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MEDIA RELEASE
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SEPT 2008
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the Arts Centre and Spiegeltent International present
The Arts Centre Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Dougie MacLeanSaturday 13 at 9:30pm Tickets $51 Dougie MacLean is considered by many to be Scotland's pre-eminent singer-songwriter and is certainly one of the country's greatest musical treasures. From his home base in the beautiful Tay Valley, MacLean tours the world with his unique blend of lyrical, 'roots based' songwriting and instrumental composition. He has built an international reputation as songwriter, composer and extraordinary performer which has led to concerts and festivals worldwide including New York's Carnegie Hall, Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall and London’s Festival Theatre. His songs have been covered by hosts of artists and his Caledonia has become one of Scotland's most popular contemporary songs. His music has been used in Hollywood films (eg Last of the Mohicans), TV Drama (eg BBC's A Mug's Game) and he has been the subject of three BBC TV music-documentaries. Described as “ …a musical hero” (Wall Street Journal, USA) MacLean is renowned for the uniqueness of his meaningful, haunting and emotion-filled music.
The Spiegeltent Melbourne concert program will be available October 2008.
All tickets through Ticketmaster • Ph: 1300 136 166 or www.ticketmaster.com.au www.spiegeltent.net |
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For media info regarding The Famous Spiegeltent Melbourne 2008 season please contact Buxton Walker Publicity |
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