ZOEY PEPPER
Stitch and Oom Pah Pah
SATURDAY 19 March
7pm
FULL $30
CONCESSION (CARD HOLDERS AND UNDER 18) $20
Food and light refreshments available for cash purchase at the venue
This March, Zoey Pepper and friends bring you Oom Pah Pah, a celebration of friendship and creative collaboration on the South Coast with an intimate and idiomatic collection of Zoey’s very new original songs and arrangements that take you on a journey from aching loneliness through to joyful connection. Combining poetry, voice, pairings of reeds (bassoon, harmonium), brass (trombone and french horn), strings (cello and double bass) keys and percussion, it’s gypsy jazz meets Schubert meets Kate Bush meets Zoey, with a haunting thread of Jewish ancestry to weave it all together. It’s silly, heartbreaking and sublime. As a prequel to this exciting project comes Stitch, Australia’s reigning busking champion duo, amplified by special guests and presenting a kooky patchwork of brand new original songs and arrangements. You don’t want to miss this very special musical occasion unlike any other, that will have you laughing, crying, bopping and sighing from beginning to end.
Zoey Pepper is a true musical chameleon, weaving her way whimsically between the quirky and divine. Classically trained in bassoon and voice at the Canberra School of Music, with a Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music Performance in 2008, she has since been employed across a dazzling array of genres both nationally and internationally, including with Opera Australia, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Canberra International Music Festival, the Royal Military College Band, as guest artist at the International Double Reed Festival, and as freelance bassoonist and vocalist with many orchestras, big bands, rock bands and jazz ensembles for over a decade.
Zoey is also the recipient of various grants and commissions, including an ARTS ACT grant which enabled her to commission the transcendental piece The River Daughter for Bassoon, Voice and CD, by international composer Ian Blake, involving multi- layers of Zoey’s soprano voice and her bassoon, which is now archived at the Australian Music Centre.
In 2018 Zoey left her freelance career in Melbourne to start a new life in beautiful Tilba, where her musical paths have expanded again. Whilst continuing to freelance interstate with Opera Australia and the Canberra International Music Festival, as well as being regularly affiliated with Four Winds, Zoey has been teaching vocalists across various genres, from school age to adult including budding singer-songwriters and university entrants, and gigging locally with her various ensembles.
Artist Links:
Zoey Pepper: https://www.facebook.com/zoey.pepper
Stitch: https://www.facebook.com/Stitch-duo-1293595930774444