If you can’t wait for MONA FOMA, catch a buzz with MOFO curator Brian Ritchie, who launches a daily program of Jazz at MONA (JAM), now continuing until MOFO begins. There’s something for everyone, and everywhere; on stage at the MONA lawns, at the Wine Bar, and in The Void. It’s free (with Museum entry).
Friday 4 January, 1:30-4:30pm (MONA stage)
Bio-Dynamic Duo and Rising Sons
Bio-Dynamic Duo is drummer/cartoonist Linzee Arnold and American rocker Brian Ritchie. They play jazz, blues, surf, Afghani, country and punk of the past, present and future in a surreal manner.
Rising Sons are George Odell-Tyson (12), Lucas Odell-Tyson (10) and Thomas Gath (13). Award winning buskers, they enjoy what they do and have total control of what they play, when they play and how they are going to play it.
Friday 4 January, 5pm (Wine Bar)
DJ Everton
DJ Everton, an experienced UK DJ, spins Blue Note and 70’s funk classics for your cocktail enjoyment.
Saturday 5 January, MoMa 11am – 4pm
MoMa – MONA stage
Tasmanian Artist Blacksmith Association and Nick Smithies “Bent, Twisted and Upset: Ancient Metal Moving Techniques”.
Commissioned specifically for MoMa, this epic semi-improvised electro-acoustic collaboration between blacksmiths and composer will set a new standard for Tasmanian multi-media. It may also set the stage on fire.
Sunday 6 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
Hope Trio
Nigel Hope on bass and Jules Witek on percussion weave between swing, Bossa, Funk and world music, playing hits from Paul Simon to Rogers and Hart. They are joined this time by up and coming guitar sensation Aaron Entrez who plays well beyond his years.
Sunday 6 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA – The Void)
As the Crow Flies
As The Crow Flies are Emily Wolfe, Violet Harrison-Day and Rebecca Bryan on fiddles with Russel Dobie on Double Bass and Steve Gadd on guitar. They play a unique regional form of fiddle music that has evolved in Tasmania where three powerful music traditions meet: Country Dance Music, Czech fiddling and Jazz Improv.
Monday 7 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
Ross Sermons Trio
Ross was born in 60s North Carolina and was soon steeped in southern blues, bluegrass, and soul. A lifelong love of music took hold inspired by blues musicians like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Mississippi John Hurt.
Tuesday 8 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
A Touch of Class
Kaye Payne, Randall Muir and Steve Marskell explore the subtleties of the jazz standards repertoire. Perfect martini-drinking music.
Wednesday 9 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
Entresz Trio-“Tribute to Les Paul”
Guitar prodigy Aaron Entresz explores the musical approach of Les Paul, who invented the electric guitar in Milwaukee, USA about 75 years ago.
Thursday 10 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
Steve Young Quartet with Danny Healy “Tribute to New Orleans Music”
Steve Young and comrades explore the strange and varied grooves of his hometown, New Orleans, where the music is as spicy as the food.
Friday 11 January, 13.0 – 4.30pm (MONA stage)
Hobart Reggae Inc.
Musicians from Portugal, Mawali,Germany,Spain, Kenya and Australia play Jamaican riddims in Tasmania. One Love! Jah Rastafari!
Friday 11 January, 5pm (MONA Wine Bar)
DJ Cloaca
DJ Cloaca’s outrageous yet dignified mix of Christian rock, gay anthems, techno, bebop and grunge has gained him followers on both sides of the Derwent.
Saturday 12 January, MoMa, 11am – 4pm (MONA stage)
Tek Tek Ensemble and Gleny Rae Virus and the Tamworth Playboys
Tek Tek Ensemble is a festive anthropological mini-orchestra consisting of three guys and three girls playing trumpet, trombone, violins, percussion, guitars, double bass, piano accordion, and the human voice.
Gleny Rae Virus and the Tamworth Playboys are a string trio who play hillbilly swing with a distinctive Australian flavour plus a few curve balls like gypsy and brazilian tunes. They play a good deal of house concerts and also busking when they can.
Sunday 13 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
Lawless Quartet
The Lawless Quartet is a cross genre band from Hobart. They draw their sound from many cultures from all parts of the world, shifting from sensitive French chanson to raucous gypsy punk, down beat reggae to writhing Arabic grooves and everything in between.
Sunday 13 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA – The Void)
Evan Carydakis Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments features the much celebrated Melbourne saxophonist Evan Carydakis and Launceston jazz icon Brendon Siemsen on electric guitar. Do not miss the chance to have this contemporary and hard swinging duo re-establish the great American Songbook for your absolute listening pleasure.
Monday 14 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
The Four Now and Tairaku “Tribute to Sun Ra and Son House”
The Four Now: With the sad end of The Lost Domain, Brisbane’s Simon Ellaby (aka Ragtime Frank) has re-emerged in Hobart to make music with three young inspiring Tasmanian musicans, Hannah Fitzgerald, Tim Panaretos, and Steven Wright. This feels right, for now. Taking their cues from everyone from Son House to Sun Ra, these players make long-form jazz that’s free and improvised and touches at the heart of all true folk musics.
Tairaku is the professional Japanese shakuhachi name of MONA music curator Brian Ritchie. He earned this name after 7 years of rigorous training on Japanese bamboo flute.
Tuesday 15 January, 1 – 4pm (MONA stage)
Simon Patterson and Danny Healy Combo
Simon and Danny team up to drench your ears in mind bending improvisations sometimes straying into uncharted harmonic and rhythmic territory. Playing compositions ranging from Sonny Rollins to Thelonious Monk and more, they always hit the swing button.
