Elysian Fields – New Horizons

Wauchope Arts invites you to witness the amazing Elysian Fields featuring some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians at Wauchope Arts Community Hall.

FRIDAY November 30, 2024
Doors and café/bar open 7.30pm; music from 8pm
Presale tickets: $35; $30 members

Wauchope Arts Hall Oxley Lane (opp Bain Park),
Elysian Fields is Australia's only electric viola da gamba band, heralding the creation of a new and unique musical voice. Elysian Fields is the brainchild of viola da gambist, Jenny Eriksson, and leading jazz musicians, Matt Keegan, saxophones, and Matt McMahon, piano. Matt Keegan Sydney-based saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist is among the forefront of jazz improvisers today. Matt McMahon is a pianist and composer who teaches in the jazz unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.Susie Bishop is a prominent vocalist and multi-instrumentalist in the Sydney music scene.

“Combining Eriksson’s electrified version of an instrument whose heyday was the 17th century, and Bishop’s violin and operatic singing on the one hand, and McMahon, Matt Keegan’s saxophones, Jacques Emery’s double bass and Dave Goodman’s drums on the other, the band can conjure a deep and mysterious sense of the centuries conversing – of courtly elegance sharing a convivial exchange with the liberalities of contemporary jazz-inflected improvising.” (John Shand, SMH, July 2021)

“…The alluring melodies and wonderfully nuanced playing on this album (FIKA) make it a highly successful jazz-classical hybrid with wide appeal.” (Jessica Nicholas, Spring, 2021, Dingo Australian Jazz Journal)