Yuletide Jazz

Name: Yuletide Jazz
Start: 2025-12-07T07:00:00+10:00
Location: Lightspace Brisbane

Schedule

Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

Lightspace Brisbane | Fortitude Valley, QL

Sip something festive, relax and listen to Christmas carols with a jazz twist
Director of Music Dr. Debra Shearer-Dirié will conduct ChoirWorks in a reprise of this very popular concert program, accompanied by jazz ensemble featuring Kelsey Giarola as vocalist.
The program is based around Will Todd’s suite of jazz arrangements titled Christmas in Blue, including:
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; Silent Night
O Come All Ye Faithful; A Boy Was Born
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing; We Three Kings
Away in a Manger; Once in Royal David’s City
Personnent Hodie; I Saw Three Ships
To complement these, we include arrangements by
Ward Swingle: Swingle Bells IX (We Three Kings; The Holly and the Ivy; Jingle Bells), Il est Bel et Bon
Pete Churchill: A Child is Born, In the Bleak Mid-winter, O Come O Come Emmanuel (Freedom’s on the Way)
Kelsey Giarola: Joy to the World
Ian Maurer: Good King Wenceslas, Gabriel to Mary Came
Mac Huff: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Mark Hayes: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas