Festival audiences have been told a controversial act was not offensive or âblackfaceâ.
Entertainment by WILL ZWAR
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Subscriber only PERFORMERS part of a Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival act which allegedly offended a number of audience members have moved to reassure the public it was not a blackface act. In a statement from the creators of Barry Brown and the GetDown posted on the festival s Facebook page, the performers said the character of Barry Brown in their act wore no make-up apart from mascara on his moustache to cover emerging grey hairs, and he was not a caricature of an African American musician and was never intended to be.