Ten days to jazz it up

LET the drums roll out and let the trumpets call; it’s almost time for the 10-day celebration of jazz music with the Noosa Jazz Party.
Event organiser and president of the Noosa Heads Jazz Club Richard Stevens said this year’s party will be the biggest, most entertaining and most diverse since he started organising the event in 1992.
The Chorale and The Australian Jazz Ensemble will kick off the party on Friday 28 August and Saturday 29 August with songs from hit Broadway musicals and jazz classics.
Over the 10 days of the jazz party, Noosa will host national and international performers who will take to the stage in restaurants and local venues, plus pop-up bands will be playing around the streets of Noosa.
Richard said local venues and restaurants were quick to come to the party and join the line-up, including Miss Moneypenny’s on Hastings Street which will have a special dinner menu and live music for the Jazz Party, plus the Riverdeck Restaurant and Rump House at Noosa Marina which will take part in the two-boat Jazz Cruise.
The highlight of the jazz party will be the four-night concert at The J on Thursday 3 September where French singer Tricia Evy and Australian jazz queen Juliarna Clark will perform with 32 of Australia’s ace jazzmen in six hours of non-stop music each night from 5pm.
“We’ve kept the original 1992 concept of the party,” Richard said. “We’re bringing together individual musicians to form into bands or smaller quartets and they will pop up in places in Noosa where you least expect them.”
The festival will round out with a free public concert on 6 September at the Park Riverstage next to the Noosa Yacht Club, Noosaville.
To see the full program or to buy jazz party tickets, phone 5447 2229 or visit www.noosajazzclub.com/noosa-jazz-party.