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Arts / What’s on this weekend?

Cast members from ‘Hello Dolly’. Photo by Michael Moore

QUEANBEYAN Players are staging the Jerry Herman musical “Hello, Dolly!”. In it Janelle McMenamin gets to play the interfering matchmaker and general busybody, Dolly Levi, while Canberra veteran actor Tony Falla plays the cantankerous Yonkers “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder. The Q, Queanbeyan, May 30 to June 9. Bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

PERISHER’S Peak festival will celebrate the snow season opening with a talent line-up including blues artist, Ash Grunwald, Sydney rapper Kwame and over 30 other artists. Perisher Valley and Smiggin Holes, June 7-10. Bookings to peakfestival.com.au

Ursula Yovich as the outspoken Barbara. Photo: Brett Boardman.

STARRING Ursula Yovich as the outspoken Barbara, leader of a rock band, the play “Barbara and the Camp Dogs” is like a road movie when she and her sister learn that their mum in Katherine is seriously ill. They set off on a motorbike adventure where the home truths come out. Playhouse, May 30 to June 1, . Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.

THE New England Ensemble and guests will be performing an afternoon concert of classical favourites, with Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals” as the centrepiece. Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 5pm, Sunday, June 2. Young Canberra musicians will perform an opening concert from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. Bookings to tuggeranongarts.com or 6293 1443.

IN “French Twist”, the Australian Haydn Ensemble experience the essence of eighteenth century France in the chamber music of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Albert Hall, 7pm, Thursday, May 30. Bookings to australianhaydn.com.au, 1800 334388, or at the door.

THE story of Ada Lovelace, the mathematical genius who develops the world’s first complex computer program in 1843, will come to life in the only public performance of “Ada.Ada.Ada”. Written, directed, designed and performed by Zoe Philpott. At Llewellyn Hall, 8pm, Thursday, May 30. Bookings to premier.ticketek.com.au

CANBERRA Sinfonia will collaborate with soloists Barbara Jane Gilby on violin and Lucy Carrigy-Ryan on viola to perform Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante”, as well as a selection of popular tango tunes, including “Libertango”. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, 3pm, Saturday, June 1. Bookings to eventbrite.com.au

THE National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is marking National Reconciliation Week with special guests, artist and dancer Delta Kay (pictured), and filmmakers Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon showing and discussing their film, “Etched in Bone”. NFSA, 6pm, Friday, May 31. Then at 2pm on Saturday June 2, there’ll be a “Carriberrie” and meet the makers session. Bookings for both to nfsa.gov.au

LUMINESCENCE Chamber Singers presents “Tracks and Traces”, a concert featuring six unaccompanied female voices performing music from all over the world with some of Australia’s finest young singers, including Canberra locals AJ America, Veronica Milroy, Chloe Lankshear and Adele Kozak. Gorman Arts Centre Main Hall, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon, 8pm, Friday, March 31. Bookings to luminescence.org.au or at the door.

THIS year’s Bands & Orchestras section of the Australian National Eisteddfod is coming up from May 30 to June 4. It will include 87 groups, high school, primary and community concert bands, jazz and brass bands, orchestras and instrumental ensembles. Details and bookings to nationaleisteddfod.org.au

IN “Melting Pot” held on the last Friday of every month, musicians stir a pot of funk, soul, jazz and blues. At Nishi in NewActon, 8pm, Friday, May 31, midnight finish. Bookings to eventbrite.com.au or at the door.

 

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