Live Music & Events
On Sunday 31 August the 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival commenced with an activation of live music spaces along Crown St Surry Hills between Devonshire St and Foveaux St.
As the opening event of the 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival, The Live Music Office, City of Sydney and APRA AMCOS piloted the first event from an ongoing project to develop a precinct event template to better support local musicians and venues with the event, ‘Ignite – Heat The Street’, curated by musician Ilan Kidron. Funding was committed by the City of Sydney Council for Live and Local precinct events as one of 60 actions endorsed by Council from the City of Sydney Live Music and Performance Taskforce.
City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore with event curator Ilan Kidron and Fringe Festival Director Kerri Glasscock
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About the curator. Ilan Kidron is an Australian singer, song-writer and music producer who lives between Paris, Los Angeles and Sydney. Kidron is the lead singer of The Potbelleez. Kidron co-wrote the group’s breakthrough single, “Don’t Hold Back”, which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified 2× Platinum by ARIA. He currently writes for and performs with The Potbelleez as well as composing music for other well known artists such as Ricky Martin, Jessica Mauboy and Tina Arena.
Artists
- On The Stoop
- Gang of Brothers
- Paul Capsis
- Milan
- All Our Exes Live In Texas
- Tina Harrod
- Avivaa
- Eddie Bronson
- Jake Meadows
- Brassholes
- Elodie Sablier
- Pen Island
- Matt McMahon
- Emma Pask
- The Slugs
- Haydn Walker
- Oliver Thorpe
- Rose Henshaw
- Martha Marlow
Artist Feedback
It was such a great supportive atmosphere, and was one of the most enjoyable gigs I have ever done because of that. I love the diversity of Fringe Festivals, there was a folk act prior, a comedic music theatre performance afterwards, a rock band spilling in from down stairs and a brass band heard from the streets. This Diversity created a great atmosphere and I feel that there was more appreciation for the uniqueness of each individual act from the punters.”
Milan
I know that other musicians involved were thrilled and encouraged by the response they received. The performances were mainly in small intimate spaces, so the interaction with the public was up close and that added excitement to the experience. Unusual venue spaces worked really well in giving all parties a greatly enjoyed musical experience.
I thought the programming was diverse and of an extremely high standard.
Lastly, the feeling on the street was that of a festival atmosphere, and the sense of Sydney as a vibrant and cultural community was very strong. I would only add that it was achieved without a throng of security personnel or obstructing vehicular traffic in the area.
All in all a great success I would say
Jonathan Zwartz
Venue Feedback
“It was a great day – we’d had a busy week and it was nice to do something out of the norm”
“There was a real community feeling, like everyone was coming into our loungeroom”
“Thinking about doing it now for our birthday each year”
“We had double our weekly customer numbers come through the shop in three hours”
“An excellent day – it’s fairly quiet usually”
“The atmosphere was wonderful, all ages, people outside, a really nice feeling”
“Wonderful, Amazing – Loads more people than usual”
“Reinforced the fact that we should have live music on special occasions”
“We’d have no problem paying musicians – it was great having them for a first time”
“Trade was better than usual – especially after 5pm where we did 50% of our trade”
“It’s a bit new Orleans”
“If you do it again everyone will want to be involved”.
“From where I stand I couldn’t have imagined a more thorough professional team as the APRA and Live Music Office crew”.
“ it was an incredible experience for me”
Ilan Kidron – Curator Fringe Ignite
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