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February 25, 2014

Music World

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Music,Theatre,Womadelaide

Murray Bramwell previews a selection of the singers and sounds from Womadelaide 2014, opening March 7 to 11. Botanic Park, Adelaide.

For more than twenty years the first week in March in Adelaide has heralded, not just the Festival and Fringe, but Womadelaide, the enduringly popular music event with the portmanteau name that is both a local and national institution. First staged in 1992, under the wing of Rob Brookman’s Festival, Peter Gabriel’s UK concert venture Womad (that’s acronym for …

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June 20, 2013

Modern Family

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Cabaret,Music

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2013
Martha Wainwright
Dunstan Playhouse
June 20.

What was it Tolstoy said about families? That all happy families are the same but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Not that the Wainwright -McGarrigle family was all that unhappy. Rather, they made unhappiness a favourite subject in their prolific and very memorable songs .

The McGarrigle Sisters – Anna and Kate – wrote plangent songs about hearts like wheels, and dancers with bruised knees. Similarly, …

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June 17, 2013

Cabaret Central

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Cabaret,Music

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2013

Cabaret Central

Que Reste-T’Il
Robyn Archer
with Michael Morley and George Butrumlis
Adelaide Festival Theatre Stage.
June 15.

Just when we were wondering what cabaret is any more, along comes Robyn Archer to give us a splendid master class. Archer has long been recognised internationally as one of the foremost interpreters of the music of the German Weimar period – most especially the works of Bertolt Brecht and his musical henchmen , Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler …

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June 11, 2013

Stockport to Memphis

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Cabaret,Music

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2013

Stockport to Memphis
Barb Jungr
(with Simon Wallace)
Dunstan Playhouse
June 9.

Barb Jungr’s latest Cabaret Festival show, Stockport to Memphis, is also the title of her latest (eighteenth !) record album and features a mix of contemporary classics and her own compositions. It is a Look Back in Jungr, perhaps.

The daughter of European émigré parents, Jungr was born in Rochdale in Lancashire and grew up in Stockport, a town ten miles south of Manchester. …

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April 02, 2013

Robert Plant

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Music

March 30, 2013

Old Graft, Green Shoots

Robert Plant
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
March 26.

Murray Bramwell

What do you do when you have already climbed the stairway to top-of-the-charts heaven, when you have hopped to the top of the misty mountain  ?  As part of Led Zeppelin, one of the most successful rock bands of all time, what was lead singer, Robert Plant, going to do when it was over ?

After the sudden death of drummer John “Bonzo” Bonham …

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March 10, 2013

Parks and Re-creation

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Festival,Music

Van Dyke Parks
with Daniel Johns, Kimbra
and the Adelaide Art Orchestra
Thebarton Theatre
March 8.

Murray Bramwell

Artistic director, David Sefton had always planned to include Van Dyke Parks in his first Adelaide Festival and among the hit-and-miss, mix-and-almost match fare of this week’s Brassland events, this Thebarton show has been a highlight. Much has to do with the genial, outgoing presence of Parks himself. But equally, the enthusiastic participation by Daniel Johns and electro-pop favourite, Kimbra turned an …

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October 20, 2011

Jack’s back with a whisper and cheers

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Music

October 4, 2011

Adelaide
Music

John Farnham
Whispering Jack…25 years on

Adelaide Entertainment Centre
October 4. Tickets: $99 – $ 149. Bookings Ticketek 132 849
Until October 8.
Sydney: State Theatre. October 11-22.
Bookings Ticketmaster 1300 139 588
Brisbane: Lyric Theatre QPAC. November 1-6
Bookings 136 246
Melbourne: Palais Theatre . November 9-19
Bookings: Ticketmaster 136 100
Perth: Burswood Theatre. November 22-26
Bookings: Ticketek 132 849

In just two weeks time, John Farnham celebrates, to the day, the 25th anniversary …

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December 03, 2010

They’ve got the world on six strings

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

November 27, 2010
Adelaide

Adelaide International Guitar Festival
November 25 – 28

The Heart of Flamenco :
Pepe de Lucia, Oscar Guzman
Roshanne Wijeyeratne
Arte Kanela
Festival Theatre
November 25.

Other Wordly Sounds:
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dhafer Youssef
Richard Bona Group
Festival Theatre
November 26.

Adelaide Festival Centre.

The Adelaide International Guitar Festival has had a fretful history. Based on the New York Guitar Festival it began in 2007 as a ten day event with an almost bewildering range of marvelous …

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June 01, 2010

Almost Coolsville

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

June 1, 2010

Rickie Lee Jones
Her Majesty’s
June 1.

When it was released, in 1979, the debut album from Rickie Lee Jones seemed to have everything.  Produced by Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman when Warner Brothers was at the height of its patronage and creativity, it included  a line-up of the hottest session musicians of the day – among them Dr John, Tom Scott, Andy Newmark, even – on synthesizer – Randy Newman. It was an auspicious event. Those …

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March 29, 2010

Stratospheric

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

2010

Stratospheric

Jeff Beck

Her Majesty’s

Adelaide

March 25, 2010

Murray Bramwell

What is it about The Yardbirds ?  There was definitely something in the water in 1965. Three guitarists and three legends.  First, Eric Clapton, aka God, who soon left for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and a career via Cream, the Dominos, and then as a bandleader defining blues rock guitar for a long, lucrative, and sometimes repetitive, career. Later, there was Jimmy Page, who as the chords, riff and …

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