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MUSIC AUSTRALIA / IRELAND ANCIENT RAIN PAUL KELLY & CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN WITH FEARGAL MURRAY M T W OCTOBER 10 11 12 17 18 19 T F S S 06 07 08 09 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 WED — SAT 7.30PM 1 hr 15 mins, no interval A Reserve $79 / $69 B Reserve $69 / $59 Students $25 Transaction fees may apply “Hypnotic.” INDEPENDENT ~ THE ON CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN Director CHRIS DRUMMOND The words of great Irish poets are given new breath in this premiere collaboration between two inimitable artists. The poetry of W. B. Yeats and his countrymen has an inherent musicality and this quality shines through in Paul Kelly, Camille O’Sullivan and Feargal Murray’s song-cycle Ancient Rain. Original compositions by these contemporary masters have been shaped around the words of more than a century of Irish poetry, and as Kelly and O’Sullivan incarnate a succession of diverse characters, a conduit across oceans and time is opened. Kelly’s ingeniously understated yet evocative lyricism and O’Sullivan’s majestic vocal command unite here in the service of stories of love, loss and redemption. #melbfest www.festival.melbourne ★★★★★ WORLD PREMIERE ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE PLAYHOUSE “There’s an ache in his voice, and in the best of his songs—a story.” ~ THE GUARDIAN ON PAUL KELLY Arts Centre Melbourne 1300 182 183 With support from // 65