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Rachael Leahcar (born Rachael Wendy Bartholomew) was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia (her performing surname is her first name spelled backwards). Leahcar was born with retinitis pigmentosa and (as of 2012) is legally blind with only 10% visual function. [5]
Whilst retaining its identity as a specific act, Swing on This also refers to the members of the cast. As Falzon describes it: "Rather than putting together a boy band it's about mates coming together and having a sing," [7] Founding members of Swing on This include Michael Falzon, Luke Kennedy, Matt Lee, and Ben Mingay, all seasoned performers in their own right. [10]
"The Song of Australia" was composed as the result of 1859 competition to create a "patriotic song", sponsored by the Gawler Institute in Adelaide. The winning lyrics were written by an English-born poet, Caroline Carleton , and the music chosen by the judges was composed by the German-born Carl Linger (1810-1862), [ 1 ] a prominent member of ...
Lovers Electric members Eden Boucher and David Turley both grew up in Adelaide. At 17 they met when Turley was holidaying in the United Kingdom where Boucher was then working. [1] [2] They married two years later and established Lovers Electric in 2005 in Adelaide, the band name is "an ode to their natural chemistry on and off the stage."
In the Adelaide Advertiser the poetry reviewer commented: "Among the poets of the Commonwealth she is entitled to a place, as the present volume shows. Her lyre is always tuneful, and though her themes are familiar enough – sunset, twilight, the parting of lovers, the curlew's call, the flight of time, the sleeping baby – she infuses into ...
"Adelaide's Lament" is a show tune from the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, written by Frank Loesser, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24, 1950. It was performed on stage by Vivian Blaine, [1] who later reprised her role as Miss Adelaide in the 1955 film version of the play; in its biography of Blaine, the Encyclopædia Britannica describes her as "best remembered for her ...
During arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in this week's major transgender rights case, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the lawyer defending Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care ...
Richard Bonynge selected Bradman to sing the title role in a concert performance of Handel's Rodelinda in 2014. [3] Bradman was the subject of two episodes of the ABC TV program Australian Story in 2015. [4] Later that year, she joined David Hobson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, and Lisa McCune for a concert tour of the five Australian mainland state ...