Music Ann

What a wonderful festival. Friendly people, great weather and really inspirational music. Jazz musicians everywhere – just superb.

This year our bands were:

Ann Craig Duo
Jazz Notes with Rick Correnza
Pippa Wilson with Jazz Notes
The House Cats.

Fantastic audiences, well organized program and great friends to share a house with and make memories.

We met John Kumnick a few years ago and he is such a lovely man. His show the “Supper Club” runs every few weeks on a Thursday evening 6-9pm.

We have been lucky enough to be invited back many times, as a duo, with Rick Correnza and with Pippa Wilson.

We always play a few tunes which is quite novel to the other people at the studio.

This time we talked to John about our upcoming CD launch – our CD “A Smooth One” will be out soon and we gave him a taste of whats ahead.

Review were very positive – I can’t wait for the CD to arrive.

Being invited to perform for a special birthday gig is such an honor.
We met Rachel last year at the Village Cafe. We did not know at the time that she was there with her Grandmother. They requested some “older” songs and we gladly obliged.

Little did they know at the time, but, the songs they asked for were not that “old” at all, they are part of our repertoire.

We played Don’t get around much anymore and quite a few others.

A few weeks later we were invited to perform for a surprise 90th Birthday Party. The theme was guy’s and dolls. We did our best!

A great time was had by all. Thanks for the invitation Rachel and we are so glad Nola had a wonderful day.

A new location for the Jazz Convention and a place I know quite well.

It was lovely to head to Albury for this Convention. The weather was extremely hot. I don’t think we had a day under 35degrees.

It was the first year we had attended a Convention without a singer.

All the bands we had registered were Instrumental only. It was great to work up some new repertoire and Round Midnight was definitely a highlight as I was able to play my Alto flute for the entire set. I also got to play my piccolo in Caught in the Act – Piccolo Boogie has been a favorite of mine for many years, I finally got to perform it.

All bands were well rehearsed and the audiences who listened really enjoyed the different styles of “jazz”

Ann Craig Duo
Round Midnight
Caught in the Act
The House Cats

Also, Ashley and Justin’s band Juxtaposed performed at the convention – they were fabulous.

A great weekend of music, a fun house to share with friends and many wonderful musical memories.

During one of our events at the Ringwood RSL we met some new fans, people who had never seen our band before and it was a night that featured the fabulous talent of Rick Correnza.

Word of mouth and a fantastic recommendation from one of our new fans saw some communication to Kevin and we were invited to entertain the members and guests of the Felix Masonic Group at the Box Hill Golf Club – Their Christmas function.

Instrumental music while the diners were enjoying a fantastic festive meal and then Rick joined us for some even more excellent music.

We had a great night and were very happy to be invited to perform.

Rick, Ann, Kevin and Doug.

I love anything Christmas-sy and when we get to play a gig it’s even better.

For the last 4 years we have had a annual residency at the Village Cafe in Balwyn.

Playing Christmas tunes in a “Jazzy” style to the shoppers and patrons of the Cafe.

We invited a few of the street musicians to join us. It was great that I ended up being surrounded by so many “wise men”!

Ann, Kevin & Doug have done this gig together each time and we were thrilled to be invited back.

We confirmed our 2020 gig – hope to see you there

It was a very, very merry day!

Another wonderful night of music with Pippa Wilson and the Jazz Notes Showband.

Pippa
Ann
Kevin
Todd
Leon
Simon

We had a blast with Pippa and the audience loved every moment of the show.

Rick Correnza was in the audience and he got to sing a duet with Pippa. It was fabulous.

Thanks to our helpers, Ashley and Marion for all the wonderful photos and videos.

We will be running two events at the RSL in 2020 so keep an eye on Jazz Notes website or the facebook page for all the updates.

Our first time at this cute music festival.

We were playing at the Coles Local stage. Among all the shoppers we saw some special friends.

Thanks everyone who stayed and supported us.

We’ll be back again. Looking forward to the registrations when they appear in 2020.

Pippa Wilson with the Jazz Notes Showband.

So much work had gone into this event. Would we take the whole band?, pick up some local players?. In the end the organizers made that decision for us.

We took Michael Harding (piano) from our Melbourne band, and Rodney Ford and John Conley and Peter Uppman from Brisbane.

The event was a huge success. We played to a full house.

The weekend was fabulous. Staying with family and making some new memories and enjoying every moment of the weekend.