C20 Finale
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Sunday, 7 May 2023
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Fitters' Workshop
Printers' Way, Kingston, ACT 2604
Closing the Festival with musical fireworks from across two continents, we present Aron Ottignon, a true boy-wonder on keyboard together with the beautiful silky-voiced Lisa Oduor-Noah from Kenya.
Mixing jazz, roots, Caribbean, Afro-beats and more, Aron’s world of music defies a Universal label. From his native New Zealand to Kreuzberg, Berlin, Aron has made waves in Europe, touring with WoodKid, writing with Stromae, and also literally making an EP called Waves, picked up by Blue Note. Having won New Zealand’s acclaimed “Best Jazz Pianist” award at the budding age of 11, Aron and music always were a match made in heaven.
Heaven arrived this year in the name of Lisa Oduor-Noah. This seductively soulful singer from East-Africa boasts a resume filled with famous partnerships such as Blinky Bill, Kato Change, June Gachui, and Sauti Sol. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Oduor-Noah hopes that through her performances and educational work, she can be an agent of hope and healing.
With support act Kirrah Amosa: Since entering the music scene at age 7 to touring with the Ministry of Sound Orchestrated Tour, supporting Adam Lambert, Rita Ora and James Arthur, to the original cast of Hamilton Australia, Kirrah’s expertise and talent is impossible to overlook and even harder to forget.
This concert is supported by Claudia Hyles and Juliet Tootell
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Artist Aron Ottignon
Mixing jazz, roots, Caribbean, Afro-beats and more, his world of music defies a Universal label. Re-gaining artistic independence in 2008, the prodigious pianist has found time for a prolific work load producing, composing and engineering an EP every six months (or thatʼs his plan) from his Berlin studio, in between collaborations with World Music and Afro-beat superstars. These include celebrated Senegalese percussionist Bakane Seck (featuring Grammy nominee Baaba Maal from Black Panther), and Puerto Rico based ÌFÉ – with a single to be released this spring, FYI.
From his native New Zealand to Kreuzberg, Aron has made waves in Europe, touring with WoodKid, writing with Stromae, and also literally making an EP called Waves, which was picked up by Blue Note (along with other releases The Nile and Team Aquatic).
Artist Lisa Oduor-Noah
Kenyan singer-songwriter and producer Lisa Oduor-Noah was introduced to music through her family’s love for different musical genres which fed into her a deep love for music and passion for performance.
The soulful, silky-voiced singer boasts a resume filled with performances on stages such as Coke Studio Africa, The Global Citizen, the Shanghai Jazz festival, Australia (Phoenix Central Park, Nexus Arts, Johnston St. Jazz, including a studio appearance at Sydney’s Eastside 89.7 FM), just to name but a few.
A Berklee College of Music graduate, Lisa hopes that through her performances, she can be an agent of hope, healing, and restoration while creating wholehearted moments of connection.
In addition to this, she desires to bring higher quality music education to the world as an educator in forums. Similarly, she also aims to be an aide to better emotional and mental health awareness in the entertainment industry. Lisa’s eponymous debut album was released in February 2022.
Artist Kirrah Amosa
Since entering the music scene at age 7 to touring with the Ministry of Sound Orchestrated Tour, supporting Adam Lambert, Rita Ora and James Arthur, to the original cast of Hamilton Australia, Kirrah’s expertise and talent is impossible to overlook and even harder to forget.