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Joanna Weinberg: Pandora's Bag

Read "Pandora's Bag" reviewed by Geannine Reid


Joanna Weinberg is an Australian songwriter, piano and accordion player, actress and film star. She has been nominated for an Australian critics circle award; the composer and writer of Every Single Saturday (the soccer parent musical); she is also the composer and writer of the musical, Lifeforce, which won the pick of the Fringe at the 2013 Sydney Fringe Festival. Weinberg specializes in writing and performing one woman shows, she has written over ten of them, including the critically acclaimed ...

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Joanna Weinberg: The Piano Diaries

Read "The Piano Diaries" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Australian vocalist Joanna Weinberg is a difficult artist to pigeonhole in one genre. A testament to her versatility, The Piano Diaries is a very personal debut stemming from her restarting piano lessons after a three-decade hiatus, and represents a musical distillation of her eponymous autobiographical one-woman show. The dozen-song set showcases her various influences yet create a very original whole. Her times spent in South Africa are reflected in the jazz-like township theme of “Daughters of the ...

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Joanna Weinberg: The Piano Diaries

Read "The Piano Diaries" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Joanna Weinberg's The Piano Diaries is not exactly jazz, but it is also not exactly not jazz. Intended for the small stage--appropriate, given her work in several musicals and one-woman shows--the singer/composer's music lives in that overlap between cabaret and jazz. Relocating from South Africa to Sydney, Australia in 1997, the London-born Weinberg is a true cosmopolitan, despite still sounding curiously homespun. All of this makes for an interesting and heady mix of musical and lyrical creativity. ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Pandora's Bag

Self Produced
2017

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The Piano Diaries

Self Produced
2012

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