Melanie Charles is a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, actress, and flutist of Haitian descent,

 with a creative fluidity spanning jazz, soul, experimental, and Haitian roots music. Charles' indie

 release “ The Girl with the Green shoes” and “Yall Dont Really Care Black Women”

 released under the Verve imprint established Charles as a progressive voice in Jazz gaining a

 handful of features in The New York Times , as well as The Village Voice .

“You can hear her collaging her musical DNA into jazz-studded multi-instrumentalism and dipping a toe into the

 experimental... there's an uncanny cohesion to Charles' music.” Village Voice. Charles

 graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with a BFA in vocal jazz

 performance and has worked with Herlin Riley, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jean Grae, SZA, the

 Gorillaz, Mark De-Clive Lo, Mach Hommy, Kassa Overall and many others. .Her television

 appearances include Good Morning America , SNL , and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,

 and HBO’s Vinyl . Charles’ passion project “Make Jazz Trill Again” aims to blur the lines

 between social classes, cultures, genders, sounds and theories to create a world where

 opposing elements and eras can co-exist through the vehicle of improvised music,

 podcast conversation, music and event production and advocacy.

TICKETING INFO

This is an 18+ event. 

Do not attend if you are feeling unwell.

Photo ID is essential, acceptable ID is a current and valid Australian Photo Drivers Licence, State Approved ‘Proof of Age’ card or Passport. Must be a physical or digital copy. Photos or scans will not be accepted.

We acknowledge that this event is held on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.