The Celestial Cabaret on Saturday, 28 October is being hailed as a highlight event of Yarra Valley culture and community.
Staged at the astounding Projekt 3488 in Warburton, The Celestial Cabaret will feature a convergence of some of Melbourne and the Yarra Valley’s finest musicians in a night of jazz, sublime musicianship and some of the greatest songs of the 20th Century.
With the incomparable Simon Oats as compere, the show will commence with the Stardust Jazz Quartet, playing music from jazz luminaries such as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington
and Chet Baker.
The centrepiece of the evening, the Dead Divas Celestial Cabaret is a stunning show of songs from the great female vocalists of the last century. Featuring the glorious voices of Jodie Walker and
Caroline Dickason and backed by the Heavenly Kingdom Combo, their repertoire includes the music of Judy Garland, Etta James, Nina Simone, Cilla Black, Sarah Vaughan, Amy Winehouse,
Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin.
The evening will be topped off by local acoustic troubadours The Anecdote, whose hauntingly intimate and strikingly original music mesmerised The Warburton Arts Centre earlier this year at the
release of their debut album ‘Carved Upon The Air’. Featuring cello, trumpet, percussion and soaring vocals, their performances weave spells of incantatory magic.
Tickets are available online at www.trybooking.com/RQHD, or at Earth Bazaar in Warburton.
