Way Out West new album and national tour

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Way Out West The Effects of Weather launch tour Thursday 20th May 6pm UTas Hobart Conservatorium Recital Hall 5 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay Free www.utas.edu.au/music Saturday 22nd May 8pm Burnie Regional Art Gallery 77-79 Wilmot Street $25/20/16 (sub) Ph 03 6430 5850 www.burniearts.net Wednesday 26th May 9 pm Stonnington Jazz Festival Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street www.stonningtonjazz.com.au Friday 4th June 8pm Don Russell Performing Arts Centre Murdoch Rd Thornlie $27/23 Ph 089493 4577 www.gosnells.wa.gov.au Saturday 5th June 8 pm Kulcha 13 South Terrace Fremantle $25/23 089336 4544 www.kulcha.com.au Sunday 6th June 8pm COMA @ The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St Thebarton 08 8443 4546 www.coma.net.au Monday 7th June 8pm Venue 505, Cnr Cleveland and Perry Streets, Surry Hills $10
www.venue505.com Wednesday 9th June 8pm University of Canberra Innovation Centre Innovation Centre Building 22 University Dr South, Bruce Free www.canberra.edu.au Thursday 10th June 7pm Judith Wright Centre Shopfront for Jazz Queensland Fortitude Valley Free Ph 07 3872 9000 www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au Friday 11th June 8pm Northern Rivers Performing Arts Centre Star Court Theatre, 126 Molesworth St, Lismore $22/18/14 Ph 02 6622 0300 www.norpa.org.au


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2 Apr 2010 4:00 P Quiet Music Festival with Residual Melbourne, Victoria 20 May 2010 8:00 P Way Out West The Effects of Weather launch tour Thursday 20th May 6pm UTas Hobart Conservatorium Recital Hall 5 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay Free www.utas.edu.au/music Saturday 22nd May 8pm Burnie Regional Art Gallery 77-79 Wilmot Street $25/20/16 (sub) Ph 03 6430 5850 www.burniearts.net Wednesday 26th May 9 pm Stonnington Jazz Festival Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street www.stonningtonjazz.com.au Friday 4th June 8pm Don Russell Performing Arts Centre Murdoch Rd Thornlie $27/23 Ph 089493 4577 www.gosnells.wa.gov.au Saturday 5th June 8 pm Kulcha 13 South Terrace Fremantle $25/23 089336 4544 www.kulcha.com.au Sunday 6th June 8pm COMA @ The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St Thebarton 08 8443 4546 www.coma.net.au Monday 7th June 8pm Venue 505, Cnr Cleveland and Perry Streets, Surry Hills $10
www.venue505.com Wednesday 9th June 8pm University of Canberra Innovation Centre Innovation Centre Building 22 University Dr South, Bruce Free www.canberra.edu.au Thursday 10th June 7pm Judith Wright Centre Shopfront for Jazz Queensland Fortitude Valley Free Ph 07 3872 9000 www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au Friday 11th June 8pm Northern Rivers Performing Arts Centre Star Court Theatre, 126 Molesworth St, Lismore $22/18/14 Ph 02 6622 0300 www.norpa.org.au Vancouver Jazz Festival with Wide Alley Vancouver, British Columbia 30 Jun 2010 8:00 P Victoria Jazz Festival with Wide Alley Victoria, British Columbia 2 Jul 2010 8:00 P Edmonton Jazz Festival with Wide Alley Edmonton, Alberta 3 Jul 2010 8:00 P Ottawa Jazz Festival with Wide Alley Ottawa, Ontario 4 Jul 2010 8:00 P Toronto Harbourfront Centre with Wide Alley Toronto, Ontario For more details please visit myspace page above---------


Way Out West 'The Effects of Weather' due for release May 2010

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Acclaimed cross-cultural sextet Way Out West embarks on a Sound Travellers assisted tour to celebrate the release of their new album ‘The Effects of Weather’ – a unique and alluring sound combining Vietnamese, African and jazz influences. The eclectic trumpeter/composer Peter Knight, and Vietnamese traditional music virtuoso Dung Nguyen (dan bau, dan tranh, modified electric guitar) are at the heart of this remarkable collaboration. Along with world-renowned West African percussion master Ray Pereira, explosive saxophonist Paul Williamson, acoustic bassist Howard Cairns, and young firebrand drummer Rajiv Jayaweera, Way Out West creates something miraculous: a truly new sound inspired by the cultural vitality and diversity of Melbourne. In May/June this year the band celebrates the release of a new album The Effects of Weather (on Jazzhead) with an extensive Sound Travellers assisted tour of Australia. Way Out West won the 2009 Bell 'Jazz Ensemble of the Year' Award and appeared at major festivals and venues around the world in the past 18 months including, Montreal Jazz Festival, Toronto Harbourfront Centre, Veneto Jazz Festival (Italy), Takatsuki Jazz Festival (Japan), Vancouver Jazz Festival, Brisbane Festival, Darwin Festival, and EBS Space in Seoul. Their new album The Effects of Weather, like the band's previous albums, delivers an intriguing collection of jazz inflected melodies infused with sounds from Vietnam and grooves from West Africa. In addition, this album draws in a diverse range of other influences from the minimalism of Steve Reich to the dirty blues of the Mississippi Delta. It also delves deeper into the multi-instrumental talents of Dung Nguyen featuring him playing dan nguyet (Vietnamese mandolin) as well as his regular instruments, dan tranh (Vietnamese zither) and modified electric guitar. Also.. follow Peter Knight on Twitter www.twitter.com/phjk