OVERGROUND: A Festival Within A Festival

Melbourne International Jazz Festival presents Overground, a history-making multi-stage concert featuring a spectacular line-up of some of the most celebrated creative jazz and improvising artists in the world, including world premiere collaborations especially put together for this Festival exclusive event.

Overground celebrates the rich diversity of the underground music culture in Melbourne in a day long event set in the many lost spaces of Melbourne Town Hall. It will be an event where new sounds can be made and heard as the outer limits of jazz and improvisation are explored, incorporating avante garde, grindcore, big band, expanded cinema, contemporary classical and performance art installation.

Highlights include legendary European free-jazz improvisers Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink; Brian Chase of famed band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with saxophonist Seth Misterka and much-loved local trio My Disco; Oren Ambarchi; Mick Turner; Kim Salmon; Anthony Pateras on the Melbourne Town Hall's Grand Organ; revered pianist Paul Grabowsky with anate luminary Sean Baxter; leading musicians Scott Tinkler, Erkki Veltheim, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst and Vanessa Tomlinson; Brisbane-based expanded cinema duo Abject Leader with stalwart filmmaker Dirk De Bruyn; new music trio Golden Fur; the Embers Big Band, neo-dada upstarts Bum Creek with Snawklor and much more!

Grab a drink from the bar and make a day of it as you create your own underground itinerary for a six hour multi-stage mini festival in the centre of Melbourne. Tickets are only $30 with strictly limited capacity, so book early. Full program details and playing times will be announced at www.melbournejazz.com closer to the event.

Please note that music may be loud and of high intensity.

Presented in association with RRR, Make It Up Club, Stutter and The City of Melbourne.

Actual line-up is along the lines of:

Bennink/Brotzmann Duo, featuring:
• Han Bennink (drumkit)
• Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone)

Pure Evil Trio and Occult Blood, featuring:
• Abel Cross (double bass)
• Aaron Pure Evil (guitar)
• John Pure Evil (drumkit)
• Pete Hyde (voice)
• Dan Brady (electronics)
• Tommy Miller (drumkit)

Kingston/Manek Duo, featuring:
• Greg Kingston (electric guitar and toys)
• Tarquin Manek (various instruments)

Myhr/Gorfinkel/Fuhler Trio, featuring:
• Kim Myhr (acoustic guitar and objects)
• Dale Gorfinkel (vibraphone, percussion and trumpet)
• Cor Fuhler (piano)

Chase/Misterka Duo, featuring:
• Brian Chase (drumkit)
• Seth Misterka (saxophone)

Salmon/Brown Duo, featuring:
• Kim Salmon (electric guitar and tapes)
• David Brown (electric guitar and preparations)

Carolyn Connors Solo, featuring:
• Carolyn Connors (voice)

Golden Fur with True Radical Miracle,
• Judith Hamann (cello)
• Samuel Dunscombe (clarinet)
• Alex Garsden (acoustic guitar)
• Evelyn Morris (drums)
• Leith Thomas (bass)
• Scott O'hara (guitar)
• Mark Groves (voice)

The Deadnotes, featuring:
• Eugene Carchesio (guitar, drumkit, saxophones, clarinet, voice)
• Stuart Busby (trumpet, recorder, voice, effects)
• Leighton Craig (drumkit, keyboard, voice)
• Sandra Selig (bass, baritone saxophone, euphonium, flute)

Pateras/Bennink Duo, featuring:
• Anthony Pateras (Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ)
• Han Bennink (drumkit)

Tomlinson/Ughetti/Fox Trio, featuring:
• Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion)
• Eugene Ughetti (percussion)
• Robin Fox (processing)

Vocal Ensemble, featuring:
• Carolyn Connors (voice)
• Nik Kennedy (voice)
• Sophie Brous (voice)
• Pete Hyde (voice)
• Jessica Aszodi (voice)
• Alex Vivian (voice)
• Christopher L. G. Hill (voice)
• Tarquin Manek (voice)

De Bruyn/Stern Duo, featuring:
• Dirk De Bruyn (audiovision)
• Joel Stern (audiovision)

Showa 44, featuring:
• Simon Barker (drumkit)
• Carl Dewhurst (electric guitar)

Ambarchi/Fusinato/Chase Trio, featuring:
• Oren Ambarchi (electric guitar and effects)
• Marco Fusinato (electric guitar and effects)
• Brian Chase (drumkit)

Simon Barker with Bum Creek and Snawklor, featuring:
• Simon Barker (drumkit)
• Trev Clay (various instruments)
• Tarquin Manek (various instruments)
• Sam Karmel (various instruments)
• Dylan Matorell (various instruments)
• Nathan Gray (various instruments)

Fuhler/Tinkler Duo, featuring:
• Cor Fuhler (piano)
• Scott Tinkler (trumpet)

Grabowsky/Baxter Duo, featuring:
• Paul Grabowsky (piano)
• Sean Baxter (drumkit)

Turner/Plagne/Morris/Veltheim Quartet, featuring:
• Mick Turner (electric guitar)
• Francis Plagne (acoustic guitar)
• Erkki Veltheim (viola)
• Evelyn Morris (drumkit)

Embers Big Band, featuring:
• Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone)
• Kris Wanders (tenor sazophone)
• Adam Simmons (various saxophones)
• Abel Cross (double bass)
• Greg Kingston (electric guitar)
• Dave Brown (electric microtonal bass)
• Han Bennink (drumkit)
• KRAM (drumkit)
• Sean Baxter (drumkit)