Travel guide Adelaide

Since his first guitar lesson at 10 years old, Troy Cassar-Daley has lived his life through song. Having travelled many miles to amazing places meeting amazing people, Troy has gathered a wealth of inspiration into his heart.

Troy shares the songs that have shaped his life as a person and a musician. These are stories about the lives lived in this big brown land. Songs that offer hope in times of doubt, opened doors when all seemed closed and brought light when everything seemed dark.
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Starring Mary Wilson, a founding member of Motown's The Supremes, Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project is about Hollywood's first African-American goddess.Based on the celebrated biography of the same name by James Gavin, the show includes a combination of storytelling, live performances and rare audio and visual images from Gavin's wealth of material and interviews with Horne herself.Gavin joins Wilson on stage as the narrator with the Larry Dunlap Trio, music arranged by seven-time Emmy Award Winner Mike Renzi, Musical Director for Lena Horne's show The Lady and Her Music on Broadway, creating the orchestrations.Presented as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2012, this show is the defining portrait of an American icon.Please refer to event website for ticketing options. . www.bass.... Read more

Acclaimed Broadway actress, singer, writer and proud three-time Tony Award loser, Sherie Rene Scott is a first-rate comedienne and chanteuse who has appeared with glowing reviews in musicals such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Everyday Rapture and The Little Mermaid.In this show, Scott is boldly stepping off the Broadway stage and into your hearts for a rare, intimate appearance at Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2012.This brand new show of eclectic music and musings features songs by David Byrne, Harold Arlen, Toots and the Maytals, Jason Robert Brown and Yusef (the guy formerly known as Cat Stevens).With limited dates, these shows are sure to sell out quickly. Don't miss your chance to see one of Broadway's biggest brightest stars.Please refer to event website for ticketing options. . www.bass.ne... Read more

The Adelaide Thunderbirds are Adelaide's very own women's netball team in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship competition.

Netball has the highest participation rate of any sport in both Australia and New Zealand.

Come and see the local heroes as they play on home turf against the Queensland Firebirds.

As this game is the second last home game of the season, tensions are sure to be high and players at their peak.

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The Adelaide Thunderbirds are Adelaide's very own women's netball team in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship competition.

Netball has the highest participation rate of any sport in both Australia and New Zealand.

Come and see the local heroes as they play on home turf against the Canterbury Tactix from New Zealand.

This game is the last home game and final game of the season before the finals, so tensions are sure to be high and players at their peak.

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Best known as the lead singer of The Whitlams, an ARIA award winning group of the year with a string of gold and multi-platinum albums, Tim Freedman will perform for you solo, in an evening of grand pianos, sweet melodies and a few pointed opinions.

Renowned as a raconteur between songs, Tim links tunes together with extended yarns such as "How I learnt to hate JJJ" and "Why did Caroline Overington call my father a Jewish accountant".

His songs of charming well-crafted cynicism sou... Read more

Tex is sauntering back into Adelaide to lead the lilting, dark country of Tex Perkins and The Dark Horses.

Perkins' world-weary growl will showcase songs from the new album, alongside gems like - I Know You Know I Know, Splendid Lie, Real Love, A Name On Every One and She Speaks A Different Language.

Come on a ride to remember with Tex Perkins and fellow Dark Horses - Charlie Owen, Joel Silbersher and two new members, bassist Steve Hadley and drummer Gus Agars.

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If Trio Dali is the baby of chamber music, the Takács Quartet is the Godfather.

Founded in Budapest and steeped in the Hungarian tradition, the Takács Quartet is arguably the best string quartet in the world.

Now based in the United States, it perfectly straddles the old and new worlds.

Years of playing and touring together have made the group a rock-solid team that thinks and plays as one. Yet their individual personalities make each performance feel totally spontaneous.Read more

Relive all the memorable hits of World War Two and get to know a little more about the most successful female vocal group in the history of popular music - The Andrews Sisters.

Join Patty, Maxene and LaVerne for a special war-time command radio performance, featuring many of their hits such as - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rum and Coca Cola, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree, I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time and other popular songs of the 1940s.

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David Bromley is one of the most successful and innovative painters currently working in Australia.

In his art Bromley has managed to combine a distinctive pop sensibility - a love of found images, photographic sources and mass media references- with an inventive relish for the effects of paint. His work divides into two distinct but related strands: images of childhood (adapted from the world of 1950s book illustrations) and images of the female nude.

This free exhibition is your ... Read more