For one night only, musicians Jimmy Halliday, Max Sportelli, and Brad Wenham will be coming together to bring you some amazing tunes as ‘Tahlia’.
Tahlia
Jimmy Halliday
Jimmy is a singer and trumpet player with a passion for improvisation. His music career has taken him through punk, musical theatre, traditional Latin, lots of funk, big band jazz, afro, hip-hop, Motown soul, a Balkan street band, ska, and celebrating his love for love as a wedding singer. He hasn't quite made it to glam metal, mainly because of the lack of trumpet parts. Some describe him as a musical chameleon, others say he dances like a chameleon. He performs under his own name, plus is currently playing with bands Renegade Funk, Sunny Coast Rude Boys, Swing Loco, and Formidable Vegetable.
Max Sportelli
Born and raised in Melbourne Australia, Max grew up listening to the sounds of a multicultural city before completing his Jazz studies at Melbourne University with a Bachelor’s degree in Music.
At the age of seventeen he started his professional career performing live with various Melbourne artists performing styles as diverse as Latin, Reggae, Jazz and Rock. Internationally Max has performed at the UFIP Drummers Convention in Italy, the Ultimate Drummers Day in Australia, Drum Fest in Japan and has since travelled the world performing live, recording, teaching, and conducting drum workshops.
Max has performed with artists including Missy Higgins, Vanetta Fields, Jimmy Couples, James Blundel, Chaka Chan, The Melbourne Pops Orchestra and IGA Carols in the City Orchestra.
Brad Wenham
Brad is a professional facial muscular contorter and has found that playing bass is a really good outlet for this profession. "While I have my bass on and am being as funky as possible people seem to appreciate my facial aerobics so much more."
Brad's first experience with the bass was on stage without any lessons, just directed to where the notes were and a chord chart to tell him which notes to play. It was trial by fire, learn what works quickly or don't get paid. Lucky the organ player had bass pedals.
The stages and live performance around the world have been Brad's music school, touring Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Papua New Guinea, with styles ranging from jazz, funk, fusion, neo-soul, reggae, rock and even old time dance bands. Performances now are a melting pot of notes rhythms and faces.