Avondale College of Higher EducationConcert a fundraiser for orphanage
One of Australia’s best jazz musicians is bringing his quartet back to Avondale, March 21, to help raise money for an orphanage in Kenya.
Adrian Cunningham is returning from New York City for a fundraising concert at Avondale as part of his Australian tour.
Adrian Cunningham is returning from New York City for the concert. He has appeared at some of the Big Apple’s finest jazz clubs since basing himself in the city and, for the past two years, has performed with trombonist Wycliffe Gordon.
The multi-instrumentalist, who swaps seamlessly between alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute, will perform with David Pudney (double and electric bass), a casual academic at Avondale, Bill Risby (piano) and Gordon Rytmeister (drums). The quartet, a former Best Jazz Group nominee at the Australian entertainment industry’s MO Awards, released its latest album, Walkabout, in 2011.
The Avondale Jazz Ensemble, directed by David Pudney, will provide support.
Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church’s young adult ministry Regeneration is presenting the concert to raise money for a replacement pump and well at the East African Mission Orphanage in Kenya. Australian couple Ralph and May Spinks established the government registered charitable institution in 1997 to provide a home for hundreds of orphaned children, including babies and teenage mothers.
Adrian Cunningham Quartet is part of the Manifest Creative Arts Festival, which Avondale College of Higher Education hosts on its Lake Macquarie campus, March 20-23. The concert begins in the Education Hall at 7.30 PM on March 21.
Tickets: $15 (single); $10 (concession); $75 (premium café table of four with platter of food); $115 (premium café table of six with platter of food).