Special Lunchtime Event!

OPENING GATES AT 12 PM

The George Street Festival Mini Fest at the Duke!

LIVE TUNES and DJ VINYL ALL DAY

ORDER OF EVENTS

Kicking off with our resident DJ Howie Z
LIVE in the Outdoor Green Room from 12 pm

The New Orleans Heritage Jazz Band
grace our presence in the Ruby Blue Room from 1 pm to 3.30 pm

Zukhuta
Newest Duke sensation hit the stage from 4 pm 

Mini Fest Menu available including our famous chicken rolls and plenty of cold drinks!

A bit from the bands:

THE HERITAGE REUNION JAZZBAND

Due to popular demand, The Heritage Reunion Jazzband, is back at the Duke for the George Street Festival on Dec 1st. “We’ve had so many people asking if we could keep going, we just had to get together again,” explains band organiser, Nige Ridgway. The band was the Jazz Club of WAs club house band back in the 80s and 90sand has always been an attraction as its music  is mainly New Orleans traditional jazz, played with fun and enthusiasm.  The music is free-flowing, pulsating, revivalist style and is always swinging, fresh and joyous.  

Not to be missed! The band include:

Lindsay Timms - Trumpet, Bobby Benton – Trombone, Murray Kent – Reeds, Dace Cowie - Piano
Rod Evans – Banjo, John Healy – Double Bass / Vocals, Nige Ridgway – Drums / Vocals

ZUKHUTA with MAHAMUDO, MARARO AND FRIENDS

Fresh from their musical play ‘Black Brass,’ a hit of the Perth and Sydney Festivals and which toured internationally, Mahamudo Selimane and Mararo Wangai have formed a new band featuring their vibrant songs set to a variety of African grooves. They recently launched these songs on album with an all-star lineup of musicians including Lucky Oceans.

Mahamudo Selimane is a renowned singer/guitarist from Mozambique who has toured around the world with his band Eyuphuro (one of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Real World’ label’s first releases) and is now based in Perth, where he regularly performs, most recently with Soukouss Internationale. Mararo is a singer, actor and writer from Kenya also based in Perth who has performed for and developed work with a number of Australian theatres. Their new album, Khululeko (which means ‘freedom’ in Xhangana) celebrates the universal spirit of freedom.

The band includes Mahamudo’s long time collaborators John Wilson (The Wilds, The Doo-Daddies, Luke Dux) and Michael Boase (Beleza Samba) as well as Grammy-winning Lucky Oceans who pioneers the use of pedal steel guitar in African music. 

Come see this groundbreaking band and experience the joy of their transcendent music firsthand.