by Michael Coghlan | Feb 23, 2025 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Featured, Reviews, Spoken Word
[MUSIC/Storytelling ~ INTERNATIONAL ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE] The Lab at Fool’s Paradise, Sun 23 Feb, 2025. Big call that – claiming that reggae changed the world! It certainly had a huge impact on the world of popular music but what Duane Forrest really...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 22, 2025 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/World Music ~ INTERNATIONAL] Church Of The Trinity, Fri 22 Feb, 2025. The santoor has 100 strings. It is played with hammers and is a form of dulcimer. Dulcimers in various forms are found in many cultures, but the home of the santoor is Kashmir, in the north...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 21, 2025 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Cabaret, Comedy, Live Music, Reviews
[CABARET/Music ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] The Lab at Fool’s Paradise, Thu 20 Feb, 2025. It was always going to be difficult to front up as the first act in a venue that is being rebooted after several years hiatus. The Victoria Square hub is back on the Fringe map...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 12, 2025 | Featured, Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ AUS] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Tue 11 Feb, 2025. It was a little unnerving to watch a show trashing the inner workings of democracy just as the world’s foremost democratic state across the Pacific is busy dismantling theirs. The timing is...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 20, 2024 | Classical, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ AUS/NZ/CUBA] Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide, Sat 19 Oct, 2024. ASO at Hart’s Mill was promoted as ‘a musical journey inspired by the iconic Wonderwalls art that decorates the streets of Port Adelaide.’ In truth the only visual artist that was acknowledged...