Conversations with Ghosts

Overview

If anyone can claim to be the voice of Melbourne’s soul, it is singer Paul Kelly. Like all great artists though, he knows how to stand on the shoulders of giants. In his concert for the Melbourne Festival, Conversations With Ghosts, Kelly will be paying tribute to past masters of the poetic art.

From the canons of classical greats such as Yeats and Tennyson, and Australian icons Les Murray, Kenneth Slessor and Judith Wright, Kelly has taken poems that evoke a sense of loss and longing and, working with composer James Ledger, woven them into what promises to be a haunting musical experience.

With accompaniment by Genevieve Lacey, a performer who can turn the simple recorder into an instrument of hypnotising beauty, and a ten piece orchestra of talented youth from the Australian National Academy of Music, this is a performance that will speak straight to your heart.