Keith Urban pops up at a country pub, accepts honour
Global country star Keith Urban surprised fans with unannounced appearances at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, the place he was first discovered.
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When a festival director starts quoting the ancient Vedas, you know you're in for something out-of-the-ordinary, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Kids supergroup The Wiggles have worked with country stars Dolly Parton and Dasha on their new album, Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!
HELEN MUSA reviews Opera Australia's Cinderella (Cendrillon) by Jules Massenet at the Sydney Opera House.
Music
Folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary dies
Peter Yarrow, best known as one third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk music trio who lifted their voices in favour of civil rights and against war, has died.
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‘Sheik of Scrubby Creek’, Chad Morgan dead at 91
Tributes are flowing for Australian country music great Chad Morgan - dubbed the Sheik of Scrubby Creek - who has died at the age of 91.
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Bauble bangers – the story behind Christmas pop music
CityNews cinema writer SIMON COBCROFT has a secret life: Christmas music tragic. Over four decades he's listened to 14,000 Christmas songs and arrived at a 17-hour playlist of the 359 songs he reckons are worth listening to.
Glam tidings of joy: ALISON BLAIR explains how Slade made Merry Xmas Everybody a seasonal hit for the ages.
After just a year at the helm, executive director of the Canberra International Music Festival Rachel Whealy will leave to take a similar position with The Song Company in Sydney.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews I Sing the Birth, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers and Luminescence Children's Choir at Wesley Uniting Church.
After a long period of dormancy, the chimes of the National Carillon are set to ring around Lake Burley Griffin again this weekend, the National Capital Authority has announced.
Reviewer LEN POWER revels in Christmas music sung by Luminescence Chamber Singers and Children’s Choir.
A Sydneysider with a globetrotting operatic career and a young family is back in Australia to play Cinderella in Opera Australia's lavish production of Jules Massenet’s opera Cendrillon.
"This concert covered hundreds of years of Christmas music." ROB KENNEDY reviews The Waiting Sky – Music for the Christmas Season, a performance by Polifemy.
LEN POWER reviews Krismas! Peace To The World, a concert of Christmas music led by Llewellyn Choir and conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin.
"This repertoire can be boring if performed without energy and contrast, but the AHE made it absolutely thrilling." MICHAEL WILSON reviews a performance by the Australian Haydn Ensemble at Gandel Hall.
It's time to enjoy Christmas music, whether carols, pop songs playing in the shopping malls or deeply reflective classical music, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Executing this daring program with such flair and competence would have been beyond many community orchestras, but the National Capital Orchestra was up for the challenge, and delivered," writes music reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
LEN POWER reviews the Canberra Choral Society's performance of Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn.
