Drummer/percussionist Alastair Kerr is one of Australia's leading Brazilian and jazz drummers.  Based in Melbourne, he leads Panorama Brasil and the Alastair Kerr Quartet as well as being an active freelancer.

Alastair also plays in the Doug de Vries Trio, Dany Maia Band, and Trio Agogo.  As a freelance player he has worked with many of Australia's best jazz musicians, and he appears on a number of recordings with The New Sheiks and the Leigh Barker Quintet.

Al holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Masters degree from the Australian National University, both examining improvisation in Brazilian drumming. He has studied with John Riley, Ari Hoenig, Rogerio Boccata, Scott Kettner, Simon Barker, Hamish Stuart, Jorge Alabe, Marcio Bahia, Celso de Almeida and Roberta Valente.  

Al directs the Brazilian Music Ensemble at Monash University in Melbourne and is available for lessons and freelance performance/recording work.

Karina Lehman is a Chilean/ Australian singer-songwriter. Karina’s sound mixes various rhythms from Latin America and incorporates elements of pop, bossa nova, jazz and folk, while embracing multiple languages as Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Some of her musical influences are Natalia Lafourcade, Lila Downs, Kevin Johansen, The Beatles, Djavan and Gloria Stefan to name a few. She describes herself as a non-genre artist and doesn’t want to limit herself to one specific category and be able to explore in different styles.

Karina is a well- known figure in the Melbourne Latin scene performing regularly in various venues, private parties, restaurants and some local Festival since 2014. She founded a couple of original musical projects such as Terrasur (2014) were she played for 4 years and recorded an EP, and Los Lopez (2019) a traditional Mexican folk band.

She debuted with her solo project last April 2020 with song ‘Son de la Luna Dormida’, followed by ‘Contigo’ and ‘Oh Eah’, and started the year 2021 releasing her first song in English "Sunset dreams". 

Beat magazine (Australia) described her latest release “Sunset Dreams” as mellow, understated and utterly hypnotic. They also defined Lehman’s sound as exciting, refreshing and undeniably unique. 

@karinalehmanmusica

Luke is a composer and pianist from Melbourne, Australia. His inaugural solo album, ‘Sun, Cloud’, was nominated for the 2013 Australian Music Prize. His latest solo album, ‘All of Us’, drops March 11 2022.

“Absolutely heavenly... I can hotly recommend.” – Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 6

“Totally sublime.” – Headphone Commute

“Two & One again stands out among the year’s modern composition releases.” – A Closer Listen

Australia/NZ bookings / roob@lukehoward.com
EU/UK bookings / kai.lehmann@cabinartists.com
Licensing / kathy@secretlygroup.com
All other enquiries / hello@lukehoward.com

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