Umbrella Event: Live at the Founders Room 2025

Sat 26 June, 2025
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$28 +bf each
$52 +bf for 2 x tickets
$91 +bf for 4 x tickets

Salamanca Jazz is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with 
The Louise Denson Quintet (Phil Bywater, Stevie McEntee, Tom Robb and Jed Adams).
This will be a unique and special meeting of some of Hobart’s finest musical minds!

Saturday 26th July 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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Pianist/composer Louise Denson will enjoy the great privilege of presenting her rarely performed compositions for quintet with the powerful and expressive frontline of saxophonist Phil Bywater and trombonist Stevie McEntee. The exciting program will include On the Level (very funky), Who Knew Blues (now you know!), Lost My Heart (recorded by multi-Downbeat-poll-winning trombonist Bill Watrous), and many other melodious and groovy tunes.

Drummer Tom Robb and bassist Jed Adams complete the line-up.

You won’t want to miss it!

Louise is well known on the Hobart jazz scene leading her own groups and working with saxophonists Spike Mason, Ken Schroder and Jesse Bowden, and samba drummer Carlos Ferreira among others.  She has completed a number of extended composition projects, the most recent being Love Asunder with award-winning vocalist Elly Hoyt. Louise’s compositions have been widely performed and recorded, and she has played in festivals across Canada and Australia, and in the UK.

Phil has recently returned to Tasmania after many successful years in Melbourne as a player and educator. He led the bands Phil Bywater’s Buried Treasure Fallingwater Trio and Big Fela Afrobeat Orchestra and was a key member of many others. Phil’s performance experience is vast and diverse, encompassing reggae, funk, jazz, afrobeat, world music, free improv, punk, rock, musical theatre and contemporary classical music.

Stevie is a mover and shaker in the Hobart scene both as a player/composer/band leader and an arts administrator. Before settling in Hobart, Stevie toured internationally as a freelance musician. By day Stevie works as the co-founder and artistic director of the Lutruwita Art Orchestra and as co-artistic director of the Clarence Jazz Festival, by night they lead Hobart’s 12-piece all original Afrobeat dance band Baba Bruja and play trombone in the hugely popular reggae-fusion band Boil Up.

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 $28 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $52+BF, or buy four tix for only $91+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.

Sat 21 June, 2025
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$28 +bf each
$52 +bf for 2 x tickets
$91 +bf for 4 x tickets

Salamanca Jazz is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with 
Elly Hoyt, Damien Kingston and Julius Schwing.

Saturday 21st June 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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Hoyt-Kingston-Schwing feature the stunning voice of Elly Hoyt alongside two sublime guitarists, exploring the delicate balance between density and space, harmony and unison. Their music—rooted in spontaneity and playful interaction—unfolds like a rich tapestry of sound. The performance will include brand-new original works, distinctive interpretations of jazz standards and contemporary jazz repertoire.

Elly Hoyt is a Tasmanian-born composer and vocalist recognised for her innovative contributions to jazz and indie-folk music. She has released three acclaimed jazz albums and her composition “New Orleans” has garnered over one million streams on Spotify. Elly has performed in Australia, Europe, USA, and China. Hoyt’s accolades include a Bell Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, the Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship, being a finalist in the Freedman Jazz Fellowship, and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship to study a Master of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, USA.

Damien Kingston is a Hobart-based guitarist and jazz composer who has released six albums of original music as a bandleader with the Damien Kingston Quartet. His work has been published by both independent and established labels, including Scratch Match Records and ABC Jazz. Damien has presented his music throughout Australia and toured internationally across Europe.

Julius Schwing is an improvising guitarist and composer from Bruny Island. He has performed in Australia, Europe, India, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. Julius has been nominated three times for the prestigious Freedman Jazz Fellowship and placed third in the 2022 National Jazz Awards. Recently, he was awarded a State Luminary APRA/AMCOS Art Music Award and has released nine albums.

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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 $28 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $52+BF, or buy four tix for only $91+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.

Fri 13 June, 2025
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$19 + bf

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

XIXA (pronounced ‘Chi-cha’) is an infectious nine-piece Cumbia sensation, bringing tropical sounds made for dancing!
Viva la Cumbia!
Viva Xixa!

Friday 13th June 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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XIXA was born out of the ashes of a pandemic.
Cumbia is their rhythmic pulse, made for dancing, but they’ll throw in a power ballad for a quick breather.
Xixa’s horn section will get you moving, guitar and bass will set your soul ablaze, keys will transport you to the tropics, and rhythmic percussion will sync your heartbeat with one another’s.
Grab your dancing orthotics, bring your friends, bring your auntie and let’s make some memories!
Viva la Cumbia, Viva Xixa!

XIXA is pronounced ‘Chi-cha’ after the amazonian style of Cumbia that is known to hail from Peru – chicha. This somewhat psychedelic style of Cumbia was a way for traditional Andean music to remain current with younger audiences.
This style is loose, fun and very seriously full of quirky sounds.
XIXA is a bunch of amigos who used to play cumbia together in Chupacabra, after a few years of dedicating time to other projects we decided to get back together to play cumbia and have some fun. 

Xixa formed in the lul that was the 2020 pandemic and have performed in festivals and events around southern Tasmania.
Cumbia is designed for dancing and having a good time, we throw in a power ballad or two to give you a quick breather. Horns, guitar, keys and rhythmic percussion join forces to give Tasmania Xixa!

XIXA is: Elias Solis – CONGAS, LEAD VOCALS  | Aaron Entresz – GUITAR  | Oliver Plapp – BASS | Thomas Webster – KEYBOARD, ACCORDION, VOCALS | Eduardo Venegas – DRUM KIT, TIMBALES, VOCALS | Jaime Anabalon – GUIRO, VOCALS | James Verral – TRUMPET | David Cavallo – TRUMPET | Adam Davenport-Hortle – TROMBONE

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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 supported 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.

Event :
Friday 23 May 2025 (straight after Rektango)
Doors Open @ 7:20pm 
Music from 7:30pm – 10:30pm

Tickets : $10
Tickets available at the Door (cash or EFT)

*This is an 18+ Event*

Always danceable, always fun. Always dark eighties.
The Cure, Simple Minds, Stranglers, Devo, B52s – that sort of thing.

Help us get ready for the winter with special guests Foucault a’ GoGo.

Carefully timed straight after Rektango but before Dark Mofo!
Good practice?

Performance :
Saturday 24 May 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 9:00pm (includes Interval)

Tickets :
Full Price $30 (+BF)
Concession $25 (+BF)

Ruby Rocket is an intoxicating, intoxicated private eye who always gets her man…

Except, of course, when she doesn’t. In this hilarious improvised show, Stacey Hallal plays Ruby, weaving vivid noir storytelling, physical comedy, Jon Timm’s innovative multimedia imagery. Featuring a guest cast of Hobart’s top improvisers. Not to be missed!

Stacey Hallal and Jon Timm have toured Ruby Rocket across North America and Europe to packed houses and amazed audiences.

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“Hallal’s strong improv skills and comedic timing take audiences on a ride where there’s no guessing what’s in store.” -­ Vue Weekly

“Hallal is a stage dynamo. Fast and fearless.” -­ Winnipeg Free Press

“She’s a genuine talent.” -­The Oregonian

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PROTEA Impro’s 2025 season is supported by Salamanca Arts Centre

Performance :
Saturday 10 May 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 9:00pm (includes Interval)

Tickets :
Full Price $30 (+BF)
Concession $25 (+BF)

The new works of Shakespeare, unscripted!

What if the Bard had written one more play—tonight, right before your eyes? Under the masterful direction of Dr. David Charles, Improvised Shakespeare weaves an entirely new tale in the style of the greatest playwright of all time—completely improvised and utterly unpredictable. Expect grand soliloquies, star-crossed lovers, mischievous fools, and tragic downfalls, all crafted on the spot with wit, wordplay, and wild imagination.

Prepare for an evening of iambic pentameter, period-accurate absurdity, and Elizabethan drama like you’ve never seen before—because no one has!

PROTEA Impro’s 2025 season is supported by Salamanca Arts Centre

Tues 24 June, 2025
7pm – 9pm (Doors open at 6.30pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$39 +bf General Admission
$35 Concession

Welcome to the first of our Classical Salamanca 2025 series, live in the Long Gallery.
Salamanca Arts Centre presents ‘Two Octets’
The String Octet in C major, Op. 7 by George Enescu (1881-1955) and 
the Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 for Strings by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).

Tuesday 24th June 2025
Doors & bar open at 6:30pm
Music commences at 7pm 

The Long Gallery
Level One, Salamanca Arts Centre
[ Enter via the main doors at 77 Salamanca Place, or take the Lift via the Courtyard ]

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In this concert of two of the most-loved string octets, Chamber music leader, Peter Tanfield, will direct an ensemble of some of the best and most highly-regarded musicians in Tasmania, including:
(Violins) Peter Tanfield, Phoebe Masel, Natalya Bing and Joshua Farner;
(Violas) Douglas Coghill and Damien Holloway,
(Celli) William Hewer and Kate Calwell.

You can read more about Enescu’s Octet here.

You can read more about Mendelssohn’s Octet here.

Tickets are only $39+BF, or $35+BF for concession card holders, and with a further discount offered to SAC Associate members.

Peter Tanfield was born in England in 1961 and started the violin aged four. He studied in Germany, Israel, Switzerland and Holland where his teachers were Igor Ozim, Felix Andrievski, Alberto Lysy, Herman Krebbers and Yehudi Menuhin.
He was a prize-winner at The Carl Flesch International Competition, International Mozart Competition, International Bach Competition amongst others.   As soloist and chamber musician he has played throughout Europe, China, Japan, India, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, USA, and USSR. He has recorded numerous solo and chamber works for television and radio as well as CD. He has played for Chairman Deng in China and the Sultan of Oman.

As soloist Peter has appeared with many major orchestras; the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, West German Radio Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra of the RAI in Rome, Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
As concertmaster, he has had extensive experience working with BBC Philharmonic, RSO RAI Roma, West German Radio Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Some of the artists and composers he has worked and performed with: Astor Piazzolla, Charlie Watts, Pinchas Zukerman, Yehudi Menuhin, Charles Wuorinen, Arvo Paert, Graeme Koehne, Gary Carr, Itzhak Perlman.
Some of the conductors he has worked with are Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Louis Fremaux, Richard Hickox, Heinz Wallberg, Jun-Ichi Hirokami, John Adams, Oliver Knussen, Paavo Jaervi, Martin Brabbins, Gary Bertini, Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle.

Peter has been active as a teacher in Britain, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Australia organizing, coordinating and delivering courses and chamber music programmes for festivals and youth organizations.
From 2002 to 2008 he was lecturer in violin and ensemble at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania. He was also Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Senior Youth Orchestra and the Derwent Symphony Orchestra, and has been Artistic Advisor to the Hobart Chamber Orchestra. Peter came to Australia in 1998 to lead the Australian String Quartet.  Until he left in November 2001 he dedicated himself to the quartet’s development and teaching at the university of Adelaide, expanding the ensemble’s national profile, making two films for the ABC and becoming the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra.

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Please note that the Courtyard Lift IS OPERATING!

Doors & Bar open at 6:30pm
Music begins at 7pm

The Long Gallery
Level One, Salamanca Arts Centre

77 Salamanca Place 
Hobart.
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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is supported 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.

Performance :
Saturday 11 October 2025
Doors Open 6:00pm | Performance from 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Duration : 90 Minutes (includes interval)

Tickets :
$49 (+BF)
Tickets may be available on the door if not sold out

This is more than a tribute – it’s a heartfelt love letter to Streisand’s iconic career.

Experience the magic of Barbra Streisand’s legendary career with Rachael Grace, as she brings to life the timeless hits that have defined generations.

This stunning production, featuring musical direction by Green Room Award-winning John Thorn, takes audiences on a musical journey through Streisand’s iconic songs – from emotional ballads to disco classics. Rachael’s powerful voice, unique interpretation and world class band make this show more than just a tribute – it’s a heartfelt love letter to one of the greatest voices in music history.

Hailed ‘as divine as Streisand herself’ by Glam Adelaide, this unforgettable performance blends musical genres with an exceptional ensemble to create a truly spellbinding experience.

Presented by Footloose Dance Party

Friday 16 May 2025
Doors @ 7:30pm | Music from 7:30pm – 11:00pm

SET TIMES:
Juniper 7:30 – 9:00pm
Hugo Bladel 9:00pm – 11:00pm

Tickets :
Final Release $19.80 (+BF)
Tickets may be available on the door if not sold out

The SAC Bar will be operating throughout the event, providing both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments

Hobart’s favourite dance party returns for 2025… it’s time to get Footloose! 👟🎉
Come and shake your groove thing with Hugo Bladel for a special 2 hour DJ Set, jam-packed with Disco Classics 🕺🏻

We will be spinning artists such as:
Chic
Sister sledge
ABBA
Diana ross
Earth, Wind and Fire
Beegees
Kool & the Gang
KC &. The Sunshine Band
Patrice Rushen
Madonna
Pointer sisters
Whitney Houston

Located in the Founders Room on a Friday Night – starting right after Rektango! 🎶

Dress up in your favourite Disco threads 👚👗 there will be a prize for best dressed 🏆

See you on the Dance-floor!  💃🏼

Fri 9 May, 2025
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$19 + bf

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

Berimbau

Friday 9th May 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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Berimbau is a half Brazilian  / half Australian band, specialising in Brazilian music.  From samba to bossa nova, choro to forró, let Berimbau take you on a whirlwind tour through the rich musical tapestry of the tropical nation which gave birth to so many infectious rhythms and searing melodies. 

Berimbau also performs in a traditional ‘roda de samba’, where the audience encircles the band which plays in the centre of the room and which allows the audience to experience the music a different way.

Berimabu’s ‘raucous’ sets with a big band and full percussion section, will have the whole audience up on the dance floor inspired by the passion of samba!

Berimbau comprises of:
Elijah Davies – guitar | Elisse Kleiner – flute | Jeremy Marcotte – percussion | Henrique Mariano – percussion | Dan McGill – percussion, vocals | Noah Rosenbloom – cavaquinho, vocals | Cissa Santos – vocals | Elias Solis – percussion

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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.

Concession tickets are only $19 ea +BF

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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is supported 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.