Band Bio's

Kate Wadey and her Presidentials

Kate Wadey is Sydney bases Jazz singer, hailing from Adelaide. Kate effortlessly explores and interprets jazz classics with a charm and sophistication that appear to come from another time and place. Kate has a gorgeously rich and warm voice, coupled with a vocal range, sophistication and innate swing that bely her youth. Imbued with emotion, yet technically masterful, these interpretations are destined to hold their own among the greats.

Kate began singing in gospel choirs and jazz vocal ensembles as a 13 year old in Adelaide. She moved to Sydney and immediately made waves in the notoriously difficult to crack Sydney live scene as a backing singer, studio vocalist, pop vocalist, soul and Motown singer. 

Recently however, she has found her way back to her jazz roots and she’s making people sit up and take notice. Kate regularly sings live and records with the cream of Australia’s current crop of extraordinary jazz musicians and composers and has rapidly gathered praise and new fans.

Catch Kate Wadey and her Presidentials at the Saturday Night Deco Dance at Marrickville Town Hall

Cope Street Parade

Formed in 2009, The Cope Street Parade are considered one of Australia’s most established creative music ensembles. They blend spicy rhythms with unique song-writing that span the genres of jazz, folk, pop, gypsy and swing. With tender ballads and rollicking dance numbers they capture the spirit and warmth of early music styles and cheekily blur the lines between the contemporary and the classic. Influences include Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Father John Misty and Leadbelly.

The hot sounds of gypsy swing mixed with elements of New Orleans traditional jazz meld together to create a style of music that sounds both new and old yet always uniquely Australian. Think if Django Reinhardt met Louis Armstrong in a good old country pub.

The Cope Street Parade have performed at major music festivals and venues across Australia, such as the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, Sydney Festival, Bellingen Winter Festival, Manly Jazz Festival, Jazzgroove Summer Festival. In 2018 and 2019 they toured Europe, each year performing 25 concerts in Italy as well as concerts in Germany. The band has also been lucky enough to collaborated with Lulo Reinhardt, Peter Horsfall, Christa Hughes, Dan Barnett, Geoff Bull, Bob Henderson and Bob Barnard. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2010 and since then they have released seven albums to rave reviews and captivated audiences across Australia and the world.

Catch Cope Street Parade at the Sunday afternoon Swing Out at The Colombian.