Tag: 2025 Adelaide Guitar Festival
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Adelaide Guitar Festival review: Troy Cassar-Daley and Nancy Bates
Adelaide Guitar Festival, which began in 2007, highlights how this one instrument, adored by many, can express all that we feel, spanning genres, generations and cultures. On this evening, saltwater and freshwater man Jamie Goldsmith welcomes the audience to Kaurna Yarta in language and the vibration of the Yidaki – an instrument not from Kaurna…
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Adelaide Guitar Festival review: Consonance
The Adelaide Guitar Festival is around again, swelling the city’s live music scene with four weeks of plucking and grooving. Kicking off later than usual and running longer in this twelfth iteration, it build son its ever-popular ‘Guitars in Bars’ gigs in and around the pubs of Adelaide and throws in a couple of big…
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Adelaide Guitar Festival review: Lau Noah and Lior
Social media feeds are full of musical content creators whose talents don’t always translate from fleeting 50-second clips to a full-fledged live performance. Despite most definitely being a viral phenom, however, Lau Noah is clearly a consummate performer. Indeed, her mesmerising hour-long set at her first ever Australian concert appearance was expertly crafted, displaying an…
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‘There’s freedom when you don’t know the notes’: Noah’s arc to guitar festival fame
As she prepares for her Australian debut at this year’s Adelaide Guitar Festival, it’s hard to believe that performer Lau Noah first picked up a guitar less than a decade ago. Since then, the distinctive guitarist and singer/songwriter has been lauded by artists such as Jackson Browne and Jacob Collier, and she’s now headed to…