  Last week, our guest speakers were Kaye Payne and Christine Bailey, two divas of the world of entertainment in Hobart, who came to promote the Hot August Jazz festival. A North Hobart fixture for fifteen years, the day of jazz is coming up on Sunday August 25. Free entertainment in venues right along the North Hobart strip. Christine penned new words to a Cole Porter classic to celebrate our sponsorship this year. ROTARY PRESENTATION It’s been so nice to be with you It’s been great to be here tonight So nice to dine And enjoy a wine The Jazz future’s sure lookin’ bright It’s been so nice to be with you We’re glad you’re joining the team Your support’s a boon And we’ll see you soon In North Hobart, you’re part of the scene. Kaye Payne, President of the Hobart Jazz Club, spoke about the jazz movement in Tasmania and Christine Bailey, Convenor of the Hot August Jazz festival, spoke about that event. Our Club is supporting the festival with a donation. Kaye told us that Jazz had started in Hobart in the 1940s as the Hobart Jazz Club. The aim of the association is to promote Australian Jazz and Jazz in Australia. Projects include: Researching Jazz in Tasmania; a Monthly Jazz Concert; Monthly Jazz Jams; An Annual Jazz Fest; Annual Hot August Jazz event; Various scholarships; and International Jazz Day. Christine spoke about the Hot August Jazz event,which is a free one day event in the North Hobart area. There will be 250 musicians playing in 400 performances at 10 venues. The Rotary Club of North Hobart is (for the first time) an official sponsor of this event.  The State Cinema is putting on a jazz-blues film, the biopic of Paul Butterfield, which will be shown on Thursday 22 August at the usual prices. If you are free on that evening, why not socialise with the Jazz set and connect with our community?  As George Gershwin said “Jazz will always be your friend.”
Thanks to Brian Claridge for setting up the collaboration and to the members of the club who volunteered their service on Sunday 25 August to assist with bumping in and out and/or Front of House duties.
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AuthorRoslyn Teirney is Director of Membership at Rotary Club of North Hobart. Archives
May 2023
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