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Oct 23, 2010
Seven Songs to Leave Behind

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ABC Dig Music is proud to support the musical highlight of this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Seven Songs to Leave Behind features an incredible line-up of extraordinary voices brought together for the first time to celebrate the power of song.

Read our competition winner's review of the evening.

Sinead O'Connor, recognised worldwide for her astonishing voice and songs, has been making music, rejecting stereotypes and defying expectations for a quarter of a century.

John Cale, legendary founding member of The Velvet Underground, acclaimed composer and one of the most influential and thought-provoking musicians of all time.

Meshell Ndegeocello, prolific songwriter and fearsome bassist, has had ten Grammy Award nominations during a stellar career traversing musical boundaries and defying categorisation.

Rickie Lee Jones, highly influential, Grammy Award-winning, multi-million selling US singersongwriter and producer who, over the course of a three-decade career, has performed and recorded in a variety of musical styles including rock, R & B, blues, pop, soul and jazz and has influenced an entire generation of female singers.

Gurrumul Yunupingu, award-winning Indigenous Australian artist who will be familiar to Festival audiences from his previous sold out and critically acclaimed appearances.

The Black Arm Band, Melbourne Festival favourites and multi award-winning musicians, featuring Leah Flanagan, Shellie Morris, Dan Sultan and Ursula Yovich, who have taken audiences around the world by storm since their Festival debut in 2006.

Archie Roach, iconic singer, philosopher and storyteller who is known for the relaying and retelling of intimate real life stories through song. He has toured extensively both in Australia and overseas. In 2009, he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for contributing to Australia’s cultural life through the performing arts.

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 wished they had written, two songs of their own and one for the end of days – a song to leave behind.

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Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O'Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U". Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures such as her ordination...

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