Calm
Follow the music up the stairs to a beautiful Art Deco room, lit by candlelight, hidden in the heart of the city. You’ll find Jessie and Mark with their band in the middle of the room, no stage, no production, just their music, their instruments, their voices. Using the glorious natural acoustics of Moana Hall, Mark and Jessie will calm you after the chaos of a work day, a long week, or perhaps a hard few years. The duo have created a score of lilting familiar melodies reworked into an hour-long musical movement. Once you are here, you are released from all responsibility. You don’t have to clap, or respond in any way. Imagine this as an hour-long sound bath: sit and let the music surround you. Be prepared for a meditative, relaxing, nostalgic and very personal experience.
Presented by: Jessie Gordon and Mark Turner
Jessie Gordon is a very sun-shy Perth red-headed singer and songwriter who brings her love of old world roots music into the 21st Century. She has toured Australia, America, South East Asia, Germany, France, Spain, Poland and the UK. She is also a 20 time Fringe World Music and Cabaret Award winner. Her original music is a combination of soulful blues, harmonic gospel and joyful swinging country.
She has also recorded nine albums, including two with Mark Turner (Best Friends 2019 and Live at Kidogo 2021), an original album (A Work of Friction 2018), two intercontinental albums entitled Berlin Nights (2017) and Unknowable Journey (2020) with Berlin band Ginger Blues, the latter of which won the German Blues Award for 2020, and most recently the eponymous Sassafras (2021).