2006 Thredbo YALUMBA Jazz Festival Performers

The 2006 Yalumba Thredbo Jazz Festival welcomes an outstanding line up of some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians and this year features Special Guest Mary Stallings (USA).

Armomdo Hurley & The Funk-O-Matics
Returning to Thredbo Jazz Festival after 2002’s successful participation Armondo Hurley is sure to win fans with his dynamic singing and power-packed band The Funk-O-Matics. Armondo’s experience spans the whole range of show business but his specialty is the funky sounds of Soul and Blues. Armondo will also feature in the Saturday Gospel concert at 5pm in the Community Centre. Armondo Hurley – vocals, Damon McMahon - keyboards, Andrew Mostyn – drums, Apakuki ‘Kuki’ Nayacakalou - guitar Ralph Marshall – bass, Lisa Collingham - vocals

The Wizard & Oz
The versatile duo of Dave McMillan (Oz) on guitar/vocals and Andrew Farrell (The Wizard) on keyboard is rapidly becoming a familiar inclusion in music festivals throughout Australia. You'll see why! They present a varied program of jazz, blues and evergreen standards.

Paul Furniss
Reed player Paul Furniss has a long highly regarded career in the Australian jazz scene. A classic jazz specialist who plays clarinet, soprano and alto saxes Paul has shared international jazz stages with some of the world's greats. His passionate hard swinging style will be heard in several settings including the House of Ullr 3.30pm Saturday in the Mike Price Trio and at Drakes 9pm with the George Washingmachine Trio. On Sunday he will be in the Kosci Room concert and in the TBar Restaurant from 7pm.

Paul Dion Quintet [ACT]

Focusing on contemporary sounds, hard bop and original compositions this group features Paul Dion (Keys/vocal, Sax, Flute, Clarinet), Neils Rosendahl (Sax, Flute, Electric Sax), Charlie Meadows (Guitar), Ben Braithwaite (Drums) and James Luke (Bass). The instrumentation allows a varied sound palette for high standard jazz from some exceptional musicians. Catch them Friday evening from 7pm in the Kosci Room and Saturday in the Lounge Bar from 3.30pm and at Credo from 8.30pm

The Mike Price Duo [ACT]
Guitarist Mike Price is head of jazz studies at Canberra's highly regarded ANU School of Music. First time at Thredbo Jazz he brings with him an international colleague also on the ANU jazz staff in bassist Eric Ajaye from California USA. The duo will play gigs Saturday and Sunday with guests Adrian Cunningham and Paul Furniss adding additional colour and fire.

Exposed Bone
This very new exciting quartet of well known ACT musicians was formed last year and launched at the Manly Jazz Festival where it received much acclaim for its musicianship and dynamic approach to jazz standards and original material from many musical genres.
Funky rhythms, hard straight-ahead and passionate blues feature in the band's quirky memorable repertoire. With trombonist-leader Jeremy Borthwick and a powerful rhythm team of brothers and sister Ben, Zoe and James Hauptmann Exposed Bone will inject additional colour and energy into our 2005 program

George Washingmachine Trio

George Washingmachine swings & sings.
This year accompanied by David Blenkhorn on guitar & Jonathon Zwartz, on double bass, he looks forward to the great Thredbo atmosphere.
This will be David's last hurrah before departing for Europe. George will join David mid June for 2 months of touring France, Switzerland, Denmark & Scotland beckon.
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