Canberra Jazz blog

The theme of this year's Canberra International Music Festival is "Pole to Pole".   The link to Schumann, Roland's favou...

This as a new experience, performing in the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, on behalf of the Australian War Memorial, thro...

There have been few demos during Covid time but I was hopeful about SS4C returning for a pre-election run.   Doubly so with the clarity of...

Robert was one of the first classical performers I recorded so he's in my memory.  He hadn;t p.ayed for a while, with interruptions by...

A gig like this just floors me and reminds me of the best of jazz, the chops, the intensity and invention, the commitment, the unpretentio...

I'd heard the program before but not quite.   Last time Ariana and James were playing within Limestone Consort, with a string quartet ...

We were at Smiths for a musical theatre gig and it was sold out.   We got in when a few tix became available, but still it surprised me to...

It's just a coincidence or a community affectation, of course, but Volodymyr Zelenskyy also has repeating letters at the end of his na...

I'd seen Van Badham on a Webinar but still I went to her Meet the Author session at ANU and I'm glad I did.   At one stage she men...

Yeah, it's stuff we know, Beethoven Moonlight and Chopin waltzes and nocturnes, and a very recognisable Liszt Nocturne as encore, but ...

I guess it's apt there's no record of our recording weekend.   It was at home, in the lounge, not perfect acoustics.   It was to b...

It's an arty locale and this Ainslie Session held at Ainslie Arts Centre was a corker.   Three acts.   First up, Lilly Morris, singer-...

Sam Row returned to Wesley with another concert of French music of the nouveau siècle.  Is that what it's called?  Ravel and Debussy, Pa...

Wanderlust is 30yo.   That's quite an achievement for a band.   Miro's group that has changed a little but not tons over the years...

There's a crew that I know who support the Kim for Canberra campaign.   Kim is seeking to replace the Liberals (=Zed Saselja) in the S...