Mardi Cole's Chit Chat
We have a large number of international singers coming to Sydney for the next few months, obviously all wanting to enjoy Summer down-under, and to promote new material in many cases.Cliff Richard and The Shadows will be bringing their reunion concerts to the Sydney Entertainment Centre & the Hope Estate Winery, Hunter Valley on February 20 & 21 and they have also recorded an album called "CLIFF & THE SHADOWS REUNITED". It has many of their biggest hits newly recorded, though keeping as close as possible to the original versions. Plus they've added songs like "Willie & the Hand Jive", "Sea-cruise" and a track that last year was released as a single "Singing The Blues". It's a preview of what we're likely to hear at their upcoming concerts.
Whitney Houston is at Acer Arena & the Hope Estate Winery at the end of February and her debut album "Whitney Houston" has been re-released in a 25th Anniversary package. Yes, it's 25 years since she burst on to the music scene and won millions of fans around the world. The re-packaged album includes new re-mixes of some of her most famous songs and both acapella & live versions of others. On re-listening to original album myself, I was reminded that Whitney performed 2 duets with Jermaine Jackson and he was listed as producing some of the tracks on the album too.
Boz Scaggs & Michael McDonald, formerly of The Doobie Brothers, are playing The Sydney Entertainment Centre at the end of February too. We may not have heard much from either artist of late but they have been recording and, in fact, in America, Michael McDonald released and album of Motown covers that sold extremely well. It is available here in Australia as well.
And Tom Jones will be in town early March playing the Sydney Entertainment Centre and Wollongong Entertainment Centre. Last year he released an album of his first new material in 15 years entitled "TOM JONES 24 HOURS".
So if you can't be at the concerts, you can have a private performance at home on your own stereo.
Mardi Cole
