Posts tagged Sidonie Henbest

RAW: Lady Sings the Blues @ The Promethean

After a successfull season at the Adelaide Fringe Sidonie Henbest brings us Lady Sings the Blues. Again well accompanied by Mathew Carey. This time also accompanied with some great work on the  double bass by Alana Dawes.

A great variety of songs are performed to an eager audience, including Come Rain or Come Shine, Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I’ll Get Along Without You Very Well.  

The seconed half achieved a great level of energy to the delight of the audience. It’s a pleasure listening to artists, such as Henbest perform who realy enjoy what they are doing.

Kryztoff Rating: 3.5K

RAW: Last of the Red Hot Mamas @ The Promethean

Before Madonna, before Marlene – there was the one they called the Last of the Red Hot Mamas.

Sidonie Henbest accompanied by Matthew Carey bring us Sophie Tucker’s autobiography carbaret style.

Sophie Tucker was the original provocateur – an undisputed super star in an age before radio and television, she was a legendary singer and performer. Her love of the double-entre and risqué comic songs, her trademark. She defined the vaudeville and early jazz era for female singers and influenced some of the great female performers of the 20th century, including Judy Garland and Bette Midler.

Henbest’s voice has a rich range and the two performed this tribute well together. The energy building as the show went on, to the hight where you wished it would never end. However every good show must come to an end as the audience sadley realised with thonderous applause.

Kryztoff Rating: 3.5K

>> Check out more interviews, videos, feature articles and polished previews in our latest Fringe Guidehttp://www.kryztoff.com/fringe