Herbie Hancock

Great to see such a huge audience for Herbie Hancock.

Kind of a strange combination of out there stuff with very commercial. Musos were great, but the rendition of Stevie Wonder's - Just called to say I love you, was more proof that a professional muso can sound really bad, a bit like a karaoke tune.


Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Action and drama in a theme park

Well it was interesting seeing some shows at Movie World and Sea World, perhaps animal trainers shouldn't cross over into drama. This being a definite case of cross something or other arts, with Sea Lion handler meeting pirate ship drama. Not very dramatic, but you can get away with it when you have a couple of cute seals.

Even better was the fact that their enclosure is being renovated, so it felt nice and close and personal on the lawn, with the seal coming onto land to do a painting? Well, it wasn't a Picasso, but we managed to get visual arts, drama and was that a bit of singing all in one performance.

Debatable whether it is better to just stick to the facts and do the entertaining through education or whether we need pirate outfits to keep the masses entertained.

The animal adventures where my daughter got to meet a dolphin was an absolute winner. Meeting Colin the dolphin and his trainer Dion was a definite highlight of our visit to Surfers Paradise. Totally recommend it.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Time Warp

It was an Easter performance, but a week later to confuse the issue. The Song Company performing Visitatio at St Marys Crypt. A combination of early music, Oud playing and a farting wind organ.

It sounded beautiful, a little over dramatic for my tastes, but a fantastic setting.

Great to catch up with Roland and to see the singers after such a long time.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Easter

So this Easter it was a combination of the pagan pleasures in life, not so cultural - that thing namd the Easter show and then off for retail therapy at the newly opened level in Broadway.

We managed to see the circus performances of Hoopla at Darling Harbour. It was crazy in the workshop type area where you could juggle, if you had any idea how to...?, walk on stilts, do a mini tightrope and try the hula hoop. Try not to knock anyone else over.

Favourite thing voted by my 7 year old was learning the hula hoop.

The rain managed to put a dampner on the performances, but one can understand the risks involved with all that rigging and height.

Such a combination of things to see and do at the Easter show, from music to grand parades and wondering if anyone is really all that fussed about any of them. They are more just activities to do as one passes through the rows of show bags, fairy floss and dagwood dogs.

Next week we are going for high art with a performance by the Song Company at St Marys Crypt.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Lights out and who is home?

Well for some reason my husband told me we had to turn the power off at the mains, but I thought that sounded a bit far fetched, fridge off? resetting all those power grids etc, what chaos in the city if power went down to the fuse box level.

However we did turn off all our lights and from our home in Glebe looking around our neighbourhood couldn't see anyone else who had done the same.

We were heartened however to see the images on the news, as obviously the lights did go out in the City, we just couldn't see them!

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au