Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

June 26, 2020 / Concert Reviews - Archive

These Digital Times, May 30 Streaming just doesn’t quite cut it, does it? When Gretchen Parlato performed in the cavernous Verbrugghen Hall two years ago, I suggested that, given her work’s smaller-than-life ethos, a more appropriate venue may have been a living room. Well, here she was streaming from her…

June 22, 2020 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, May 22 7/10 It hits you most at the end, with a view from Belvoir’s stage of the massed empty seats. The lights being switched off is such an eloquent statement of the plight; of the hole in our lives, and especially in the lives of everyone…

June 14, 2020 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Johnston St Jazz, May 14 6/10 What an apt name for a band. Anoesis refers to attaining a state of pure sensation or emotion, devoid of cognitive input – which is pretty much the improvising musician’s Holy Grail. This quintet of University of New South Wales music students was deemed…