Sound Travellers has sent out forty eight tours over the past three years that have travelled to every State and Territory and involved artists from all around Australia.

In 2010 we celebrate the talents of this country’s new music artists with 19 tours scheduled to take place from March to October.

These tours include 34 destinations covering every State and Territory from the remote Ninghan Station in WA to Toowoomba in Qld and on the way taking in every capital city and a large number of regional venues.

Featuring the cream of contemporary classical music with ensembles such as the Aphids and Clocked Out Duo, the depth of experimentation and ambience in sound art with the 10th anniversary tour for Lawrence English’s Room 40 and the seminal Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor, through to the talents of jazz legends such as the Sandy Evans Trio, Chris Abrahams with his new ensemble Roil and the ever popular Way Out West.

Join us for what is possibly our last year of touring grants to celebrate, enjoy and experience the diversity and talents of these Australian artists.

The Scrapes, The Aphids, Clocked Out Duo, Ensemble Offspring, Speak Percussion, The Escalators, The Vampires, Roil, Sandy Evans Trio, Tom O’Halloran, Way out West, Antripodean Collective, Misinterprotato, Jon Rose & Hollis, Tom Hall, Mumblespeak, Ambrose Chapel, Anonymeye and Room 40

Sound Travellers is a special three year initiative which facilitates and promotes the national touring of sound art/electronica, improvised jazz and contemporary classical music. Over the past three years we have been nurturing touring circuits, artists and audiences and creating resources for the future of this incredibly creative and diverse sector. The intention of Sound Travellers is to provide more performance opportunities to a larger audience nationwide, at the same time securing assistance for existing artists across the country to further develop their practice.

An artistic advisory panel with specialists from each genre has been formed to make recommendations to the executive committee regarding the overall objectives of the project and the assessment of applications in the grant rounds. This panel includes – John Davis (Australian Music Centre), Professor Andy Arthurs (QueenslandUniversity of Technology), Adrian Jackson (Wangaratta Festival of Jazz), Peter Nelson (On the Corner), Roland Peelman (AD, Song Company). Fenella Kernebone (Triple J and the Sunday Arts program)

The Sound Travellers project is managed as a partnership between established touring organisation Performing Lines and arts strategy company Ceres Solutions, with director Joanne Kee leading the project.

Please note that there are currently no future rounds in place. If you wish to discuss a project that has the potential to provide infrastructure/new opportunities or will strengthen touring networks or you would like more inforamtion about this project please contact.

Joanne Kee - 0414 973 095 or jkee@soundtravellers.com.au or
Kar Chalmers - 02 9319 0066 or info@soundtravellers.com.au