Just the raw truth: Archie Roach is frail but unbowed
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When he began singing A Child Was Born Here, you wondered if Archie Roach was up to completing the show, so much more frail was he than a year ago that he now needed oxygen on stage. Then
Took the Children Away, his great anthem that is even more about healing than loss and desolation, affected him like a blood transfusion, and you knew that although Roach wasn’t in robust health, the inner strength he’s poured into his songs would see him through.
Dream realised in compelling live gig
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Sydney Festival s Heartland sees a seedling grow into a mighty tree
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By Harriet Cunningham
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Seymour Centre, January 15
Heartland began, like a tiny seedling, as a six-minute commission for the 2019 Canberra International Music Festival. It has grown into a mighty tree.
William Barton and Veronique Serret in Heartland for Sydney Festival.
Credit:Jacquie Manning
William Barton and Veronique Serret are unique in their respective fields. As a virtuoso didgeridoo player and musical polymath, Barton explodes the traditional instrument’s range. As a classically-trained violinist who glides seamlessly between different music worlds, Serret plays with an exhilarating sense of limitless possibilities. Together, it adds up to something quite special.
Paul Capsis and iOTA blow the lid off in Rapture
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The Headland, January 16
With Paul Capsis and iOTA singing, and a subtitle like A song cycle of desire and ecstasy, murder and mayhem , it seemed worth risking an outdoor show in the fickle La Nina summer. Then you learn that the 14 songs constituting
Rapture are from a forthcoming musical conceived by four people including director Michael Kantor, and, on the basis of this concert, that musical certainly deserves a life.
Paul Capsis in Sydney Festival s Rapture.