Chris Tanner grew up in Melbourne Australia and started playing clarinet when he was 15 years old. He got a lot of influences from the Melbourne music scene and began to play professionally shortly after. Chris played with Allan Browne’s New Orleans Rascals and the Yarra Yarra Jazz Band. In 1995 he joined the Melbourne band The Hoodangers and toured extensively. There first tour took them to Russia and Western Europe. Where they traveled to Denmark to the Femø Jazz festival and met a fan who repeatedly bought them back to Denmark. Chris also traveled to Denmark to play with other Australian bands like Julie O’Hara. He now lives in Copenhagen and plays music on the jazz scene there.
This is live at Charlie Scotts with Tom Mc Ewan, Mads Søndergaard and Jens Kristian Andersen.
Tanner And Mates, Featuring Dan Barnett @ Silkeborg, Denmark, 2011.
Some quiet gigs with The Hoodangers!
Australia
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz – 1996, 2000, 2002, 2005
Melbourne International Jazz Festival – 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003
Woodford Festival – 1998, 2006
Meredith Music Festival – 2005
Port Fairy Folk Festival – 1998, 2001, 2006
Apollo Bay Music Festival – 1996, 2002
Vans Warped Tour – 1998
Manly Jazz Festival – 1996, 2000
Thredbo Jazz Festival – 1996, 1998
Bellingen Jazz Festival – 1998
Jazz in the Vines (Hunter Valley) – 1998
Jazz in the Vines (Yarra Valley) – 1999
Tumbarumba Festival – 2000
Denmark
Roskilde Festival – 1997
Midtfyns Festival – 1997
Femo Jazz – 1997, 2001, 2005
Copenhagen Jazz Festival – 2001, 2005, 2008
Silkeborg Jazz Festival – 2001, 2005, 2008
Skagen Festival – 2001
Tuno Festival – 2001, 2005
Tonder Festival – 2001, 2005
Aarhus International Jazz Festival – 2001, 2005
Clubs including: Gimle (Roskilde), Rust and Cafe Svejk (Copenhagen), Operean and
Woodstock (Christiania).
Iceland
Akureyri International Music Festival , Akureyri – 2008
Husavik – 2008
Holar church, Holar – 2008
Isafjordur – 2008
Reykjavik – 2008
Russia
1997 – Five week tour, including festivals, concert halls and club appearances in:
St. Petersburg
Yaroslavl
Obninsk
Rostov On Don
Sochi
Volgagrad
Saratov
Samara
Novisibirsk
Tomsk
Ukraine
1997
Donetsk
Kiev
Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek – 1997
Kazakhstan
Almaty – 1997
UK
Spiegeltent, Edinburgh Fringe Festival – 1997
Durham Brass Festival, Durham – 2008
Canada
Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival – 1999
Montreal International Jazz Festival – 1999
Ottawa International Jazz Festival – 1999
Atlantic Jazz Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia.) – 1999