Adelaide Festival Centre fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Concert will get space on Adelaide Festival Centre's real birthday, Friday June two at Festival Theatre. With performances by an all-star S Australian line-up followed by an after-party celebration featuring cake, cocktails, live music and DJ's. This special event hosted by Libby O'Donovan OAM, will showcase Adelaide Festival Centre's five festivals; DreamBIG Children's Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide Guitar Festival and OUR MOB.
These festivals are curated to reflect contemporary Australia, and showcase S Australia's strength in Asian engagement, First Nations culture, education and youth development, music and our connection as a UNESCO City of Music. The concert will feature the talents of Adelaide Guitar Festival Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan, acclaimed cellist Sharon Grigoryan, First Nations singer/songwriters Nancy Bates and Katie Aspel, Helpmann Award winning cabaret artist Michael Griffiths, Counterpoint Ensemble who wowed audiences in the two thousand twenty-two line-up of the OzAsia Festival, Latin trumpet virtuoso Lazaro Numa and the S Australian Primary Schools Choir which this year celebrates its twentieth anniversary.
This memorable program is written and directed by S Australian performer and creative Johanna Allen. Being the first major Arts Centre to open in the country, Adelaide Festival Centre is a space of national significance. welcoming international superstars to nurturing emerging and local artists, Adelaide Festival Centre looks forward to continuing to be engaged in and entertain audiences for many more years to come. The Hon. Anthony Albanese, MP, Prime Minister of Australia: "fifty years ago, two grand Work leaders, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and SA Premier Don Dunstan, stood shoulder to shoulder and launched the first Arts Centre in Australia, Adelaide Festival Centre.
"Both leaders were adamant believers in the power of culture to strengthen society and bringing us all together. Half a cent on, my government believes and acts on the same convictions. "Pleased Birthday Adelaide Festival Centre, long may your curtains rise."' Adelaide Festival Centre CEO and Artistic Director Douglas Gautier AM: "For fifty years Adelaide Festival Centre has been the heart of the arts in S Australia and on our golden anniversary we see back at our wealthy past and ahead to our future with grand pride.
