Arts in the City / Majors Creek Festival expects record crowd

• Heath Cullen… performing at the Majors Creek Festival.

  Busker Owen Campbell… performing at the Majors Creek Festival.

  A STUPENDOUS line-up of more than 50 performers has the new Majors Creek Festival committee expecting record crowds when their “friendly little festival” returns from November 21 to 23 after a three-year break. Headliners include Candelo’s Heath Cullen and Queanbeyan’s controversial busker/singer/songwriter Owen Campbell, back from his US tour. It’s all just 10 minutes from Braidwood and free camping is available on site. All details and bookings to majorscreekfestival.orgCANBERRA Rep is exploring the occult, marital jealousy and other theatrical vices in Noël Coward’s hilarious play “Blithe Spirit”, to be directed by Kate Blakehurst. Briefly, Charles (Peter Holland) invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcati (Liz St Clair-Long) to his house for a séance, but gets more than he bargains for when the ghost of his first wife (Anita Davenport) turns up. At Theatre 3, Acton, November 20-December 6, bookings to 6257 1950.

  ARTIST and curator Suzie Edwards has alerted us to the new Ten Thousand Paces gallery space/shop, Springetts Arcade, 302 Bong Bong Street, Bowral. Her exhibition “Inner Necessity” is being opened by artist Cherry Hood, 2pm, on Saturday, November 15. Edwards says ACT artists should be getting in before this “quirky but charismatic little gallery” develops a long waiting list for exhibition space.

  “THE Mannheim School” is the Sydney Consort’s last concert for the year, looking at early classical music from the birth of the clarinet in compositions of Stamitz, up to Mozart’s chamber works. Performing with the consort will be Lawrence Dobell, principal clarinet with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and versatile recorder player Hans-Dieter Michatz. At Wesley Music Centre, 7pm, on Sunday, October 16, bookings to trybooking.com/DVJL or tickets at the door 30 minutes before the concert.

  IF you’re keen on The King, it’s time to register for the Parkes Elvis Festival’s 2015 busking competition or the rock ‘n’ roll dancing competition. The idea is to dress up, sing and dance your way to prizes and trophies while you remember the way you were. Registrations to parkeselvisfestival.com.au.

  THE next free concert at the High Court, 1pm, on Sunday, November 16, features Polifemy, a women’s vocal ensemble performing sacred and profane Renaissance music and the recorder ensemble Walking the Dog. Both are directed by veteran Canberra music director Robyn Mellor.

   

   

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