Azalea Arts Variety Night at the Vortex

Azalea Arts Variety Show at The Vortex

Azalea Arts Variety Show at the Vortex in Dalston - Art Literature Music and Dance - Join Us for this Special Event on February the 17th 2023 at the multi award-winning Vortex Jazz club in Dalston

This is not specifically a Jazz night but a multimedia platform filled with a range of entertainment and artistic expression to suite a range of creative interests.

A chance to make new discoveries and be inspired by imaginative people, carefully chosen for quality and expressiveness.

Should you wish to showcase your creativity from musicians, artists, actors, comedians, dancers to poets then please contact the creative director Blousey on 07583 730540 or email jade@azalea-arts.com to discuss further details

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POWERED BY DOOM 

Powered by Doom is Weather Torn Psychedalic Grunge left outside. Ecstatic Songs of Sadness that can't get swept away by the wind. 

Created from a joy of loss - influenced by alice in chains, failure, emma ruth rundle, brian jonestown massacre

THE YAZATAS

The Yazatas play an ambient blend of Neo Soul, Nu Jazz, Folk and Rock. The band accelerates from brooding melodic riffs to pumping rhythms like a soul machine changing gear! They have just spent the last six months as Residents at L’Amour in Fulham and the Imperial Arms in Chelsea headlining showcases every week.

Singer/guitarist Jezmond Farren was a regular at LeQuecumbar in Battersea, a historical gypsy-jazz venue. He has also performed at Earls Court Festival and Portobello Live. He describes his songs as ‘Storyline Soundscapes’.

The name ‘Yazata’, means venerable spirit in Persian. It was chosen as the three members Jezmond Farren, Zehy AlDhabari and Zaki share a divine musical chemistry.

LIBA RAVINDRAN 

Liba Ravindran is a 31 year old poet from Sri Lankan Tamil heritage, born in Norway and presently living in Southgate, North London. He has been writing for eight years with a breadth of material spanning poetry, essays, short stories and a play. Liba has been using his poetry for grassroots change as a community activist and involved in the local poetry/spoken word scene in London through readings at various venues. He has been recognised for his work through winning competitions, being published in anthologies and being a booked performer. The content is ironically quixotic and surreally perceptive in its philosophical themes covering dreams, love, reality and nature.

STUART MCKENZIE AND THE TREE HUGGERS 

 My name is Stuart Mckenzie and I'm a solo artist who also created the band The Tree Huggers. I'm a local artist born in North London who changed my life around 3 years ago from a professional plasterer to following my dreams of becoming an artist. During the last 3 years, I have built my music experience up from busking around London, going to university and setting up a mini festival on Hampstead Heath which lead to working with various other artists while performing at open mic nights. Eventually collaborating with Th3mostwantd and Fryup hosting night's showcasing a variety of music, performances, spoken word and art at The Map cafe in Kentish Town West . I am proud that I have also recorded and released two of my own tracks which are available on all platforms. Now I'm currently working on new music which will be released by summer

ANDREA HULAMYHOOP 

Hula hoop dancer, performer and teacher who creates dazzling light display and routines by spinning multiple LED hoops combining dance and flow with circus hoop tricks. Andrea can hoop on her feet, knees, elbows and even her butt. She even holds four Guinness world records in hula hoop circus tricks.

GRACE ELENA FARREN 

Grace Elena Farren is an enygmatic artist. She uses poetry and music to evoke sensitive and surreal imagery. Exploring emotion, nature and the abstract. Her voice is melodic while her poetry is written in an organic free flowing style.'

AMEY ST CYR

Music has been in Amey St Cyr’s blood her entire life. She provided vocals for several bands in the 1990s, including The Thompson Twins and Baby Ford, and had a number one on the KissFM Dance chart with "60 Seconds by Audio Deluxe.
Amey makes uplifting, retro-tinged dance music with a positive message at a time when the world needs it most.
A confident, inspirational artist, Amey is currently performing at gigs and open mic nights around London, and is guaranteed to get the dancefloor moving.

ANGEL AMORPHOSIS 

'"Experience is the greatest blessing, for our individual experience of life is the only thing that is, and ever could be, truly our own.
There is an intrinsic beauty in that our unique perspective can never be wholly experienced by anyone else.
We are the sole explorers of our own reality, and so we each have a choice: how much of that reality do we explore?
The paths we take forge our reality. The paths we leave unexplored fade into the darkness of non-existence."

Through music and poetry, Angel Amorphosis explores the nature of this, the most sacred of all blessings.'

INDIGO GYPSIES 

A collection of crazy mother funkers who utilise modern digital technology with vintage equipment to create new memories of nostalgia, peppering soulful shades of violet, lilac, fuchsia and indigo into their funking rock blues.

ELEONORA 

A natural-born singer, Eleonora’s voice started to get people's attention in her childhood.
The stage became second nature from a young age as well as expressing herself through songwriting, experimenting with genres and styles in the bands she was singing with.

Eleonora's songwriting is bold and bright, offering an optimistic and supporting perspective on life.
Her soulful melodies in her heartfelt stories will connect the listener to the deeper corners of their soul.
Songs are as sweet as a lullaby and as powerful as a volcano.

NICK COX 

Nick Cox, aka Coxy, is a writer/director, musician and open mic’er. Nick’s work has been performed on the Edinburgh Fringe and London stage. Nick likes deep dark stuff and dazzling light. https://linktr.ee/nickcoxy

ARTISTS FOR EVENING

AURELIE FREOUA 

Aurelie Freoua is a French artist and performer living and working in London. She originally studied Mathematics and Economics in Paris but went on to study art and completed an MA in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, London 2016. She also participated in the Slade Summer School.

Since then, her paintings have been exhibited in several group shows in London, New York, Miami, Paris and the South of France. Aurelie had several solo shows in London, including ‘Symphony of Colours’ in Mayfair (2017). Her artworks have featured in poetry collections including ‘Echoing’ published by Ampersand. She created a work specially for the Bonhams’ auction in support of the Grenfell Tower victims (2018). She has taken part in workshops organised by the Digital Maker Collective at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern.
Over the past three years, Aurelie has been collaborating intensely with the Vortex Jazz Club, creating music and art simultaneously with improvising musicians and artists using a similar sonic and visual approach. She has improvised live painting in response to music during The London Jazz Festival in 2017 and 2019 at the Vortex, at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club in 2021 and during the Inntoene Jazz Festival in Austria.
She curates and performs in multidisciplinary, experimental and immersive live performances called ‘Résonances’, merging visual art, musical performances, poetry and dance. Aurelie has designed covers for albums by Raphael Clarkson, Paulo Duarte, Henrik Jensen and Luca Boscagin released on Babel Label in 2019, 2020 and 2022. She recently joined the team of Women in Jazz Media and collaborates with South Hill Park Arts Centre on a multidisciplinary project 'Feeling the Beat'.

COMPARE FOR THE EVENING 

RICHARD BRICE 

The master of ceremonies and all round facilitator.. New York Times calls him "Probably perfectly adaquate". And the Guardian "deliriously divorced ... from reality"

"Better then a monkey with a cup" Time out London