saturday 8 June 2024 @ 7pm
Sunday 9 June 2024 @ 2pm : MATINEE : Sensory Relaxed Show
Tuesday 11 June 2024 @7pm
Wednesday 12 June 2024 @ 7pm
Thursday 13 June 2024 @ 7pm : AUSLAN Interpreted Show
Friday 14 June 2024 @ 8pm
Saturday 15 June 2024 @ 7pm

Tickets / Doors open 30 minutes prior to performance 
Duration : 1.5 Hours

Tickets :
General Admission $40
Generous Admission $50
Concession $30
Group of 5 $160

This evening of new work from artists from Victoria and Tasmania spans music drawing from modular synthesis, drone, field recording and post-rock. The three artists will each play a solo set, concluding the night with an improvised collaborative piece.

Matt Warren is an Australian electronic media artist, musician, curator and writer, based in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania.

His music and sound practice have a basis in both composition and improvisation. He performs and records electro-acoustic and drone works, solo under his own name and collaborates with others under a number of monikers.

His work investigates memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief and is informed by psychedelia, digital abstraction and hauntology.

This performance will launch a new album called “Wait” which is based on field recordings from disused industrial sites and electronic drones and melodic textures created digitally and with electric guitar.

https://roomofsilencerecords.bandcamp.com

https://www.mattwarrenartist.com

Anthony Lyons is a composer, producer and musician whose practice is an interdisciplinary one exploring the intersections of music, art, technology and environment. His creative output includes works for orchestra, electronic performance, installation, planetarium domes and hybrid-arts projects.

Anthony has had compositions performed, recorded and broadcast in Australia and internationally. His compositional style pursues sonority and site-specific context, drawing from multiple traditions. Electronics, synthesis and sampled elements are a feature of many of his compositions and reveal an interest in timbral loop-based structures, drones and microsound elements. He embraces multiple modes of making and is drawn to the inner worlds of sound and connections to memory, sonority and place.

https://anthonylyons.bandcamp.com

Matthew Magnus is an Australian artist and composer based in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania, with a background in sculpture, experimental drawing, time-based media and electronic music. His practice at art school centred around ritualized cycles of mark-making activity. Since graduation, parenting and full-time work led to close to a decade’s hiatus from art-making. In the past 2 years, Matthew has reconnected with his love of analogue synthesizers and has been creating music that picks up where his visual practice left off.

Matthew has recently completed his debut album. This album represents a body of work that explores, through electronic music, the first three tones of the harmonic series (root, octave and perfect fifth) as the source of slowly evolving and repetitive music to create a hypnotic, deep listening experience. The album is influenced by Indian classical music (particularly the drone of the tambura), Alice and John Coltrane, the American Minimalist composers as well as contemporary artists Kali Malone, Caterina Barbieri and Sarah Davachi. The works are all composed using analogue synthesizer and tape echo using Just Intonation tuning.

https://matthewmagnus.bandcamp.com

Sat 25th May 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 launch of ‘All Ears ‘, a new album by Jamie Pregnell.

Jamie Pregnell’s follow up to his 2020 album “Sleepy Town” sees him once again reunite with Australian jazz greats Julien Wilson, Sam Anning and Ben Vanderwall. All Ears, the title of the new album was recorded in Melbourne in January 2023 after performing a small tour around Australia including Sydney, Canberra, Hobart and Melbourne.

For this Hobart launch gig Jamie is joined by long time Hobart collaborators Dan Sulzberger on Piano, Hamish Houston on Bass, and Tom Robb on Drums.

The quartet focuses on delivering fresh interpretations of the new album material with emphasis on strong melodic themes, group improvisation, open textures and dynamic song forms.

There will be CDs of the new album to purchase on the night and you can listen to preview of Jamie’s new album All Ears here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4RwLs9c474

And his previous album “Sleepy Town” at https://jamiepregnell.bandcamp.com/album/sleepy-town

Jamie Pregnell – Guitar | Dan Sulzberger – Piano | Hamish Houston – Bass | Tom Robb – Drums

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

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

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
[ Enter via the stairs off Woobys lane}

Please note lift in currently undergoing repairs and is not available for use.

Sat 27th April 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
‘Ottaway/Bywater/Houston/Robb’ quartet

Jazz is all about improvisation, right?

As Louise Denson is unable to perform as schedueld this month, in her absence Kelly Ottaway has recast the band and the program, and will perform under the title of ‘Bywater Ottaway Houston Robb’.

But you’re still in for a treat this month, when Kelly Ottaway (vibes / piano), Phil Bywater (saxophone), Hamish Houston (Double bass) and Tom Robb (drums), perform a collection of originals written by Phil and Kelly, focusing on the minimal and free aspects of jazz/improvised music.  

The quartet will also be playing a selection of time-honoured standards, where they will apply the same principles of minimal and delicate playing.We expect to be able to welcome Louise back to the stage in the Founders Room later in 2024.

Saxophonist and composer Phil Bywater has toured Europe, the USA, South East Asia and the South Pacific, has performed with an array of Australia’s finest musicians, and recorded dozens of albums with acclaimed Australian and international bands, including his own ensembles Phil Bywater’s Buried Treasure,
Big Fela Afrobeat Orchestra and Fallingwater Trio. “Wonderfully big expressive tone on the tenor saxophone”
Mal Stanley ABC Jazztrack

“Wonderful saxophonist, a beautiful album”
Jessica Nicholas, RRRFM
His performance experience is diverse, encompassing jazz, reggae, funk, afrobeat, world music, free improv, punk, rock, musical theatre and contemporary classical music.
From 2014-2023, Phil led the Music Theory department at Collarts (the Australian College of the Arts). He has also lectured at the Victorian College of the Arts, the
University of Tasmania, the Australian Institute of Music, and JMC Academy. He has delivered Workshops and Masterclasses for the University of Fine Arts (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), The Music Place, and countless primary schools.
Phil plays Temby Australia saxophones and flutes.

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

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
[ Enter via the stairs off Woobys lane}

Please note lift in currently undergoing repairs and is not available for use.

17th February 2024
7:30pm
The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

General Admission: $48 (+booking fee)

Nikki Nouveau presents a musical celebration of the Women of Paris, exploring the timeless allure of the “City of Light” in her enchanting biography.

Nikki Nouveau explores the timeless allure of the “City of Light” in her enchanting musical biography of Paris.

Meet the fascinating ladies of Paris who created an unequalled society of feminine charm, beauty, art, sensuality and love. From Colette to Marie Antoinette, Coco Chanel to Napoleon’s Josephine.

Be seduced and inspired as Nouveau brings to life the bygone era of French jazz and intimate cabaret from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. With delicate vocals and classical overtones, Nikki presents an uplifting musical escapade singing a rich repertoire from artists such as Jane Birkin, Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Dalida, Eartha Kitt and Brigitte Bardot, along with her own original compositions and featuring piano accompaniment by acclaimed Hobart jazz aficionado, Matt Boden.

“Nouveau in full voice is mesmerising and her phrasing between singing and narrating is flawless.” – Theatre People

“Sexy, fun, a little decadent and nicely polished.” – Arts Hub

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.

General Admission: $25 (+booking fee)
Concession: $20 (+ booking fee)

‘The Eye Begins to See’ is the latest project by Daniel J Townsend. An exquisite and moving song cycle about grief and renewal, Townsend and his band will perform the cycle in full. Support by Ally Oliver.

‘The Eye Begins to See’ is the latest project by Daniel J Townsend. An exquisite and moving song cycle about grief and renewal, Townsend and his band will perform the cycle in full.

The songs were written in the same order they appear on the record. You can hear Townsend journeying from chaos and confusion to acceptance, creativity and connection.

“Back then, I could not have imagined sharing this stuff with anyone,” he says. “Now, I can see how these songs really capture how it feels to navigate grief. It’s deeply personal, but it’s also universal; it’s a path you walk alone, just like everyone.”

The Eye Begins to See will be released on vinyl, CD and online in 2024.

PLEASE NOTE our lift is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs. Wheelchair access to levels 2 and 3 of the arts centre is currently unavailable.