http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ Music And Concerts Channel http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182064 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182064 30/08/2008,02/09/2008, 04/09/2008, 06/09/2008 Music And Concerts The Count is seeking the favours of Susanna who is to be wed to her love, Figaro, the Count's valet. When the Count detects the interest of the young page, Cherubino, in the Countess, he tries to get rid of Cherubino by giving him an officer's commission in his own regiment. Figaro, Susanna, and the Countess conspire to embarrass the Count and expose his infidelity. Meanwhile Figaro is caught up in a dispute with Bartolo and Marcellina, which ends when he is revealed to be their son. At night, all find themselves in the palace grounds, where a comic series of mistaken identities results in the Count's humiliation and then forgiveness by the Countess. Mozart's miraculous The Marriage of Figaro has justly been described as a near perfect opera, a brilliant blending of words and music. Neil Armfield's sensual and spirited award winning production of one of opera's greatest classics is beautifully realised in a comedy of manners, love, politics and class. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181960 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181960 14/09/2008 Music And Concerts FREE FAMILY EVENT       OFFICIAL OPENING OF OZASIA FESTIVAL A CELEBRATION OF TOGETHERNESS DATING BACK OVER 3,000 YEARS On the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of the Chinese calendar when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, family and friends gather to admire the moon and think of absent loved ones. Enjoy community dance and music performances and workshops. As the moon rises, school children from across South Australia will parade their beautiful hand-made traditional and contemporary lanterns in the park. The evening will conclude with a diverse range of live performances by OzAsia Festival artists. Choose from a delicious selection of Asian cuisine on offer. Moon cakes and lanterns will also be available for purchase. TV personality Jemma Rivera will MC the Moon Lantern Festival. “The drawcard was a huge parade of kids bearing thousands of lantern creations along the Torrens edge as dusk settled.” –Adelaide Advertiser PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS Atsui-No-Taiko Japanese Drumming Ensemble Chinatown Adelaide of SA Inc Chinese Welfare Services of SA Inc DragonboatSA SA Chinese Adoption Support (SACAS) Inc SA Vietnamese Teacher's Association SA Zhu-Lin Buddhist Association The Tiger's Chan Moo Kwan Academy Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association Vietnamese Community in Australia (SA Chapter) Inc Vietnamese Literature and Arts Association Inc PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS Blair Athol Primary School Gawler East Primary School Gilles Street Primary School Grange Schools Highgate Primary School Lobethal Primary School Lockleys Primary School Madison Park Junior Primary Mt Barker Primary School North Haven Schools One Tree Hill Primary School Sheidow Park Primary School St Brigid’s School Kilburn Representative students from schools in the Northern Area. South Australian students and teachers will engage with Studies of Asia through their involvement. This rich learning experience is made possible by Adelaide Festival Centre’s Education Program in collaboration with the Department of Education and Children’s Services. Click here to download Media Kit. Click here to dowload Jemma Rivera bio. Image 1 Photo Credit:  Silver puppeteer flickr.com http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181963 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181963 23/09/08-25/09/08 Music And Concerts AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE & PREMIERE A NEW ROCK MUSICAL Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, Kijimuna Festival and Flinders University Drama Centre present Combining the imagination of anime with dry and subversive Australian humour this new rock musical will take you on a journey to the dark side. Featuring a team of emerging Japanese and Australian actors, Once Upon a Midnight  taps into a global youth culture of fantasy, horror and adventure. Join Kelsey Clarke and her brother Ryan as they unwittingly enter a bilingual, parallel underworld, where werewolves, vampires, vultures, tengu and ningyo make suitable travelling companions, but fairies show no mercy! Will Kelsey Clarke conquer the night? Or will she die of fright? Book Alex Vickery-Howe Original music Tim Lucas Director Catherine Fitzgerald Choreographer Yumi Umiumare Music performance Tim Lucas and Yashushi Ohsuka Recorded music Temple Tigers BRING ON THE NIGHT… Come along to the Moon Lantern Festival and check out Shaolin in Wind. Click here to download Media Kit. Click here to download Artist Bio. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181967 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181967 23/09/2008 Music And Concerts SOUNDSTREAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE A MUSICAL VOYAGE FROM QUIET MEDITATION TO ECSTATIC ELATIONArtistic Director of Soundstream Contemporary Music Ensemble, Gabriella Smart has fashioned an evening of new classical music that is poised between the ancient traditions of Asia and the West. Acclaimed Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe, Ann Boyd, Ross Edwards and Barry Conyngham have long been inspired by the music of Asia even when the influence of Asian culture was considered unusual. Asian cultural influences are now much more prevalent in contemporary Australian culture and a younger generation of composers including Julian Yu and Anne Norman are strongly bound by their Asian perceptions. FEATURING Satsuki Odamura (koto) Geoffrey Collins and Rebecca Johnson (flutes) Gabriella Smart (piano) Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion) Peter Handsworth (clarinet) Chika, Vietnamese film Vertical Ray of the Sun & the Two Chefs & 100 Cultures may also be of interest Click here to download Media Kit. Click here to download Artist Bio. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181966 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181966 24/09/2008 Music And Concerts AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE A MUST SEE FOR WORLD MUSIC FANS Presented by Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival and trans:mission program. Some of the greatest Indian music masters of their generation, led by sitar star Purbayan Chatterjee, have come together to create the Shastriya Syndicate. Drawing on the rich cultural heritage from both the North and South of the Indian subcontinent, their music remains pure to its heritage yet is able to fuse both traditions to create a fresh and inspiring sound. In their quest for symmetry these seven global ambassadors with their exotic ancient instruments have cleverly captured the flavours and colours that have enraptured audiences for thousands of years. FEATURING Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar) Veenai Jayanthi (veena) Yogesh Shamsi (tabla) Murad Ali (sarangi) Ravichandra Kular (flute) Satish Kumar Patri (mridangam) Pramath Kiran (percussion) COMPLETE YOUR INDIAN JOURNEY WITH THE FILMS Sringaram - Dance of Love & Documentary Double Click here to download Media Kit. Click here to download Artist Bio. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181965 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=181965 26/09/2008 Music And Concerts A UNIQUE MEETING OF OLD AND NEW, EAST AND WEST Part classical and part folk music, pansori is an astounding musical theatre style of epic storytelling in song steeped in Korean tradition. Drawing on selections from the pansori classics as vehicles for improvisation, Daorum incorporates Korean traditional rhythms, contemporary jazz improvisation and electronica to create an exciting high energy cultural exchange. These combined forces offer a remarkable musical interaction. FEATURING AUSTRALIAN JAZZ MUSICIANS Simon Barker (drums) Carl Dewhurst (guitar) Matt McMahon (piano) Phil Slater (trumpet) with Bae il Tong (Korean pansori singer) “... a sonic portrait of Korea’s hidden character interweaved with a sense of Australia’s vast space and jazz pathos from the United States." - LIVING ARTS KOREA For more OzAsia tunes see Shastriya Syndicate & Ecstatic Dances. Click here to download Media Kit. Click here to download Artist Bio. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182015 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182015 27/09/2008 Music And Concerts AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE       AN INDONESIAN JOURNEY Sharing an inspirational journey through song, poetry and performed excerpts from published works, Australian writer/singer Jan Cornall invites you into the world of her acclaimed novel, Take me to Paradise, set in the artisan hill town of Ubud, Bali. Exploring notions of paradise, sensuality, danger and art, Jan paints a vibrant picture of her ongoing collaborations with Indonesian writers, artists and musicians. This multimedia production incorporating video, still photos and live music introduces the talents of noted Indonesian poet Sitok Srengenge, jazz pianist Wendy Anggerani, drummer Deva Permana and visual artist Jumaadi. Photo credit: Saritaksu Editions Click here to download Media Kit. Click here to download Artist Bio. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182057 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182057 01/10/2008-04/10/2008 Music And Concerts Opera Australia's Oz Opera is proud to announce a new production of one of the world's favourite operas, Madame Butterfly, directed by one of Australia's most influential actors and directors, John Bell. Puccini's moving tale is set in 1946 in the historic city of Nagasaki. Cio-Cio San, a fifteen year old Geisha girl, is married off to Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the victorious American navy. They fall in love, instantly, but when it is time for Pinkerton to go back home, he discards his fragile Butterfly. And so, caught between two worlds, the old and the new, Madame Butterfly waits. One fine day, she knows, he will return... John Bell explores the work's finely drawn characters against the backdrop of post-war Japan - a visually spectacular clash of traditional geisha designs and modern Western dress - coloured further by Puccini's magnificent score, performed by the Oz Opera company and an 11-piece orchestra. Sung in English Performed with chamber orchestra Director John Bell Set & Costume Designer Jennie Tate Lighting Designer Matt Scott English Translation Peter Hutchinson Conductor Simon Kenway & Christopher van Tuinen http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182065 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182065 09/10/2008-10/10/2008 Music And Concerts Trumpet James Morrison Piano Joe Chindamo Bass Phil Stack Drums John Morrison Duke Ellington stands as one of the musical giants of the 20th Century, a musician who created many of the classics of the jazz repertoire, and confidently blended jazz with the classical tradition to give it new energy and inspiration. Australia's jazz legends James Morrison and Joe Chindamo join the ASO to present the quintessential celebration of the music of the one and only Duke, with specially-commissioned arrangements of evergreen favourites and a selection of Ellington's own orchestral music. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182066 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182066 11/10/2008 Music And Concerts 50 of Australia's best Defence Force musicians will present an extravaganza of music light and sound from pomp and ceremony to hits of stage and screen. The exciting musical talents of Guy Sebastian will feature as will the breathtaking Army DIVAS. Winner of the initial Australian Idol Adelaide's own Guy Sebastian will be special guest to sing a variety of songs with the Australian Army Band. http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182067 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182067 17/10/2008-18/10/2008 Music And Concerts Following three sold out nights in 2006, the highly innovative ASO Plays Pink Floyd returns with a brand new production which revisits the glory of the original but features more new songs. Built on the ASO's highly successful seasons of Zeppelin Flies Again and ASO Plays Queen, the concert will combine the full power of the ASO with rock musicians and singers to perform Floyd classics including Another Brick in the Wall, Comfortably Numb, Learning to Fly and Wish You Were Here on stage at the Festival Theatre. Make no excuses... don't miss this concert. Supported by Boileau Business Solutions http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182059 http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/?cat=3355&id=182059 01/11/2008 Music And Concerts John Williamson, Australia's Bush Balladeer will be releasing his greatly anticipated first album in three years, this August. The album will include the beautiful guitar playing and backing vocals of Warren H. Williams as well as a duet with John, 'Pmurra Knatcha (My Home in the Bush)'. Warren has been on the road touring with John for the past 5 years. Also included on HILLBILLY ROAD is a young, up-and-coming bush balladeer Amos Morris, winner of a Golden Guitar Award 2008 for 'Bush Ballad of the Year', who will be singing 'Movin Means Free' in a vocal collaboration with John and Warren. Thirteen fresh tracks will be featured on HILLBILLY ROAD including 'Cydi' (pron. 'Sidey'), a ballad about a beautiful relationship between a father and daughter. John Williamson has been performing the song over the past three years in his live shows and finally, after many requests from his fans, has decided for it to be recorded on HILLBILLY ROAD. John Williamson Over 35 years in the industry, John has: - released 38 albums, 10 videos, 4 DVD's and 3 impressive books of stories and lyrics; - collected 23 Golden Guitars at the Australia Country Music Awards; - February 2008, John Williamson's QUAMBATOOK, a musical journey of John's growing up in the Mallee, premiered at Panther's World of Entertainment, Penrith to sell-out crowds. The folk musical was written by Simon Heath and featured 21 of John's popular songs. John is known for his dedication to Australian causes which are close to his heart, like the campaign he helped to launch in March 2003 to save the endangered Australian Bilby and his public plea for peace in the song "Keep Australia Beautiful". In January 2004, John was recognised by the Tamworth Songwriters Association with THE TEX MORTON AWARD, awarded to a person for outstanding contribution to the cause of country music. John became an ambassador for Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in 2006. From his musical family beginnings in the Victorian Mallee, to defining the Australian character through song, John Williamson has achieved musical success and respect internationally and nationwide, writing over 350 songs and selling 3.5 million albums in Australia.