WHERE THE BANDS ARE
SPONSORS
St James Anglican Church
cnr Tank and High Streets
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Cnr George and James Streets
Historic Closebourne
Drive in from Morpeth Rd or walk along the avenue of
trees from St James
Campbell’s Store
Corner Swan St and Metford Road
Commercial Hotel
At Morpeth Bridge – cnr Swan and Northumberland Streets
Uniting Church
Cnr Northumberland and High Streets
River Royal Inn
97 Swan At Morpeth
Closebourne at Morpeth
The Mutual
Campbell’s Store
Morpeth Gallery
Morpeth Jewellery Gallery
Australian Alpaca Barn
Teddy Bears Downstairs
Coles Green Hills
Swan Street Realty
Commercial Hotel
River Royal Inn
CHAPELJAZZ is an all weather event. In the event of
unfavourable weather, there are alternative covered
spaces available.”
“A continuous shuttle bus will operate between:
The Church of Immaculate Conception and Swan St
Bus Stop in the morning
Closebourne and Swan St Bus Stop in the afternoon”
For more information contact us at:
02 4933 3312, 0428 331 407 or [email protected]
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MORPETH
CHAPELJAZZ
2015
May 15th -17th
THE BANDS
NEW ORLEANS QUARTET
The NOQ will provide the music for the Friday Night Dinner
Dance led by trombonist/saxophonist Eric Gibbons.
WELCOME
PROGRAMME 2015
In 1988 some local Morpeth businesses joined together
to establish a small jazz festival for the bicentenary year.
The jazz festival soon acquired a life of its own and by
2000 had developed into a major event. By 2004 it had
become too difficult logistically and the crippling costs of
insurance made such a street festival unmanageable and
the event closed.
FRIDAY 15TH MAY
7.00 for 7.30 pm
Dinner Dance St James Anglican
New Orleans Quartet
$40 pp for three-course meal and
complimentary champagne on arrival.
Other drinks - BYO
WHAT IS CHAPELJAZZ?
In 2009, the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting churches
joined together to present ChapelJazz and bring traditional
jazz back to Morpeth. All the music is played at the
churches, historic Closebourne House and the two local
pubs.
WHY?
The aim of ChapelJazz is to present traditional jazz in a
welcoming environment to jazz lovers and their families
and provide an enjoyable community experience.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
With exception of the Friday night Dinner Dance it is
FREE. We do, however, need to cover our costs and so
we are sincerely grateful to our sponsors. We ask you to
patronise our sponsors, and buy raffle tickets, tea, coffee
and refreshments at the venues to help keep this a free
event.
SATURDAY 16th May
Café – Schools Bands Spectacular
Grounds of Church of the
Immaculate Conception
10.00am – 11.30am
Hunter Valley Grammar School Band
11.30am – 1.00pm
Hunter School of the Performing Arts
11.00am – 12.30pm
Campbell’s Store
Jazz a la Carte
Sponsored by Campbell’s Store
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Commercial Hotel Jazz Lunch
Jazz a la Carte
Sponsored by the Commercial Hotel
1.30pm – 4.30pm
Grounds of Historic
Closebourne House Morpeth
The New Empire Ballroom
Ragtime Dance Orchestra
Sponsored by Closebourne –
refreshments by the Morpeth CWA
2.00 – 3.30pm
Campbell’s Store
Jazz a la Carte
Sponsored by Campbell’s Store
7pm – 10pm
Commercial Hotel Morpeth
Smokin’ Chops
Sponsored by the Commercial Hotel
SUNDAY 17th May
9 - 10am
Ecumenical Service
Morpeth Uniting Church
Music by the Frenchman Street New
Orleans String Band
10.15 am – 1.15 pm
Café – Grounds of Morpeth
Uniting Church
Le Toot Ensemble
Sponsored by the Mutual
11am – 2pm
Campbell’s Store
Frenchman Street New Orleans
String Band
Sponsored by Campbell’s Store
1pm – 4pm
River Royal Hotel
Lunchtime Jazz with Swingmania
Sponsored by the River Royal Hotel
HUNTER SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS STAGE
BAND
The HSPA Stage Band is an ensemble featuring students from
year 8 through to Year 12 and introduces students to the life
of the professional musician. The band performs regularly at
festivals and events in the Hunter Valley
HUNTER VALLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL BAND
The band from HVGS is an outstanding ensemble from
the school’s finest instrumentalists and singers under the
leadership of Jack Machin
THE NEW EMPIRE BALLROOM RAGTIME DANCE
ORCHESTRA
Drawn from the Central Coast and Newcastle Conservatorium
students of Newcastle University, the band provides stunning
visual and musical performances of the music of the twenties
and thirties.
JAZZ a LA CARTE
Alan Ward and his cart have been a jazz fixture in the Hunter
Region for 20 years. The cart is gone but the swing remains
and they will provide their special brand of jazz on Saturday
at Campbell’s Store and for lunch at the Commercial
SMOKIN’ CHOPS
Smokin’ Chops made their debut at ChapelJazz in 2014 will
be providing their own unique, spontaneous, inventive and
improvised style of Blues, Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, Latin
Jazz and Swing.
FRENCHMAN STREET NEW ORLEANS STRING BAND
Led by Jack McLaughlin on his unique E flat clarinet, the
band will be providing the music for the combined church
service at the Uniting Church on Sunday morning as well as
performing at Campbell’s Store later.
LE TOOT ENSEMBLE
Under the leadership of trumpeter Jim Lyons, le Toot
Ensemble has been a fixture of ChapelJAzz since its inception
and will be the feature band following the ecumenical service
SWINGMANIA
Swingmania first performed at ChapelJazz in 2013 and have
been well received at the Sunday lunch session at the River
Royal Hotel. They return this year for their unique brand of
fun jazz.