Jam for the Forest

Join Rose Turtle Ertler, Ludek and Shenzo Gregorio for a great night of music to celebrate the forest. 

Cover charge of $10 pp will cover musician fees plus we ask for a donation to raise funds for the Bob Brown Foundation  save the Tarkine campaign. ( this can be paid in advance online or on the night)The later part of the evening will see these musos jam with invited guest musicians to help raise funds for the forest.

This is an outdoor gig and guests are encouraged to rug up and bring a camping chair, though limited seating and fire pits will be provided. Warm soup and other light refreshments will be on sale and  the gallery will be open  during breaks.  BYO drinks.

Shenzo Gregorio, Multi-Instrumentalist, composer and improviser  has been working for 22 years on the road performing as a professional musician.
Graduating with a classical violin degree in 1997 from The Queensland Conservatorium, Shenzo has since forged a very diverse and varied musical career. In 1999 he turned the classical music world upside down (literally!) by becoming the first violinist to take classical music and fly it through the air using stunt rigging. The act (Shenzo’s Electric Stunt Orchestra) toured Australia and parts of the world for over thirteen years.
In 2004 Shenzo joined the Sydney based string quartet ‘Fourplay’. Shenzo’s addition on viola turned the group onto a more original footing, with experimentations in improvisations and eventually more original compositions. Their recent collaborations with renowned author Neil Gaiman have seen them perform at New Yorks’ Carnegie Hall, as well as the Sydney Opera House and London’s Barbican Centre.
Shenzo also freelances as a musical director on large scale, festival funded community events. Opera Australia’s first indigenous musical ‘Yarrabah, The Musical’ won Best Community Event in 2013 and was the subject of an SBS documentary of which Shenzo was co-composer and musical director. He has written a total of 5 musicals with various organisations, and 13 mini operas with Sydney company - WotOpera.
As a performer, Shenzo is constantly adapting his skills to a number of musical environments, ranging from classical orchestras to Indian, Jazz and Spanish world music ensembles as well as providing music for theatre and circus. He has performed as a featured soloist with groups such as Camarata of St John Chamber Orchestra, The Doch Gypsy Orchestra, Monsieur Camembert, Flamenco Fire, Orchestra of the Underground, The Tango Saloon, Circle of Rhythm, Club Swizzle, Gravity and other Myths,  Saruzu Quartet, Dale Cana Flamenco company, Arte Kanela Flamenco, Bandaluzia Flamenco (SYD), Sebastian Sanchez (RUSSIA)  All Jigged out, (UK) 
Having freelanced professionally since 1997, Shenzo has performed in concert with Natalie Cole, Ben folds, Amanda Palmer, James Morrison, Lyndon Terrachini, Elena Kats-Chernin, Graeme Connors, Casey Donavan, William Barton, Katie Noonan, Johnny Diesel, The Ten Tenors, Il Divo, Shellie Morris, and supported international acts such as Mariah Carey, Mike Patton, Leo Kottke, and the Buena Vista Social Club. 
Shenzo has performed in Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Russia, USA, Brazil, Turkey, France, Scotland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Germany, Czech Republic,  The Netherlands, India, The UAE,  and extensively throughout Queensland and major population centres of Australia. 
He's recorded on some 50 + albums and received various awards for his work. Golden Fiddle award for best band - Fourplay String Quartet.  Best of the Fringe award at the 2002 Adelaide Fringe festival. Aria ward winner for his work on Monsieur Camembert's 3rd album and Three Helpmann award nomination for his work with Adelaide Circus Company - Gravity and other Myths. 

Rose Turtle Ertler has been a musician all her life, growing up in Tasmania with regular sing-songs around the family piano.  She lived in Sydney for fifteen years from the age of 18 where she made lots of strange pop music, performance art & theatre with a bunch of amazing people.  After numerous trips to Europe touring and playing music for theatre shows, Rose relocated south of the border to Melbourne where she started to instigate music/performance project with a community focus.  Some of her recent projects focus on challenging misinformed stereotypes of elder people and refugees.  Rose also performs her original music solo and also has a pop/punk band called The Night Before Tomorrow which evolved out of her work at a disability service in  Melbourne.  Rose is a member of the Black Orchid Stringband with musicians from the Melbourne West Papuan community.  After five years in central Victoria, Rose relocated back to northern Tasmania in December 2018 after 31 years on the mainland.

Ludek- Multi talented Ludek  is  a guitarist playing and improvising jazz, bossa nova and funk genres. A regular at Gabbys cafe, Ludek has become one of the important ingredients of the Mountain music scene. Originally from the Czech republic Ludek has performed all over Europe and will be the facilitator of the jam.