Category: Concert Reviews

November 15, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, October 20 6/10 Lulo Reinhardt, great-nephew of the fabled Django, was a regular visitor to these shores for several years, during which time audiences came to treasure not just the brilliance of his acoustic guitar playing and his Latin-flavoured take on Gypsy swing, but also his many exceptional…

November 13, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Colbourne Ave, October 13 9/10 Music is nearly always dressed up in the tell-tale padded-shoulder clothes of this idiom or that, conforming to expectations and triumphantly embodying certain skills. Too often these clothes, conformity and skills are the music. Here, for once, was the heart, soul and feeling stripped naked.…

November 7, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Enmore Theatre, October 7 6.5/10 Were flamenco dance a mating ritual it would surely be the world’s most elaborate, seeing off an exotic bird or two. Here the dancers were Charo Espino and Angel Munoz, who each had their particular strengths. With Espino it was the arching shapes and jutting…