Sydney Festival 2012
SYDNEY FESTIVAL Every January, the Sydney Festival enlivens and transforms Sydney with a bold cultural celebration based on the highest quality art and big ideas. Sydney Festival's audacious contemporary programming positions it at the forefront of arts practice in Australia and up there as one of the most wonderful festivals in the world. This is our city in summer. www.sydneyfestival.org.au
OPENING NIGHT FREE CONCERT – an extravaganza that invites everyone to experience Sydney in spectacular and surprising new ways. All are welcome, big and small. And it’s all free.
 Saturday 7 January - Free! Festival First Night performing.... Manu Chao La Ventura Washington, Gurrumul Holly Throsby, Trocadero Dance Palace Norman Jay, The Jolly Boys and so much more! Read More Monday 9 January at 7:30pm Enmore Theatre, Newtown 118-132 Enmore Road $75/$70 A reserve $65/$60 B reserve Read More Tickets Book Online or Call Ticketek 132 849  Our competition winner was; Mary Good, Nsw Thank you to all our entrants. | MANU CHAO (France/Spain) Manu Chao visits Australia for the first time to play exclusively at Sydney Festival. Having made music since the late 80s as leader of rock outfit Mano Negra and then as a solo artist, Chao is one of the world's most well-known and respected musicians, with a huge cult following in all corners of the globe - from South, Central and North America to Europe, Japan, Africa and back - selling more than 10 million albums. Chao's music is multilingual and broadly multicultural, blending rock, reggae, punk, ska, and found sounds in compositions sung in English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian. The Paris-born, Barcelona-based artist of Spanish descent finds inspiration in street culture and local bar scenes, and has long collaborated with musicians and artists who share his ethos. Chao's first solo album, 1998's Clandestino, was a huge success, shifting in excess of four million copies worldwide to become the second biggest-selling world music album in history after Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club. His next album, 2001's Proxima Estacion: Esperanza ('Next Stop: Hope' - a reference to an announcement on a Madrid train station) consolidated his place as one of the world's most successful recording artists. Read More ‘'the ringmaster of a multicultural, cross-generational, genre-busting circus that can whip tens of thousands of people into a frenzy'' - PITCHFORK ‘'a rapid-fire blend of reggae, post-punk, Afropop and more, breaking the rules of genre left and right." - LOS ANGELES TIMES ****** |
PEDRITO MARTINEZ (Cuba/USA) www.pedritomartinezmusic.com CONCERT DETAILS Thursday 26 January at 7:30pm Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Keystone Festival Bar, Corner Macquarie Street / Prince Albert Road, Sydney Tickets $32 TICKETS Book Online or Call Ticketek 132 849 Shake your cha chas because Pedrito Martinez is one of the world's best congueros! With his Peruvian, Venezuelan and Cuban bandmates he brings Sydney a one-night-only Afro-Cuban party. Watussi's rocking roots bass lines and blustering horn section will have you howling for more. Tribalismo DJs hit the decks in the late-night slot. Live visuals by Craig Brown and Jacqueline Wechsler. followed by...Late Night At The Bar: Tribalismo perform live Latin Tribal House, featuring a wall of drums, big vocals, and a barrage of movement and dance, "think Cuba & Africa with a deep-house backbeat." The collective's super energetic monthly residencies at Argyle and Burdekin have earned them a devoted following. Tribalismo features Merenia Gillies, Vincent Sebastian, Cyndi Tan and Djs Dante Rivera, Nestor Martinez, Kate Monroe. Free from 11.30pm Our competition winner was; Andreas Comninos, Nsw Thank you to all our entrants. | 
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