FAMOUS JAZZ BAND TO

PERFORM AT LAKES ENTRANCE

For immediate release – Wednesday, 14 October 2009

The famous New Melbourne Jazz Band will perform in Lakes Entrance on November 8 in the last of The Café Culture Series 2009.

It is the first time in 10 years of the series that a Dixieland Jazz Band has been scheduled to perform. 

The Band is led by bass player Ross Anderson who began his career in 1952 in a quartet based in Echuca.

He formed the New Melbourne Jazz Band in 1984 then took it to the USA to perform at the prestigious Sacramento Jazz Festival where they were a resounding success. Since then the band has made 14 trips to the USA and Canada to perform at major jazz festivals.

It currently boasts one of Australia’s leading trumpet players Bob Venier who began his career in Ballarat before moving to Melbourne to play with Smacka Fitzgibbon. Since then he has toured England, Europe and Asia.

In the early 1970's, Bob joined the ABC Orchestra where as first trumpet he toured Australia and the USA with the Bi-Centennial Australia Jazz Orchestra in 1988, and also featured as flugelhorn soloist with Don Burrows and James Morrison.

During the 80's and 90's, Bob was a regular musician on leading TV shows including The Don Lane Show, The Bert Newton Show, Young Talent Time and The Steve Vizard Show. He has also been the featured soloist on albums by various artists, most notably The Little River Band track, Reminiscing.

The New Melbourne Jazz Band will perform live on Sunday, 8 November 2009 at 5.00 p.m. in The Mechanics Hall. Mechanics Street, Lakes Entrance.

Tickets are available at the Lakes Entrance and Bairnsdale Visitor Information Centres.. Pre-purchased tickets for individual performances cost $22.00 per person or $25.00 at the door.

The performance is presented by “Just Shows To Go” and sponsored by East Gippsland Shire Council, Lakes Entrance Rotary Club and Great Alpine Gallery Inc.

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Further information – Andrea Court, 5153 9500