Melbourne International Arts Festival presents
SEVEN SONGS TO LEAVE BEHIND
Join Sinéad O'Connor, John Cale, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Rickie Lee Jones, Gurrumul Yunupingu, The Black Arm Band’s Leah Flanagan, Shellie Morris, dan sultan and Ursula Yovich and more to farewell the Festival with the international musical collaboration of the year.
The Festival asked some of the world’s finest singers to reflect on our theme of spirituality and mortality with the question: ‘Which seven songs would you leave behind?’ The result is this unforgettable night of music.
In a format of entwined concerts, over more than three hours, these artists each share highly personal musical essays of seven classic songs that hold special meaning to them. They will sing their first song – the song that switched them on to being a musician, one from master poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen, a song to share with another, a song that they covet – the one above all others that they...
