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2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival hit with Festival Fever
Adelaide has been in Festival mode over the past couple of weeks, with the Festival and Fringe the talk of the town and it's not over yet! No sooner has the last ticket stub been thrown away than audiences are looking to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to spend their hard earned cash and have a great night out with friends.
After the success of the first Variety Gala in 2009, audiences have snapped up tickets for this year's Variety Gala after it went on sale in the Adelaide Festival Centre's 2010 season brochure, with the event now sold out. The Variety Gala will open the 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival on 11 June.
This is just the start of what's in store for the 2010 program and everyone is encouraged to go online when the program is launched on 14 April at 7.30pm to view for themselves the Adelaide Festival Centre's 10th Adelaide Cabaret Festival program, snap up the best seats and see what delights Artistic Director David Campbell has in store for cabaret audiences.
Tickets are currently on sale for two other shows, Ennio Marchetto, the one-man-living-cartoon, who will be making his Australian debut transforming himself using paper costumes into well-known artists within split seconds and John Waters who will be performing a night of French Cabaret in BREL, singing the songs of the great French Chanson singer-songwriter, Jacques Brel.
The full Adelaide Cabaret Festival program will be available online on 14 April at adelaidecabaretfestival.com and bookings can be made through the link on the website or through BASS on 131 246.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival brochures will be available at BASS outlets on 15 April and in mailboxes on 21 April.
Adelaide Festival Centre's trans:mission program presents
Bela Fleck's African Project featuring Oumou Sangare and Band
Described as the premiere banjo player in the world, Béla Fleck will be joined by international diva Oumou Sangaré and her stunning 12-piece Malian band on stage for one amazing night in the Festival Theatre on 9 April.
A New York City native, Béla Fleck first picked up the banjo at age 15 and has made a name for himself on countless solo and ensemble projects as a virtuoso instrumentalist unbounded by genre. Throughout his 30 year career, Béla has won 13 Grammy awards and has earned more diverse Grammy nominations than any other musician in history, including pop, country, bluegrass, jazz, classical, spoken-word, composition and arranging. In 2010 Béla won Grammy awards for ‘Best Pop Instrumental Performance’ and ‘Best Contemporary World Music Album’ for his latest album Throw Down Your Heart.
Click on the image to watch the YouTUBE trailer.
Throw Down Your Heart is a companion to the award-winning documentary of the same name, which premiered in 2009. Motivated by a deep love of African music, the film follows Béla on a boundary-breaking musical adventure through four African countries: Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia and Mali to explore the little-known African roots of the banjo and record an album. Béla finds common ground with musicians ranging from local villagers to well-known artists such as Oumou Sangaré to create some of the most meaningful music of his career.
Considered as the greatest female African star of her generation, Oumou Sangaré is the leading female star of the Wassoulou sound. Her music is bold, seductive, funky and vibrant and onstage her huge charisma, irrepressible energy and joie de vivre is very much evident. Oumou has enjoyed a long and illustrious career, touring internationally and becoming an ambassador for the music of Mali. Her latest album Seya (Joy) was released in 2009.
For fans of world, jazz and African music, be sure not to miss this first trans:mission concert for 2010, which is sure to be nothing short of exhilarating.
What: Béla Fleck
Venue: Festival Theatre
When: 9 April, 8pm
Cost: Premium $60 / Adult $55.95 / Concession $45.95 / Student $40
Groups (6 or more) $50 / Family (2 2) $110 / GreenRoom $19.95 /
Season Pass Adult $50 / Season pass Conc $40
Bookings: BASS on 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
This performance is part of trans:mission, Adelaide Festival Centre’s music program of universal beats, rhythms and grooves.
TRAFFIC
By Ian McFarland
18 March to 11 April 2010
Opening: 6-8pm Thursday 18 March. Guest Speaker: Robert Dunstan, Editor, Rip it Up and Arts Editor, The Adelaide Review.
Gallery 139 139 Magill Road, Stepney
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday. Phone: (08) 8363 6139.
Fast and frenetic, slow and methodical Ian McFarland’s new mixed media works on canvas reflect the ebb and flow of traffic in a modern city.
Ian McFarland is one of a small number of artists in the world practicing the art of the ‘Affichistes’ (torn poster artists), an art movement that originated in Paris during the 1950s.
Factory walls, vacant blocks and abandoned derelict buildings adorned with the pasted imagery of advertising posters provide Ian McFarland with the inspiration and materials so often overlooked. Ripped patterns, sun faded colours, residual brush strokes of application and the imprinted pattern of brick and corrugated iron, are all bundled together in a multi-layered package of discovery.
Ian McFarland is fascinated by advertising material, ”There is a very high turn over of advertising posters on public buildings which can be exciting because you never know exactly what you will find or where the images will take you. There is so much to be discovered between the layers of posters; traces of glue, misprints, even evidence of where the reverse side of the posters have been used to clean the printing machine. The media I use jumps out at me; text, pattern, the vibrancy of colour, a hidden face or image, removed, out of context, all waiting to be rebranded within a new work of art.”
Ian captures brief moments in time, as the ever-changing product of the mass media is reconstructed into new artwork and given a new meaning.
The final works are bold representations on canvas that keep your eyes searching as new details are found. Uncertain as to what is painted or collage, what is original or created, there is a sense within the work that a moment in our contemporary urban history has been captured, reworked and subsequently elevated.
Ian McFarland has a Masters of Visual Arts and Design from the South Australian School of Art, UniSA. He has held a number of successful exhibitions including the sold out exhibition, Big Kiss at Gallery 139 in 2009.
4 Venues, 22 Days, 23 Bands, 39 Shows,
240 Performances, 1 Higher Ground
Triple Award winning venue, Higher Ground, presents its most ambitious Fringe program to date
Higher Ground Inc., winner of Best Established venue 2009, will release their 12-page program and launch their website detailing all that’s going on during Fringe 2010.
This year will see Higher Ground put on it's most ambitious Fringe program to date: over 22 days you'll get a chance to see 23 bands, 39 different productions in a total of 240 performances across 4 venues.
Bigger and Better than Ever
This year, running four venues – including a brand new outdoor venue Shimmering West and the Studio at AC Arts – means Higher Ground is staging the biggest Fringe it has ever had.
They will be hosting Guy Masterson’s inaugural Centre for International Theatre - 8 highly acclaimed international theatre works from the UK and the US, bringing the past to life in Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo and Garden, a huge live music program, and much, much more besides!
Higher Ground and the Adelaide Fringe
Higher Ground Inc. was set up as a not-for-profit Fringe venue in Pultney St. in 2004.
Since then they’ve come to realize that providing an accessible, user-friendly arts space in the city is a year round task, but the Fringe has remained the central date in our calendar.
Higher Ground’s commitment to the Adelaide Fringe has been recognized with three consecutive awards in 2007, 2008 and 2009
The Spirit of the Fringe, Best Visual Arts Venue and Best Established Venue respectively.
Fresh from loping in at #2 and #74 on triple j's Hottest 100, Sydney's ART vs SCIENCE have recently achieved Gold status in the ARIA Charts for their the eponymous debut EP (out through Green/MGM). The Hottest 100 result also effected the re-entry of the EP into the Top 5 on iTunes and back into the ARIA Top 40. It is currently sitting at no. 1 on the physical singles chart.
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NATIONA performance captured LIVE in HD from the UK’s National Theatre
broadcast to 330 cinemas worldwide
exclusively in Adelaide at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas
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