Joséphine’s Garden: Le Bar

6pm - 10pm (extended session)

Enjoy the risqué Parisian traditions and glamorous feather fans dancers of the Moulin Rouge with Sugar Blue Burlesque, and delight to French vibes with DJ G*Rey.

Please note that the Sugar Blue Burlesque performance contains some nudity.

6pm - 8.30pm | Get your pop glamour fix with soulful vocal stylings from Queency (duo).

Queency is a Perth-based singer-songwriter originally from Reunion Island. Testaments to his tropical roots and infectious passion, Queency’s compositions and live performances can be sweet or sour, deep or light, soft or energetic. All share the same commonality though: they come from the soul and speak to the soul, generating a range of emotions within anyone listening with their heart.

6pm - 8.30pm | Enjoy live drawing demonstration by illustrator Catherine Scartaccini  and groove to the liquid vinyl luxury of Ningaloo Records DJ set.

Catherine Scartaccini has a creative obsession with illustration and a passion for animals with an honours degree in zoology and anatomy at the University of Western Australia. Though studying animals using the scientific method, Catherine has recently started incorporating this into her drawings. She has started botanical illustration and her craft blends accurate, precise observation expressed in the medium of art.

Ningaloo Records is the branded vinyl record collection and space activation service of Fremantle based DJ and dance music enthusiast Josh Grainger. Josh can be found passionately presenting educational dance floors every weekend, exploring obscurities whilst ever reading the room. Expect deep crates for deep pleasures; connecting balearic oddities, Mediterranean disco, Afro gems, leftfield boogie, hard jazz bops, Latin fire, future sambas and soul strokin'-finger pointin' NYC house!

6pm - 8.30pm | Enjoy the best of chanson d’amour and renowned French songs with live accordion performance by Nikki Dagostino, also known as Little Miss Squeezebox.

Nikki Dagostino is widely recognised as one of Australia’s most entertaining female Accordionists.  Keeping the rare art alive and educating souls with the world sounds of the Piano Accordion. Born in Perth, Western Australia amongst Italian Heritage, she began studying Classical piano at age 9 and discovered the unique sound of the piano accordion at age eleven. From a young age Nikki Dagostino developed a deep passion for music with a strong love for performing and teaching music. Nikki performs and tours around the world. 

6pm - 8.30pm | Enjoy an illustrated talk on the aesthetics of French Empire style with fashion historian and author of How To Read A Dress, Dr Lydia Edwards and the sexy jazz inflections of keyboard legend Thierryno Gangou.

Dr Lydia Edwards is a fashion historian, author living and working in Perth, Western Australia. She is a lecturer at ECU and WAAPA and is the creator of Bloomsbury’s How to Read a Dress series. Her next book, How to Read a Wedding Dress, will be out in early 2025, followed by Costumes, Period dramas and their Audiences: 19th Century to the Present (Routledge) in 2026. 

Thierryno Gangou is a pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer and arranger based in Western Australia.  With extensive experience locally and internationally, Thierryno performs solo or with a range of bands. Thierryno started the piano at the age of seven. He has toured with the WAMI Award winning band “Grace Barbe Afro Kreol” at the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival.

Schedule

• 6pm | Doors open 
• 6pm | Thierryno performance 
• 6.15pm | Session 1 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience 
• 6.15pm | Talk by Dr Lydia Edwards
• 7pm | Session 2 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience
• 7pm | Talk by Dr Lydia Edwards (repeat) 
• 7.30pm | Thierryno performance 
• 7.45pm | Session 3 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience 
• 8.30pm | Event close

6pm - 8.30pm | Get your inner daft punk rockin’ with contemporary tunes from AQUILA string quartet.

Aquila is a classically trained, finely tuned string quartet band that features some of Perth’s most prestigious musicians – bonded by a passion for performance. The members of Aquila have spent most of their lives refining their chops on the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart – only listening to and playing more contemporary music as a fan or as a hired gun, never truly exploring the potential of applying their passion to the greatest songs written this side of the millennia.

Schedule

• 6pm | Doors open 
• 6.15pm | Session 1 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience 
• 6.30pm | AQUILA Quartet performance 1
• 7pm | Session 2 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience
• 7.40pm | AQUILA Quartet performance 2
• 7.45pm | Session 3 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience 
• 8.30pm | Event close

6pm - 8.30pm | Jazz ensemble Voudou-Zazou’s bold and sultry notes will give you vintage swing vibes from the classic 20s and 30s Paris.

VOUDOU ZAZOU take their name from the sharply-dressed French jazz fans of the 40s - the Zazou! These three guys and a gal draw inspiration from legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt and add a touch of their own musical voodoo. Featuring acoustic guitar and double bass, joined by the quintessentially French accordion and delightful vocals of Coo Jarvis. They are infectious and entertaining - and it's very hard not to have a good time when they're swingin' it out!

6pm - 8.30pm | DJ Rok Riley digs out some kooky, funky and chic beats to liven up the garden party.

DJ Rok Riley is a long term fixture on the RTRFM air-waves, Perth’s ambassador of underground dance music and pure  positivity, the one and only Rok Riley has been holding down Friday’s “Full Frequency” show solo since  2009 with a weekly transmission of loving connection forward thinking, boundary pushing and deeply emotive and soulful music. 

No amount of hyperbole can do this shining light of dance music justice. Expect anything and everything as she seamlessly connects the dots between every strain of hip-hop, grime, house, funk, hardcore and techno known to humankind… as only she can!

6pm - 8.30pm | Brush up on your French trivia for a night of pop-quiz fun, facts and all things French at Quiz et Quizzique (Quiz and Quizzical)!

Bring your friends and your best knowledge of French culture, history, and more for a night of light-hearted competition and laughter. 

From baguettes to Bonaparte, chansons to châteaux, test your wits on everything that makes France magnifique! There are fun spot prizes up for grabs, and a chance to reign supreme!

Arrive early and participate in both quiz sessions (don't worry, the questions will be different!). Grab a drink, settle in, and say “oui”.

Schedule

• 6pm | Doors open 
• 6.15pm | Session 1 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience 
• 7pm | Session 2 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience
• 7pm | Session 1 Quiz et Quizzique 
• 7.45pm | Session 3 Empress Joséphine’s Garden experience 
• 7.45pm | Session 2 Quiz et Quizzique 
• 8.30pm | Event close