SATURDAY NIGHT
MAGIC DANCE
The Thin
White Ukes
Saturday Night Concert
+ Sunday Workshop
The Thin White Ukes perform the songs of David Bowie with love and harmony. ⚡️
The glamorously attired Melbourne trio travels six decades deep into the great art-rock visionary’s swooning songbook of smash hits and astounding obscurities, each lovingly reassembled for precision acoustic strings and three richly entwined voices.
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The Thin White Ukes' high passion, mellifluous musicality and stunning attention to detail honour and illuminate Mr Bowie's beloved back catalogue with a rare degree of creative invention, an act of homage befitting their hero's relentless quest for adventure.
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Put on your red shoes.
They’ll be floating in a most peculiar way.
Saturday Night Concert
+ Saturday Workshop
Tyrone (Alone) plays light music for dark times, designed to defy the drop-downs, fashioned to fly across the footlights and into your heart. The award-winning Tyrone and Lesley have played the Sydney Opera House, UK, New Zealand, and at ukulele festivals all over Australia. At this exclusive solo show you’ll hear songs from their record ‘String’ and a brace of new classics.
Tyrone
(Alone)
Ukastle Ukestra
Saturday Night Concert
+ Saturday Workshop
You are about to enjoy the culmination of 13 years of a slowly rotating roster of ukulele enthusiasts from Newcastle NSW, lead by two of the world's most successful professional community musicians.
Mark Jackson and Jane Jelbart have performed and lead groups and taught at ukulele and folk festivals across Australia and the world. But their best work is done at home, where each week they run seven ukestras and two choirs, featuring brilliant and dismal lead vocalists alike.
At festivals they only feature the best vocalists, who are backed by a festival ukestra that is an inclusive mix of ukulele skills playing songs in ways which other groups haven’t yet dreamed of.
At the 2011 Melbourne Ukulele Festival they won the Golden Ukulele.
The Emerald
Ruby
Saturday Night Concert
+ Sunday Performance
Soulful vocals caress gentle ukulele, stitched together with lilting flute, creating the sonic pallet of multidisciplinary artist The Emerald Ruby. The brainchild of Newcastle based creative Jen Hankin, The Emerald Ruby is the home of her many artistic pursuits. Her artistic practice includes performance, composition, fine arts (digital and watercolour), photography, videography, fashion design and writing.
A rich musical history accompanies The Emerald Ruby through every performance. Her first musical home was the Orchestra, where Shostakovich and Stravinsky informed her understanding of structure and texture. In her teens, she fell for alt metal band System of Down, which combined with her study at University of Newcastle, saw her make the transition from pure classical musician to multi-genre powerhouse. She has toured and recorded extensively with The Button Collective and experimental folk/jazz band Vanishing Shapes. She regularly performs with jazz-rock band Othrship, and Psyc rock band Lachlan X Morris.
The Emerald Ruby has graced the stages of the Great Southern Nights, Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Bulga Beats festival, The Rhythm Hut, and Lazybones Lounge. She is also the 2022 Dots and Loops composer Fellow.
Saturday Night Concert
+ Saturday Performance
What do Gen Z uni Students do in lockdown? They start a band! The Hollows are an original duo that pours their self-obsessed angst into the lyrics of their catchy original songs. Captivating vocals and ukulele are backed by a strong percussion to produce a fusion of old, new and wtf that makes The Hollows’ tunes ones you just can’t get out of your head.
