State Theatre, March 30 9/10 When he began singing A Child Was Born Here, you wondered if Archie Roach was up to completing the show, so much frailer was he than a year ago that he now needed oxygen on stage. Then Took the Children Away, his great anthem that…
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Blue Mountains Theatre, March 12 7/10 When it does catch fire, it blazes up in a sudden inferno. The two saxophones coil and snake around each other in a mad scramble of melody over tearaway rhythms punctuated by bucking syncopations and juddering stop-times. And then out the front there’s Sarah…
Mary’s Underground, February 28 8/10 In another bid to reach beyond the musical horizon, Matt Keegan composed Vienna Dreaming as a tribute to his great grandfather, Heini Portnoj, an Austrian Jew forced to abandon his musical career in Vienna to escape the rising tide of Nazism. Three years after releasing…