6pm doors, 7pm show

Legendary Australian World/Jazz ensemble Mara! celebrate their 35th Anniversary, together with long-time associates the Martenitsa Choir, in a concert featuring gems from their treasury of inspiring, inventive and virtuosic music, spanning a remarkable career of international touring and recording since 1984.

This exceptional ensemble, which features jazz and world music royalty – Sandy Evans on saxophones, Paul Cutlan on clarinets and saxophones, Lloyd Swanton on double bass, Llew Kiek on plucked strings with the inimitable Mara Kiek’s voice and percussion – will perform highlights from their classic albums including 2 ARIA winners and 2 ARIA nominees, featuring their unique signature sound distilled over three and a half decades.

Martenitsa Choir with Bulgarian soloist Silvia Entcheva, will join Mara! to perform excerpts from their ground-breaking collaborative albums Sezoni and Tra Parole e Silenzio. Mara! remain in the vanguard of musical creativity in Australia, forging new directions in world music.

“….different sound-worlds kept opening up like fresh vistas on a maritime journey…ultimately it is the collective imaginative responses to its influences that makes Mara! such a bright jewel in Australia’s world-music crown.” SMH (Sydney) 2016 …

“The Dom Perignon of Australia’s World Music Bands” – SMH (Sydney) 2005 …