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Grammy-nominated three-piece, The Tiger Lillies, is one of the more interesting acts at this year’s Sydney Festival performing to full houses in the Famous Spiegeltent. The show falls somewhere between a circus act and a gypsy troupe that astounds with the range …

Most fans of the Rolling Stones see Keith Richards as the epitome of everything the band stands for. He is the really cool dude despite the glamour and notoriety that surrounds frontman Mick Jagger. Sydney playwright Benito Di Fonzo evidently shares that …

I’m proud to say English folk musician Laura Marling and I have a few things in common: we were both born in the South-East of England, both grew up in Hampshire, and were both educated in Reading, at institutions across the road …

Australia is turning into Baroque-era Naples: only for several nights, though, and only in select recital halls in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. These venues are hosting a concert tour for Riccardo Minasi, one of Europe’s finest baroque violinists, and the Australian Brandenburg …

Mozart’s Fortepiano, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s fourth subscription series concert of 2015, sees the early music ensemble venture beyond the baroque and into the classical repertoire. Beginning with works by JC Bach and WF Bach, sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, and then …

Eighteen years is a long time in the life of a band. Since English band Blur last played a gig on Australia’s shores in October 1997, they’ve released platinum selling albums, disbanded, reformed, headlined several gigs in London’s Hyde Park, pulled out …

It is very rare to see a classical music audience lose its traditional polite composure overcome with the spectacle of a remarkable performance. But that is exactly what has been happening during the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra season of French Baroque with Circa …

The twin pillars of 1970s jazz-fusion keyboards were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. They had both been through the fire of Miles Davis’s greatest bands – Hancock most notably in the envelope-pushing Quintet of the 1960s and Corea in Miles’ envelope-puncturing electric …

When an unknown neighbour knocks on your door asking the name of the band that played at your party on Saturday night, you know you’re on to a good thing. It’s even better that the neighbour is himself a musician, a bass …

In the early 1980s Carmen Bradford walked right up to legendary band leader Count Basie and said, “if you hire me I’ll make you a million dollars”. The young jazz vocalist had been booked to open a show in Texas for the …