LONG TABLE LUNCH
MELISSA WESTERN & THE MOXIE CREW
Date & Time
Sunday, 3 August
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Venue
94 Maleny-Kenilworth Road
Maleny
Jinibara Country
(map)
Putting the ‘feast’ back into festival, the Long Table Lunch will bring together the culinary and performing arts, combining delicious produce from the Sunshine Coast region with the stunning music of Melissa Western & The Moxie Crew.
Settle in for a delicious 3-hour food and musical extravaganza, prepared by award-winning chef Michael Hehir, and staged in the stunning surrounds of the Maleny hinterland. Interweaving the much-loved genres of jazz, swing and blues, Melissa Western will perform a concert that evokes the warmth and hospitality of chamber music’s intimate home settings of days gone by.
With swinging jazz, powerful soul and cheeky kitsch, Melissa will delight our guests with the pioneering music of Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, and Eartha Kitt, paying tribute to this magnificent era in music. Melissa and her sizzling band will bring to the table a sumptuous program which features their warm signature style, fusing the soul of blues, the passion of swing, and the spontaneity of jazz, souping up melodies with spicy improvisations.
Ticket Price includes a 3-course lunch + wine.
Presented in conjunction with The Curated Plate.
MELISSA WESTERN
Melissa Western is a highly sought-after live performing artist, lead vocalist, jazz singer, dancer, theatre actor, writer and producer. Her extensive experience includes performing as the featured entertainment for Prime Ministers, Governors and Mayors at large-scale government functions and ceremonies, music and theatre festivals and venues in Australia and abroad.
As a multi-talented performer, Melissa's entertainment performances range from live jazz, pop, blues and soul music to singing in French, Spanish and Italian, swing dance performances, live improvisation and crowd engagement, cabaret shows, musical theatre, as well as being a top tier MC and event host.
Recent and upcoming activity includes: Sip, Sparkle Skull (Redlands Performing Arts Centre), Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club (Qld tour, Brisbane Comedy Festival, 2 x Matilda Awards), 1954: Ella, Etta, Eartha (Edinburgh Fringe official sell-out 2024, Qld tour), Are You Lonesome Tonight (Elvis reimagined) (South-East Qld tour).
Her passion is taking to the stage in front of a live audience, seamlessly weaving song, movement and story into an experience they will want to share and cherish. Over the past twenty years she has performed to audiences and critical acclaim locally in Brisbane, nationally throughout Australia and internationally in the UK and France. She performs internationally, performing and producing new stage works and singing with a variety of ensembles.