The Joan, May 22 6/10 Jazz singer Hetty Kate reminds me of a good champagne with some bottle age: simultaneously effervescent and restrained. She also boasts natural elegance, a pretty voice devoid of any harshness, excellent diction (notable on a fleet Love Me or Leave Me) and a breezy rhythmic…
Category: Concert Reviews
Camelot Lounge, May 20 8.5/10 This is the real multicultural Australia: neither threat, failure, myth nor aspiration, but a thumping reality. Migration can be a glue rather than a source of division, because it is something most of us share, even if coming from spectacularly diverse places. Express this diversity…
Randwick Town Hall, May 13 7/10 This concert may well not have happened. The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, the country’s preeminent large jazz ensemble, has just lost its Australia Council funding, and Randwick Council’s commendable Twilight Concert Series may well be jeopardised by forced council mergers. So we should be grateful…