Newcastle Music Festival: Hands, Feet & Animals
8 August @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm AEST

Delight in dance and music with Dave Brubeck’s Points on Jazz and Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals featuring duo pianists Erin Sweetman and Greg Smith. The accompanying poems by Ogden Nash will be narrated by Barry Shepherd, and the concert features accomplished dancers from Newcastle Dance Academy, with musicians from Chamber Music in the Hunter, led by Elizabeth Holowell on violin. New choreography for both works has been created by Jessica Miller of Newcastle Dance Academy, in a festival first.
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