Juliarna can often be found working alongside a band of musicians at jazz venues, clubs, festivals, and art galleries, and is often a guest vocalist for established jazz bands.
Usually Juliarna sticks to jazz gigs which are all about the execution of swinging jazz, but occasionally she puts on a cabaret — an amusing mix of jazz, originals and other genres.
In this performance in the historic Uniting Church, Juliarna will be performing alongside trumpeter Gianni Marinucci, pianist Steve Grant, drummer Tony Floyd and James Clark on double bass.
Mr Marinucci has taken lessons in the United States with Warren Veche, Lurie Fink and Bobby Shew, and has toured internationally to Hong Kong, Thailand and Europe.
He also heads his own trio, quartet and nonet and is a regular performer at Melbourne jazz clubs.
Mr Grant has a diverse and varied range of musical experience, encompassing a variety of different musical instruments and styles — traditional and contemporary, acoustic and electric, local and global.
He is one of Australia's leading exponents of traditional jazz piano styles, being well known for having performed at many of the major jazz festivals in the country, and for his ragtime duets with the late John Gill.
Mr Floyd started playing drums at the age of eight and professionally from the age of 15.
Playing with some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians, he toured Australia and performed with The Jextet in 1985 and recorded two albums with Vince Jones in 1988 and 1989, and currently performs with Things of Stone and Wood and works as a sessional teacher at the Victoria College of Arts and Monash University.
Mr Clark has wide ranging musical talents, including classical piano, electric bass, bass and tuba.
In 1987, Mr Clark along with Peter Hooper and Andrew Firth were offered a tour to Papua New Guinea as a part of the Federal Government’s cultural exchange program, teaching jazz music skills to a group of enthusiastic secondary students during the course of the tour.
Mr Clark joined Melbourne based jazz show band The Society Syncopators in 1995 and since that time has toured Europe on an annual basis participating in some of the world’s finest jazz and music festivals.
He is now in regular demand as a specialist upright bass and tuba player and as an audio engineer.
The Sounds for the Soul event will be held in the Echuca Moama Uniting Church on Sunday, July 17 at 2pm.
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