Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt is more than a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer and accomplished songwriter…. She has become an institution in American Music. The ten-time Grammy winner is returning with her twentieth album Dig In Deep (2016), the follow up to her critically acclaimed Slipstream (2012). Bonnie Raitt will be joined by […]
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Corinne Bailey Rae at Metro Theatre
Corinne Bailey Rae is coming to Australia to perform for the first time at Bluesfest in 2017. She will also be heading out on tour, visiting Sydney and Melbourne in April 2017. With over five million albums sold, two-time Grammy winner Bailey Rae released her self-titled debut album in 2006, reaching number one in the […]
Loretta Palmeiro Changing the Face and Sound of Jazz
In this week’s series Changing the Face of Jazz, which focuses on young women instrumentalists, the featured musician is saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist Loretta Palmeiro. Loretta has been a member of and soloist in a wide range of ensembles which have made an important impact on Australian music, including the Sirens, the Divergence Jazz Orchestra, […]
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Madness in Australia!
Eight years on since these six lively lads and lifelong friends last toured Oz, London legends MADNESS are set to make a very welcome return touring in celebration of their latest and 12th studio album, Can’t Touch Us Now. Lauded for their 2016 UK tour including performances at Glastonbury, House of Fun Weekender and House […]
Trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood in her own words and music
Composer and trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood is this week’s focus in Changing the Face of Jazz . This is the regular feature in the hour long program devoted entirely to Australian musicians Jazz Made in Australia. Ellen draws on a rich variety of musical styles and genres for her compositions, and finds her inspiration from sources […]
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Nigel Kennedy Plays Jimi Hendrix
After shredding the boe on his National Australian Tour Nigel Kennedy will perform two shows of his brilliant KENNEDY PLAYS HENDRIX in Sydney on Saturday 11 February 2017. “Every bit the performer. Kennedy’s music is a blast whether he’s playing Vivaldi or Hendrix.” – Limelight Magazine 2017 “When I heard Jimi Hendrix, he made me want […]
Ben & Jerry’s Open Air Cinema Bondi
There a few signs which signal summer is truly here – longer days, warmer weather and the return of Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinemas. The quintessential summer cinema returns to Australia’s most iconic beach down at Bondi from January 19th to February 26th, 2017 for another season of movies, ice cream and sunsets. If you’re […]
Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano
Composer-pianist-band leader Omar Sosa’s musical trajectory traces the Diaspora from Africa to Cuba and Brazil; from Central America to Ecuador’s African-descent communities; from San Francisco and New York to his current home base in Barcelona. True to his Afro-Cuban origins, Sosa fashions a spirited vision of uncompromising artistic generosity that embraces humanity at large. Since […]
Bassist Jess Dunn Makes Jazz in Australia
Bass player Jess Dunn (pictured) is the featured musician in Changing the Face of Jazz broadcast as part of Jazz Made in Australia on January 30th. Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric base to a stand-up […]
Art & About Sydney 2017/18 Expressions of Interest
Our city shines in every season, and now Art & About Sydney allows you to celebrate each one with its ongoing program. After 13 years of a festival-style program that jam-packed one month with temporary public art, the City of Sydney is committing to a yearlong calendar of creativity. Some Art & About favourites will remain, but you can expect […]
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A profile of drummer Jodie Michael in Changing the Face of Jazz
Drummer Jodie Michael (pictured) is the focus of the second feature in the series, Changing the Face of Jazz, which profiles young Australian women who have been making their names as jazz instrumentalists in the past few years. Jodie took up the drums in her early teens but within a couple of years was studying […]
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Paris Combo at City Recital Hall
Hot on the heels of their new album, Paris Combo return to Sydney for only their second visit in 15 years to serve up their unique blend of gypsy jazz, French chanson and Latin rhythm, with a touch of Middle Eastern groove at City Recital Hall on Saturday 18 March. Six albums and two decades […]