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Rob McWilliams & Friends - Including Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Xmas in Wales”

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Thu, 28 Nov, 8pm - 10pm AEST

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Rob was born and raised in Melbourne and played professionally there in the late ’70’s and throughout the ’80’s including stints with fusion band McDonald’s Farm and mainstream jazz group Wilbur Wilde’s Blowout. Dr. McWilliams has also performed with a number of domestic and international jazz artists including Mickey Tucker, Bobby Shew, Pete Christlieb, Nat Adderley, Vincent Herring, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Eddie Daniels, Ed Shaughnessy, Andy Martin, Dale Barlow, Wilbur Wilde, and Paul Grabowsky. From 1991 to 2014 he was resident in the USA where he was a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. 

Rob relocated to Brisbane in 2015 where he now freelances as a musician, educator, and conductor as well as working for Yamaha Music Australia as their Education Outreach Clinician and as a sessional lecturer at the Jazz Music Institute & the University of Queensland. 

Rob will be joined on this gig by a stellar lineup of musicians put together to perform a combination of standard songs and a unique Jazz ’n’ Poetry presentation of Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” with original music by Rob.

GIG DETAILS:

Thursday 28th November 2024

$20 Entry (+GST & BF)

Doors open from 7:30pm

Music starts at 8pm

ALL AGES (people under 18 need to be accompanied by a guardian)

LICENSED BAR

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