CENTRE STAGE Alan Davies
Alan Davies works steadfastly behind the scenes to help others shine. We are blessed to have him on the team.
Alan Davies works steadfastly behind the scenes to help others shine. We are blessed to have him on the team.
We dedicated our performances of Silver Moon in 2022 to musicians and writers who had died in the peak years of Covid, 2020 and 2021.
"Her playing underpins the feeling of every song she plays on. How did we exist so many years without her beautiful cello playing?ā
Here's a preview of one of the songs we'll be performing at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick on Saturday 30 November.
Albury, New South Wales, 14 September, 2024. Gemma Keating It is always a privilege, and a joy, to perform at the Write Around the Murray festival (WAM) in Albury, as we have done for seven years now, going back to 2016. We never take any show, or any audience, for granted. We [...]
Photo courtesy of Queenscliffe Literary Festival. When Indigenous author and Voice referendum campaigner Thomas Mayo concluded his story at our show last Saturday night the 300-strong audience broke into sustained applause that very, very quickly became a standing ovation. Mayoās story, ultimately one of hope, was what the Kev Carmody/Paul Kelly song [...]
Two more writers have been added to each of our final shows for 2024.
Every summer he drove across the country in a clapped-out vehicle to see us kids, but he always went back. Back to where he had a stool at the bar and a nickname he loved: the Professor.
Tickets are now available for our show at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick on Saturday evening 30 November.
References to places in Belfast also appear in the lyrics, Hyndford St, Cypress Avenue. Locations around Northern Ireland, Newtownards, Comber, Coney Island. Van was nailing it for me. I knew the places he was weaving into his lyrics. Belfast was becoming famous through his songs.