In 2003, the time was right. A world-record attempt to have the largest number of horn players on stage at the same time playing the ska-skank saw a slew of musicians take the stage at St Kilda's ...

Nicky Bomba with the Melbourne Ska Orchestra. It all started back in 2003, with a world record attempt to have the largest number of horn players on stage at the same time playing a ska skank. Ten ...

GRAB a sausage while listening to the tunes of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra in Parkville this month at the ARIA-award-winning band’s ‘ska-BQ’. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra is doing a “ska-BQ” national ...

Legendary musicianship and hidden history came together for Melbourne Festival's extraordinary Celebration of Melbourne Ska, headlined by the incomparable The Caribs. Original members of The Caribs, ...

Every hour on stage of Nicky Bomba’s decades of experience shows in the way he conducts his disciplined and precise, yet joyous and rambunctious, Melbourne Ska Orchestra. Bomba has made a studious art ...

Bob Marley's biographer, Roger Steffens, gave a fascinating insight into the reggae icon's life over two nights at the Blackbox Theatre last week, but he overlooked the important roles of two ...

Formed in 2003 the Melbourne Ska Orchestra is an orchestra with a difference. Comprising up to 36 members this juggernaut contains some of Australia’s finest musicians and performers. The band can ...

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For the first time in a year or so, the mighty, horned beast that is the Melbourne Ska Orchestra has been let off the chain - this time at Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. If the last Ska Orchestra gig is ...