Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2010
		Friday 11 - Saturday 26 June 2010

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival has become a major event in the international and Australian Arts calendar, as the most comprehensive cabaret festival in the world. It has earned a reputation of highlighting the best local, national and international artists in the cabaret genre.

The festival offers unforgettable nights of music, satire, comedy, and late night booty shakin' all under the one roof at South Australia's creative heart, the Adelaide Festival Centre. Transformed into various sized cabaret venues with bars, cafes, restaurants, clubs and comfy nooks, the Adelaide Festival Centre will buzz with audiences enjoying drinks, food and chatting about the next best thing in cabaret.

In 2010 the Adelaide Festival Centre will present its tenth annual Adelaide Cabaret Festival, opening on the Queen's Birthday long weekend from 11 - 26 June, under the Artistic Directorship of entertainer David Campbell.

The 2010 Festival highlights include 'nine-time Grammy award-winner' Natalie Cole, appearing in her only Australian performances, Tony Award winning star of A Chorus Line Donna McKechnie, international star of stage and screen Caroline O'Connor, and returning by popular demand Hugh Sheridan in Newley Discovered. Also, catch pop idol Damien Leith in a show dedicated to his Irish roots, The Wharf Revue in their political parody Pennies from Kevin and French band Nouvelle Vague, taking the songs that you adore and making you fall in love with them all over again.

For the full program, which features over 250 artists, over 120 performances, across 16 days and nights go to the Festival's website www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com.

Festival Highlights:

     
Natalie Cole

Natalie Cole
With a stellar career spanning 35 years and counting, nine-time-Grammy-award-winner, Natalie Cole has earned her place in the rollcall of music legends. Born into show-business royalty as the daughter of the immortal Nat King Cole, she released her first album in 1975 and had her first number-one hit the same year.

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The Wharf Revue - Pennies From Kevin
Farewell Not-so Great Depression! Put your troubles behind you, cross to the funny side of the street and dance down the road to recovery with a stimulus package of song and satire from The Wharf Revue. One beautiful girl and three lucky fellows have pooled their one-off payments and put on a show!

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Pennies From Kevin
Smoke & Mirrors

Smoke & Mirrors
This phenomenal hit of the 2010 Sydney Festival takes you on a journey across an illusory landscape, accompanied by some dangerously charismatic strangers and the extraordinary talents of, iOTA. Featuring Todd McKenney, Queenie van de Zandt, Timothy Woon and Chelsea McGuffin, leave the everyday behind and abandon yourself to a lavish adventure of the fantastical kind.

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David Hobson - Am I Really Here?
Opera Australia's matinee idol and twice winner of Channel 7's It Takes Two, there is hardly any musical style that David Hobson has not challenged himself against.

David will lead you on an intimate evening of song as he explores his multi-faceted repertoire.

Don't miss David Hobson as you've never seen him before.

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David Hobson
Caroline O'Connor

An Evening With Caroline O'Connor - A Musical Life
Caroline O'Connor has sold-out performances at New York's famous Birdland jazz club, and grabbed the attention of movie audiences in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge and the Cole Porter bio-pic, De-Lovely; she is an international star of stage and screen.

Caroline brings her intoxicating blend of rich vocals and bewitching tales back to the Adelaide stage.

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John Paul Young & The All Star Band
Join the legendary John Paul Young for a divine dance down memory lane. Backed once more by The Allstar Band, JPY will personally escort you through his catalogue of decade-spanning hits, along with tales from the top of the pops and beyond.

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John Paul Young
Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro

Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro - Late Night Banquet Room
From the outskirts of Tokyo comes this six piece funk phenomenon. Don't let their impeccable dress sense and slick stylin' fool you, Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro play furious booty shakin' funk-rock, rivalling grand masters Dap-Kings from the USA, Germany's the Poets Of Rhythm, and the New Mastersounds from the UK.

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Frisky & Mannish - School of Pop
Pay attention as every major pop icon from the past 30 years is examined with scholarly wisdom. What you'll soon learn is that there's an underlying meaning you never imagined beneath the vacuous pop propaganda of Lily Allen, George Michael, Kate Nash, the Pussycat Dolls and so many more.

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Frisky & Mannish