by Adrian Miller | Jun 17, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ AUS ~ IF YOU LOVE… MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 16 Jun. One striking visual aspect of waiting for the Alma Zygier Quintet to arrive is the lack of a drum kit onstage. When the quintet does arrive there are two...
by TheClothesLine | Jun 11, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Interviews, Live Music, Media Release, Music
[ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ AUS ~ IF YOU LOVE… MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU] Melbourne vocalist Alma Zygier is fascinated by the pre-war jazz era; Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Memphis Minnie – a time when composers Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and...
by Ian Bell | Jun 8, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews, Theatre
[WORLD PREMIERE ~ AUS ~ IF YOU LOVE… TO REMINISCE] Space Theatre, Fri 7 Jun. Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star. She gained fame in the silent movie era and appeared in one of the first feature films made in colour, The Thief Of Baghdad...
by Nikki Fort | Mar 8, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Exhibition Hall/Pod 3 at National Wine Centre, Fri 23 Feb. [MUSIC/CABARET – UK] Setting a cruisy, sunset dinner show in the National Wine Centre was a stroke of genius on the part of UK-based Australian singer, Brigitte Baden-Rennie. Her homage to Peggy Lee, the...
by Nikki Fort | Feb 2, 2018 | Cabaret, Interviews, Live Music, Music
by Nikki Fort. Anita Wardell, internationally acclaimed and awarded Jazz singer, master of scat and vocalese, (UK/Australia) and Nancy Ruth, renowned Jazz/Flamenco fusionist, singer, songwriter and recording artist (Canada/Spain) are returning to Adelaide to headline...