In 1986 Reabold Hill’s abandoned quarry, which had not been used for eighty years, was re-opened as ‘The Quarry Amphitheatre’. Surrounded by natural bush land, it and offers panoramic views across the City to the Darling Range and provides an ideal setting for intimate acoustic concerts with a capacity audience of 644 people.
- Extract from The Quarry Amphitheatre’s Live At The Quarry website.
The Quarry Amphitheatre in City Beach is fairly new to the live music scene, having started its Live At The Quarry series only in the early Summer of 2008 with the likes of James Morrison, Holly Throsby, Old Man River and Kate Miller-Heidke.
This summer, though with a smaller line up but nonetheless a warm mix of live acts, started off with Paul Kelly’s A-Z series. The shows spanned over four nights, singing 100 songs thematically from A to Z, over his 30-odd years as a songwriter accompaniment from his nephew Dan Kelly. Oh gosh, how I would have loved to have been to all four nights, but I arrived in the middle (in the middle, in the middle) of the series where he had started off on the letter “L”. Paul Kelly was also handing out his books if people had pointed out lyrical errors after they were performed. With a hundred songs to go through, and many more in his back-catalogue, who can blame him for forgetting some words, hey?
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