PREVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, November 2-4, 2018 Most music fans going to “Wang” this year will have made that decision some time ago, so this is intended as a guide to the myriad jazz gigs on offer. With the Invictus Games fresh in our minds, the Australian Art Orchestra’s Friday night concert (8pm WPAC Theatre) entitled Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than … Continue reading CHORDS REFLECT CRISES, CULTURES
REVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues 2016 There is a political dimension to the performance of live music that often goes unmentioned. Yet it was present at this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, whether in frequent black-humoured mentions of “lifestyle choices” (the products of which apparently we were hearing onstage) or in passing comments that did not reflect well on Attorney-General and … Continue reading BRANDIS-ING LIFESTYLE CHOICES
PREVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, October 28-30, 2016 It’s a little late for a preview of a festival that opens this week, but it seems wrong not to take a look into the crystal ball and consider the delights of this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, which opens for the 27th time on Friday. Adrian Jackson, creative director and for many … Continue reading WHAT WANGARATTA’S DISHING UP
