The Sydney Fringe festival is an alternative and independent arts event held over two weeks in September, across 50 venues and totalling around 200 shows and local chanteuse Kobi Jae is about to rock their world.

Conceived and directed by Kobi’s teacher, colleague and friend Rowan Greaves, Kobi’s show, ‘It’s A Guy Thing’, is a a collection of 12 songs that are not traditionally sung by a female. From Leonard Cohen to Australian Crawl, James Brown and Lyle Lovett, multi-instrumentalist Kobi delivers some of our generation’s most iconically masculine songs, administered with a penetrating probe into the lives of the men who created them, their pertinence within our society, and a disrupted balance of sex and sexuality lurking within our gender perceptions.

‘Rowan Greaves was my acting teacher at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium,’ says Kobi. ‘He devised the concept in 2008, with the intention of showcasing my skills. Since then we’ve been collaborating on the show’s themes and content, while I’ve completed my Diploma of Contemporary Music at the Con.’

With a violin in one hand, a ukulele in the other, and a submissive accomplice on piano, Kobi is a witty and wild siren and the show is an entertaining escape from our society’s traditional views on gender, sex and sexuality.

Kobi says that the festival will be like entering another realm but she is up for the challenge. ‘I do feel a bit like a teensy fish in the epic pond that is the big smoke but I feel really confident that this show will be enjoyed by a wide range of people.’
You can find out more about Kobi’s performance and others at the festival by visiting: thesydneyfringe.com.au.