Dec 8

Kate K-S (Aus/US)

Elly Hoyt : My Nightingale (UK/Tas/Melb)

Evening show 8PM

The Jazzlab Friday Dec 8 doors 7.30pm Show 8PM

Tickets HERE $45/35 Bookings essential

set 1 Kate K-S set 2 Elly Hoyt

Please note: Nina Ferro is unable to perform due to illness.

Kate K-S (Aus/US)

Kate K-S is an Australian musician, recording artist, songwriter and producer. She has developed a unique and personal sound that draws on a wide range of influences including jazz, electronic, folk, pop and soul music. Kate has spent the last six years living in New York where she has been busy performing, songwriting and recording. During this time she has performed with artists including Cyndi Lauper, Robert Glasper, Derrick Hodge, Julia Michaels, Kesha, Macklemore, Ray Angry, the Resistence Revival Chorus, Philip Glass, Carly Simon and Ani Difranco. 

She performs tonight with outstanding American pianist and producer Brett Williams

Kate K-S – voice

Brett Williams - piano / keys

 Elly Hoyt: My Nightingale (UK/Tas/Melb)

“…Now she is a nightingale.
Night after night I hear her in the garden of my sleepless dreams.”

 – My Nightingale by Rose Ausländer

 Elly Hoyt transmutes her soulful jazz roots to indie-folk to create My Nightingale. A sound which was described by the Sunshine Coast Ukulele Festival as, "absolutely exquisite... modern soul-funk, a bit folky, a bit Celtic, with phenomenal voices, harmonies and dry humour!"

While studying in Boston USA, Elly discovered a poem by holocaust survivor Rose Ausländer that was dedicated to Ausländer’s mother. Deeply moved, and feeling the pull of Australia, Elly was driven to write new music exploring her own relationship with family, connection to place and the craft of songwriting and storytelling. This began the journey of My Nightingale. With a new EP titled searching for stillness, to be released in early 2024, Elly will showcase songs from the record as well as new compositions. 

 Elly Hoyt (voice, guitar, ukulele)

Louisa Rankin – (Voice)

Emma Gilmartin - (Voice)

Llewellyn Osborne – (violin)

Hugh Stuckey (guitar)

Tamara Murphy (bass)

Darryn Farrugia (drums)

Elly Hoyt is a Tasmanian born vocalist-composer recently returned from London, UK. Her three albums Elly Hoyt, Oranges and Sunshine and The Composers Voice: Celebrating Australian Women Composers, have gained her praise from All About Jazz (“soulful and quietly commanding”), Limelight magazine (“taste, sensitivity and swing”), and The Music Trust (“not afraid to take risks”).

Hoyt’s accolades include a Bell Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, the Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship, Finalist in the Freedman Jazz Fellowship and a Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship to study a Masters of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, USA. Career highlights also include supporting US pianist Kenny Barron and performing for King Charles and Camilla.

She has toured nationally and internationally playing venues, festivals and clubs including Shanghai World Expo (China), Bar 55 (NYC), Schloss Elmau (Germany), Jordan Concert Hall (Boston, USA), Sydney Opera House and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (AUS) to name a few.