by David Robinson | Mar 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Sat 12 Mar. WOMADelaide 2016 continues into its second day. I’m in the park, anticipating more wondrous sonic immersion. It starts on a high; I arrive at the Zoo Stage and see Tulegur, a fabulous Chinese melding of traditional and modern sounds....
by Matt Saunders | Mar 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Botanic Park, Fri 11 Mar Stage Two – 47SOUL Having rested up during the day after Friday night’s festivities had me writing deep into Saturday morning, I rocked up to WOMADelaide just in time to catch the end of Middle Eastern hip-hop act 47SOUL’s 7:00pm Stage Two...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 12, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Fri 11 Mar Stage Two – Violent Femmes My first ever WOMADelaide begins with a band I feared I’d never see again after a very public dispute over selling their music for advertising in 2007 eventually led to their break-up in 2009. However,...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 10, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Reviews
Odeon Theatre, Wed 9 Mar A thrilling, masterful, and thoroughly impressive work of contemporary dance, LissaJane Dance’s Vincent illustrates the inner turmoil of Van Gogh’s struggles with mental illness through movement. Adelaide’s Tobiah Booth-Remmers stars as the...
by Michael Coghlan | Sep 26, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Music, Reviews
[INDONESIA] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 25 Sep. Gamelan music from Indonesia can be an acquired taste. Gamelan orchestras are primarily percussive ensembles featuring a range of metallophones (the metal version of xylophones), and bamboo flutes. The...