| 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.
| 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
| Private | |
| Directions |
Greg Poppleton and his 1920s trio play for a wedding ceremony and reception. Piano alone for the ceremony. Band for reception.
| Carrington Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| 170 dollars | |
| Dress code: Guys in ties, girls in pearls | |
| Event website | |
| Buy tickets | |
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 |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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…
| 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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…
| 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
This week’s Phantom Dancer is a non-stop swing jazz mix from live 1930s-50s radio. Listen here…
| 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…
| 12:04 pm - 2:00 pm | |
| 2SER Radio 107.3 Sydney | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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 |
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 | |
| 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 - 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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 Radio 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 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
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. | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Directions | |
| 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| 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
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | |
| Granville Town Hall, 10 Carlton St, Granville NSW 2142 | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| 18 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
| 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
| 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 | |
| Directions | |
| 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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| Event website |
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 | |
| Directions | |
| 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.
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | |
| Bondi Pavilion | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Event website |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | |
| Penrith RSL | |
| Directions | |
| 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 | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
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 | |
| Directions | |
| 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 | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Bar | |
| 20 dollars | |
| Event website |
Bring a picnic. Book a table with chairs. Parking. Kiosk. $20 Adults / $15 Concession / $40 Family
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| Unanderra Hotel | |
| Directions | |
| 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 | |
| Directions | |
| 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 | |
| Bar | |
| 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 | |
| Directions |
| 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 | |
| Directions |
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 | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
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 | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Event website |
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | |
| Sydney Rowing Club | |
| Directions | |
| All ages | |
| Free car parking | |
| Dance floor | |
| Bar | |
| Bistro | |
| Event website |
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 | |
| Directions | |
| 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 | |
| Directions |
| Central Station Country Trains Concourse | |
| Directions | |
| Event website |
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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