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Tony Gardner

Gardner playing keyboards during a performance with Greg Poppleton's The Po-Faced Four, 2013.

Tony Gardner is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer, music director, and music educator who performed as the keyboardist during the Lights, Camera, Action, Show! live tour and the tour's resulting album and video Live Hot Potatoes!.

In addition to playing keyboards, Gardner also plays saxophone, oboe, clarinet, and flute. He serves as the leader of jazz band The Benny Goodman Project and has performed with Mike Hallam as a member of Mike Hallam's Hot Six and with actor and singer Greg Poppleton both during solo performances and in other musical ensembles such as The Po-Faced Four and The Lounge Bar Lotharios. Gardner has also written and recorded soundtracks for various films, commercials and shorts for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (formerly The Australian Film and Sound Archives), where he has also worked as a consultant.

Tony Gardner Wiggly Orchestra

Gardner playing keyboards in the Live Hot Potatoes! video.

Outside of performing and composing, Gardner also works as the Band and Orchestra Director of Eastwood Public School, Sydney and gives private music lessons.

Trivia[]

  • Gardner is one of two backing musicians who performed on the LCA tour to have not worked with the Wiggles before or since, the other being guitarist Rex Goh.

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