Joseph Rabjohns, Karen Arango & Lee Jones Quintet

Join us for a very special evening of instrumental guitar at The Junk Bar featuring esteemed guitarists Joseph Rabjohns, Karen Arango and the Lee Jones Quintet. Joseph Rabjohns Joseph Rabjohns is a Brisbane based guitarist, composer, educator and community builder. His passion for creative music is a result of years spent crafting his practice composing and performing with his longtime musical collaborators (Kodiak Empire, Kieran T. Stevenson, Last Lakes, Shoal) As well as staying busy contributing all he can to these projects, he’s been developing a unique catalog of solo works for guitar. This performance is the world premiere of these works which have been collated into an album to released by Made Now Music. The music is heavily concerned with the exploration of through-composed melody and harmony and takes a great deal of influence from the worlds of post rock, ambient and progressive music, as well as modern Jazz guitarists such as Pat Metheny and Ben Monder. Karen Arango Karen Arango is a Colombian classical guitarist, singer-songwriter, and researcher based in Brisbane, Australia, where she is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at Griffith University. Her work blends traditional Latin American folk genres with contemporary jazz and pop structures. Karen began playing the classical guitar at age nine in Colombia. Karen holds a Bachelor of Music in Guitar from the University of Antioquia (Colombia), a Master's in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of Alicante (Spain), and a Master's in 20th Century Latin American Music Performance from the National University of Cuyo (Argentina). Karen resides in Brisbane, performing original compositions and playing in ensembles like the flute-and-guitar collaboration Liana Duo. Lee Jones Lee Jones is a British jazz guitarist and composer, combining influences from modern jazz, fusion, blues, avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK scene and recorded/performed/studied alongside Larry Coryell, Martin Taylor and Mike Stern. Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course in 2007, he has released seven solo albums with former WEA producer Simon Tittley and