OzManouche 2020 Update

Hi Everyone,

Some additional tickets have been released for some OzManouche shows. Please contact the Brisbane Jazz Club by phone to enquire (07) 3391 2006. Phone sales are currently the Club's preferred means of contact.
Traditionally we have offered members of our professional musician community passes to attend the festival and to jam on stage for last set jam sessions. Unfortunately, due to Covid restrictions, we aren't able to offer these passes this year. Additionally, we have a long history of creating a space for members of our gypsy jazz community and newcomers to come along to the festival, bring their instruments and jam on the deck before shows and during the weekend. Unfortunately, we can't offer that aspect of our festival to you this year for the same reasons. We apologise for this. It's a huge part of our festival, and certainly, I would not be where I am today without having come along as a "Jammer" in those early years of the festival. But rest assured these aspects will return in the future once restrictions are lifted.

That being said, we will be having an unofficial after-show jams hosted by Camaron De La Vega during the festival from Thursday night. We won't be mentioning this publically on social media; musicians will inform the audience at the close of their performances. If people wish to get together during the day a good place to organise this would be the Australian Gypsy Jazz page on Facebook which you can find at the bottom of this message.

Festival shows will be recorded by Richard Hammernik of Radio 4EBfm, 98.1 FM for a delayed broadcast on Friday, 4/12/20 at 2 pm and 11/12/20 at 2 pm. The same two-hour shows will be broadcasted on Global Digital Radio on Tuesday, 8/12/20 and 22/12/20 at 2 pm. Additionally, there is Radio on-demand via available on www.4eb.org.au. I will put a link on the OzManouche website once it becomes available.

Lastly, I'm not able to attend the festival this year. It's too late for me to travel and some restrictions are still in place with travel to Brisbane from Sydney. We have a wonderful selection of bands for you this year, and I'm sure it will be an amazing experience. I'm grateful that circumstances are such that we can go ahead and that our festival can continue its unbroken 15-year run. And to also provide Queensland musicians with a stage to present their music and for our wonderful gypsy jazz community to have to place to experience it all. Thank you for supporting the OzManouche Festival and Australian Gypsy Jazz artists.

-Cameron Jones
Creative Director
OzManouche Festival