Festivals and Events

House of Valerie Joan is a boutique festival and event agency specialising in unique music curation and artist bookings for major events, corporate functions and community hubs. Our passion is to create incredible audience experiences with ethical and inclusive consideration of artists and crew.

Clients include:

Melbourne Music Week // Federation Square // Melbourne Recital Centre // Glastonbury Festival UK // Stonnington Jazz // Brunswick Music Festival // Coburg Night Market // St Kilda Festival // Sydney Road Street Party // Library at the Dock // Mussel and Jazz Festival - South Melbourne Market // Adelaide Fringe // PBS 106.7FM // BOYD Community Hub // Louis Vuitton Fashion Group // Nagoya Hilton, Japan // Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai // Hertz // British Airways // Princess Cruises

 We have worked with local and international artists including:

Vince Jones // Mojo Juju // Kate Ceberano // Hiatus Kaiyote // The Bamboos // Fem Belling // Renee Geyer // Emily Wurramurra // Archie Roach // Thando // Paul Grabowsky // Megan Washington // Middle Kids // All Our Exes Live In Texas// Emma Donovan// Benny Walker

Hot 8 Brass Band (US) // Macy Gray (US) // Eddie Palmieri (US) // Naike Ponce (Spain) // Dereb The Ambassador (Ethiopia) // Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (US) // Ajak Kwai (Sudan) // Oki Ainu Dub Band (Japan) // Aziza Brahim (Sahrawi) // Warsaw Village Band (Poland) // Dayme Arocena (Cuba) // My Bubba (Iceland/Norway) // Jojo Abot (Ghana) //

We specialise in producing special commissioned collaborative events. Highlights include:

• “Mad Jazz” - Screening of the Mad Max film with live reinterpreted jazz/afrobeat soundtrack by The Shaolin Afronauts (first premiered at Stonnington Jazz, followed by showing Adelaide Festival)

• “Songs of 3056” - Collaborative show highlighting songwriters from the 3056 postcode for the 30 Year Anniversary of Brunswick Music Festival. Featuring SPIRE ensemble, Kylie Auldist, Simon Burke, Sal Kimber and Thando.

• “Pieces of a Man: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron” New commissioned show creating new interpretations of GSH repertoire ft Vince Jones, N’fa Jones, Hailey Cramer and more.

• “Masta Ace” - Special collaboration between US Hip Hop legend Masta Ace with local musicians including Christian Barbieri, Audrey Powne and more premiered Brunswick Music Festival.

• “Jazz in Colour” - Special one-off collaboration between Swooping Duck (Hiatus Kaiyote Rhythm Section) with projection artist Zero Crossing.

  “Her programming of Brunswick Music Festival and Stonnington Jazz Festival has been exemplary - embracing gender diversity, minority groups, unique collaborations between local and international artists, and dance/film crossover performances. Her forward-thinking approach has re-invigorated those festivals and made them truly relevant representations of both the diversity of our culture and current musical trends”. Adam Rudegeair PBS 106.7FM

  “As a festival director, Chelsea brings all aspects of our industry to the table, passion, vision, grit and business sass.

  She programmes with the foresight of creative excellence, looking to the past to shape the future, she is adaptable, welcoming, inclusive and always champions the artist… whilst somehow adhering to budget constraints. I’d work with her at the drop of a stiletto” Fem Belling, Award Winning Artist