by Media Release | Feb 2, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Interviews, Live Music
At this year’s Adelaide Fringe, Fred Smith and band will be presenting the world premiere of ‘Domesticity’ – a show that touches you where you live: at home! After years either working in or singing about Afghanistan, including ‘Sparrows Of Kabul’ at...
by Clayton Werner | Mar 1, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Children's Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[CHILDREN’S/Music ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Wheaty Tin Shed At The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Sat 29 Feb. “Who wants to have fun?” was the question that became the first chorus of Adam Page – For Kids gig, with an audience response, loud and energetic, “We want to have fun!”...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 29, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Acoustic ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Wheaty Tin Shed at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Sat 28 Feb. Greetings from LA was Tim Buckley’s most successful album in Australia – that was where I discovered his music – but turns out that there was a substantial body of...
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...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 26, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Fri 24 Feb. Australian blues legend Chris Finnen was to be part of this show, and it was really disappointing to learn that due to sickness he would not be part of the line-up for A History Of Early Blues. Chris Finnen is a remarkable blues...