Category: Concert Reviews

November 6, 2013 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, October 30 Swirling mists, gentle mizzle, stark landscapes, human conviviality and human heartbreak: they are all present in Clannad’s music at its best. Then much of the appeal lies in the lightness with which Moya Brennan’s voice dances across the melodies, like a young girl’s feet barely seeming…

August 28, 2013 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Art Gallery of NSW, August 23 At his best Tim Draxl is so far ahead of whoever is second in Australian cabaret that were it a horse-race the stewards would hold an inquiry. His instincts as a singer shame most pedlars of either jazz or musical theatre. In fact why…

August 27, 2013 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Venue 505, August 22          If there is a goddess of music she was smiling on this. Ra-Kalam Bob Moses has been among jazz’s key drummers for 50 years, his associates including Pharoah Sanders, Roland Kirk, Pat Metheny and Gary Burton. In the heady 1960s his regular collaborators…