by Matt Saunders | Jun 15, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews, Spoken Word
[WORLD PREMIERE ~ ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE ~ AUS ~ IF YOU LOVE… MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 14 Jun. “My name is Dami Im, and I’m here to tell you my version of my story.” With those words, national treasure, Eurovision near-winner...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 10, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ USA ~ IF YOU LOVE… ALL THINGS SHINY] Dunstan Playhouse, Sun 9 Jun. There are many surprises worth preserving in Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt’s song and dance act, Nancy And Beth, but it’s no spoiler to reveal that it is expertly performed,...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 9, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
[MUSIC/CLASSICAL ~ GER] Adelaide Town Hall, Fri 8 Mar. Adelaide Festival’s program bills the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as being, “…on the top rung of world orchestras,” and promises, “In these glorious Australian performances you will enjoy some of the most beautiful...
by Matt Saunders | Dec 18, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Mon 17 Dec. 2018 Back in May 2017, Living Colour frontman Corey Glover told the Adelaide crowd they’d be back, and nineteen months to the day, there they were once again, playing to a packed Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on a Monday night. As it...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 16 Jun. Live music is unique in that it can be experienced in many contexts, often governed by genre and intended audience, and those contexts dictate the experience of seeing a singer-songwriter: there’s the...