| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Jack Teagarden was a self-taught jazz trombone virtuoso, singer, and band leader. Mechanically minded, he also patented a trombone spit valve. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | |
| Carrington Hotel Katoomba | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| 170 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls | |
| Event website | |
| Buy tickets | |
The Carrington Hotel Katoomba, known for its Timeless Elegance, is holding the famous Great Art Deco Ball on Saturday 8th March 2025. On the bandstand, playing 1920s jazz for dancing, will be Greg Poppleton, in a 15 year residency at the Art Deco Ball.
| 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm | |
| Builders Club 61 Church St Wollongong NSW | |
| Directions |
We’re back at The Basement Builders’ Club Wollongong for an afternoon of swinging 1920s and 1930s jazz. Great club. Relaxed, easy atmosphere. The Basement is pokie free. And there’s no cover charge! Show: 2:30 – 5:30pm
| 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm | |
| Cardea, 300 Barangaroo Av, Barangaroo | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Dress code: Formal or Semi-Formal |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Al Hibbler was a blind baritone who sang with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra and then was a solo artist. Hibbler is seen as a bridge between R&B and traditional pop. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Charlie Christian is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was an American swing and jazz guitarist and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. Hear him live on 1940 radio…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
New Years Eve from 1954 New Years Eve radio is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll hear George Shearing, Sauter-Finnegan, Ted Heath, and more.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
New Years Eve and Christmas Music from 1930s Christmas radio and 1950s New Years Eve radio is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll hear Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington. Because of a glitch last week, you’ll hear the second half of the Phantom Dancer scheduled that was scheduled for 17 December.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Christmas Music is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Hear Kid Ory, Paul Whiteman, Patti Page and the hammond organ – piano duo of Caldwell and Pollard.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Sonny Dunham, US swing trumpet player, trombonist and band leader is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Cardea, 300 Barangaroo Av, Barangaroo Sydney | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Bar | |
| 120 dollars | |
| Event website |
Step back in time to the Roaring Twenties with Sorcery & Swing, the ultimate blend of 1920s music, magic, and dinner! Experience the charm of a true speakeasy as vaudeville comes back to life before your eyes.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 702 ABC Radio Sydney | |
| Directions |
Swing in 1930s – 40s Europe, is the Sonic Journey I’ll be taking with ABC Weekends Breakfast host, Simon Marnie, on ABC Radio Sydney, after the 11am news till noon on 702 ABC Radio Sydney (2BL).
Simon Marnie and I will be sonically journeying to 1930s-40s Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and France, and there’ll be a Spanish language rhumba in there too.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Alexander Tsfasman, was a Soviet jazz pianist, composer, orchestrator, conductor, bandleader, publicist and public figure. His recorded output covered original compositions including Gershwinesque and Whitemanesque suites, Russian, German, and American jazz tunes. Tsfasman was the first to record jazz in the Soviet Union. He was was the only Russian member of the International Jazz Federation.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Roy Haynes, one of the greatest and most influential drummers in the history of jazz died 12 November, aged 99. He performed into his 80s. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Joanie O’Brien was a singer, movie, TV actor in the 1950s-60s who sang with Harry James and Bob Crosby and co-starred with Elvis Presley and Cary Grant. She’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Fred Astaire – singer – on a 1936 US Presidential election radio show is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.You’ll hear Fred Astaire (actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, television presenter and considered the most influential dancer in the history of film) singing and tap dancing on a special election night edition of The Packard Hour radio show
| 2:00 pm | |
| Private | |
| Directions |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Bob Crosby was the singing, band leading younger brother of Bing Crosby. Bob also had his own radio and TV shows from 1936 on. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm | |
| The Basement, Builders Club, 61 Church St Wollongong | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Free car parking | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
We’re back at The Basement Builders’ Club Wollongong for an afternoon of swinging 1920s and 1930s jazz. Show: 2:30 – 5:30pm
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Adolf Steimel was a German dance band leader, composer, organist and pianist. He is known for Wir machen Musik (1942), Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (1944) and Einmaleins der Ehe (1949).
Hear him on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Eddie Heywood was an American jazz pianist and composer active in the 1940s and 1950s. His career was interrupted in the 1950s and 60s by hand paralysis. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| Northbridge Baths, 2 Widgiewa Rd, Northbridge | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Event website |
Northbridge Baths’ 100th anniversary celebration Sat 12 Oct with the upbeat sounds of Greg Poppleton’s 1920s swing band, transporting attendees back to the era when the Baths first opened.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Julie London, was a U.S jazz and pop singer, film, TV and commercials actor. Billboard named her most popular woman singer of 1955, 56 and 57. She had a small, intimate voice made ‘smokey’ by being a three packs a day gal. Her last years were miserable with tobacco poisoning, strokes, lung cancer, choking and heart attacks. She’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Frankie Masters, was a U.S bandleader, jazz standards writer, and pianist. Frankie’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
It’s 2SER Radiothon! On this week’s Radiothon Phantom Dancer, hear Stan Kenton at the start of his radio band career, Senor Xavier Cugart, Trad jazz radio with Earl Hines and 1931 radio selling silks and shoes.
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| 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Stamford Plaza, 111 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| 135 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties. Girls in pearls. | |
| Event website |
Step into a world where the enchanting melodies of swing music and the mysterious allure of magic converge in “Sorcery and Swing,” a mesmerising dinner show set in the heart of a 1920s Speakeasy.
Join us at Stamford Plaza Melbourne (111 Little Collins St) on the 21st of September for an evening of glamour and intrigue, where guests are encouraged to don their finest 1920s attire – “Guys in Ties, Girls in Pearls.”
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
It’s the 2024 2SER Radiothon and your opportunity to support Community Radio 2SER. Your subscriptions go in the draw for major prizes. The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER, under various titles, since 1985! This week enjoy some of your favourite feature artists from the past few years. Good stuff!
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| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
On this week’s Radiothon Phantom Dancer, hear 100 years of recorded radio from an excerpt from National Defence Day Broadcast in 1924 to The Phantom Dancer in 2024. You’ll also hear Fats Waller and Adelaide Hall broadcasting from London, Julie London from New York and Harry James from Culver City Ca.
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| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
It’s the 2024 2SER Radiothon and your opportunity to support Community Radio 2SER. Your subscriptions go in the draw for major prizes. The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER, under various titles, since 1985! This week enjoy some of your favourite feature artists from the past few years. Good stuff!
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| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Dave Lambert was an American jazz lyricist, singer, and an originator of vocalese. He spent a lifetime experimenting with the human voice. Buddy Stewart (born Albert James Byrne Jr.) was an American jazz singer. Both were killed in car crashes (1966 & 1950). Hear them on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER | |
| Directions |
Earl Burtnett, was a U.S bandleader, jazz standards writer, and pianist. Earl’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Wilfred Theodore Wemyes, known professionally as Ted Weems, was an American bandleader, songwriter and musician popular in the 1920s – 1930s who had a sleeper hit with ‘Heartaches’. Weems’s work in music was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Shortwave broadcasting by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from New York to Latin America in 1940 is your Phantom Dancer Feature this week. And below are some relevant paragraphs on shortwave broadcasting taken from a 1942 article in ‘RCA Review’.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Glenn Miller, born Alton Glen Miller, was an American trombonist, composer, arranger and band leader. His swing orchestra was the best selling recording band 1939 – 1942 and the continues playing today. His Army-Air Forces band modernised US military music. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Cello's, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh St, Sydney | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| 160 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls | |
| Event website |
Hurry, Book Now! Saturday August 10, 6:30-10pm Sorcery and Swing. Greg Poppleton 1920s Band and The Gentleman Magician Bruce Glen bring you a Sorcery & Swing dinner show of music and dazzling magic. All in Sydney’s only authentic 1920s room, Cellos, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel. Swing into the roaring 20s. Dress the part ◆ Feel the rhythm ◆ Experience the magic! Check out the show here. Book Now!
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Radio Sydney | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
Wendall Hall was an American country singer, vaudeville artist, songwriter, pioneer radio performer, recording artist and ukulele player. On 4 June 1924, the ‘Red-Headed Music Maker’ marriage ceremony to Marion Martin was the first ever live on radio. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix […]
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Johnny Marvin, was a hugely popular record & radio singer & songwriter between 1924 – 44. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Rasio 2SER Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ray Anthony, bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor, is the last living member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Born 20 January 1922, he is now 102 and a half years old. Ray Anthony is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 11:05 am - 12:00 pm | |
| 702 ABC Radio Sydney | |
| Directions |
This Saturday 20 July, 11:05am – 12 noon, ABC Radio’s Simon Marnie and I go on a Sonic Journey through the music of Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller, born Alton Glen Miller, was an American trombonist, composer, arranger and band leader. His swing orchestra was the best selling recording band 1939 – 1942 and the continues playing today. His Army-Air Forces band modernised US military music.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
CROONING, originated by female singer, Vaughn De Leath, for her first weekly broadcast on New York City Station, 2XG, in 1920, is a smooth, intimate, singing style tailored to the dynamic range of 1920s – 30s microphones. It’s your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
| 10:30 am - 1:30 pm |
Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s swing jazz singer and his piano/double bass duo entertain at a private show in Sydney.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 | |
| Directions |
Henry ‘Red’ Allen was an American trumpeter and singer,. He was the first to incorporate Louis Armstrong’s trumpet innovations and he was a Downbeat poll winner for both trad and modern trumpet. He’s your Phantom Dancer featured artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 107.3 2SER Sydney | |
| Directions |
Lena Horne was an American singer, actor, dancer, and civil rights activist. Her career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television, and theatre. She recorded and performed into the 1990s, retiring from public view in 2000. She’s your Phantom Dancer featured artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Jim Davidson was a drummer who lead the ABC Radio Dance Orchestra in Sydney 1936 – 41. It was Australia’s most popular swing orchestra and dance band. After World War Two he was head of light entertainment at BBC London. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 107.3 Radio 2SER Sydney | |
| Directions |
Toni Harper was a child singer in the 1940s-50s with a remarkably mature voice. She is your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Kay Starr was a jazz singer who started professional at age 15 and sang into her 80s. She also sang country and pop. The lyrics to ‘Bonaparte’s Retreat were written for her. She is your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Bob Rogers, Australian radio legend, died this week aged 97 after almost 80 years of radio and TV broadcasting. Your Phantom Dancer feature this week is arranger Bill Holman who also died in his 90s in May 2024. He was the arranger who created the definitive Stan Kenton progressive jazz sound in the early 1950s and continued in music till this year.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Helen Forrest was a big band singer with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Harry James. She was the most popular female singer in the U.S and recorded over 500 songs. She guided her own career to longevity and success and is your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Jazz Harpsichord first appeared around 1940 when pianist Johnny Guarnieri played harpsichord in swing band leader Artie Shaw’s quintet “Gramercy Five”. 1940s Jazz harpsichord, by Primo Angeli, Sylvia Marlowe (born Sapira) and Ernesto Romanoni, is your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Private Event, Sydney | |
| Directions |
Greg Poppleton 1920s – 30s vocals with piano, double bass and alto sax playing vintage swing jazz for a private party.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Shortwave broadcasting by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from New York to Latin America in 1940 is your Phantom Dancer Feature this week. Hear the Tommy Dorsey Swing Orchestra broadcasting from New York in Spanish in 1942…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER Sydney | |
| Directions |
Boyd Raeburn was an American jazz band leader, tenor and bass saxophonist. No major label wanted to record him because his arrangements were considered “too weird” for dancers. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| Radio 2SER 107.3 | |
| Directions |
2SER radio, Sydney Educational Radio, celebrates 45 years of continuous, quality broadcasting this year. The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER for thirty-nine of those years. Jazz birthdays live on 1950s radio for Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan feature on this week’s Phantom Dancer.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Oran Thaddeus “Hot Lips” Page was a US jazz trumpeter, singer and band leader. He played swing and trad, but also was key in the development of bop and r’n’b. Hot Lips Page was known as “Mr After Hours” to his many friends for his ability to take on challengers in late-night jam sessions. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Raymond Stanley ‘Ray’ Noble was a swing band leader, composer, arranger, radio host, television and film comedian and actor in both this native England and the United States. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 5:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Revy | |
| Directions | |
| 2400 dollars | |
| Event website |
Immerse yourself in the opulence and glamour of “Gatsby: A Roaring Soiree”, a moment that resurrects the extravagant spirit of the Roaring 20s
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| Bondi Pavilion | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
Get your Free Tickets now to see Greg Poppleton sing the songs of the 1920s and 1930s in a one hour concert, Wednesday 10 April 1:30-2:30pm, Bondi Pavilion
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. She was known for her humanitarian efforts during World War II, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their American citizenship. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema. She is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Horrie Dargie was an Australian harmonica player and clarinetist, television compère (Personally Yours (1959), BP Super Show (1959–1962) and The Delo and Daly Show (1963–1964)), talent manager, music label founder (Go!! Records) and music arranger. His Horrie Dargie Quintet was awarded the first gold record in Australia for ‘Horrie Dargie Concert’ (1952). Horrie is your Phantom Dancer feature artist again this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Horrie Dargie Quintet was awarded the first gold record in Australia for ‘Horrie Dargie Concert’ (1952). Horrie is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Joseph Christopher Liggins, Jr. was an American R’n’B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist who led Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers in the 1940s and 1950s. His band appeared often on the Billboard magazine charts. Joe Liggins was the older brother of R’n’B performer Jimmy Liggins. Joe is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Wingy Manone (Joseph Matthews Manone ) was a one-armed New Orleans, American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Listen…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Art Tatum was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum’s technical ability as extraordinary. Tatum also extended jazz piano’s vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his initial stride influences, and established new ground through innovative use of reharmonization, voicing, and bitonality. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Rex Stewart was an American jazz cornetist, composer and chef. You’ll hear him on live 1920s-40s radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Listen here…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition written by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band. It premiered at Aeolian Hall NYC on 12 February 1924, 100 years and one day ago today, and for that reason its your Phantom Dancer feature this week. Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Listen…
| 12:00 pm - 12:00 am | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
The Eskimo Pie Orchestra is one of a number of US orchestras named for commercial products in the 1920s. These include the B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Tyre Orchestra, The Ipana Troubadours, Michelin Tyre Orchestra, and The Studebaker Champions. The Eskimo Pie Orchestra is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. Listen…
| 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | |
| Carrington Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| 170 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls | |
| Event website |
Greg Poppleton returns by popular demand to the highlight of the Blue Mountains 1920s Festival – the Great Art Deco Ball – celebrating 14 years in 2024.
The Carrington Hotel, known for its Timeless Elegance, is holding the famous Art Deco Ball on Saturday 3th February 2024.
If you are looking for a night out with dinner, dancing and a dazzling Hollywood entertainment experience ‘1920’s style’ then you don’t want to miss the annual Great Art Deco Ball. Book now
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Billie Holiday was an American singer. Around 1927 she first heard the records of Louis Armstrong and she cited his “West End Blues” as an influence, saying the scat vocal duet with the clarinet was her favorite part. You can hear Louis Armstrong performing ‘West End Blues’ for her and dedicating ‘Kiss to Build a Dream On’ to her in a 1952 KCBS San Francisco broadcast in one of the videos on this page. Billie Holiday is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Henry Hall was an English pianist, composer and the director of the BBC Dance Orchestra from 1932-37. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. Listen…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Hans Rehmstedt was a 1930s-40s German swing band leader and violinist. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He recorded some moody atmospheric sides in the late 30s- early 40s, some of which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer Listen here…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Jack Hylton was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario. Called the “British King of Jazz” and “The Ambassador of British Dance Music” because of his worldwide popularity, unusually large ensembles and polished arrangements. After 1940 he became a successful theatrical businessman. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
George Olsen, was a U.S musician and bandleader. He was most popular in the years 1924-35, beginning with his recording of ‘The Hottest Man in Town’ becoming a hit. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. Listen…
| Private | |
| Directions |
Greg Poppleton and his 1920s trio play for a wedding ceremony and reception. Piano alone for the ceremony. Band for reception.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Happy New Year! Enjoy this New Year’s mix of swing and jazz from 1930s-50s New Year Radio. And marvel at how Wynn the Astrologer on his live-to-air 1936 radio predictions got 1937 so wrong. Listen…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Christmas music from 1930s-60s Christmas radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Hear Kid Ory, Charlie Parker, Patti Page and more. Listen…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Freddie Rich, born in Poland, was a US pianist and band leader who lead dance bands then jazz bands in the 1920s, radio bands in the 1930s, and movie studio bands in the 1940s-50s. Freddie Rich was co-writer of the song ‘I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers’. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. Listen…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
1940 Shortwave radio by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from New York to Latin America is your Phantom Dancer Feature this week. And below are some relevant paragraphs on shortwave broadcasting taken from a 1942 article in ‘RCA Review’.
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.
| 6:30 pm - 7:15 pm | |
| Merrigong Theatre Wollongong | |
| Directions |
Greg Poppleton with his 1930s Trio play at the launch of the Merrigong Theatre 2024 season, Wollongong, Tuesday night 28 November
| 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | |
| Hills Marketplace | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
Hills Marketplace Terrey Hills celebrates its 100th Anniversary with jazz, Sun 26 November. The Greg Poppleton 1920s Band will be there 1-3pm
| Sydney Town Hall | |
| Directions |
Greg Poppleton’s 1920s-30s band and back, Friday 24 November, Lower Sydney Town Hall, for the 2023 City of Sydney Seniors’ Christmas Concert.
| 8:35 am - 12:00 pm | |
| State Library of NSW | |
| Directions |
Tune in, tomorrow, Thursday 23 November, to enjoy Greg Poppleton and his Broadcasters sing and play the songs of the 1920s for the 100th Anniversary of Radio in Australia.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Harold ‘Scrappy’ Lambert was not a scrapper nor scrappy. He was a US dance band singer who recorded over 1,500 records between 1926 – 1931 as well as radio transcriptions and musical movie shorts. He is your Phantom Dancer Feature Artist this week. Tune in…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Ginny Simms was a US singer, radio star and Hollywood actress. She sang with big bands, Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Jo Stafford. As an MGM and Universal film actress she appeared in 11 movies from 1939 to 1951. Ginny Simms is your Phantom Dancer Feature artist this week. Tune in…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Del Courtney was a pianist, bandleader, actor and composer whose career spanned 70 years. He played for four US presidents. He is your Phantom Dancer Feature artist this week. LISTEN here…
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Red Nichols was a cornetist, songwriter and band leader.
He is this week’s Phantom Dancer Feature artist.
The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.
LISTEN here…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Jack Fina was a pianist, songwriter (“Bumble Boogie”), composer and conductor. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer Feature artist.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Horace Heidt produced some of the best-known tunes of the Big Band Era including the 1941 international hit, The Hut-Sut Song. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer Feature artist.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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W Lee O’Daniel was a Western Swing band leader, singer and composer, politician and this week’s Phantom Dancer Feature Artist. Also from 1944 on this PD, you’ll also hear beatnik word jazz man Ken Nordine as a CBS radio announcer in Chicago. Tune in…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They made the first known record of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” in 1923 and are this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Martin Denny was the Father of Exotica and is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was an American pianist, percussionist, composer and arranger writing and playing Lounge Music that celebrated Tiki Culture. Read his story, see show play list here…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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2SER Radiothon is raising money for community radio 2SER. Today is your last chance to subscribe during The Phantom Dancer. Call 02 9514 9500 or vist https://www.2ser.com to support community radio.
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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2SER Radiothon runs from Friday September 8. The Phantom Dancer will be live with a fresh mix for you on both Tuesdays and Saturdays during Radiothon. Subscribe to 2SER now https://2ser.com/supporterform/
| 12:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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2SER is having its radiothon. It’s your chance to win some great prizes when you subscribe or renew your subscription during The Phantom Dancer.
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The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
2SER Radiothon runs from Friday September 8. The Phantom Dancer will be live with a fresh mix for you on both Tuesdays and Saturdays during Radiothon. Subscribe to 2SER now https://2ser.com/supporterform/
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Lee Wiley was a Cherokee jazz singer who broadcast on radio and recorded albums in the 1930s-50s. She is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. Choon in…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Adolf Steimel was a German dance band leader, composer, organist and pianist. He is known for Wir machen Musik (1942), Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (1944) and Einmaleins der Ehe (1949).
Hear him on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm | |
| Pelicans Room, Caloundra Power Boat Club | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| 22.50 dollars | |
| Event website |
Come join me and my friends for two great jazz shows 6pm Saturday 19 August & 1pm Sunday 20 August at Sunshine Coast Jazz Club. Book now In keeping with the Sunshine Coast Jazz Club’s motto, “Putting Sunshine into Jazz”, the SSJC brings you Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton and 6-piece swing band […]
| 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Pelicans Room, Caloundra Power Boat Club | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| 50 dollars | |
| Event website |
Come join me and my friends for two great jazz shows 6pm Saturday 19 August & 1pm Sunday 20 August at Sunshine Coast Jazz Club. Book now In keeping with the Sunshine Coast Jazz Club’s motto, “Putting Sunshine into Jazz”, the SSJC brings you Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton and 6-piece swing band […]
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Dave Lambert was an American jazz lyricist, singer, and an originator of vocalese. He was best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Lambert spent a lifetime experimenting with the human voice and expanding the possibilities of its use within jazz.
Buddy Stewart (born Albert James Byrne Jr.) was an American jazz singer.
Both Lambert and Stewart were killed in car crashes (1966 & 1950 respectively)
Hear them on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five was a jazz combo led by bandleader ‘King of the Clarinet’, swing band leader and composer, Artie Shaw. It’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. The Gramercy Five had different line-ups when it ran between 1940 and 1954. After his Australian tour in 1954, Shaw gave up clarinet and the Gramercy Five, saying he’d done all he could with it. Hear the 5 on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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The Valtonen Sisters, who also recorded under the name Harmony Sisters, is your Phantom Dancer feature artist, The sisters, Vera, Maire and Raija were Karelians whose family moved to Finland after the 1917 Russian Revolution. They sang in ten languages in a career spanning 1934-54. Hear them on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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It’s All in the Game is a hit pop song and this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. It’s the only pop song written by a US Vice President and Nobel Prize laureate. His name is Charles G Dawes and he ended up hating the song. Hear it on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Guy Lombardo Canadian and American bandleader of the ‘sweetest music this side of heaven’, violinist, hydroplane racer and leader of Louis Armstrong’s favourite orchestra is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Hear him on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Cellos, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| 150 dollars | |
| Event website |
Sorcery & Swing – magical illusions, 1920s jazz band for listening and dancing, champagne & canapes on arrival + 3-course dinner! Book now
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Mary Lou Williams was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records versions. She wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was a mentor and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. Hear her on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | |
| 702 ABC Radio Sydney | |
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Talking Women Jazz instrumentalists from the 1930s-50s with Simon Marnie on Sonic Journey, 11am – 12noon 702 ABC Radio Sydney.
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Charlie Christian is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was an American swing and jazz guitarist and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. Hear him live on 1940 radio…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Australian jazz from the 1920s-30s is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Listen here for Frank Coughlan, Jimmie Elkins and more…
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| Bondi Pavilion High Tide Room | |
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At Bondi Pavilion, Classic Hits celebrate Make Music Day with Greg Poppleton singing the swing jazz songs of the 1920s and 1930s
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Hans Rehmstedt was a 1930s-40s German swing band leader and violinist. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He recorded some moody atmospheric sides in the late 30s- early 40s, some of which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Listen here…
| 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Harold Park Hotel | |
| Directions |
PLAYERS IN THE PUB presents JUSTICE by John Galsworthy (Nobel Laureate 1932 and author of The Forsythe Saga)
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | |
| State Library of NSW | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
Join us for an evening celebrating Nellie Small – singer, entertainer and cross-dresser extraordinaire
| 12:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Australian Jazz 1930s-50s is your Phantom Dancer feature this week. I’ll be giving a talk on jazz in Sydney in the 1930s-50s as part of ‘Send for Nellie’ by playwright Alana Valentine about singer Nellie Small at the State Library of NSW 6-8pm, Thursday 15 June. TIX and More Info + Radio Show here
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Arnošt Kavka is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. He was a Czech swing singer and composer who you’ll hear with Karel Vlach’s Orchestra and the Allan Sisters in records made between 1939-44. Listen here…
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week is ‘father of the blues’, W C Handy, who you’ll hear speaking on live 1941 radio. Listen here
| 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| New Theatre | |
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All My Sons by Arthur Miller, with Greg Poppleton as Joe Kellner, a story of greed and cowardice, on stage New Theatre 25 April – 27 May
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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This week’s Phantom Dancer is a non-stop swing jazz mix from live 1930s-50s radio. Listen here…
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Rex Stewart was an American jazz cornetist, composer and chef. You’ll hear him on live 1920s-40s radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Stan Getz was an American, jazz tenor saxophonist, known as “The Sound” because of his warm, lyrical tone. Getz played bebop, cool jazz groups and helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single “The Girl from Ipanema”. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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The Sestry Allanovy (Allan Sisters) were a Czech vocal trio formed in 1940. They were together until 1967. They’re this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Enoch Light swing band leader, violinist, lounge music wizard and recording engineer, inventor of the ‘ping-pong sound’ on 1950s-60s hi-fi records, gatefold albums and distinctive commissioned album art, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Bud Freeman: bandleader and composer is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Bud Freeman was one of the first tenor saxophonists in jazz along with Coleman Hawkins. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.
| 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Cellos, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh St Sydney | |
| Directions | |
| 150 dollars | |
| Event website |
Sorcery & Swing – magical illusions, 1920s jazz band for listening and dancing, champagne & canapes on arrival + 3-course dinner! Book now
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Bunny Berigan was one of the virtuoso jazz trumpeters of the Swing Era. He also sang. He’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Paul Douglas, 1930s CBS announcer and later Broadway and Hollywood film star, is this week’s Phantom Dancer swing jazz feature artist. He opens this week’s show. Hear the show, watch him, read his story here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
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Jack Teagarden was one of the great trombonists of the 1930s-50s and a laid-back jazz singer. He’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday […]
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | |
| ABC Radio Sydney | |
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Greg Poppleton talks about 1930s-composer Raymond Scott on Sonic Jouney with Simon Marnie, ABC radio Sydney
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
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Jean Sablon was the most widely acclaimed male French singer of his generation in the world after Maurice Chavalier. He’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Carson Robison was a two-tone whistler, guitarist, banjoist, singer and composer. He recorded the first country record, early rap, and popularised radio via his radio shows. And he is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Listen here…
| Private Venue | |
| Directions |
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Hans Rehmstedt was a 1930s-40s German swing band leader and violinist. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He recorded some moody atmospheric sides in the late 30s- early 40s, some of which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Enoch Light swing band leader, violinist, lounge music wizard and recording engineer, inventor of the ‘ping-pong sound’ on 1950s-60s hi-fi records, gatefold albums and distinctive commissioned album art, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Chubby Jackson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was an American jazz double-bassist and band leader. Listen here…
| 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | |
| Carrington Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| 150 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls | |
| Event website |
Great Art Deco Ball – Greg Poppleton brings authentic 1920s music to the timeless elegance of the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Ernest Hutcheson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1936. He was an internationally renowned concert pianist born in Australia and was president of Juilliard, the prestigious Arts school in New York City. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
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Bud Freeman was an American jazz musician, bandleader and composer. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Bud Freeman was one of the first tenor saxophonists in jazz along with Coleman Hawkins. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
The King’s Jesters, billed as America’s ‘biggest little band’ is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists. They were a vocal group who accompanied themselves on guitar, banjo and other instruments and with orchestra. They were household names in the 1930s and early 1940s. Read their story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
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Flip Philips is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Joseph Edward Filippelli aka Flip Philips was a jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinettist who played swing, big band and Stravinsky. Listen here…
| UK Radio | |
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Harry & Edna, Britain’s ‘1940s Radio Sweethearts’ interview Greg Poppleton about his latest album on the Harry & Edna Wireless Show
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
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Waltzing Matilda in swing from World War 2 is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
New Year’s Eve radio from live 1945-71 swing & jazz radio
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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New Year radio from NBC’s ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ radio plus Swing and jazz programming from the Christmas season is the focus for the first part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Christmas radio carols from 1930s – 50s radio plus pop music programming from the season is the focus for the first part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. The first part of the Phantom Dancer is nationally networked and will be on radio across Australia from 19 November. Listen here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Gus Arnheim was a popular US band leader, composer and pianist. Bing Crosby first achieved solo popularity singing with the Arnheim band. You’ll hear Bing sing live with Arnheim on live 1931 radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Gus Arnheim is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Listen here…
| 11:00 am - 2:00 pm | |
| Sydney Town Hall | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
Greg Poppleton’s 1920s-30s band entertain, Friday 2 December at Sydney Town Hall for the 2022 Christmas Concert.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Freddy Martin was a U.S band leader and tenor saxophonist. His singing saxophone and his orchestra became one of the most popular and musical sweet bands. He made his first recording in 1930 and was leading bands until 1983. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Tony Bennett, singer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear him and his music in a 1955 interview. Bennett has released over 70 albums during his career. The biggest selling of these in the U.S. have been I Left My Heart in San Francisco, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, and Duets: An American Classic, all of which went platinum for shipping one million copies. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Spike Jones is this week’s Phantom dancer feature artist. He was a US drummer, percussionist and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Billy Maxted, U.S jazz arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He wrote for Benny Goodman, Red Nichols and Claude Thornhill and led his own Dixieland band in the 1950s which we’ll hear live on this week’s Phantom Dancer.Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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Tadd Dameron, U.S jazz composer, arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was the most influential arranger of the bebop era. He also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
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St Louis Blues features on this Tuesday’s annual 2SER radiothon Phantom Dancer. Time to subscribe and support 2SER community radio. Now is your moment to win great prizes when you pledge your support to 2SER which has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton since 1985.
| 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| Roughly House Grounds, Dural | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| 22 dollars | |
| Dress code: Bring your picnic basket | |
| Event website |
Jazz at The Pines, the much-loved monthly jazz picnic, returns to Dural after being put on pause due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Ticket prices are still the same as they were in 2018! Jazz at the Pines in October features Greg Poppleton’s 1920s-30s Music.
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
A live Saturday Phantom Dancers swing mix for the 2022 2SER Radiothon – your chance to win great prizes when you pledge your support to this community radio station. 2SER has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton since 1985. This week’s show is a Big Band-a-thon – all from 1944-51 radio.
The Greg Poppleton 1920s-1930s jazz and swing is available for: – corporate events – Christmas parties – New Years parties – House parties – Weddings – Birthdays All occasions. To get your quote, contact Tony Jex, 0407 941 263 – tony@ozmanagement.com
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
2SER Radiothon comes by but 2 weeks a year. It’s your chance to win great prizes when you pledge your support to this community radio station. 2SER has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton since 1985. This week’s show is a Honeysuckle Rose-a-thon – all from vinyl 1930s-60s radio transcriptions.
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Illawarra Leagues Club | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| 10 dollars |
Illawarra Jazz Club presents Greg Poppleton 1920s-30s swing and jazz for listening and dancing at:
Collegians Illawarra Leagues Club
| 6:30 pm | |
| Kelvin Club | |
| Directions | |
| 95 dollars | |
| Event website |
Sorcery and Swing comes to Melboirne, 7 October. The Kelvin Club will tranform into a “Roaring Twenties” speakeasy for this not-to-be-missed event! Book Now: pearls@kelvinclub.com or (03) 9654 5711
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Lenny Herman accordianist and xylophonist led what was dubbed ‘The Mightiest Little Band in the Land’ in the 1940s and 50s. For fans of 1950s Lounge Music albums, here’s one of those bent easy listening orchestras live on 1948 and 1957 radio as this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Chiemi Eri was a Japanese actor and singer of folk songs and jazz. She is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, on which she even sings a Turkish folk song.Read her story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Johnny Ace, R’n’B star from the early 1950s, known as ‘The Tear Beat on the Blue Note’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story and play list, see videos, hear the radio show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ted Fio Rito band leader, composer and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription. Read story, play list, watch Cocoanut Grove videos and listen to show here.
| 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| SOLD OUT Cellos, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Dance floor | |
| 150 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls | |
| Event website |
Sorcery and Swing Speakeasy – 1920s music and magic, champagne and canapes, three course dinner, drinks package and dance floor at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | |
| 702 ABC Radio Sydney | |
| Directions |
Sonic Journey with Simon Marnie, 10 September, I chat about obscure women swing and jazz singers who broadcast live on 1930s-50s radio.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story and play list, see videos, hear the radio show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Charlie Shavers was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey. and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger and composer. One of his songs, “Undecided”, is a jazz standard. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Bud Freeman was an American jazz musician, bandleader and composer. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Bud Freeman was one of the first tenor saxophonists in jazz along with Coleman Hawkins. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
The King’s Jesters, billed as America’s ‘biggest little band’ is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists. They were a vocal group who accompanied themselves on guitar, banjo and other instruments and with orchestra. They were household names in the 1930s and early 1940s. Read their story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Jones and Hare, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, were a vocal duo who sang novelty songs, popular on radio in the 1920s and continuing on radio up to 1939. Billy Jones (1889-1940) was a tenor and Ernie Hare was a bass/baritone (1883-1939). They’re this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists. Read their story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Phil Napoleon, pioneer jazz trumpeter and band leader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Sammy Davis Jnr, singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and tv director is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Don Redman is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Don Redman was a U.S jazz musician, arranger, bandleader and composer. The inventor of swing. Hear him in a rare, static-filled 1933 home radio disc recording. Read his story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Richard Maltby Snr, trumpeter, band leader, composer, conductor and arranger is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He is most famous for his 1956 recording, “Themes from (the movie) The Man With The Golden Arm”. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Tony Bennett, singer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear him and his music in a 1955 interview. Bennett has released over 70 albums during his career. The biggest selling of these in the U.S. have been I Left My Heart in San Francisco, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, and Duets: An American Classic, all of which went platinum for shipping one million copies. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Spike Jones is this week’s Phantom dancer feature artist. He was a US drummer, percussionist and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Lionel Hampton, this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ted Fio Rito band leader, composer and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription. Read story, play list, watch Cocoanut Grove videos and listen to show here.
| Private | |
| Directions |
21st birthday wishes to XX who has booked Greg Poppleton, 1920s-30s singer and jazz band to play for their 21st birthday party today.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Leith Stevens is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Leith Stevens was a composer and music director. He worked on 1930s radio series like ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’, film scores like the 1953 Brando classic, ‘The Wild Ones’, and 1960s TV including ‘Mission Impossible’. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Charlie Parker is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Charlie Parker was an influential alto sax soloist and key in the development of bebop. He said that he spent three to four years practicing up to 15 hours a day in the mid-1930s. And it was while practicing and experimenting on his alto sax in 1939 that he created his unique sound. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Mabel King, r’n’b singer, actor in film, TV and Broadway is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read her story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
The Ahad Duo, 1920s-30s Sydney Hawaiian Duo, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read their story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Bob Crosby is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Also hear Cab Calloway, Afro-Cuban Machito, Women in Jazz and WW2 Russian swing. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 1:45 pm - 3:30 am | |
| Malachi Gilmore Hall | |
| Directions | |
| 50 dollars | |
| Event website |
The Rivoli 10th April with The Dancemakers’ Collective and the Greg Poppleton Trio (Greg Poppleton 1920s vocals, Grahame Conlon guitar and banjo, Cazzbo Johns sousaphone), a hit of the 2020 Sydney Festival, comes to beautifully restored Art Deco Malachi Gilmore Hall in Oberon.
| 7:45 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Malachi Gilmore Hall | |
| Directions | |
| 53 dollars | |
| Event website |
The Rivoli 9th April with The Dancemakers’ Collective and the Greg Poppleton Trio (Greg Poppleton 1920s vocals, Grahame Conlon guitar and banjo, Cazzbo Johns sousaphone), a hit of the 2020 Sydney Festival, comes to beautifully restored Art Deco Malachi Gilmore Hall in Oberon.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Teddy Powell (Teodoro Paolella) is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. For a few weeks in 1939 he lead one of the most popular big bands in swing. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | |
| Carrington Hotel, 15-47 Katoomba St Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW 2780 | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| 150 dollars | |
| Event website |
This year the Carrington Hotel’s famous Art Deco Ball with Greg Poppleton has moved to Saturday 2nd April. If you are looking for a night out with dinner, dancing and a dazzling Hollywood entertainment experience ‘1920’s style’ then you don’t want to miss this event.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Buddy Clark, 1930s singer and plane enthusiast who died in a plane crash on an LA street is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, watch videos, see playlist and listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Margaret Whiting, singer and cabaret coach is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read her story, watch videos, see playlist & listen to show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Rare 1920s radio is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read the story of these radio experiments, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Women jazz and swing musicians, radio announcers and singers from live 1930s-50s radio are this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists for International Women’s Day. Read their story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Rosemary Clooney, 1950s pop star and post 60s jazz singer had an incredible voice despite heavy smoking which finally made the end of her life painful before killing her.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Shuffle Rhythm is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer with 1944-45 broadcasts by Henry Busse and Jan Savitt
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Les Paul and Mary Ford are this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists. Les was a jazz guitarist. Mary was a country guitarist. Together, they pioneered multitracking and had a string of hits in the 1950s. Read their story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Clifford Brown is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Clifford Brown was an outstanding jazz trumpeter who in a career spanning only a few years became a jazz sensation. See playlist, story, watch Clifford Brown videos, hear show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Don Redman is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Don Redman was a U.S jazz musician, arranger, bandleader and composer. The inventor of swing. Hear him in a rare, static-filled 1933 home radio disc recording. Read his story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story and play list, see videos, hear the radio show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Meredith Willson, this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, was a piccolo and flute virtuoso who played in John Philip Sousa’s band, the New York Philharmonic under Arturo Toscanini, composed popular music and 3 Broadway shows including ‘The Music Man’, was a two time Academy Award nominee, wrote three books and conducted the Armed Forces Radio Service Orchestra during WW2. Read his story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Med School dropout Eddy Howard, singer, band leader and composer of ‘Careless’ (his theme song), ‘If I Knew Then’, ‘My Last Goodbye’, and ‘A Million Years Ago’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Cocoanut Grove 1934 radio features on this week’s Phantom Dancer with band leader Ted Fio Rito. Read the Cocoanut Grove story, play list, watch Cocoanut Grove videos and listen to show here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Yao Lee, Hong Kong’s Patti Page is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Her most famous song opens this week’s Phantom Dancer. The first hour for the national show then continues with a mix of swing by Harry James, vocals by Giselle McKenzie, Rhythm and Blues from a 1951 radio aircheck, and live radio hard bop by Miles Davis and John Coltrane aired in 1958.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
1958 New Years radio and TV features in the first (nationally networked) part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. See 1958 New Year videos from NY, London and Bucharest. Listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Christmas songs and Christmas themed 1930s-50s radio features in the first (nationally networked) part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. Listen to the show here…
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro |
What are you doing this Saturday? We’ll be having fun with songs from the 1920s-30s at Penrith RSL. It’s free and you’re invited. 2-5pm, this Saturday 11 December. First 5,000 at door get in FREE.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Little Jack Little is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Born John Leonard
in London, he was a British-born American composer, singer, pianist, actor and songwriter. Read his story, see videos and play list, and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Gogo DeLys, Canadian band singer in the US and actor, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read her story, see videos and play list, and listen to the show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Hotel Astor in New York City, the source of many a big band broadcast on The Phantom Dancer is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Starting in the 1910s, the Astor Bar acquired a reputation as a gay meeting place, where gay patrons were both accepted and extorted. Read the story, see videos and play list, and hear show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. It was a collective that was the top swing band before Benny Goodman. Loved for its complex, danceable arrangements, Coleman Hawkins named it as his favourite band. Read their story, see videos and play list, and hear show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ray Miller, popular 1920s band leader and tromobonist, whose jazz band was the first to play at the White House (in 1924) is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. See story, videos, play list and show here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Garwood Van, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Songwriter of ‘Time to Dream’ and dance band leader from 1936, Garwood Van also was an actor in ‘Love on Tap’ (1939).. Read his story, see videos and play list, and hear show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Coon-Sanders Nightwaks from 1929 radio is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story, see videos, read play list and hear show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
2SER is the place where so many amazing things happen! It’s the place where we share incredible music. Subscribe to 2SER and be in the draw for major prizes on Week 2 of the 2SER radiothon…
| 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| Jazz at the Pines | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| 22 dollars | |
| Dress code: Bring your picnic basket | |
| Event website |
Jazz at the Pines has Greg Poppleton for its October Jazz picnic. Bring your picnic. Relax under the beautiful pines at Roughley House, Dural
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
2SER is the place where so many amazing things happen! It’s the place where we share incredible music. Subscribe to 2SER and be in the draw for major prizes on this week’s 2SER radiothon…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Steel Guitar in 1930s-40s German Pop music, off radio and recordings, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story, see videos, read play list and hear show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Southern Louisiana music, off the radio is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. You’ll hear Cajun and New Orleans jazz from 1950s and 60 radio. Read the story, see Hal Kemp videos, read play list and hear show here…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story and play list, see videos, hear the radio show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Clifford Brown is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Clifford Brown was an outstanding jazz trumpeter who in a career spanning only a few years became a jazz sensation. See playlist, story, watch Clifford Brown videos, hear show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Shuffle Rhythm is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer with 1944-45 broadcasts by Henry Busse and Jan Savitt
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
John Kirby, double bassist, tuba and trombone player, 1930s proponent of ‘Chamber Jazz’, Bach fan, and band leader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. Read his story, see videos, see the radio playlist and listen to the show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Benny Goodman goes Bop from live 1948-49 radio is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. Read the story, see videos, hear the show from 24 August 2021 on 2SER
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Phil Harris is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Wonga Phil Harris was a drummer, band leader, singer, comedian, actor, Academy Award winner and voice-over artist.
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| Facebook Live | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
Facebook Live Greg Poppleton – an encore concert of 1920s and 1930s songs by singer Greg poppleton and Grahame Conlon on guitar/banjo.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Martha Tilton is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. She was a US pop singer during the Swing Era and into the 1960s who found fame as Benny Goodman’s singer from 1937-39.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Doc Cheatham is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader. You’ll hear a set of bands he played in from live radio broadcasts, and a set of 1930s Cab Calloway in which band Cheatham played 1st trumpet. This is another classic Phantom Dancer as Sydney stays in lockdown. Also read the Doc Cheatham story here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Rosemary Clooney, 1950s pop star and post 60s jazz singer had an incredible voice despite heavy smoking which finally made the end of her life painful before killing her.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Baby Rose Marie, singer, stage, film and TV star had an extraordinary 91 year showbiz career. See videos of Rose Marie from age 5 onwards. Read a short bio, play list, hear the show from 20 July
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Happy 500th National show, Phantom Dancer! This week’s show mixed by Greg Poppleton features Bob Crosby, Cab Calloway, Afro-Cuban Machito, Women in Jazz and WW2 Russian swing.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Alix Combelle, French 1930s-40s swing saxophonist and band leader, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. The Phantom Dancer, produced weekly by Greg Poppleton, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Bud Freeman, is the Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. You’ll hear his Summa cum Laude Orchestra from a 1940s radio broadcast. He was known for his improvisations on tenor sax and I quote from his tips on improvisation here. Read the story, play list, watch videos and hear the radio show here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Hal Kemp, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear his dance orchestra in broadcasts from 1934 to 1939. Read his story, see Hal Kemp videos, read play list and hear show here…
| 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Cellos, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| 125 dollars | |
| Event website |
Sorcery and Swing at the Sydney Solstice Speakeasy, Cellos, Castlereagh Boutique Hotel. 1920s songs by Greg Poppleton. Magic by Bruce Glen. Champagne, canapes on arrival. Sumptuous 3 course dinner. Bar and dance floor.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Linda Keene, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear two songs by Linda singing with Jack Teagarden’s Orchestra in an aircheck from 1939. See links to her story compiled throgh extensive research by The False Ducks Blahg
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
Edmundo Ros, Rumba King, led a highly popular Latin American orchestra, made over 800 records, and owned one of London’s leading nightclubs. He’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, play list, see videos and listen to the show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Louis Prima, band leader, composer and trumpeter is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, see videos, read the play list and hear the show from 25 May here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Barbara James, Australian dance band singer features on this week’s Phantom Dancer with some of her broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. This is a repeat of a 2018 mix. Read the Barbrara James story, Phantom Dancer play list and hear the show after 18 May here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ted Fio Rito band leader, composer and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription. Read story, play list, watch Cocoanut Grove videos and listen to show here.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ray Miller, popular 1920s band leader and trombonist, whose jazz band was the first to play at the White House (in 1924) is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Visit for story, videos, play list and show here.
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL 8 Tindale St Penrith | |
| Directions | |
| Over 18 only | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro |
Penrith RSL Saturday Jazz has 1920s-30s singer, Greg Poppleton, and his swinging trio, back for a laid-back afternoon of music and dancing
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Turk Murphy, San Francisco Great Revival trad trombonist, singer, composer, arranger, and union band leader who looked after his musicians is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Lester Young, jazz tenor saxophonist called ‘The Prez’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from live 1940s-50s broadcasts. Young was one of the most influential saxophinists, playing “a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs that pleased dancers and listeners alike”. Alcohol killed him.
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Ruth Etting was a US singer/actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She never had voice lessons and had over 60 hit recordings. She worked on stage, radio and film. She was known as ‘America’s Radio Sweetheart’ and was also involved in a famous case of domestic violence with her mobster first husband. Read her story, Phantom Dancer play list, see videos and listen to the show here
| 12:04 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story and play list, see videos, hear the radio show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Clifford Brown is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Clifford Brown was an outstanding jazz trumpeter who in a career spanning only a few years became a jazz sensation. See playlist, story, watch Clifford Brown videos, hear show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Shuffle Rhythm is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer with 1944-45 broadcasts by Henry Busse and Jan Savitt
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
John Kirby, double bassist, tuba and trombone player, 1930s proponent of ‘Chamber Jazz’, Bach fan, and band leader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. Read his story, see videos, see the radio playlist and listen to the show here
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
Benny Goodman goes Bop from live 1948-49 radio is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. Read the story, see videos, hear the show from 2 March 2021 on 2SER
| 12:04 pm | |
| 2SER 107.3 | |
| Directions |
Phil Harris is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Wonga Phil Harris was a drummer, band leader, singer, comedian, actor, Academy Award winner and voice-over artist.
Hear him on Greg Poppleton’s award-winning Phantom Dancer radio show. Every Tuesday on 107.3 2SER Sydney and online.
| 11:00 am - 1:30 pm | |
| Cathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Dress code: Dress in your Sunday best and enjoy a long lunch on the lawn. | |
| Event website |
Deco Park Picnic, inspired by 1920s summer picnics, dining al fresco with friends & family. Greg Poppleton 1920s-30s Trio 11:30am-1:30pm
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL 8 Tindale St Penrith | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
Penrith RSL Saturday Jazz 21 Nov, 2-5pm, Greg Poppleton and band sing and play the songs of the 1920s-30s for a laidback afternoon of jazz and swing
| Jazz at the Pines, Roughley House, 656a Old Northern Road, Dural CANCELLED | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Bistro | |
| 22 dollars | |
| Dress code: CANCELLED UNTIL 2021 | |
| Event website |
CANCELLED due to Covid. All Jazz at the Pine shows now cancelled for 2020. We look forward to playing 1920s-30s songs for you at JatP in 2021!
Ray Noble, English band leader and composer who found a career as a band leader and actor in the US, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| https://www.facebook.com/WhatsOnWaverley | |
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Facebook Live. I’ll serenade you with 1920s – 30s songs. Grahame Conlon’s on guitar and banjo. Live on Waverley Council’s facebook page. Turn on, Tune in, No Drop-outs!
The JAZZ BANANA is overlooked by writers on the music despite it requiring advanced vocal technique and it being tastier than vocalese.
Greg Poppleton singer, Damon Poppleton alto sax. Recorded Wednesday, 29 April 2020. This is the last 1920s-30s Wednesday. Damon’s back at school.
| Every Wednesday a new 1920s-30s song for you sung online by Greg Poppleton, alto sax by Damon Poppleton. Watch the video by clicking the red More button. | |
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Sunny Side of the Street sung by Greg Poppleton, alto sax by Damon Poppleton, kicks off 1920s-30s Wednesdays. Next week we’ll play The Charleston for you.
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL, 8 Tindale St, Penrith | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Dress code: Casual |
The Greg Poppleton quartet will be at Penrith RSL, 8 Tindale St, Penrith. FREE. Dance floor and bistro plus drinks are at club prices. Child friendly.
| Roughley House, 656A Old Northern Rd, Dural NSW 2158 | |
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| 22 dollars | |
| Dress code: Cancelled | |
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Cancelled. Bring your picnic and relax under the beautiful pine trees in the grounds of Roughley House as Greg Poppleton and band entertain you with 1920s-30s jazz.
| 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| Private | |
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Greg Poppleton sings the songs of the 1920s and 1930s with his quartet at a birthday party. We celebrated with the birthday person 10 years ago, too.
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Granville Town Hall, 10 Carlton St, Granville NSW 2142 | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| 39 dollars | |
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Dance Makers Collective present the world premiere of The Rivoli for Sydney Festival 2020 at Granville Town Hall with Greg Poppleton’s trio
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Granville Town Hall, 10 Carlton St, Granville NSW 2142 | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| 18 dollars | |
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Dance Makers Collective present the world premiere of The Rivoli for Sydney Festival 2020 at Granville Town Hall with Greg Poppleton’s trio
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Granville Town Hall, 10 Carlton St, Granville NSW 2142 | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| 39 dollars | |
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Dance Makers Collective present the world premiere of The Rivoli for Sydney Festival 2020 at Granville Town Hall with Greg Poppleton’s trio
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Granville Town Hall, 10 Carlton St, Granville NSW 2142 | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| 39 dollars | |
| Event website |
Dance Makers Collective present the world premiere of The Rivoli for Sydney Festival 2020 at Granville Town Hall with Greg Poppleton’s trio
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL, 8 Tindale St, Penrith NSW 2750 | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Dress code: Casual |
The Greg Poppleton quartet will be at Penrith RSL, 8 Tindale St, Penrith. FREE. Dance floor and bistro plus drinks are at club prices. Child friendly.
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| Unanderra Hotel, 27 Central Rd, Unanderra NSW 2526 | |
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Back by popular demand, this consummate entertainer will have you tapping your toes, kicking up your heels and just having a bloody great time. Greg is a well loved and respected musician, entertainer, actor and genuinely nice guy. You won’t regret seeing this amazing quintet. The Band – Greg Poppleton (1920s-30s Vocals), Damon Poppleton (Alto Sax), PaulBaker (Banjo), Richelle (Bootsie) Booth (BassSax/Clarinet), Adam Barnard (Washboard).
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
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Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s.
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| Bondi Pavilion | |
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| All ages | |
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| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s.
| 10:00 am - 2:00 pm | |
| Sydney Central Station | |
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Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s on the Central Station Country Trains Concourse 8 – 10 June for the Sydney Central Station Transport Heritage Expo. Music free. Buy tickets for steam and diesel heritage train rides. The NSW Rail Museum will be operating steam train rides […]
| 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
Greg Poppleton’s 1920s quartet bring Gatsby style speakeasy jazz to a Conference Dinner.
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
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4-piece band with Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer entertain for a Birthday Party in a historic hotel.
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s.
| 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm | |
| Jazz At The Pines | |
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| All ages | |
| Bar | |
| 20 dollars | |
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Bring a picnic. Book a table with chairs. Parking. Kiosk. $20 Adults / $15 Concession / $40 Family
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| Unanderra Hotel | |
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| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro |
Greg Poppleton’s 1920s-30s Quintet play for dancers for Saturday Jazz at the Unanderra Hotel. Walking distance from the train to Hotel is only 240 m (3 mins).
| 7:00 pm - 1:00 am | |
| 12-Micron | |
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| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| 190 dollars |
Bring in the New Year 1920s style with drinking, dancing and live music on the harbour. Greg Poppleton’s 1920s Quartet entertains 9 – 11pm. Guests will enjoy a 4 hour Great Gatsby themed beverage and canapé package with live music while you dance and indulge the night away with stunning views of the harbour. Fireworks […]
| 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm | |
| Slide Cabaret | |
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| Dance floor | |
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| Bistro | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls. |
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Greg Poppleton’s 1920s Trio opens the night. Feast, dance and play at the ultimate 1920’s dinner party. It’s as hot as one of Gatsby’s parties, it’s The Gin Mill Social! The fun never stops as live swing musicians play all night long and vaudeville performers pop up to entertain when you […]
| 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | |
| Sidney Town Hall (lower ballroom) | |
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Greg Poppleton’s Jazz Deco Sextet returns to the Lower Sydney Town Hall Ballroom to get the joint jumping.
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | |
| Private | |
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| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
| Directions | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s.
| 8:00 am - 1:30 pm | |
| Country Terminal | |
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Enjoy this scenic day trip aboard a heritage train from Sydney to Robertson or Moss Vale and return via the South Coast and Illawarra escarpment. Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s singer will individually serenade you with songs from the 1920s as you travel to Moss Vale. Travel in your choice of Standard or Premier […]
| 10:00 am - 12:10 pm | |
| Country Terminal | |
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Enjoy a scenic day trip to the Blue Mountains aboard a heritage train from Sydney to Medlow Bath for High Tea at the historic Hydro Majestic Hotel. Travel in your choice of three classes – Standard, Premier or Lounge. Greg Poppleton will serenade you with songs from the 1920s.
| 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Private | |
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1920s themed private function with the Jazz Deco trio of authentic 1920s vocals, banjo and sousaphone.
| 4:00 pm - 11:00 pm | |
| Curzon Hall | |
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| Over 18 only | |
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| Bistro | |
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Beyond Cinema brings you an immersive and magical cinematic journey that blurs the boundaries between film and the real world at Curzon Hall. We are storytellers, fantasy creators and film lovers combined together to bring a unique cinema experience and transport you to a place beyond your wildest imagination. The Greg Poppleton 1920s Jazz Deco […]
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| Bondi Pavilion | |
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| All ages | |
| Event website |
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| Sydney Rowing Club | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
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613 Great North Road, Abbotsford NSW Australia
| 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm | |
| Private | |
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Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Trio entertain at a Speakeasy Party. It’s a special occasion house party. Greg Poppleton are invited to play at many 1920s – 1930s speakeasy, Great Gatsby, gangster and flapper, Golden Age of Hollywood house parties and special occasions.
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
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| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s. 8 Tindale St, Penrith NSW Australia
| 7:00 pm - 12:45 am | |
| Private | |
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| Central Station Country Trains Concourse | |
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Greg Poppleton and his Jazz Deco Quartet entertain with songs from the 1920s and 1930s on the Central Station Country Trains Concourse 9 – 11 June for the Sydney Central Station Transport Heritage Expo. Buy tickets for steam and diesel heritage train rides. The NSW Rail Museum will be operating steam train rides through the […]
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