Yuletide Jazz

Sip something festive, relax and listen to Christmas carols with a jazz twist

Director of music Dr. Debra Shearer-Dirié will conduct ChoirWorks in a reprise of this very popular concert program, accompanied by jazz ensemble featuring Kelsey Giarola as vocalist.

The program is based around Will Todd’s suite of jazz arrangements titled Christmas in Blue, including:

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen;  Silent Night

O Come All Ye Faithful;  A Boy Was Born

Hark, The Herald Angels Sing;    We Three Kings 

Away in a Manger;   Once in Royal David’s City

Personnent Hodie;   I Saw Three Ships

To complement these, we include arrangements by

Ward Swingle: Swingle Bells IX (We Three Kings; The Holly and the Ivy; Jingle Bells)

Pete Churchill: A Child is Born, In the Bleak Mid-winter, O Come O Come Emmanuel (Freedom’s on the Way)

Kelsey Giarola: Joy to the World

Ian Maurer: Good King Wenceslas, Gabriel to Mary Came

Mac Huff: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Mark Hayes: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Rachel Hocking: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Sunday 7 December 2025

5.00pm

(Bar opens at 4.15pm)

Lightspace

cnr. Light & Scanlan Streets

Fortitude Valley

Tickets available now

Book early as this event always sells out!

Adult: $45   Concessions: $40

Student: $20  Aged 12 and under: Free