CANBERRA’S famous a cappella group The Idea of North, will be giving a free concert tomorrow morning at the NewActon Precinct’s latest space, Deadset.
Deadset is a bar, garden, lounge room and library stocked with a growing collection of artisan books.
The Idea of North are the winners of the 2013 ARIA’s Best Jazz Album. They will be performing at Deadset over brunch served from the bar.
The group began in 1993 at the then Canberra School of Music, where four students began singing together for fun in front of friends and family. The positive response persuaded them to arrange more songs. When one decided to move to Sydney, they recorded the songs for posterity.
The name ‘The Idea of North’ was chosen and by 1997, offers of work started coming in. The group went full time in 1998 and after completing a second album and a lineup change found themselves touring regularly around Australian and overseas.
The group been recognised in many major awards and recording successes over their 20 years in the music industry including Best Music Award at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, Best Jazz Album in this year’s ARIAs, 2011 ABC Limelight Award for best jazz recording, 2010 ARIA for best jazz album in collaboration with James Morrison, and internationally a CARA Awards (USA) and The Harmony Sweepstakes (USA), the largest a cappella competition in the world.
The Idea of North, free concert, Deadset, ground floor of Hotel Hotel in the Nishi building at 25 Edinburgh Avenue in NewActon, Sunday, November 24, 11.15am.
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