Sydney Festival have announced the line up for next year’s season and if you thought they couldn’t top Bjork’s performance in the Opera House forecourt, think again.
Grace Jones is the headliner for the second Festival First Night, which will kick things off Saturday January 10. Brooklyn’s It girl Santogold, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Chunky Move also feature in the line up. Just as it did in 2008, Festival First Night will take over the city’s streets and squares – including Angel Place, Hyde Park and The Domain – and other spaces usually reserved for 9 to 5 drudgery. The price is right too.
Grace will also be bringing The Hurricane Tour to Australia. She’ll perform three shows at the Enmore Theatre.
Quirky Parisian chanteuse Camille Dalmais is one of France’s hottest talents right now. Her music is a sexy pop folk blend of diverse vocal stylings and driving rhythms, fuelled by a love of bossa nova, seventies soul and sixties folk. She’ll be performing for two nights at the City Recital Hall in Angel Place.
All Tomorrow’s Parties – the coolest festival brand on the planet – is setting up camp on Cockatoo Island, with a line-up handpicked by indomitable troubadour Nick Cave. Cockatoo Island is Sydney Harbour’s largest island and has been a former prison, reformatory for wayward girls and a shipbuilding yard. The industrial and maritime landscape together with the picturesque backdrop of Sydney Harbour make this urban island the perfect setting for this unique event.
There’s some awesome theatre in the 2009 season. Acclaimed director, artist, playwright, actor and film director Robert Lepage brings his much anticipated new ensemble work Lipsynch to our shores, Sydney Theatre Company will present a two part piece The War Of The Roses, starring Cate Blanchett in her first Australian stage performance in almost five years and festival favourites La Clique bring their inspired melange of cabaret, new burlesque, circus and contemporary vaudeville back to Sydney for another sexy, funny, sold out season.
One of the hottest free events will be when UK band The Bays play live music against the backdrop of the 1998 film Run Lola Run. Their exhilarating live, improvised electronic music, Tom Twyker’s iconic film complete with cartoon sequences, bank heists and the urban jungle and the sublime setting of Sydney’s Cockle Bay – it’s sure to be a gorgeous experience.
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