by Michael Coghlan | Feb 23, 2025 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Featured, Reviews, Spoken Word
[MUSIC/Storytelling ~ INTERNATIONAL ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE] The Lab at Fool’s Paradise, Sun 23 Feb, 2025. Big call that – claiming that reggae changed the world! It certainly had a huge impact on the world of popular music but what Duane Forrest really...
by Bobby Goudie | Jan 5, 2015 | Interviews, Music
by Bobby Goudie. Melbourne-based urban roots and reggae band Blue King Brown have embarked on their Australia tour, following the release of their new album Born Free. It’s nearly 10 years since the band released their original EP and, over the years, have...
by Michael Coghlan | Dec 8, 2014 | Live Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sun Dec 7 Joan Armatrading burst on to the music scene in the mid seventies as a black woman who didn’t sound like a typical black singer. She had a unique sense of melody and phrasing that was all her own. Born in the West Indies, she moved...
by Catherine Blanch | Oct 3, 2014 | Live Music
by Catherine Blanch. Grace Barbé has been lighting up stages around the country with an energetic fusion of pop, jazz, and reggae sounds, topped off with a mix of tropical island rhythms and African percussion. Add in her own Afro sound of the Seychelles and you won’t...