Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

December 24, 2023 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Riverside Theatre, December 16 7/10 If the burghers of the thriving metropolis of Esk, northwest of Ipswich, are bewildered to find their streets bereft of women with straight black hair and skirts, muted polka-dot blouses and sensible shoes, that would be because their celebrated neighbours, the Kransky Sisters, are on…

November 11, 2023 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, October 31 9/10 Cecile McLorin Salvant makes us wish we were great singers, too. Even as she transports us with vocal artistry of the highest calibre, the fun factor is contagious, deployed with all the guilelessness of playing in a sandpit. Yet intertwined with the playfulness is…

November 8, 2023 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, October 19 7/10 The title could have been A Bloody Australian Songbook, such is often the tone as Robyn Archer trawls the Oz annals. It makes no pretence at being an anthology of the best or most famous Australian songs, but rather is Archer taking us by…