Summer Swing and Cool Jazz - Cairns

A fabulous night of free entertainment! Come and hear the award-winning QYO Big Band play all your favourite jazz and swing standards. For the first time in a decade, the QYO Big Band are touring to FNQ to share their amazing skills and love of music with locals and tourists alike. The QYO Big Band is part of the world-renowned Queensland Youth Orchestras music program. Every year, the state's most talented young and emerging instrumental musicians compete to be selected in the band, and the highly competitive process produces superb jazz and swing performances. They have played with international artists such as James Morrison and Tom Burlinson, Ellie Hoyt, Kristin Berardi, and Troy Cassar-Daley, and are led by accomplished Musical Director, Mr Bohdan Davison, a noted music educator, and saxophonist.