Marmalade Circus | Musician/band
Marmalade Circus
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23.01.2022 A bit of Dents in the Fence for Saturday night’s gig for winterfest. Adam Page Alex Taylor Warren Heading. Sans Shireen Khemlani and John McDermott but they will pumping it out on Saturday night!
22.01.2022 We are doing a double header with Pocket String Quartet. Yeh!
22.01.2022 And this is Fabian Hevia, one of Australia's best percussionists playing one of Andy's drums. https://youtu.be/RnWRRrkUmZE
22.01.2022 So one of the things that has delayed the return of Marmalade Circus was this project. Some of you may know that mferg writes lots of children's music. The most recent commission was for the SA Public Primary Schools Music Festival. The brief was to write a song cycle to engage 13 year olds with the Nth Terrace precinct. The song cycle was performed 12 times in the Adelaide Festival Theatre by a 500 voice choir, a small orchestra and a dance troupe. One concert is being featured on Channel 44 this Saturday Dec 8 at 8pm. Remember, it is kids with a kids orchestra, so it isn't perfect but you get the vibe.
21.01.2022 Stealing from the Marmalade Circus repertoire! Or recycling.... Check out Marmalade Five at the Stirling Fringe Feb 23 and March 3. Yeah!
21.01.2022 Hi people, many of you would have heard that Bruce Hancock, former head of Jazz at Adelaide Uni for 25 years sadly passed away recently. A bunch of us are holding a tribute concert for him this Monday. Join us as we remember the good things Bruce gave to the jazz community.
20.01.2022 Marmalade Five filling in for Marmalade Circus in the LifeFM studios this afternoon singing mferg's tune 'Rambutan Pineapple'. Marmalade Five will be doing a cameo performance at tomorrow night's (July 20) Marmalade Circus gig for the Umbrella Winter City Sounds in the Queen Street Festival, 7:30pm St Barnabas church in Croydon. Not far til we are sold out so get your tix soon! mferg forgot to play his guiro and he is disappointed, but he will play it on saturday night.
20.01.2022 'Mrs Harkess' Danzon' was inspired by mferg's Great Grandmother who was a wonderful pianist/accompanist/event co-ordinator/ all-round full-on character. I wrote it especially for our International Jazz Day gig which is in 7 days! It features the fantastic Bonnie Aue and Josh Baldwin. Get your ticket from Bassget together with a friend so you can split the booking fee... https://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au//international-/
20.01.2022 Newsflash. Marmalade Circus are back. One show only in the Winterfest July 20. Sadly they got the wrong picture, but it won't be the wrong band! https://umbrellaadelaide.com.au//queen-street-jazz-festiv/
19.01.2022 Marmalade Circus are back! Here is a snippet of one of our tunes from the rehearsal today. Gig is July 20, Queen Street Jazz Festival. Tix via Winterfest.
19.01.2022 Our dear friend Andy Rasheed is making instruments! Andy has been our principle photographer since 1997, even before we were called Marmalade Circus! If you are interested in amazing, locally crafted instruments get along to this event.
17.01.2022 Hey people, a large bunch of people are performing a tunes originally recorded in 1959 this Saturday night, Oct 12 at 6:30pm in Elder Hall. As you can see from these album covers a great number of the most influential jazz records of all time were made in 1959. The Elder Con's Studio Orchestra (Big Band and Orchestra together) are also performing a substantial new work mferg has written especially for them. It features Jazz saxophone teacher (and Marmalade alumni) Dustan Cox on multiple saxophones and is conducted by Dr Luke Dollman. Get on down
16.01.2022 We have been unsure whether to release this album 'Songs from an Imperfect World' right now, but the over-arching themes seem relevant. We would like to acknowledge that the art-form jazz, our musical foundation, was predominantly created by people whose descendants can't safely walk their own streets and who can be killed in broad daylight by people whose job is to serve and protect. We don't really know how to help, but we are reading up. We also acknowledge that these iss...ues are just as relevant here in Australiawe all need to do more to educate ourselves and to support our first nations brothers and sisters. I (mferg) am in awe of the musicians Josh Baldwin and Lyndon Gray who played on this album. I am so thankful to our producer Adam Page for, well, just being Adam Page the beautiful person he is. I am also thankful for the amazing engineering skills of JB and Jarrad. This is an imperfect world but I believe we can all do a lot to make it less imperfect through our thoughts and actions. https://youtu.be/Z3dRMUOgV7I
14.01.2022 Really chuffed to be part of this great project! Please come along, it is going to be great. We had our first rehearsal on mondayAnita Wardell was really wailing, Bonnie Aue was laying it down hard and reading charts like a champion and birthday boy Josh Baldwin was tackling new rhythms with his characteristic fluency, flair and freedom. Yeh!
11.01.2022 Really excited that one of the leading of lights of latin jazz is in Adelaide tomorrow. He is doing a workshop at Adelaide Uni in the morning then the Uni Latin band (which mferg directs) are playing the first set at his gig. It is going to be pretty great
09.01.2022 We have another lovely gig coming up at the Lifeflow Centre on Sunday August 18 at 3pm! We had an excellent time at St Barnabas for the Umbrella Winterfest a few weeks ago so the band is pumped and ready. https://lifeflow.com.au/events/marmalade-circus/
07.01.2022 Here is a touch of Mferg’s tune Back to Happyland with the original Marmalade Trio in preparation for our Marmalade Circus gig on July 20. John McDermott Shireen Khemlani and Mark Simeon Ferguson
05.01.2022 https://youtu.be/B60E4JXm1_8 Here is a bit of mferg's tune 'King's Cross Tango' from one of our 2011Adelaide Fringe gigs. On July 20 we are playing a new version of this tune drawing on the arrangement mferg created for his concert with the ASO in 2018. It is a bit faster and bit more sinister.... Book tix via https://umb.tickets.red61.com/performances.php
05.01.2022 New trio CD finally here!
04.01.2022 Here is the event page for our July 20 gig!
02.01.2022 Hey people, I have arranged a bunch of Aussie songs for trio, choirs, jazz quartet etc for this concert free livestream tomorrow. My phone died while recording bits so I don't have anything to show, but it will be great. https://arts.adelaide.edu.au//songs-from-the-great-southla Lyndon Gray and Bonnie Aué on bass Morgan Fletcher on drums Ciara Ferguson on vibraphone Dusty Cox on saxophones... and members of the Adelaide Connection Jazz choir. Yeh! See more
01.01.2022 Really looking forward to this one! Shireen Khemlani, John McDermott, Adam Page, Alex Taylor, Warren Heading
