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March 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Aaron Diehl Trio (March 13, Wgtn)
Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Aaron Diehl Trio MFC Tuesday, March 13 This was always likely to be one of the festival highlights – Miami-born, New York-based jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and backing band The Aaron Diehl Trio.Archive
March 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
HOME: Theatre
HOME Created by Geoff Sobelle Opera House; NZ Festival (March 7-11) We begin in pitch black – creator of the show, magician, actor, theatre-illusionist Geoff Sobelle appears, he builds a screen. Some people seem to find it painstaking – it’s a test of sorts. But the screen – a wooden frame with cloth stapled to […]Archive
March 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Staves (March 4, Wgtn)
The Staves The Festival Club Sunday, March 4 British sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor record and tour as The Staves, this Festival performance was their first Wellington appearance. They’re back in the tent for a second and final showing in the capital this Tuesday, March 6. From heavenly harmonies, and through clever looping of […]Archive
March 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Grizzly Bear (March 3, Wgtn)
Grizzly Bear The Opera House Saturday, March 3 Ever since The Festival got it really right a half decade ago and welcomed along Bon Iver (a person/band whose songs are patently absurd but it worked on the night, was undeniable) there’s been an aim to recreate that sort of magic. Not a bad effort last […]Archive
May 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 65 – Shelagh Magadza
Welcome to episode 65 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with the Artistic Director of the NZ Festival and Wellington Jazz Festival, Shelagh Magadza.Archive
March 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Calexico (March 19, Wgtn)
Calexico Opera House Saturday, March 19 The band Calexico, both post-Americana and pan-American, is a regular visitor to Wellington. Every show is just different enough to make them worth seeing more than once, and this might have been my favourite set by the group. There are plenty of great constants: John Convertino is a great […]Archive
March 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: L’Orchestre D’Hommes-Orchestres performs Tom Waits (March 18, Wgtn)
L’Orchestre D’Hommes-Orchestres performs Tom Waits Shed 6 Thursday March 17 – Saturday March 19 L’Orchestre D’Hommes-Orchestres is a four-piece of multi-instrumentalists, often described as four one-man-bands, augmented by a duo of percussionists, singers and deadpan comediennes, The New Cackle Sisters. On a theatrical set of found instruments (a suitcase opening and closing) and quirky circus-fare […]Archive
March 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #195 – Enter The Dragon: Karsh Kale and Midival Punditz, Wellington, 2010
This was an interesting show – Karsh Kale performed a brand new soundtrack for the movie, Enter The Dragon, and you saw the score performed live with the movie as backdrop. It was good – for the most part. But it was a tall order, given the wonderful soundtrack that already exists for the film. […]Archive
March 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Both Sides Now – Julia Deans sings Joni Mitchell (March 13, Wgtn)
Both Sides Now: Julia Deans sings Joni Mitchell Shed 6 Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13 Julia Deans (formerly of Fur Patrol) is an incredible singer. As well as continuing to work as a songwriter and original artist (new album out in the next few months, her long-awaited second) she has also made a […]Archive
March 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: A Night With Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis (March 12, Wgtn)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis MFC Saturday, March 12 Thursday’s Swing Symphony with the NZSO was impressive but it was really a curtain-raiser for this – the chance to see Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra do their thing, that being jazz – no strings attached, rather a deep, […]Archive
March 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman