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Community Billboard 11-18 March 2021
Shout Sister Shout: Gai Bryant (IWD 2021)
Approx. 7 minute read One of the wonderful things about working in the Arts is being surrounded by people who express their own interests and talents and share them with the world. It’s a dynamic creative space where dancers, musicians, circus performers, sculptors, painters, writers, impresarios, designers… find each other and invent ways to collaborate […]
Review: Artist Profile – Melissa Mladin
Artist Profile – Melissa Mladin Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) It’s like we are looking into the dark internal spaces of someones brain, yes we have X-ray vision. It’s an evolution: evolution and change the aim, stasis the antithesis. An evolution that has taken visual artist and painter Melissa Mladin on an exploratory journey […]
Shout Sister Shout: Kristin Berardi (IWD 2021)
Approx. 7 minute read I first came across Kristin Berardi’s beautiful voice on her album Where or When a few years back – I’m a late comer to her music ( I know!) considering she had a dozen releases to her name before this 2015 album. I was hooked from the moment her sonic scapes […]
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SICKOrchestra + Taikoz Live
Taikoz and the Sydney Improvisers Composers Kollektiv Orchestra: Intermode INTERMODE is a genre-melding project that invites both ensembles into unknown terrain, a meeting place to create shared sounds, motion and form. It will take the audience on a journey full of sonic colour and resonance – at once surprising and exciting. INTERMODE is Taikoz and […]
The Living Room Theatre
“the foul of the air” Presented by the Living Room Theatre A sound work without a score, a dance piece without steps, theatre without words. In an abandoned women’s garment factory in Summer Hill, Sydney-based theatre company, The Living Room Theatre will use the sound of 5 double basses and the movement of frenzied bodies […]
Musica Viva 2021 Season
The Musica Viva 2021 Season begins with a performance that was due to take place in 2020, when Diana Doherty, the Principal Oboist of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, teams up with her fellow principal chair of the SSO, the cellist Umberto Clerici, together with his collaborators in the Streeton Trio, Emma Jardine and Benjamin Kopp. Showcasing homegrown talent is central to Musica Viva’s […]
♀️ #IWD2021 ♀️International Women’s Day, A whole day of Women Presenters! ? ?
International Women’s Day 2021! We’re celebrating all our women voices on Monday the 8th March 2021 across programming for the whole day. On the menu: TIME PRESENTER LISTEN HERE 07:00 Athésia Jammin’ Monday 09:00 Chelsea Deeley The New Thing 10:30 Angela Stretch Arts’ Monday 12:00 Georgie Zuzak Sincopatico 13:30 Virginia Lowe A taste of Honey […]
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Shout Sister Shout: Hilary Geddes (IWD 2021)
Approx. 8 minute read One of the peculiar habits of humans is to assign gender stereotypes to genderless things, such as musical instruments. One thing that I love about Sister Rosetta Tharpe is that she was an early progenitor of electric guitar rock ‘n roll. She was rocking the socks off crowds before Chuck Berry […]
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Shout Sister Shout: Keyna Wilkins (IWD 2021)
Approx. 5 minutes 30 second read Being a musician means that you need to become expert juggler. I’ve come across so many brilliant musicians who are excellent jugglers of their multiple demanding projects (and actual balls in one instance). However, I think few can match the keen skill of Keyna Wilkins in this regard. She […]
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Shout Sister Shout: Jenna Cave (IWD 2021)
Approx. 6 minute read The song Shout Sister Shout was performed by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Lucky Millinder Orchestra. Their recording captures a sense of energy and zest that is so fresh, even though it was recorded back in the 1940s! I love the sense of play between the orchestra and Sister Rosetta. This […]
Shout Sister Shout: Mara Kiek (IWD 2021)
Approx. 8 minute read All over this world is a gospel tune performed by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a lovely piece to open for my interview with on of Australia’s iconic World Music artists, Mara Kiek. She has been all over this world with the Mara! band, whose members include her equally talented and wonderful […]