Tender is the Night at Goolugatup Heathcote is again for a second season and able to set the scene for each sort of date night time as a few of Perth’s finest musicians take to the stage to carry out their hits with the Tender Strings Quartet.
The distinctive occasion will see songs from ARIA-nominated and multi-award-winning Afro-Kreol singer and songwriter Grace Barbe and Fremantle people legend Jack Davies reimagined by the string quartet for an intimate live performance.
What makes the present particular is that every artist will carry out their tracks with the quartet for the very first time on the night time of the occasion.
“I’ve been excited for a while now,” Barbe stated. “When the Tender is the Night team first got in touch with us about this concept, I was totally interested, there was no way I was going to say no to something like this.
“We sent the recordings of our setlist of songs to them and they scored all the songs for a string quartet.
“And that’s the magic of it all, you know, this will be our first time performing a stripped-back show, completely acoustic with a string quartet.”
Barbe has hand-picked songs from her three albums to carry out on the night time together with Mon Ankor Anmoure, which interprets to, I’m nonetheless in love.
“I have a band and that’s how I usually perform, so getting to play these songs like this will just be so special,” she stated.
“I don’t get the chance to do the acoustic stripped-back performance, it’s quite rare for me, but this Sunday will be the night for it to happen and it will be magical.”
Tender is the Night is a picnic-style occasion, so persons are inspired to convey their very own cushions, rugs, drinks and nibbles and get arrange for a comfortable night of music.
Grace Barbe and Jack Davies might be acting on November 27 from 6pm to 8pm, with tickets out there for buy on the City of Melville’s web site.
