Community Billboard 20 January – 27 January
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
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Goodbye Baird, Koalas, Leonard Cohen….?
We wanted to ask Mike Baird if he could imagine Australia without koalas? But he made a tactical retreat from politics this week by resigning – some would say NSW just got too hot for the Premier whose popularity has been severely dinted in the past 12 months by community opposition to his government’s controversial […]
ALBUM REVIEWS JANUARY 2017
MUSIC REVIEWS JANUARY 2017 To listen or purchase click ≈≈≈ or album artwork MISTER OTT Single Shot ≈≈≈ (Earshift Music/Art as Catharsis Records) Reviewed by Melanie Christodoulou It’s a great pleasure to ring in the new year with this review of Single Shot by Sydney’s own Mister Ott, the follow up to their debut album. There is no sign of the […]
Demolished Sydney: our ever-changing built environment
Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Bob Whight, project Manager at the Museum of Sydney about some of Sydney’s lost buildings, places and spaces, and the debates and protests their demolition aroused. Hear about the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot (Bennelong Point) and other changes to the harbourfront, the Regent Theatre ‘Picture Palace’, the glamorous Hotel Australia, […]
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Emma Stephenson in Changing the Face of Jazz this week
The new series, Changing the Face of Jazz, focusses on young Australian women who have been making their names as jazz instrumentalists in the past few years. All of them have participated in projects which were aimed explicitly at encouraging more young women to study jazz and think about it a as a musical career. […]
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The New Thing: Interview with Stuart Vandegraaff, Masha’s Legacy
A global-fusion of cultures and rhythms, independent Sydney 8-piece Masha’s Legacy create music that celebrates both unity and identity in modern day Australia. With the beginnings of the group culminating over 6-years ago, this collective has evolved into a captivating live act with both live dancers and talented musicians. It’s a show that brings to life exhuberant and […]
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Australian Women who are Changing the Face of Jazz-New Series
Image: Pianist Jann Rutherford performing in Sydney in the 1990s. Photo copyright Joe Glaysher Over the past decade the face of jazz in Australia has been changing, slowly but surely. While we are used to seeing women singers fronting bands, there have been few women playing the instruments we associate with jazz-trumpets, saxophones, pianos, basses. […]
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Album of the Week – ‘Paris in the Rain’ Sarah McKenzie
After enchanting jazz fans with her 2015 Impulse! Records debut, We Could Be Lovers, Sarah McKenzie returns with the sensational follow-up, Paris in the Rain. Like before, the 28-year-old, Melbourne, Australia-born singer, pianist, composer and arranger teams with the acclaimed Brian Bacchus – who has produced classics for such stars as Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, […]
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Boiling Point 20 Jan 2017
Fulgurites and Smithsonian butterflies Summer thunderstorms and Rom-coms set Tim wondering; can lighting really produce glass? Turns out the answer is YES and that glass is called a Fulgurite…. And Chantelle shared her last Panama adventure, with an interview conducted in the steamy Butterfly Research Laboratory of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute https://www.si.edu/ResearchCente…/Tropical-Research-Institute Boiling Point […]
My Leonard Cohen
‘My Leonard Cohen’ was the toast of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, with sold-out shows and rave reviews from critics and fans alike. The show returns to Sydney at the Sydney Opera House, Playhouse from Monday February 6 2017. Performed by Stewart D’Arrietta and a six-piece band, featuring some of Australia’s best rock musicians. D’Arrietta’s […]
Lennon: Through A Glass Onion
Lennon – Through A Glass Onion returns to Sydney to celebrate 25 years on the international stage. The music, the mystery and the memory of John Lennon, starring John Waters and Stewart D’Arrietta. It’s been 25 years since John Waters and Stewart D’Arrieta first performed “Through A Glass Onion” on the small stage at Sydney’s […]
Kevin Hunt’s Jazz Piano Classes
The Open Academy’s Summer term starts in February at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The program offers many short courses designed to give adults the skills and knowledge to pursue their musical interests, curiosity or to find a creative outlet for their talents in a collaborative group learning environment catering for beginners right through to experienced […]