Taikoz, Topology & Karak

Fantastic performance on Friday night with Taikoz, Topology and Karak.

Each of the ensembles performed their own material. With the additional bonus of a haunting solo shakuhachi by grand master Riley Lee.

Together they performed a new work by composer David Pye which was a great collaborative piece, teasing, whimsical and methodical.

Inspired by David's experience at an Indian temple, it had all the elements of a holy feast visualised through the music.

Apparently it was recorded by the ABC, so worth keeping an eye out for that concert. It also took place in Brisbane, which is where the recording took place.

This was one of the last of the year for the places + spaces series.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Bangarra

Went to Canberra to catch the retrospective for Bangarra, Fire.

What a great performance and such an impressive body of work.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Burning Daylight

This week went to the opening of Burning Daylight by Marragekku.

An extravaganza of dance theatre in a collaboration between artists from Sydney to Broome.

Was particularly pleased to see this as I was walking at Stalker when the work premiered.

It was great to see it in its full glory.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

a great little social media counter

Hi bit of a gadget'y thing from Gary's social media blog, which I have put on my website, because unfortunately I can't load it directly here.

Its a great little aggregator of website facts and figures and what amounts of time people are spending on social media. http://bit.ly/1MwSho


Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Wangaratta Festival of Jazz

Managed to miss blogging about Wangaratta, which was because the three network doesn't work in either Oxley (understandable) or Wangaratta (really poor show there)

On the plus side, of course there was great music, new venue is nice and air conditioned. Volunteers were very helpful and thanks so much for their help with the Jazz Australia subscriber drive. Its fun to wander around and bump into people.

My highlight was Andrew Robson's Tallis music in the church. Sublime. Also really enjoyed watching Linda Oh playing with Charles Tolliver.

The heat was oppressive, there was no free water I could find and there were queues and over the top security who threatened to have me evicted from the new performing arts centre (overkill I think)

Not to mention the more I think about it the police were also rather vigilant as well. though thanks to them I did win some money on the Melbourne Cup - with Crimescenes and Shocking!

Image is of the Vampires, a great young Sydney band.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Sydney festival launch for 2010

Sydney does love a party.

Loved the programming, which has real heart

Image from closing act, Iota, I reckon the cabaret in the Speigeltent will be a hot ticket for this year.


Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au