There’s arts news good and not so good in HELEN MUSA’s latest Arts in the City column.

International comedy star and former Canberran Hannah Gadsby performs her new stand-up show Woof! at Canberra Theatre, July 25.

Oh, What A Night! the Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons revue, featuring hits such as Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry and Walk Like A Man, plays The B, Queanbeyan, July 23.

Young, independent artist, Leo Amadeus, is launching a first album, These Past Few Years, with local artist Rylee De Salis and a nine-piece Canberra band at Smith’s Alternative, Civic, on July 27.

In appalling news, artistic director and violinist of Phoenix Collective, Dan Russell has had his Lorenzo Ventepane violin and two bows destroyed in an accident. Phoenix Collective is seeking donations towards the replacement of the instruments lost and Russell will travel to London in October to attend the fine instrument auctions of Tarisio, Bromptons and Ingles & Hayday in search of a similar violin. Tax deductible donations via artists.australianculturalfund.org.au 

The Scandinavian Film Festival returns with epic dramas, sweeping romances and Scandi noir from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. Palace Electric, July 23- August 14.

Billed as the ultimate feel-good Irish show, Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of The Dubliners is touring Australia. Narrated by writer and director Ged Graham, who guides audiences through the life of the group in between performances of numbers such as The Irish Rover, The Leaving of Liverpool and Dirty Old Town. Canberra Theatre, July 27.

Oriana Chorale’s winter concert Flight, with Sally Whitwell on piano, includes Eric Whitacre’s choral tour de force Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine as well as works by Esenvalds and Australian composers Joe Twist and Matthew Orlovich. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, July 27.