Chatswood Concourse Concert Hall, February 25 8.5/10 Martin Hayes excels at enunciating the exquisite sadness of being. Like the trumpet playing of Miles Davis or the singing of Billy Holiday and Jose Carreras, it’s ever present in the great Irish violinist’s sound and phrasing. Beyond the airs and laments in…
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Hayes Theatre, January 22 7/10 Now here’s a puzzle. The Hayes’ Theatre artistic directors, Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer, wanted a show celebrating Barbra Streisand, and asked Brittanie Shipway to direct it as well as perform in a cast of four. The creative team Shipway assembled has resulted in a…
The Neilson, November 22 8/10 Twenty-four years ago pianist Andrea Keller won the inaugural Freedman Jazz Fellowship, and now she was one of a trio of judges announcing that saxophonist/composer Sam Gill had won this year’s $30,000 fellowship. Gill will pursue compositional studies, collaboration and recording in New York across…