Haitian Jazz Latin Party in Sydney! Live Music, Food & Dancing By popular demand, Haitian French Canadian singer Athésia is organising a Haitian party in Sydney. Escape the cold and warm yourself up to the aromas of Haiti. Discover Haitian music and dance on the rhythms of Compas, Mini Jazz, Twoubadou, Zouk and Meringue to name a few. Enjoy […]
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NEW ALBUM REVIEWS To listen or purchase a release click the ? or the album’s artwork BROTHERMARTINO & MIRKO CISILINO meet HERBIE D. FADERS & MICHAEL BASS Showcase [Bassplate Records] ? Review by: Paris Pompor Back in 2009, I was completely besotted with a dub-reggae re-recording of Miles Davis‘ Kind Of Blue. The woozy-boozy meeting of languid jazz and dub […]
In England, a jazz revival is currently in full throttle, with reverberations being clocked well beyond the confines of inner-city London. One of its prime movers, saxophonist NUBYA GARCIA visits Sydney on June 10. Eastside Radio’s PARIS POMPOR caught up with the band leader on the eve of her debut downunder dates. Asked to put her […]
Both Sides Now: Celebrating the Songs of Joni Mitchell! They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot… Singer, songwriter, painter, poet, activist and voice of a generation, Joni Mitchell is an essential part of the soundtrack to the twentieth-century. She grew up with folk music in the 60s, she railed against injustice in the […]
Embodying the unmistakeable Jerez style of flamenco guitar playing, PACO LARA presents the flamenco guitar in all it’s authenticity, culture and artistry. Apart from his skill as a formidable soloist Paco is also revered for his ability as an acompaniest in the specialised world of flamenco singing (cante) and (dance), where he has performed with […]
The German Film Festival will light up screens at Palace Cinemas from 22 May to the 5th of June 2018 . The program of 32 Australian premieres represents the strong and vital cinema from one of Europe’s most prolific filmmaking nations, in collaboration with German Films and Goethe-Institut. The opening selection, THE SILENT REVOLUTION, […]
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The Funniest & Happiest Play Shakespeare Ever Wrote! Directed by Susan Stapleto, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the best known of the bard’s plays. Written after Romeo and Juliet and before The Merchant of Venice, around 1595, it is ostensibly about the events surrounding the marriage of a Theseus, Duke of Athens to […]
Take Time Out and Develop Your Creative Side! Pine Street Creative Arts Centre is the City of Sydney’s community arts facility and gallery. Pine Street Creative Arts Centre is the City of Sydney’s community arts facility and gallery. There, get hands-on to explore jewellery design, ceramics printmaking, drawing and painting, even if you have no experience, […]
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. […]
International stars and jazz heavyweights descend upon Sydney as the University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music together with the Open Academy hosts its second ever International Jazz Festival on Sunday 3 June. Artistic Director and Head of the Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Studies Program, David Theak was thrilled with the response to the inaugural event which […]
PEGGY ALBUM LAUNCH FEAT. JON ROSE & CHRIS ABRAHAMS On a Monday evening in late November 2017, two of Australia’s most prolific musicians performed together in the living room of the late Peggy Glanville-Hicks. It was the first-time violinist Jon Rose and pianist Chris Abrahams had collaborated in a duo setting. What they created that […]
2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship Award winner Emma Stephenson has been living and working in New York for the past eight months. She was briefly back in Sydney in April to attend a couple of weddings which gave Mick Paddon, presenter of Time and Space a chance to catch up with her to ask about how […]
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