Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney, 21-25 January Reviewed by Paula Towers Giant balloons float above the audience while long lengths of sheer fabric appear to dance with a life of their own in Air Play, a 2020 Sydney Festival offer. Charmingly described as a “visual poem”, this show is a beguiling and fun blend […]
The 1920s, or the Jazz Age, was one of the most thrilling decades in modern history. Nowhere is this era better described than in Echoes of the Jazz Age, F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous essay on the Roaring Twenties, nor more wondrously evoked than in John Bell and Simon Tedeschi’s performance of the same title, in words […]
These four musicians are the dream quartet of Australian jazz. If you get just one Australian album this year, make it this. THIS WORLD is the stunning debut release from this peerless new ensemble comprising four of Australia’s most established and celebrated improvisers. Bell Hall of Fame Inductee, pianist Mike Nock OMNZ, ARIA Award-winning bassist […]
Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Sydney’s Hyde Park North, 7 – 26 January Reviewed by Paula Towers Part of the 2020 Sydney Festival, transgressive cabaret Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined inspires and delights with its confectionary of costumes, characters and theatrical delivery. Multi-talented Josh Quong Tart has reinvented the original raunchy role and his irascible charm is enthusiastically received. […]
At the end of 2019, one of Sydney’s iconic venues for jazz and new music, 505, closed its doors on Cleveland Street. Listed in Downbeat Magazine as one of the world’s 150 best jazz clubs, 505 had offered live music for six nights a week for a decade. For lovers of improvised music, the good […]
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At 10:40 am, art consultant Anna Groden continues with Part 3 of Multiples and this week the topic is screen printing, lithos and etchings. My special guest at 11:00 am is artist Shivanjani Lal, one of 12 artists exhibiting in Wansolwara: one salt water at the UNSW Galleries. The salt water in question is the […]
2020 has marked a new decade and another swing of the roaring 20s which has also brought along a change of wind at Eastside FM with some internal changes at the station. Following the departure of Programming Director Chelsea Deeley, who will continue to host the new music program ‘The New Thing’, radio and podcast producer/ […]
Read More… from Amelia Navascues joins as Programming Manager at Eastside FM
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Circles by Mac Miller in association with Warner Records Label. Circles is Mac Millers sixth studio album which was produced by Warner Records Label. This album released posthumously making it his first work published after death. The album features 12 tracks that shows that you can mix 8 […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Jan 19 – Jan 25
Bonjour, Good Morning beautiful souls! On today’s show, we will have a special So Frenchy So Chic segment, Australia’s one-of-a-kind French music and culinary festival who will be in town tomorrow, Saturday 18th of January 2020 at Bicentennial Park in Glebe. If you are in the mood for some jazz Manouche, traditional swing and Romani music Cigány […]
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Now that the Lock Out Laws have been repealed it’s time to head out and help build back our live music scene and what better place to start than Camelot Lounge – Sydney’s favourite boutique music venue! The Black Sorrows on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th January. At the helm, Camilleri steers the band through […]
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