'Intimate' music festival begins across five COVID-safe Sydney venues

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It's been a long road, tough for jazz vocalist Emma Pask to get back to the stage because of the coronavirus pandemic. But now 'the spark is back' as she prepares to perform at a COVID-safe festival in Sydney.

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It's been a long, tough road for jazz vocalist Emma Pask to get back to the stage, doing what she loves after so many months of uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"As we're coming out of it, I feel like that that spark of great creativity is definitely coming back."It's one of the first major live music festivals to get back on stage since the March lockdowns and will feature 30 female acts across five COVID-safe venues across the city. SIWJF organiser Amy Curl says it was a mammoth effort to get the festival up and running, especially being unable to bring in talent from overseas."It became apparent that we would have to pull together a New South Wales based program," she says.

"There's a number of wonderful multicultural musicians and people that have international backgrounds and heritages … certainly the flavours are there," she says.

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