Art

Rocktober countdown nearly over

The Riverland will be filled with music and dancing for a returning annual event in October. The River Rock Dance Club will again be celebrating the weekend in style with their Rocktober 2024 festival, being held from Friday 11 to Monday 14 October...

Staff Contributors

30 Sep 2024

Art

Curtain’s outback experience hits Waikerie

WAIKERIE will host multiple-Golden Guitar winner Tom Curtain next week, when the country music star tours his award-winning outback show, celebrating the release of his fifth studio album, Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us. Curtain’s Katherine Outback...

Staff Contributors

25 Mar 2023

Art

Waikerie art exhibit focuses on remote SA

AN exhibition featuring rendered and abstracted paintings that explore SA’s rural landscape will be launched at Waikerie’s Rain Moth Gallery on Friday, February 3, from 7pm. Exhibitions co-ordinator Michael Cox said Riverlander Renee Bell’s...

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28 Jan 2023

Art

My Kind of Country...with Robyn McIntosh

At the young age of seven, Ian made his debut public performance singing on 3UZ, then became a choir boy at the Christ Church, Yarra, along with Ernie Sigley

Staff Contributors

21 Jan 2023

Art

We’ve lost another gifted bush balladeer and wordsmith

Grand Hotel Chandelier Room: 8am-10am the Poets Breakfast with Neil McArthur

Staff Contributors

03 Sep 2022

Art

Amazing Mary back in the Riverland

THE SA Country Music Festival may have officially folded, but the presence of Mary Cummins in the Riverland ensured the June long weekend had a familiar feel about it. Mary has sung in the Riverland every year since the inaugural festival in 1978...

Paul Mitchell

20 Jun 2022

Art

Country music across June long weekend

THE remnants of the former SA Country Music Festival played out across Barmera, Cobdogla and Lyrup over the June long weekend. The informal, renamed Riverland Music Festival in fact started last Thursday night and continued until Sunday. Venues...

Paul Mitchell

20 Jun 2022

Art

Robyn McIntosh: Remembering Australian country music pioneer Nev Nicholls

AUSTRALIAN country music pioneer Nev Nicholls has died at the age of 91. Growing up in the central west NSW, Nev travelled to Sydney in 1952 to put down some custom recordings. This led to an audition, and eventual signing, with the now classic...

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12 Jun 2022

Art

Aussie rockers 1927 in Renmark this weekend

AUSSIE rockers 1927 – who had a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s – will perform at Renmark’s Chaffey Theatre this Saturday night. The band was best known for ARIA hits like That’s When I Think of You, You’ll Never Know, and...

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27 May 2022

Art

Wiggles tickets set to sell like hot potatoes

ONE of the most successful musical acts in Australian history is heading to the Chaffey Theatre. Children’s group The Wiggles will perform in Renmark on Saturday, July 9, as part of a tour across regional SA, Victoria and NSW. “Anthony, Tsehay...

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23 May 2022

Community

It’s red, white and go for Annie Jr

AN ingenious solution to a very 2022 challenge will see two casts perform the YRMS production of Annie Jr at the Bonney Theatre during the April school holidays. The YRMS (Young Riverland Musical Society) is staging the popular, Tony Award-winning...

Paul Mitchell

06 Apr 2022

Art

Labor’s plan to boost live music in SA

A MALINAUSKAS Labor Government will get the band back together with a significant package to revive the state’s struggling live music industry as SA emerges from Covid-19. Labor says the package – announced last week – would provide a major...

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15 Mar 2022

Art

Keeping it in the family: Actor Emma Beech goes back to Barmera in The Photo Box

FROM being the face of SA Health’s early Covid-19 campaign, to playing an IGA supermarket shopper, and back to her Barmera roots. Acclaimed actor Emma Beech’s latest role is a major departure from those two uncredited, but high-profile TV/social...

Paul Mitchell

28 Feb 2022

Art

The music of Joni Mitchell coming to Barmera

A CASE of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell is a love letter to one of the most inspiring singer-songwriters of the Woodstock era. Now in its sixth year of touring, the show is coming to the Bonney Theatre next month and creator, musician and...

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27 Feb 2022

Art

Challenging musical a winner for Loxton High School

Riverland Musical Society life member NARELLE JAMES has provided the following review of LOXTON HIGH SCHOOL’S 2021 production of GODSPELL: AFTER yet another year of Covid-19-related cancellations, there was a shared sense of excitement throughout...

Staff Contributors

03 Oct 2021