by David Robinson | Jul 19, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Thu Jul 17 The Adelaide International Guitar Festival kicks off with an evening brim-full of sumptuous Spanish flavour. The packed house eagerly greets local ensemble Flamenco Areti; the swirling skirts of the five dancers...
by David Robinson | Jul 19, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri Jul 18 On the second evening of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival, the audience members – many already completely suffused by the seemingly limitless potential of the guitar – gather in anticipation of yet...
by David Robinson | Jul 19, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri Jul 18 Andrey Lebedev, guitar in hand, arrives on his home-town stage and greets the audience quietly and warmly. After a few words of introduction, he begins. The first piece, J.S. Bach’s Violin Partita in D minor, is...
by Michael Coghlan | Jul 18, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Thu Jul 17 Who would have thought that wild and untamed electric guitar from the rock gods of the seventies and eighties would still be with us in 2014 (my mother told me it would never last), and would even be featured at a...
by Siân Williams | Jul 15, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews
The Clothesline writer Sian Williams gets a feeling of instant camaraderie when member of well-known Australian blues band, Chain, Phil Manning answers the phone with a smile in his voice. Manning and Williams (violinist and former member of Colcannon) discover in...