Foundry 616, August 19 Expert improvising musicians can instantly strike a rapport and create good and sometimes great music without having ever previously worked together or even met. This was the case with pianist Greg Lloyd, an ex-Sydneysider long resident in Ireland, who was playing with the established local rhythm…
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Mutiny Music (http://www.mutinymusic.org/) This was a labour of blood-line love. In 2011 Rick Robertson, who is descended from Fletcher Christian, unveiled a suite tracing the history of the nine Bounty mutineers and 16 Tahitians who settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790, and the 194 people who relocated to Norfolk Island…
Raffertys Theatre, August 13 Bob Kingdom’s one man show about one of the greatest poets since Shakespeare never directly addresses the reasons for the self-destructiveness that saw Dylan Thomas dead at 39. But Kingdom’s text is largely drawn from the man’s writings, and for Thomas to analyse in prose or…