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Shannon Barnett at Stephenville Arts & Culture Centre
March 28 @ 8:00 PM NDT
ATLANTIC JAZZ NIGHTS
featuring Shannon Barnett & Nick Fraser
with Florian Hoefner and Jim Vivian
March 24 St. John’s Arts & Culture Centre
March 25 Gander Arts & Culture Centre
March 26 Grand Falls-Windsor Arts & Culture Centre
March 27 Corner Brook Arts & Culture Centre
March 28 Stephenville Arts & Culture Centre
Shannon Barnett
Shannon Barnett is an Australian trombonist and composer, currently based in Cologne, Germany. She established herself as an important voice in the Australian scene by performing in ensembles including Vada, The Bamboos, The Vampires, and as a guest with the Andrea Keller Quartet, on the 2004 ABC Jazz release Angels and Rascals. Barnett has also appeared with the Australian Art Orchestra, Barney McAll’s Mother of Dreams and Secrets feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charlie Haden and from 2009-2010, she worked as a multi-instrumentalist and composer with the contemporary circus group Circus Oz.
In 2010, Barnett released her debut album as a leader, entitled ‘Country’, on the Which Way Music label. After attending Dave Douglas’ ‘Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music’ in Banff, Canada in 2010, Barnett was inspired to relocate to New York City, where she completed a Master of Music degree. There she performed with the likes of Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Pedro Giraudo, Cyrille Aimée and the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York and was a regular member of the Birdland Big Band.
In early 2014, she moved to Cologne, Germany, to take up a position with the WDR Big Band, which gave her the opportunity to perform with guests including Vince Mendoza, Ron Carter, Joshua Redman, Maria Schneider and Paquito D’Rivera. She has also become very active in the local scene. Her quartet, featuring Stefan Karl Schmid, David Helm and Fabian Arends released their debut album in 2016 on Double Moon/Challenge Records, and the band was subsequently nominated as a semi-finalist in the 2017 Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis. Their second album ‘Bad Lover’, was released in 2022 on Florian Ross’ ‘Toy Piano Records’ label and their third ‘Alive at Loft’ on klaeng records in July 2023.