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Martha Wainwright

If brutal honesty, passionate angst and personal songwriting is your jam, rejoice the return of Martha Wainwright.
Hugh Robertson
April 15, 2013

Overview

If brutal honesty, passionate angst and extraordinarily affecting personal songwriting is your jam, rejoice the return of Martha Wainwright to Australia for a massive, 12-date national tour.

Part of a large, fractured musical family, it was perhaps fitting that Martha made her first big splash with 'Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole', a song at once heartbreaking and defiant, laying bare her difficult relationship with her father in an extraordinarily public way. And her forthcoming album, Come Home to Mama, continues this deeply personal approach to music, inspired by the six-month period in which she gave birth to her first child and lost her mother — legendary Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle — to cancer.

But it's not all doom and gloom. Over the years Wainwright has established herself as a compelling and engaging performer with an extraordinary voice, one that will have you in tears one moment and tapping your feet the next. It won't be an easy night, but it could be an amazing one.


Information

When

Thu, Jun 6, 2013

Thursday, June 6, 2013

8:00pm

Where

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney

Price

$54-79
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