Blindman's Holiday

Pure mouth magic!  Australian A Cappella pioneers Blindman’s Holiday are back,  recently reformed and with renewed energy after a low key year. Clarita Derwent and Linda Marr welcome back original member Gemma Turner, offering a taste of things to come in 2009, with a short set of new material using their phenomenal individual and collective skills to combine in exquisite harmony. Their love of tribal, contemporary and exotic music has led to an astounding repertoire ranging from haunting traditional ballads to upbeat originals, from Balkan harmonies to sinuous Latin rhythms.

Since 1985, BMH have toured extensively throughout Australia and Europe, performing in venues from the New Morning Jazz Club in Paris, WOMAD in the UK and the Melkweg in Amsterdam to the Sydney Opera House. Chosen to represent Australia as official performers at the South Pacific Forum for Heads of State, they visited the tiny island of Nauru in 1993. Australian festival performances include the inaugural Womadelaide, Adelaide and Melbourne International Arts Festivals and Port Fairy, The National and Woodford Folk Festivals on numerous occasions. Proudly performing at Olympic events in Sydney in 2000, the group then successfully undertook a 6-week tour across the Top End of Australia in 2001. The highlights of 2002 were sellout concerts at historic Government House and Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney.  In 2003 the group released a children's album, Work Play Sleep. The last few years have seen the group conducting vocal residencies and other projects for Musica Viva as well as continuing to tour nationally and internationally (New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei). Their fifth and latest release was an Australia Council funded CD titled About Time.

     "Blindman's Holiday, always the best of the Sydney groups"
     Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald February 3-4, 2007

     "A real rainbow of musical sounds"
     Julia Lester ABC Classic FM 26/6/2006

     "world music with a dash of jazz, a touch of gospel and always exquisite melodies."
     Doug Anderson Sydney Morning Herald 2001

Website: blindmansholiday.cjb.net
Hear them:  Love, Lust, Commitment and Trust (mp3), Embala Eu (mp3)

When are they on?  Saturday September 13, 8pm
Click here to book online for their show!