by Jenna Bonavita | Jun 23, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 22 Jun. Twenty years ago Archie Roach and three baby-faced young women collaborated to create a demo. Jen Anderson produced the recording and from that demo several reworked and re-recorded songs would later appear on Roach’s much...
by David Robinson | Feb 16, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews, Live Music
by David Robinson. Archie Roach’s songs, telling stories of himself and of his people, have compelled a generation of Australians to sit up and take notice. In 2012, after enduring a period of loss, grief and ill-health, he stormed back into the public’s consciousness...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 21, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Fri Jun 20 There can be no doubt that the packed Dunstan Playhouse audience were there to see a living legend. Roach arrived on stage to a warm welcome, the anticipation in the theatre almost palpable. Singing songs from the recently released...
by Catherine Blanch | Jun 14, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews
by Catherine Blanch. It’s no secret that Tasmania has a cruel and dark convict history. The stories of people transported from England to Van Diemen’s Land for anything from petty crime to murder, the brutality of imprisonment and the struggles that families faced...
