Jazz in the Park

Sunday 31st of January

12 Noon to 4pm

Summer Music In Tolosa Park, a series of free summer music events in beautiful Tolosa Park, Glenorchy, kicks off on Sunday January 31st with a four hour program of Jazz in the Park presented by the Hobart Jazz Club. 

Featured artists include Dixieland Express (traditional jazz);  Modern Operative (modern jazz) ; Kaye Payne’s eKlectiKa (Mainstream jazz, latin, swing, blues) and The Jazz Executives (traditional jazz). The four hour event from Noon to 4pm will feature the whole gamut of jazz from the traditional sounds of early American jazz standards to the bebop of the 1950‘s and 60’s to the contemporary sounds of jazz today.

Summer Music In Tolosa Park continues on Sunday February 7th with a treat for all lovers of Brass music with a two hour lunch time concert by one of Tasmania’s only A grade brass ensembles, the Glenorchy City Concert Brass.

Saturday 13th of February from 7pm sees one of Tasmania’s truly great summer events come to Tolosa Park - the B&E Symphony Under the Stars concert, hosted by popular media personality Tim Cox with your conductor Marc Taddei leading the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra through a wonderful evening of orchestral music.

Country music enthusiasts,  as well as interested new comers,  will enjoy the final event of the series on February 28th . From 11am to 4pm the Tolosa park Soundshell will host a five hour program of country music featuring accomplished musicians from four of Southern Tasmania’s most active country music clubs.  The day long program is brought to you by Country Gold , the Southern Tasmanian Country Music Club, Bridgewater and Friends Country Music Club and the Derwent Valley Country Music Club.  The event will also feature a fundraising BBQ by local service club, The Apex Club of Glenorchy.

While organizers are hopeful of fine weather and good attendances across the summer series, they do ask that patrons attending Tolosa Park plan for each event.

“ We encourage patrons to all four events to pack a picnic and in particular plenty of drinks. Tolosa Park has no commercial food outlets or food vans, so patrons need to be ware of that and plan accordingly.” says Michael McLaughlin, Glenorchy Council’s Community Cultural Development Officer