GUITARIST and composer with local connections Alex Stuart will return to perform at a Zephyrs concert near Bermagui.
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He will be playing with four award-winning Australian musicians as the Alex Stuart Quintet.
The concert will be a return for Stuart on two counts - it follows his quartet’s sell-out Zephyrs concert at the Bermagui Community Hall in 2012 and he is coming back to a much-loved place, where he spent a great deal of his youth and that has inspired several of his compositions.
The concert is part of an Australian tour to launch his new album, Place to Be. The tour includes visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Hobart.
The other musicians in the quintet are Julien Wilson on saxophone, Miroslav Bukovsky on trumpet, Jonathon Zwartz on double bass and Tim Firth on drums.
Stuart moved to Paris after graduating from ANU's School of Music in Canberra.
He immersed himself in Paris’s jazz scene and its rich and varied musical cultures and, in a residency in India, in the Hindustani classical tradition.
He is now recognised in Europe for his compositions and performances, especially after releasing his 2010 album Around and winning the prestigious 2011 Révelation prize at France’s largest jazz festival, Jazz à Juan.
Place to Be is an ode to cultural openness, with Stuart finding inspiration in many places and cultures.
These include the jazz tradition, contemporary jazz, African and South American grooves, rock and post-rock, Indian and Balkan music, Australia - particularly the Far South Coast - life in Paris, the sea and surfing and much more.
The concert is on Sunday at the Four Winds Windsong Pavilion, Barragga Bay from 3pm.
Tickets are $50, including food and wine after the concert, and you can buy them here.