Hey cats! Dust off your Miles Davis records and adorn your black threads this December for Norfolk Island’s seventh Jazz in the Pines Festival. The crème de la crème of Australasia’s jazz artists will descend upon this Sub-tropical paradise for the seventh year running. Twenty-two performers feature in the five-day ‘sax fest,’ in concerts at a variety of beauty spots between 7 and 14 December.

Among them is pianist-humorist, Dorian Mode, who embellishes his concerts with rib-tickling yarns and readings from books he has written on life and travel. Dorian is joined by veteran crooner, Les Crosby, who has grooved with Sammy Davis Jr. Dinner concerts and a matinee roll out a huge array of talent, including Al Davey and his monSTARS from Sydney and Newcastle-based saxophonist Trevor Furmer and his Unsafe Sax group. They also back award-winning Newcastle/Sydney soloist Julie Wilson.

New Zealand singer Malcolm McNeill is on the island this December, teaming up with the Mike Walker Trio and Sydney-based jazz soloist, Jo Elms is also lending her talent to the exciting line-up. Jazz lovers won’t be disappointed with this year’s festival and can look forward to a week full of finger-snapping and toe-tapping to the catchy sounds of swing, funk and blues.

Norfolk Island; “where the gin is cold and the piano is hot”.
About Norfolk Island: Discovered by Captain Cook in 1774, Norfolk Island was first settled as a British penal colony in 1788 through to 1856. On June 8, 1856, the island was re-inhabited by a community from Pitcairn Island, descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Known today as Norfolk Islanders, they form a majority of the 1,800 resident population. Norfolk Island is renowned for its spectacular coastal scenery, colourful history, sporting and cultural activities, convict heritage and low tax shopping.

Air New Zealand flies to Norfolk Island on Sundays and Thursdays.  For general information contact Norfolk Island Tourism. Phone 0800 359 4373, email info@norfolkisland.com.au or visit www.norfolkisland.nf.