Friends and Strangers

Name: Friends and Strangers
Start: 2026-03-29T19:30:00+1100
End: 2026-03-29T21:30:00+1100
Location: Church Street Studios (Enter Via Door on Briggs Street)

Sun, 29 Mar, 7:30pm - 9:30pm AEDT

Church Street Studios (Enter Via Door on Briggs Street)

Camperdown NSW, Australia

Bill Risby

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"Friends and Strangers" are actually all friends, sometimes playing to strangers who inevitably soon become friends. This group is made up of some of the finest musicians in Sydney, and play with a sense of joy and exuberance which is rarely seen. This is outward looking music. It's for you, and it's REAL (no A.I. involved) and filled with interaction with each other and you, the audience. The music we play is by Bill Risby, Pat Metheny, Fourplay, A.C. Jobim, Marcus Miller and others. Interesting fact: We all sit down to play...

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Bill Risby

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Bill Risby always had a piano with him. Whilst he learnt in the conventional way by taking weekly classical music lessons, he was largely self taught, and was always improvising and experimenting in his free time. After his father left their family unannounced and moved to the other side of the country, he used the piano to grieve this loss, and soon started composing music in his early teens. Bill's playing and compositions are imbued with a melancholic sentiment infused from this dark time. Reared from the age of 10 by his single romantic singing Mauritian Mother, his music has Sega, Bossa Nova, and French influences seeping through. A search for a deeper meaning led him to the church and gospel music which he fell in love with and played for 15 years. He even worked as a music director in a church for 10 of those years. At this time he studied jazz in Sydney and also studied theology. Risby loves and plays all types of music and concedes that his studies in jazz were a part of his attempt to learn as much about harmony as he could to broaden his palette so that he could use different sounds to make all types of music that he loved sound richer. A large part of his music career has been playing and recording on albums of most other types of music, with the occasional jazz gig or recording thrown in, and he has played on literally hundreds of albums, movie soundtracks and TV shows. He has recorded in the USA, Singapore, Belgium, Japan and Norway.