Still Shining

October 6, 2024 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | MUSIC, THUMBNAIL REVIEWS | 1 Comment |

(Marcia Hines at Norwood Town Hall, Adelaide, 4 October 2024)

She came from Boston to Australia on a six month gig in Hair, and 50 years later…she’s still here. And Australia is the better for it. Three times crowned as Australia’s Queen of Pop, Marcia’s lovely voice soars through all registers and her choice of material is broad but apt. At Norwood on Friday night, a packed Hall saw an enthusiastic (up in years) cohort get up and boogie, to songs such as Fire and Rain, I Want You Back, Shining, You, Disco Inferno, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, I Don’t Know How To Love Him, From the Inside, How Deep is Your Love, I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself, Hard to Breathe, and I’ve Got the Music in Me, accompanied by two excellent male singers and an amazing drummer/percussionist/guitarist, Stef Furnari.

Marcia worked the crowd with a short Q & A, during which she spontaneously belted out portions of Amazing Grace and The Age of Aquarius, also explaining her good looks at age 71 by saying “Black Don’t Crack.”

Hines is doing a national tour that, importantly, includes many regional towns. She’s touring for another couple of months, so see her if you can.

Thank you, Marcia. Your love still brings us to our knees.




 

1 Comment

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    Craig

    October 24, 2024

    If I had known Marcia Hines was on, I would have gone. My first concert at 12 was Marcia Hines and the Daly Wilson Big Band at Wayville Pavilion. They had re-formed from defunct with Benson and Hedges funding. Hines had just finished the role of Mary Magdalene. I wrote into the Channel 10 Morning Show and won tickets, As I was the only “Master” as in Master Craig – remember that salutation, who applied, they gave me 2 tickets. My secretary mother could not afford to buy tickets as we had just bought another house and I wouldn’t have gone if I didn’t win them. I took my sister Susan, it was excellent. I started working at 12 ½ so I could afford it after that. Hines was great and so was the band. I went to see them probably about another 3 times before they broke up. Hines was with them on one of those other concerts. Kerry Biddle sang at the others. I was (and am still) a keen drummer, and Warren Daly was an excellent drummer.


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