Fran Swinn has carved out her own sound in the Australian musical landscape. In 2005 Fran received funding from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to attend the Banff Centre Workshop for creative music, directed by trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas in Canada. She has studied with Ben Monder and Brad Shepik in New York and took part in the Berklee School of Music jazz clinics in Italy (funded by an Australia Council Buzz grant), where she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music.

Tucked underneath a cinema screen and down a narrow stairway, the Lido Jazz Room boasts live Jazz weekly from the best jazz players in town on Friday and Saturday nights, 8pm – 10pm.