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‘Tis The Season To Get Tickets For The SeasonAfter a successful 2006 season, the ‘Café Concert Series’ is set to return to Latrobe City’s stages once again in 2007. By Latrobe City Council - 12th December 2006 - Back to News Celebrating music as an art form, the Café Concert Series is a package of four concerts presented throughout the 2007 calendar year and offers the audience the option of purchasing a great value season’s subscription ticket.
Latrobe performing arts and venues coordinator, Kathleen Roberts, said that the concert has a focus on musicians who play acoustic instruments, an emphasis on quality musicianship, and presents a diverse and inspiring selection of musical styles.
"It is about acknowledging the achievements of the musicians in mastering their instruments and their ability to interpret and create music. It praises originality, honours traditions and values inventiveness," Ms Roberts said.
"This season we have the first three performances in March, May and September which will be held at Tyers’ Hall, and the final concert of the series will be held at the Latrobe Performing Arts Centre," Ms Roberts explained.
Artistic director and tour manager for the Café Concert Series, Mary Souness, has said that a considerable effort has been made to create a program where each act is very different from the others.
"Each act included in the 2007 program is selected and invited to tour because they represent the highest standard in their field of music. Only musicians displaying exemplary talents and considerable performance experience are chosen," Ms Souness said.
"Each program offers the audience a hybrid of old and new, popular and unknown, and humorous and melancholy. It invites the audience to enjoy new musical experiences through packaging together four completely different acts into the one annual program," Ms Souness explained.
The series kicks off on Sunday 4 March 2007 with ‘Bohemian Nights’ who will take the audience on an acoustic whirlwind musical tour from East to Western Europe with a repertoire that includes French, Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Gypsy Swing, Klezmer, Arabic and Russian songs and tunes.
Sunday 6 May 2007 will see a very special musical experience presented by ‘Zulya and The Children of the Underground’. Multi award winning vocalist Zulya, originally from the Tatarstan of central Russia, is familiar to audiences throughout Australia as a performer and interpreter of traditional and original music derived from her Tatar and Russian cultural roots. She will perform with her five-piece band that offers superb and inventive arrangements.
After a short break to allow the worst of the winter chills to pass, the program entices you into the warmer climate of Brazil for Sunday 2 September 2007. ‘Sanfona’ which means accordion in Portuguese, is led by George Butrumlis, one of Australia’s leading exponents of the piano accordion. He will be presenting a showcase of his favourite music, the main thrust being Brazilian with some Zydeco on the side.
The year’s series comes to a close on Sunday 4 November 2007 with a party atmosphere provided by the ‘Gutbucket Jug Band’. This is an authentic jug band that has been playing together since 1965. Their renditions of ragtime, dancehall, vaudeville, country and fifties rock creates musical entertainment that is earthy, carefree, fun and above all rhythmic and impossible to keep still to.
The Café Concert Series 2007 is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund.
Discounted earlybird season tickets are now on sale for $50 (a saving of $30 for the season) at the Box Office until Friday 22 December 2006.
For more information or for ticket purchases please telephone 5176 3559, or email boxoffice@latrobe.vic.gov.au.
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: news@gippsland.com
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