Overview
This autumn, Hemispheres features Sydney side-shows for artists playing at two of Australia's best loved music festivals - Womadelaide and Byron Bay BluesFest!
After performing at Adelaide's world famous world music festival, Womadelaide, Sa Dingding will bring her electro-folk fusion sounds to the Concert Hall. Then direct from Byron Bay BluesFest are two huge double-bills! The first features Angelique Kidjo, who sings in four languages and recently won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album and Ayo who stormed the European album charts with her mixture of soul, folk and reggae. The second features indigenous pacific beats of Te Vaka and Tinariwen who will bring the Arabian Southern Sahara straight into our hearts.
To view the full program and to book click on the 2009 ARTISTS tab above.
Hemispheres is a collection of extraordinary music coming to Sydney Opera House from all parts of the world. Distinguished by its high quality, the full program presents artists who often verge on the legendary in their own cultures, and may be revelations to Australian audiences. As well, the program brims with virtuosity in styles and instruments that are not part of the mainstream. The world is full of fantastic music and Hemispheres will transport you to the most exotic sounds on the planet.
In 2009, our exciting program includes artists from both hemispheres, including Tunisia, China, New Zealand, Cuba, Mali and more. We encourage you to come and experience the world of great music.
Philip Rolfe
Associate Director & Acting Head of Music
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2009 Artists
Eleftheria Arvanitaki - 23 & 25 May
www.arvanitaki.gr
Sa Dingding - 8 March 2009
www.sadingding.co.uk
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Roberto Fonseca- 9 March 2009
http://www.robertofonseca.com/
Rasa Unmasked - 13-15 March 2009
www.lingalayam.com
www.sutradancetheatre.com
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Dhafer Youssef - 22 March 2009
www.dhaferyoussef.com
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Rita - 5 April 2009
www.rita.co.il
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Angelique Kidjo & Ayo - 12 April 2009
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www.kidjo.com
www.ayomusic.com
Tinariwen & Te Vaka - 13 April 2009
www.tinariwen.com
www.tevaka.com
2008 Artists
Yasmin Levy - 1 March 2008
www.yasminlevy.net
“What a woman. What a voice… Levy is a diva in the best sense of the word: she is gorgeous and sensuous with a voice that leaves audiences shivering with delight.” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
“What a wonderful sound she creates. Her highly developed technique of Arabic florid singing transplants itself beautifully into the ornamental, balladic feel of flamenco. Possessing a seamless purity of it’s own, her fusion seems to have found the point perfectly where these two musical cultures meet,… she is a remarkable artist” THE AUSTRALIAN
Cesaria Evora - 3 & 4 March 2008
www.cesaria-evora.com
“Cesaria Evora instantly exudes such magnetism as to pull you forward in your seat… This is world music verite” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“The diminutive Cape Verdean singer had total control of the Opera House Concert Hall from the moment she entered the room… Indeed, the music ws so infectious and, by the end of the set, most of the audience were on their feet dancing and clapping along” DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Idan Raichel Project - 5 March 2008
www.idanraichelproject.com
Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra - 12 March 2008
www.worldcircuit.co.uk
Omar Faruk Tekbilek & Ensemble - 25 March 2008
www.omarfaruktekbilek.com
Marcel Khalife - 24 April 2008
www.marcelkhalife.com
The Anoushka Shankar Project – 14 June 2008
www.anoushkashankar.com
“This was a great night’s entertainment and shows that Anoushka Shankar is worthy of George Harrison’s lavish praise when he said of her: ‘‘Ravi – to me, he is the music; it just happens to be that he plays the sitar. And it’s like that with Anoushka. She has that quality – she is the music.’’ MANLY DAILY
Emir Kusturica + The No Smoking Orchestra – 29 June 2008
www.thenosmokingorchestra.com
“With circus-like showmanship and a Balkan-folk-gone-rock’n’roll the eight-piece band turned the usually formal Concert Hall into a close approximation of a Belgrade drinking parlour…the concert was unforgettable” THE AUSTRALIAN
50 Years of Bossa Nova - 10 September 2008
www.myspace.com/joaodonatonewsoundofbrazil
www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/valle.html
www.vinicius.com/
www.robertomenescal.com.br/
Goran Bregovic ‘Tales and Songs for Weddings and Funerals’ – 14 & 16 October 2008
www.goranbregovic.co.yu
“The energy set this concert apart as much as its scope. It exploded off the stage and engulfed the room” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“The Bregovic experience is quite a thing to behold… the audience went off like firecrackers.” THE AUSTRALIAN
Zakir Hussain presents Masters of Percussion - 9 November 2008
www.momentrecords.com