Morning Melodies
With 90 minutes of light entertainment (and morning tea!), Morning Melodies is a musical mixtape for everyone.
Check out the 2024 program below.
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Remember The Days of Cat Stevens | Mon 12 Feb
Remember the days of Cat Stevens? The name brings back a thousand memories - dark eyes, a winning voice and songs the whole world sang along to. Moonshadow, Wild World, Peace Train, Where Do the Children Play, Father & Son, Morning Has Broken - these songs have become bookmarks in our lives, deeply personal, as if they were written especially for us.
Re-live the voice of a generation, in a celebration of one of the most inspiring and prolific singer songwriters of our time, sung with remarkable authenticity by one of Australia’s most exciting artists, Darren Coggan.
Get on board the Peace Train and ‘Remember The Days of Cat Stevens’ as Darren Coggan traces the path of a man who never stopped wondering about how to make the world a better place.
The Boys From Oz | Mon 22 April
Let's hear it for The Boys! Come celebrate the greatest songs from Australia’s greatest male singers. Join singer JD Smith (of Ten Tenors fame) as he takes you on a journey through the pop, rock and country classics that have been the soundtrack to your life.
From the unofficial national anthems of John Farnham's You’re The Voice, Daryl Braithwaite’s The Horses and Peter Allen’s I Still Call Australia Home; Supergroup classics by ACDC, INXS, Cold Chisel, Little River Band and The Bee Gees; the Poptastic stylings of John Paul Young, Rick Springfield and Leo Sayer through to iconic ballads from Savage Garden, Rick Price and Keith Urban, you will be stunned by the powerhouse vocal versatility and charm that JD Smith brings to these songs on stage.
The Boys from Oz will have you singing, dancing and cheering as you remember how much you love these iconic songs from Australia’s most incredible performers.
Some Enchanted Evening | Mon 10 June
We have all heard their songs and we have all enjoyed their musicals. They were known as America’s most successful musical theatre writing team and their partnership has been called the greatest of the 20th Century.
Join us for a very special event paying tribute to the timeless music from the legendary Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Featuring your favourite tunes from Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music and many more, Some Enchanted Evening is truly an enchanted concert of exquisite songs from the golden age of musicals.
A Farewell To Doris | Mon 12 Aug
After forging a dazzling country music career that has won her 6 Golden Guitars, and stunning audiences on Dancing with the Stars, Australian favourite, Melinda Schneider steps back in time to pay homage to one of her musical heroes, Doris Day.
Melinda Schneider’s, A Farewell To Doris, is a heartfelt tribute to this iconic star. This nostalgic concert celebration will include such timeless hits as Que Sera, Sera, Sentimental Journey, Everybody Loves a Lover and Secret Love plus classic songs from the movies Calamity Jane, Love Me or Leave Me and The Pajama Game, as well as a number of Doris’ big band standards.
Livvy & Pete by Amplified House | Mon 30 Sept
Helpmann Award winner Michael Griffiths and cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen.
From their humble small-town beginnings to world domination in sequins and jumpsuits, revisit all of their sing-a-long classics from Rio to Tenterfield, all the way to Xanadu and beyond.
As camp as maracas and tender as Pete’s gift to Livvy ‘I Honestly Love You’, there promises to be rollerskates, T-Birds, Pink Ladies, 80s jazzercise and an Oscar winning song to boot! Livvy & Pete has played the Australia Cabaret circuit, and sold out the Adelaide Fringe Festival three years running. With charm, talent, and loads of laughs, come and join us for a nostalgic homage to two of Australia's national treasures!
Andrews & Bing Christmas Swing | Mon 2 Dec
Andrews & Bing Christmas Swing is a joyful, live, melodious stroll down memory lane with the beautiful 1940’s bright and engaging Christmas songs of the Andrews Sisters, and the one and only crooner himself, Bing Crosby.
Three dynamic, harmonious, humble divas celebrate the Christmas spirit with their professional band, The Miller Horns, igniting the stage!
Clap along to their iconic stylised Jingle Bells, listen to the enchanting best-selling song, White Christmas, and all aboard the Christmas Chattanooga Choo Choo.
This event is part of our Morning Melodies program. With a lovely pre-show morning tea, our Morning Melodies concerts offer more than just a morning’s entertainment; they also offer connection to community and culture.
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