The Junc Room is the place to be to warm up on a cold night! From blues to punk, circus to swing, you'll be sure to want to hit the dance floor. For the full JAF11 music program, go here.
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Wed 24 Aug 6–11pm
Launceston Youth and Community Orchestra (Launceston, TAS)
One of the most vibrant and infectious community symphony orchestra’s in the country, LYCO’s current membership includes 50 string, brass, woodwind and percussion musicians.
Time: 6:30pm
Duration: 60 min
Junction Arts Festival 2011 Resident DJ, DJ Kashishi (Hobart, TAS)
DJ Kashishi collects the seeds from cultures around the world including Brazilian, Ghanaian, Balkan, Sufi, Cuban, Bedouin and Maori samples, and mixes them into a gumbo of goodness, sometimes confusing the ear, but always convincing the feet. DJ Kashishi takes it back, waaaaaay back, and then cuts it with classic party to make the dance floor bounce.
Time: 7:30pm
Duration: 60 min
Transylvanian Gypsy Kings (Bucharest, Romania)
Refugees from a more lawless era, these three boys have absorbed the Radio Pop that blares from cheap transistors all over Eastern Europe. The Transylvanian Gypsy Kings play the latest horas from Bucharest, boy-slapping dances and hits from non-stop Romanian bars. Their style is sexy, with black leather, handmade shoes and macho jewelry from downtown capital city Cluj Napoca/Kolozsvar.
Time: 8:30pm
Duration: 60 min
The Lawless Quartet (Hobart, TAS)
The Lawless Quartet plays a fusion of swing, jazz, reggae, punk rock, funk and worldly folk music styles, under a genre of music that can only be named as ‘The Lawless Quartet Sound’. The band has been blowing audiences away with the sheer energy that sits underneath their prodigious talent.
Time: 9:30pm
Duration: 60 min
Thu 25 Aug 6–11pm
Junction Arts Festival 2011 Resident DJ, DJ Kashishi, with special guests (Hobart, TAS)
DJ Kashishi collects the seeds from cultures around the world including Brazilian, Ghanaian, Balkan, Sufi, Cuban, Bedouin and Maori samples, and mixes them into a gumbo of goodness, sometimes confusing the ear, but always convincing the feet. DJ Kashishi takes it back, waaaaaay back, and then cuts it with classic party to make the dance floor bounce.
Time: 7:30pm
Duration: 60 min
Vardos (Melbourne, VIC)
Gorgeous gypsy folk direct from Romania and Hungary, led by extrovert Alana on violin, chased by Sofia on accordion and Kate on double bass. Bringing you the latest Balkan and Baltic hits, legends, village wedding tunes and burning laments. These girls will spin your wheels and dazzle you with their skill and exuberance.
Time: 8pm
Duration: 60 min
Heel Toe Express (Melbourne, VIC)
Melbourne’s Heel Toe Express play old timey tunes with a tough relish. Currently taking the roots scene by storm; in any given set they’ll give you a well blended mix of Hank Williams, Appalachian bluegrass, sea shanties and gospel. Once they get going, which takes about 30 seconds, they’re hard to get off stage.
Time: 9:30pm
Duration: 60 min
Fri 26 Aug 5pm–12am
DJ Adams (Launceston, TAS)
DJ Adams mixes beats, grooves and tunes from the world over with his Live World Music Mix. With the best record collection this side of Bass Strait, his set will swing audiences ecstatically between music you know intimately to sounds you never dreamt existed.
Time: 5pm
Duration: 60 min
JUNK (Launceston, TAS)
Junk is a jazz/fusion quintet made up of Micheal Woods (Trumpet), Damon Warner (saxophone), Jason Whatley (keyboards), Beau Thomas (drums) and Corey Gilham (Bass). Junk plays a combination or cool jazz and fusion/funk tunes from the masters Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and many others. Giving their own flavour to these tunes with a strong emphasis on improvisation the songs are never played the same way twice.
TIME: 6:30pm
DURATION: 60 min
Younger Dryas (Launceston, TAS)
Younger Dryas is a rootsie, rocking, alternative-blues four piece band, that have returned home to Tassie to show off their honed sounds, after a tour across Europe and Australia.
Time: 7:30pm
Duration: 40 min
Guthrie (Melbourne, VIC)
Tassie’s favourite swamp blues merchant, who’ve recently decamped to Melbourne. If these two young men met the devil at the cross roads they’d punch him in the kidneys and steal off with his square toed boots. Brace yourselves!
Time: 8:30pm
Duration: 40 min
Flap! (Melbourne, VIC)
A fiery five-piece band that cranks out up-tempo songs, Flap! plays original music that is both old and new; 1920s jazz, Gypsy brass, English Folk and Trinidadian Calypso can be heard peeping through their antipodean veneer.
Follow Flap! on their website www.flap.net.au, facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Flap/117940094895652 or their youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/FlapVideo
Time: 9:30pm
Duration: 90 min
Charles Du Cane (Launceston, TAS)
The suave Mr. Charles Du Cane’s new album is full of cracking songs that borrow narratives from rural Tasmania and the deep South. His signature voice moves between a Presleyan growl and a husky bark, set beneath the pile-drive synth lines that surround it.
Time: 11pm
Duration: 40 minutes
Sat 27 Aug 5pm–12am
UTAS Community Music Program Wind Ensemble (Launceston, TAS)
Last year they blew the roof off the Big Top with a selection of classical hits. They return this year with a reprise of the BBC’s famous ‘Last Night of the Proms’. Britannia Rules!
Time: 5pm
Duration: 60 min
Hip-Hop under the Big-Top (Hobart, TAS)
Join a posse of Tassie’s best Hip Hop practitioners for a hot set of beats and rhymes. Bladel, Jorge, DJ Dameza and Paddles aren’t afraid to mix anything from global Hip Hop sounds to dub step and everything in between.
Time: 6:30pm
Duration: 60 min
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Slipstream Circus (Ulverstone, TAS)
Slipstream Circus, a non-profit community youth circus organisation based on the northwest coast of Tasmania performs a series of hit and run circus raids on The Junc Room during the Festival. Watch out for the best up-and-coming circus talent in Tasmania.
Time: 7:30pm
Duration: 10 min
Lazlo and Keith's Eternal Interval (Hobart, TAS)
Lazlo Steigenberger and his off-sider Keith play the never-ending riff that is The Eternal Interval...with some wrestling. Waiting for the main event never felt so good.
Time: 7:45pm
Duration: 45 min
Miz Ima Starr (Hobart, TAS)
Miz Ima Starr is a singing, wisecracking cabaret phenomenon of stage and small screen and the comic creation of performer and filmmaker Charles Bracewell. Starr has toured eight solo cabaret shows to festivals across Australia and New Zealand, with ‘Bassey Your Ass Off’ and ‘Up The Disco’ premiering at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Her most widely-toured show ‘Hello Miz American Pie’ has had ten successful seasons, appeared at the inaugural ACF, and was awarded the annual Best Interstate Solo Show and Best Solo Performer of the Year awards by SA’s dB Magazine. Starr’s new role as co-presenter of the Foxtel queer arts television series ‘Beauty & The Bear’ is the latest in a lifetime of revelatory televisual moments for this stunning drag-tastic chanteuse. She famously stunned TV audiences in Australia and New Zealand with three memorable appearances on Channel 7’s hit show ‘Australia’s Got Talent’ and has appeared as songbird and wit on over 20 other TV shows including ‘The Drum’, ‘Good Morning New Zealand’, ‘Nightline’, ‘2 Newsnight’ – and a full segment artist profile on ‘60 Minutes’. Also a recording artist, Starr’s critically acclaimed debut CD ‘Pop Object’ was reviewed as “pure pop genius” by DNA Magazine, her NZ radio hit single ‘Tripping’ was included in the official Soundtrack of the film ‘I’ll Make You Happy’, and her new five-track EP ‘American Pie’ has just been released.
(Image by Mick Vovers)
Time 9:45
Duration 15 min
The Barons of Tang (Melbourne, VIC)
Gracing stages all over the world, this rag-tag bunch of misfits is slowly building an empire. Mixing Klezmer and Balkan feels with jagged edges of punk and whatever’s lying around the kitchen, these guys are carving a crooked smile in the face of the Australian music industry. Guaranteed you've never heard anything quite like this before.
Time: 10pm
Duration: 60 min
The Cubas (Launceston, TAS)
Tassie’s favourite rough funk outfit is back. A two-piece band that kicks it, singing sweet harmonies, drunk on hoedown and Garage Rock flavoured popcorn.
Time: 11:30pm
Duration: 30 min
Sun 28 Aug 12pm–7pm
Mic Attard and Katy Humphries (Launceston, TAS)
Mic Attard and Katy Humphries have been creating music together around Tassie for the last six years. Playing as a duet, they blend the sounds and worlds of driving blues with Celtic sensitivities. Recently awarded the Damien Greenwood Memorial and opened the 2011 Forth Valley Blues Festival.
Time: 1pm
Duration: 45 min
Mal Webb (Melbourne, VIC)
The human beat-box. What Mal Webb does with his vocal chords must be heard to be believed. Wait till he picks up one of his many musical instruments; is there anything he can’t play? Fun for the whole family.
Time: 2pm
Duration: 45 min
The Stayns (Launceston, TAS)
The Stayns are a punk band. They play punk fast and loud. They’ll keep their side of the bargain. You know what to do.
Time: 3pm
Duration: 20 min
Chordwainers (Launceston, TAS)
The Chordwainers are a unique Australian ensemble that create beautiful, haunting, and playful music using the fantastic wind and percussion instruments by leather sculptor Garry Greenwood. Definitely unlike anything you have ever heard or seen before.
Time: 3:30pm
Duration: 30 min
Chicada (Hobart, TAS)
Samba pure and simple. An all-percussion, non-stop, sexy storm of poly-beats that will light up Sunday afternoon.
Time: 4pm
Duration: 60 min
SINGCOGNITO (Launceston, TAS)
SINGCOGNITO is a community choir, started 10 years ago after Tony Backhouseworkshops created a longing for an accappella community choir in Launceston.We cater for anyone who wants to come and sing with us, and our repertoiregoes from medieval to modern, gospel, jazz, folk, african, in fact anythingwe choose to try! We are pleased to sing for you a selection of our songs.
TIME: 5pm
DURATION: 30 min
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