Category: Music

The most wonderful time of year

Late summer/early autumn, February-March, is the best time to visit Adelaide, South Australia. Often regarded as ‘conservative’, the city comes alive during the twin events of the Adelaide Festival and Fringe. For three Covid-conscious festival seasons audiences and artists alike laboured under a cloud of anxiety. Would their show be cancelled? Would a key cast

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Getting cultural on the boulevard

Take a walk along Adelaide’s North Terrace past the State Library, the South Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Migration Museum. It’s a cultural boulevard in grand colonial style nestled against the cloisters and campus of the University of Adelaide. Stroll through this seat of learning and endeavour. If it’s been

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The Murray Delta Juke Joint

Down a dark deserted street in an industrial estate, across the rail tracks, the metal cold underfoot, in what feels like the wrong side of town. The streetlights feeble against the night. It feels like South Chicago. That’s the whole point. Inside it’s as you might hope. The blast of warm sultry air, laden with

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