A year ago Emma Pask lost a close friend and fellow singer to breast cancer. Pask was with this person when she drew her last breath, and the experience had a profound effect. Grief was tangled with guilt that she could keep singing, herself, and then came a hunger to…
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A Blue Mountains expert on ornithology and funk has commented that the election season “looks more like the mating season, given the number of grey men in grey suits who are suddenly wearing brightly coloured vests and making wild promises”. “It’s as though they wear their vested interests on the…
Imagine Sydney’s best ever jazz festival at an obscure venue that’s so hip you can’t even buy a ticket. That’s exactly what’s happening when the four-night STRATA festival descends into the nest-like cavity of Phoenix Central Park, surely the most beautiful music venue Sydney’s ever had. Phoenix was the brainchild of…