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An Evening with Dom Bagnato and Sam Tabone at Saros for Valley Sounds 2026

An Evening with Dom Bagnato and Sam Tabone at Saros for Valley Sounds 2026

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Dom and Sam

Valley Sounds 2026 · 2 July

Live Jazz at
Saros Bar & Dining

Valley Sounds is one of those events that reminds you why living in Melbourne is such a good idea. Free live music, great local venues, and a community that genuinely turns up for it. Every year it gets better, and this year we’re proud to be part of it.

On Thursday 2 July 2026, Saros Bar & Dining is hosting our own handpicked line-up as part of Valley Sounds 2026: a stylish acoustic duo featuring the smooth vocals of Dom Bagnato and the masterful guitar of Sam Tabone, performing live across two sessions at 7pm and 8pm. Jazz, swing and timeless favourites, in one of Moonee Ponds’ favourite dining rooms. No cover charge. Just book a table and let the night take care of itself.

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What Is Valley Sounds?

Valley Sounds is a free live music festival presented by Moonee Valley City Council, running from 25 June to 5 July 2026 across a selection of Moonee Valley’s best venues. It’s supported through the Council’s biannual grants program, and the whole idea behind it is beautifully simple: bring great music to the places people already love, and make it free for everyone.We’ve been part of the Valley Sounds story before, and this year we had the chance to choose our own artists. We chose well.

Dom Bagnato: The Designer Behind the Microphone

Most Melburnians know Dom Bagnato through his eponymous menswear label, built over more than three decades with an unmistakable Italian-Australian sensibility and a reputation as one of the city’s most respected names in fashion. What fewer people know is that Dom carries an equally deep passion for music.

His vocal style is warm, smooth and deeply rooted in the Great American Songbook, drawing on jazz, cabaret and swing standards that feel completely at home in a room like Saros. He performs with the same intention he brings to his design work: unhurried, considered, and with a genuine love for the craft. Hearing him sing Tony Bennett’s I Left My Heart in San Francisco is the sort of experience that catches you off guard in the best possible way.If you’ve only ever known Dom Bagnato as a fashion designer, this evening is going to be a very pleasant surprise.

Sam Tabone: A Different Kind of Exposure

Sam Tabone is widely known across Melbourne’s creative community as a fine art and landscape photographer, with work collected internationally and a reputation built on images that capture light, space and stillness with a rare and disciplined eye. Less publicly known is that Sam is also a seriously accomplished guitarist.

On 2 July he steps away from the lens and into the duo, bringing a musicianship that is just as considered as his photography. His guitar work gives the evening its texture and warmth, the kind of playing that holds a room without demanding its attention. Together with Dom, the pair create something genuinely lovely: an acoustic sound that feels polished but never stiff, familiar but never predictable.

What to Expect on the Night

Picture a winter Thursday evening at Saros. The room is warm, the menu is doing what it does best, and across two sessions the sounds of jazz, swing and timeless favourites fill the space without overpowering the conversation. This is live music in the best possible context, where the atmosphere does as much work as the performance itself.

It’s the kind of evening that suits a date night, a dinner with close friends, or simply a midweek occasion worth dressing up for. The music is free, the food is excellent, and the company tends to look after itself.

Your Evening at Saros

Both sessions are free with your dining booking, and the format is exactly what we love about Valley Sounds: no fuss, no ticketing, just a great night out.-mosphere that Moonee Ponds does particularly well.

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday 2 July 2026
  • Sessions: 7:00pm and 8:00pm
  • Location: Saros Bar & Dining, 41 Homer Street, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 (ground floor, The Sebel Melbourne Moonee Ponds)
  • Cost: Free with your dining booking, no cover charge
  • Bookings: Essential

Tables for Valley Sounds evenings at Saros fill up quickly, and with two artists who each bring their own following, we’d encourage you to secure your spot sooner rather than later.

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About Saros Bar & Dining

We’re an elevated dining and bar experience on the ground floor of The Sebel Melbourne Moonee Ponds, at 41 Homer Street. We take our food, our drinks and our atmosphere seriously, and we love being part of events that bring our community together. Valley Sounds is exactly that kind of event, and we’re proud to be one of its homes in 2026.

This initiative is proudly supported by Moonee Valley City Council through its biannual grants program.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Valley Sounds 2026 is a free live music festival presented by Moonee Valley City Council, running from 25 June to 5 July 2026 across venues in the Moonee Valley area. Saros Bar & Dining is hosting Dom Bagnato and Sam Tabone on Thursday 2 July as part of the festival.

Dom Bagnato and Sam Tabone perform as a stylish acoustic duo, blending jazz, swing and timeless favourites. Dom performs smooth vocals drawn from the Great American Songbook, accompanied by Sam’s masterful guitar work.

No. The live music is completely free for all diners. Simply book a table and the entertainment is included, with no tickets or cover charge required.

Dom Bagnato is a Melbourne-based menswear fashion designer with over 30 years in the industry, and an accomplished vocalist known for his acoustic jazz and cabaret performances under the Bow Tie & Bare Strings concept.

Sam Tabone is a Melbourne fine art and landscape photographer with an international following, and an accomplished guitarist performing alongside Dom Bagnato at Saros for Valley Sounds 2026 on Thursday 2 July.

Yes, bookings are essential. Saros is an intimate venue and tables are expected to fill quickly for this event. We recommend booking as early as possible.

There are two live music sessions: 7:00pm and 8:00pm on Thursday 2 July 2026.

Saros Bar & Dining is at 41 Homer Street, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039, on the ground floor of The Sebel Melbourne Moonee Ponds.

Yes. Valley Sounds is proudly supported by Moonee Valley City Council through its biannual grants program, making live music free and accessible for the community across Moonee Valley.