Global Sounds

Black Swans of Trespass

Welcome to the Global Sounds Salamanca series, live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane.

Friday 12th September 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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The Black Swans of Trespass are a contemporary banjo-oriented trio from Hobart. Led by avant-garde banjoist CC Thornley, they draw on all styles and disciplines of banjo from around the world to create a unique, new language and paradigm for banjo.

CC Thornley received a scholarship to study banjo at the Hobart Conservatory. Already well versed in both Trad Jazz Dixie styles, Scruggs Bluegrass finger styles, and contemporary jazz banjo, he spent these years further developing his unique approach to the instrument across multiple genres. Previously he had spent 10 years in the Celtic Rock band Zeptepi, where he developed an electric rock style. He has since studied Jamaican banjo, and became an advocate for Traditional Tasmanian folk music, arranging many songs in this canon for 3 finger arpa style banjo. CC is the only dedicated electric banjo player in Australia. His uncommon freedom on the fret-board fuses all styles of banjo seamlessly. The BSoT harness the lively energy of banjo music. With prolific Tasmanian session musicians Jack Lester on drums, and Paul Sharp on bass, the BSoT a kind of Banjo Super-Trio – but they never take themselves too seriously.

CC’s irreverent, rebellious presentation is delivered wryly, with a wink to the audience, inviting them to drop the pretension so often associated with high-end music, and dance with the banjo.
The Black Swans of Trespass defy the inductive reasoning that imprisons the banjo in bluegrass or folk paradigms.
They trespass into genres previously forbidden with joyful abandon, and they are a true hidden gem of the Tasmanian music scene with a cult-like following.

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Please note that the Courtyard Lift IS OPERATING!

Doors & Bar open at 7pm
Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre.

Tickets are only $19 ea +BF

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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is support by Arts Tasmania’s 2025 Arts Projects Fund. 
Salamanca Arts Centre is grateful for this support via Arts Tasmania and the Minister for the Arts.