Jessica Mauboy concert | Adelaide Festival 2021 review
Pop royalty Jessica Mauboy positively exploded onto the stage, so keen were she and her band to get back to what they do best.
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Jessica Mauboy – Free Opening Weekend Concert
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FESTIVAL
Adelaide Oval
February 27
Performing for the first time in over a year, pop royalty Jessica Mauboy positively exploded onto the stage, so keen were she and her band to get back to doing what they do best.
The cheers from the 5500-strong audience were deafening as the first notes of Kick Up Your Heels rang out, then it was straight into a mashup through to her 2019 album Hilda, which provided around half the numbers for the night.
In between, there were classics in abundance. Burn and Fallin’ were presented in forgiving acoustic arrangements, but there was none of that for her rollicking covers of I Can’t Help Myself and Land Of 1000 Dances.
The energy in the audience built and built as Mauboy mined her back catalogue with hits like Gotcha, Up/Down, Running Back and the tune that still holds her record on the Billboard charts, Pop a Bottle (Fill Me Up).
Mauboy was preceded by a performance from dancers and musicians Yellaka and Karl Telfer, “Old Wisdom – New Ways” as he likes to say.
This was a great idea, as this excellent presentation, rich with symbolism, deserves to be much more widely appreciated – as indeed it was.
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