ULTRAFOX SWING - Key Persons
Andy Baylor has been playing professionally since the mid-seventies and has been a driving force behind many acts, including the Honeydrippers, Autodrifters, Hit and Run, and the Dancehall Raketeers. He has toured with Robert Plant, Bob Dylan and Slim Dusty, and played with many musical legends including David Grisman, Flaco Jiminez, Cajun great Dewey Balfa and fiddler Johnny Gimble. With the Cajun Combo he has backed Screaming Jay Hawkins, Louisiana Red, Jimmy Witherspoon- all legendary blues performers.
Jon Delaney began his performance career in 1994, and has gone on to perform all over Australia in his own bands and as a sideman with countless other acts. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2005, and alongside his performance schedule, teaches guitar at a tertiary level. He spent 2008 playing in and around Berlin, and has also performed in the United Kingdom and Canada. In 2011 he travelled to Belgium to study with manouche legend Fapy Lafertin.
Double bassist Kain Borlase has worked with a number of artists and groups including The Ken Schroder Quartet, Mark Lockett Trio, Peter and Andy Baylor, Julie O'Hara, Alan Lee, Ted Vining and The Brunswick Blues Shooters. He has participated in numerous east coast tours and festival, television and live to air radio performances including the ABC TV's ‘Art Nation', The Queenscliffe Music Festival, The Gympie Music Muster and The Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
Julie O'Hara has been active in jazz for almost twenty years, growing up in Melbourne, Australia, performing with Big Bands, gypsy swing, traditional jazz, R&B swing, bebop and vocalese. Julie has earned a reputation for her prodigious activity in Melbourne's jazz and music clubs, national and international music and jazz festivals as a versatile and committed vocalist and songwriter. She has performed with, among others, the B#Big Band, The Pearly Shells Big Band, Society Syncopators, The Shuffle Club, Felix Reibel (The Cat Empire), George Washingmachine, Bob Sedergreen, Virus and Gil Askey.
Michael McQuaid is an expert on the jazz of the 1920s and 30s. Falling in love with the music while still young, he has been leading bands since the age of 15, and performs on trumpet, clarinet and saxophone. A highly sought-after musician, Michael has a polished stage presence and leads the band with flair. He is a mad collector of vintage instruments and recordings, but claims he can stop anytime he wants.