by FringeGuest2 | Oct 26, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Featured, Live Music, Music, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews, Theatre
[Performance Poetry: Canada] Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 25 Oct I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron is essentially performance poetry. Ngo King Kie has put the poems of Xu Lizhi to music in a sombre, sometimes bleak, sometimes quite beautiful, presentation. Its principal...
by FringeGuest2 | Oct 25, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Featured, Live Music, Music, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews
[Music: Aus] Space Theatre, Tue 24 Oct 1988 was a big year for Australia. White Australia celebrated its bicentenary. It was also a big year for Dung Nguyen. He emigrated from Vietnam to join his father in Australia. 1988 is an inspiring cultural event. It attempts to...
by FringeGuest1 | Oct 23, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Featured, Live Music, Music, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews
[Music: Aus] Nexus Arts, Sun 22 Oct. The title of today’s performance at Nexus Arts alerts us to the overriding themes of longing, dislocation, home and mothering. Four acclaimed jazz and experimental musicians from various cultural backgrounds share not only their...
by FringeGuest2 | Sep 5, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[Music – SA] A Deal With God: The Songs of Kate Bush Nexus Arts Sat 2 Sep 2023 Shakespeare is credited with contributing a swag of new words to our language, and many new sayings. Kate Bush has her own ‘encyclopedia’ website, such is the complexity of her...
by FringeGuest2 | Aug 31, 2023 | Featured, Music, Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre AUS] The Space Theatre, Festival Centre, Tue 29 Aug Billie Holiday is often associated with the tag ‘the lady sings the blues’ after the film depicting her life from 1972. Holiday herself saw things as more nuanced: “I sing the blues with a jazz beat”. This...
by FringeGuest2 | May 22, 2023 | Featured, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[Music – SA] St John’s Anglican Church Sun 21 May The concert began with joyous exuberance, a sixteenth century song by William Bird (Gaudeamus Omnes in Domino) calling us to rejoice. We did, and so did the singers, who from the first note were obviously...
