Keb’ Mo’ (Blues soloist)
Tivoli Hotel, Adelaide.
29 Sept. 1997.
The Blues Fall Like Rain
Keb’ Mo’ – that’s Delta blues for Kevin Moore- is beaming at the stand up crowd at Adelaide’s Tivoli Hotel. “Yo’ got yourselves a championship football team.” His drawling pentameter turns the phrase into twenty five syllables. And the Crows fans love every one of them. It has been a top weekend. Yesterday’s win at the MCG and now some Sunday night good-time blues from …
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Adelaide
Barossa Seulle
Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre prepares a new work for the Barossa Music Festival.
It is mid-morning on a Wednesday and Meryl Tankard steps out of rehearsal to talk about Seulle, a new work being developed especially for the Barossa Music Festival. Dressed in black leotard, she towels her thick, dark hair and makes a beeline to the spring water dispenser for a cupful.
These Barossa gigs are particular labours of love for Tankard and her …
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David Williamson
Queensland Theatre Company
Her Majesty’s
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
After the fiscal wars of Money and Friends and the gender wars of Brilliant Lies, after the media wars of Sanctuary and the culture wars of Dead White Males, after Heretic and Third World Blues. After all this comes After the Ball – and what might be called the family wars.
But David Williamson’s newest play is not about huge sundering feuds. Not your …
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