Most artists that perform at WOMADelaide travel a long way to get there. As Cuba’s young jazz sensation Daymé Arocena told the crowd during one of her festival sets, it was a 36 hour journey for her and her band. Despite those gruelling travel distances performing artists are inevitably seen on WOMADelaide stages smiling and speaking genuinely of… Continue reading WOMADelaide 2018 – Worth The Distance
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Anderson Paak Living His Greatness Down Under
If Anderson Paak “spent years…living under his greatness” like he tells us in ‘The Season/Carry Me’, then he’s definitely made up for it tenfold in recent times. New testament to that is the fact that he & The Free Nationals just achieved something I’ve rarely seen done by any performing artists in Australia. Without even… Continue reading Anderson Paak Living His Greatness Down Under
Bluesfest 2017 – An Awe Inspiring Wealth of Musical Experience
Byron Bay Bluesfest is all about the music. It’s not a festival you go to find a patch of luscious green grass to chill out on and catch up with friends. For starters you’re not likely to find such grass or any other festival spaces to chill out comfortably (unless you pay hundreds extra to… Continue reading Bluesfest 2017 – An Awe Inspiring Wealth of Musical Experience
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2016 – All Along The Jazz Continuum
Melbourne International Jazz Festival has again succeeded in bringing some of the world’s greatest musical innovators to perform on stages throughout Melbourne over 10 days; creators from all along the jazz continuum – some whose music we’ve known and loved for our entire lifetime so far, others whose new music we’ll benefit from knowing better and may… Continue reading Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2016 – All Along The Jazz Continuum
Marcus Strickland – From Twi-Life To One Life
No music artist likes the constraints of genre-boxes or external expectations. And Marcus Strickland is no exception. For over 15 years he’s been known and respected as a “jazz” saxophonist and composer – not daring to step outside that box. Until recently. With his latest creation Nihil Novi, Strickland has moved beyond the expectations of… Continue reading Marcus Strickland – From Twi-Life To One Life
Bluesfest 2016 – Embracing Contemporary Hip Hop, Soul & Jazz Of The Highest Order
Blessed be lovers of innovative contemporary hip hop, R&B, funk and jazz music for the gift of consecutive live performances by Kendrick Lamar, D’Angelo, Kamasi Washington and Hiatus Kaiyote on the one stage at Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016. If you’re one of those music lovers you’ll know that every single one of the many musicians and… Continue reading Bluesfest 2016 – Embracing Contemporary Hip Hop, Soul & Jazz Of The Highest Order
De La Soul – Bringing The Fresh To Hip Hop At Soulfest 2015
De La Soul has been bringing fresh and innovative beats, rhymes, skits and emerging artists to hip hop since its “Golden Age”. If you grew up in the late 80s, 90s or thereafter if you were switched on to the evolution of hip hop, there’s a good chance De La Soul’s music makes up an integral… Continue reading De La Soul – Bringing The Fresh To Hip Hop At Soulfest 2015
Kamasi Washington: The Jazz 2015 In Soulfest 2015
“Australia’s First Annual Neo Soul, Jazz & Hip Hop Festival” needs some jazz, right? The inaugural Soulfest 2014 delivered a line-up of spectacular soul and hip hop artists to Australian and New Zealand shores. Best of all it included D’Angelo & The Vanguard afresh, not long before the release of Black Messiah and they got busy playing… Continue reading Kamasi Washington: The Jazz 2015 In Soulfest 2015
Nneka Live & With Love In The Eutropia Sanctuary
I’ve discovered that when in Rome in the Summertime, the good-vibes, open-air, artistic sanctuary of Eutropia Festival with its killer line-up of music artists seems like the only place in the city to be. Also that when in any part of the world at any time there’s a live Nneka concert to be found, that… Continue reading Nneka Live & With Love In The Eutropia Sanctuary
Bluesfest 2015 – Nothing But The Euphoric Funk
Five festival days of performances by 89 international and Australian acts at Byron Bay Bluesfest ended for me with three hours at the main stage frontline having what felt like the most euphoric live music experience of my lifetime. I was, of course, in the company of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. With the greatest of… Continue reading Bluesfest 2015 – Nothing But The Euphoric Funk