Sydney-based saxophonist and composer Matt Keegan has been announced as a recipient of the 2018 APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund. The $100,000 fund will support nine Australian composers to create new works to reach audiences both locally and globally. Keegan will use the funding to support the creation of a new work for the cross-cultural ensemble The Three Seas. […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
The Sydney Writers 2018 festival has just begun! Set to take place in new locations instead of the Walsh Bay Art Precinct. Events are planned at Sydney Town Hall, City Recital Hall and Roslyn Packer Theatre with a huge variety of Writers and Journalist from Emma Alberrici, Peter Doyle, Julia Zemiro, Wesley Morris and many more. […]
Advanced Screening with Simon Baker Event Cinemas presents an advanced screening of the new film Breath with a Q&A session featuring director, actor, and producer Simon Baker. The film originally premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival and the 2017 Zurich Film Festival. Based on Tim Wharton’s award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s […]
Word In Hand hits the stage at the Red Rattler in Marrickville from 7pm on the first Tuesday of every month. This Tuesday 1st May: Flying in from the other side of the world – Queensland – The Travelling Sisters! Reviewed as ‘insane geniuses of sketch comedy’, they’re like no other act you’ve ever seen! Also, joining Word […]
A CELEBRATION OF THE ARTIST, THE GENIUS, THE MUSIC NOTHING COMPARES 2 PRINCE is a unique concert event, with Prince’s music performed live on stage by a selection of friends, family and band mates who knew him best. With a special introduction by his sister Tyka Nelson this is a celebration of a remarkable musical life, featuring […]
Five-Piece Ensembles Transports Audience to Lisbon The evocative music of Alma Orquestra will transport Foundry616 to the steep, cobbled streets of Lisbon on Friday, April 13th. The five-piece ensemble draws inspiration from Fado and folkloric songs of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as music from Portuguese-speaking nations of Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil. Rapidly gaining […]