Moonah Arts Centre’s popular 2013 Friday Night Concert Series

Moonah Arts Centre’s popular 2013 Friday Night Concert Series continues on Friday the 5th of April with contemporary jazz duo, OHZONE.

OhZone is a Hobart based contemporary jazz duo that combines the rich, warm and captivating vocals of Coral Hannaby and the tasteful artistry of Alan Welsh’s evocative guitar sounds.

OhZone perform jazz standards and popular tunes featuring the pair’s own elegant arrangements: retaining the essence of the original compositions while infusing them with OhZone’s own appealing musicality.

OhZone will present a one hour concert across their repertoire including elegant and timeless cocktail favourites such as ‘Misty’, ‘When I Fall in Love’, ‘My Funny Valentine’ and ‘Blue Moon’; Blues staples such as ‘God Bless the Child’, ‘Route 66’ and ‘Messing Around’; Popular music of the 60’s and 70’s such as ‘Spanish Harlem’, ‘Blackbird’ and ‘California Dreaming’; Pop/Rock hits such as ‘Time After Time’, ‘Love Hurts’, ‘Go Your Own Way’ and ‘Two Strong Hearts’.

The dynamism of this duo comes from the immediacy of live performance: Alan has mastered the use of a loop pedal, allowing him to play over the rhythm tracks that he creates live. This produces a full and well-rounded sound without any reliance on pre-recorded backing tracks, as well as ensuring that the music is fresh and original at each performance.

Alan and Coral lived in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2008, teaching at international school King George V. Additionally Alan was the resident guitarist at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Hong Kong island. During the last 2 years in Perth, Coral and Alan have continued their busy schedule of performances for a variety of corporate and private functions, playing at Burswood Casino, Sandalford Estate, the Vines Resort, the East Fremantle Yacht Club, the Sunday at Subi series at the Subiaco Arts Centre, before relocating to Hobart at the beginning of 2011.

This will be the duo’s first concert at the popular Moonah Arts Centre.

Where: Moonah Arts Centre, 65 Hopkins St Moonah
When: Friday April 5
Times: Doors open from 7pm for a 7:30pm start
Entry by Gold Coin Donation
Michael McLaughlin Community Cultural Development Officer Glenorchy City Council