Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

April 15, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Springwood Presbyterian Hall, April 11  I presume some other band’s repertoire may have ranged from Bela Bartok to Boubacar Traore, but not one that I have encountered. Gary Daley is not going to die wondering what would have happened had put all the  options on the table with his new…

April 8, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Theatre Royal, April 2  Perhaps it is a matter of personality as much as voice: a natural warmth and an instinct for never exaggerating the emotional content of a song. Whatever the case it is easy to see and hear why, for 30 years, Bernadette Peters has probably been musical…

March 18, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Basement, March 12  Everything was a dialogue: between idioms, between players, between virtuosity and heart. The reward for a nightmare trip to town (following the Barangaroo fire) was hearing one of the great bands, Roberto Fonseca’s quintet having few peers for scope, power, beauty and cohesion . Since his…