Joan Sutherland Theatre, March 3 Playing in the Concert Hall as guests of Brian Eno was one thing. Playing in the Joan Sutherland Theatre under their own name was a clearer indication of the growing hometown respect for the Necks, after 27 years of hearing them in smaller rooms. Although…
Category: Concert Reviews
The Factory Theatre, March 2 This double shot of Irish music provided living, breathing proof of the idiom’s breadth and malleability. Lunasa showed how feisty and energetic it may be, before Altan dug deep into the tradition – particularly that of Donegal and the north – with a sound defined…
VJs, February 5 Occasionally a prophet-like musician arrives to demolish preconceptions of a particular instrument’s limits. Franz Liszt did so with the piano, John Coltrane the saxophone, Jimi Hendrix the electric guitar and Renaud Garcia Fons the double bass. Canada’s Francois Houle is such a clarinettist. He has borrowed some…