Canberra Jazz blog

I’m in Adelaide for a family visit and this was the Adelaide Cello Festival and the footy was the two Adelaide teams, the Crows and Port, ...

I can actually spell asteroids and the link to Flash G is tenuous but it amused me. This was the first concert of another season of the C...

We are yet to visit the Gold of the Incas but we heard a batch of South American music this afternoon. Ambre Hammond and Marcello Maio pe...

I remembered the Stiff Gins as a larger band and they were a trio in the early days. But this was their 15th birthday celebration and the...

In many ways, this was unexpected, but in others it was not. Alec Hunter is the new bassist at the Music School with a background in bot...

** It was a revisit for Megan. She had attended Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Bolshoi in Communist-era Moscow. This was EO pe...

I'm listening to Reina De La Pileta a as I write this. It's the album launched the other night at the Street Theatre by Simon Mil...

I like plucked solos on nylon string guitars. They are fast, flashy, exciting, with that dull thud with edge. Classical guitars use nylo...

The Australian Haydn Ensemble feels like living music, not electronic digital-perfect but with body and life. I imagine this is what musi...

All Saints has a newish grand piano and this was a fundraiser by the singers and musicians of the church choir. They must be an impressiv...

It's the closest I'll ever get to Elvis. Jacqueline Feilich was at the Artists Shed as the King singing the Stax era, early 70s, ...

It's our local and we'd walked down for pizza to start the long weekend and there was jazz in the distance as we left. Victor Ruf...

It's nothing like the great museums overseas, of course, and smaller than the Nicholson Museum in the Quad at University of Sydney, bu...