BIMBO

Cabaret

Venue- Murray Bridge Performing Arts & Function Centre (Theatre)

Dates – 7pm, Saturday 25 February

Femininity can be overlooked easily. In an attempt to bring a voice to a minority, “BIMBO” tells the story of what it’s like being a woman experiencing life through songs of hope, lust, love, anger, and pain. “BIMBO” explores themes of feminism and female sexuality, what it’s like to be queer and have a sense of dread over not being so-called “pure”.

This is the collective story of womankind.

This show is for a Mature Audience (Content Warning – Mild occasional coarse language)

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $15 - $25

Concession: $10 - $20

Augmented Reality Murals, Murray Bridge

Visual Arts & Design

Venue: Seventh Street, Murray Bridge

Dates: 8am, Friday 17 February – Sun 19 March

Polymorphic is bringing augmented reality to Seventh Street, Murray Bridge.

Access the interactive artwork through your own phone and bring the colourful art of the town centre to life. Murals by Harley (Ngrakani) Hall, Shane (Mankitya) Cook, Morris Green and Mike Makatron will be animated by the creative imaginings of Luku Kuku.

Immerse yourself in this free creative experience presented by Polymorphic, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery and the Rural City of Murray Bridge.

This project is made possible by the support of Arts South Australia.

Important information: Audiences are asked to be mindful of the roadway. Please stay on the footpath at all times.

This is a FREE event.

Murray Bridge Piano Sanctuary – Launch Concert

Music

Venue: Carey’s Park, Murray Bridge Piano Sanctuary

Dates: 5pm, Saturday 4 March

The Murray Bridge Piano Sanctuary is an ephemeral sculpture and instrument park in Murray Bridge on Ngarrindjeri Country, a place for ruined pianos to see out their final days being played by passers-by and reclaimed by the environment.

This launch event features an interactive tour of the Sanctuary by curator Jesse Budel, where he will perform new works written for each of the pianos.

Presented by Soundstream New Music and the Rural City of Murray Bridge.

Important information: Please bring footwear and clothing appropriate for a short walk through bushland (Walking Track Grade 2). Please also bring a picnic blanket and your own refreshments for the later performance of PRIMORDIAL.

This is a FREE event.

Fringe on Sixth

Circus

Venue: Sixth Street, Murray Bridge

Dates: 5.30pm, Saturday 25 February

Street Theatre on Sixth Street is a public celebration of the Arts featuring a mix of Adelaide Fringe and Local Murraylands based performers. Sixth Street, in the heart of Murray Bridge will be closed for a street party style event with performances through the evening.

This is a FREE event.

Bee-Stung lips: Barbara Hanrahan works on paper 1969 – 1991

Visual Arts and Design

Venue: Centre Gallery at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery

Dates: 10am (Sunday 11am), Friday 17 February – Sunday 19 March

Bee-stung Lips surveys Barbara Hanrahan’s prolific 30-year printmaking career. Her fearlessly direct works are characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy. Curated by Nic Brown, this is a Flinders University Museum of Art touring exhibition presented in collaboration with Country Arts SA.

Image: Barbara Hanrahan, Flying mother (detail), 1976, screenprint, colour inks on paper, 59 x 48 cm, Private collection, Adelaide, © the Estate of the artist, courtesy Susan Sideris 2020.

This is a FREE event.

Monika Morgenstern: I Dwell In Possibility

Visual Arts and Design

Venue: Vicki Nottage at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery

Dates: 10am (Sunday 11am), Friday 17 February – Sunday 19 March

Morgenstern explores phenomenology and how undefinable complex feelings can be experienced on a deeply personal and psychological level.

The language used by the many people whom the artist interviewed about their mystical experiences, carried tremendous power and emotion. Those words and quotes from diverse sacred texts and arresting poetry have informed these works, which also explore ectoplasm, a substance which is said to be formed by a medium in a state of trance, and that spiritual entities drape over their nonphysical bodies to interact in the present.

Perceiving that we are on the precipice of cataclysmic social and political change, Morgenstern makes work that addresses our need for a more enchanted universe at a time of enormous geopolitical and economic stresses.

This is a FREE event.

Greg Hart in Concert

Cabaret / Tribute/ Cover Band

Venue: Murray Bridge Performing Arts & Function Centre (Theatre)

Dates: 8pm, Friday 24 February

One of Adelaide's favourite live performers with his smooth and flawless vocals and his ability to recreate the sound and performances of some of the most popular artists of all time. Join him for a special night, with songs from your favourites! The Bee Gees, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Cliff Richard.

But there is more - a variety of show tunes from South Pacific, Oklahoma, Les Miserable, and Show Boat just to name a few, a real mix of timeless hits.

Popular cabaret seating in this beautiful venue. Companion Card welcome (please present when you arrive at the venue). You can bring a plate of nibbles.

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $39

Concession: $36

Bird/Song

Music/Classical

Venue: Vicki Nottage at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery

Dates: 5pm,  Sunday 12 March

Did you know the recorder was named after its imitation of bird song? Join some of Adelaide's - and Australia's - best performers of early music as we explore the lives and sounds of magpies and nightingales, bird song sweet and wild, soaring through the sky and struggling to break free through early music of Telemann, Handel, Van Eyck and Pinel through to contemporary works by Dorwarth, Bresgen, and a new work by Adelaide-based composer Georgina Bowden.

Recorder player Brendan O'Donnell has been described as a "virtuoso, scholar, [and] presenter … of rare charm and lucidity" (The Advertiser); soprano Kate MacFarlane as an "engaging and exciting performer" (Aachener Zeitung). They are joined by Catherine Finnis on cello and Glenys March on harpsichord, Adelaide's finest continuo duo!

Tickets available through FringeTix (insert link)

Ticket prices

Full Price: $25 - $30

Concession: $20 - $25

Mr. Snotbottom’s Stinky Silly Show

Kids and Family/ Children’s

Venue: Murray Bridge Performing Arts & Function Centre (Theatre)

Dates: 2pm, Sunday 26 February

A deeees-gusting kids comedian brimming with all the gooey, smelly and yucky topics kids love: boogers, pop-offs and smells!

Be repulsed by horrible stories, gross gags and just wrong routines in this rollercoaster of weirdness that is perfect for strange kids aged from 4 to 12 and their even stranger parents!

With sold out shows and rave reviews at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe, Appealing to all ages and is guaranteed to make zour family groan, gasp and howl with delight!

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $10 - $20

Child: $12

Family:  $70

Simply SADE

Music /Cabaret

Venue: Murray Bridge Performing Arts & Function Centre (Theatre)

Dates: 7pm, Sunday 26 February

Bonnie & the BoyZ! Bring you SADE’s funkiest and most loved songs of the 80’s & 90’s including Smooth Operator & Your Love Is King. While ‘The BoyZ’ cook up a sophisticated blend of soul funk jazz & Afro-Cuban rhythms, Bonnie emanates a cool, sexy ambience reminiscent of SADE herself. Opening the show with the powerful ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’ and closing with one of her first singles from the Diamond Life Album, ‘When Am I Gonna Make A Living’. Stories and costume changes complete the experience of this dynamic show.

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $42 - $45

Concession: $36 - $38

Underground Artist Market

Visual Arts and Design/ Interactive

Venue: Auditorium at The Station

Dates: 1pm, Sunday 26 February

Syckit Art and The Station, have joined forces to create the first event of its kind in the Murraylands.  This is for those who are seeking something a little different from the mainstream.

Run by and for youth, this hybrid art event will feature the talent of many local young creatives in the form of:

• Live art & art battles
• Youth art markets and display
• Live acoustic music
• And much more!

Nestled in the centre of Murray Bridge, the historical and welcoming railway “Station” provided the venue for this event. It is a premium multi-purpose youth venue, which boasts a large 360 square metre auditorium with access to outside platform and Sensory Garden.

Plenty of room to spread out, many things to see and do, and an experience you will not forget!

Free/all ages/family friendly. Coffee & snacks available - CASH ONLY.

This is a FREE event.

Unpredictable Magic

Kids and Family/Circus

Venue: Murray Room at Bridgeport Hotel

Dates: 3.30pm, Sunday 26 February

This is an exciting crossover between circus juggling, and magic routines. Nic from Off the Shelf Juggling presenting his Fringe debut is joined by Drew Magic in a make your own adventure of wonder. You have the power to control what happens next. This is a fun show with a combination of silliness and sophistication for everyone.

Nic will juggle just about anything he can throw and brings several amazing routines with unpredictable objects. Drew is full of stories and brings magic tricks to life thorough stories we can all relate to.

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $28 - $29

Child: $15 - $24

Family:  $80 -$90

Closure at a Self-Serve Checkout

Cabaret /Comedy

Venues: Murray Room at Bridgeport Hotel

Dates: 8pm , Thursday 2 March & Friday 3 March

Ever been ghosted by a Gemini? Burned by yet another boy with a mustache? Played the little-known game BitLife in a depressive state and wondered if it would make for a very niche joke in a comedy cabaret show?! Then this is the show for you! (...maybe a little too much so? That was pretty specific.)

Closure at a Self-Serve Checkout’ is a ridiculous, raucous, and some may say chaotic one-woman comedy cabaret. A collection of stand-up monologues and witty songs performed by Bobbie and her piano, this is a show about taking our depressed and broken hearts of the past and finding ways to move on, and most importantly, laugh about it altogether.

So come along and enjoy some chaotic catharsis by laughing at some silly little songs about our silly little lives.

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $28 - $30

Concession: $25 - $27

Funny Adelaide On Tour

Comedy/Stand-up

Venues: Murray Room at Bridgeport Hotel

Dates:8pm, Friday 10 March

How good is the city at Fringe time? Good. If you're into that kind of thing.

There's no place like home though, so Funny Adelaide is loading up the campervan and getting around to some suburbs and towns near you (if you live near the ones we're going to).

On board we have some of the funniest stand ups from around the Fringe ready to bring the funny. Check Funny Adelaide on Facebook and Instagram for lineups and get ready to laugh your sensational butt off.

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $25

Concession: $21

Paint and Sip – Van Gogh

Workshops & Talks/Paintings

Venues: Murray Room at Bridgeport Hotel

Dates: 11am & 3pm, Sunday 19 February

A two-hour guided painting session to create your very own version of classics by Van Gogh OR to paint one of our popular originals like Mindful Mandala and Cocktail art
No art experience required!

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $59 - $73

Concession: $54

WE ARE WOMAN HEAR US ROAR

Music/ Tribute/ Cover Band

Venue: Murray Room at Bridgeport Hotel

Dates: 8pm, Saturday 18 February

The ultimate tribute show to the pioneering female vocalists of the 60s & 70s,  featuring, FULL TILT JANIS the Janis Joplin Tribute Show, with the acclaimed vocals of Melissa Jubb as Janis along with her 6 piece all star band, that captures the sound, feel & attitude of Janis as witnessed by countless enthusiastic international audiences including Australian & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals plus European Festivals.

PEARLY GATES also featuring the vocals of Melissa Jubb perform the classic hits from some of the iconic female vocalists of the 60s & 70s. Including, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Patti Smith, Carly Simon, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Carole King, Jefferson Airplane, Helen Reddy and more.

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $25.00 to $30.00

Meal & Show: $70.00

Redneck Greenie – Confessions of an Ozymoron

Theatre and Physical Theatre/ Comedy

Venues: Murray Room at Bridgeport Hotel

Dates: 6.30pm, Friday 24 February

Redneck Greenie straddles the genres of stand-up comedy, impro, story-telling, satire and physical theatre. It's Brechtian Cabaret, Aussie style.

This show hilariously smashes together two diametrically opposed social viewpoints. Two rival personalities fight it out as one bloke navigates his inner conflict in outrageous and poignantly funny ways. This is a true blue, red and green yarn of Aussie dumb. Several yarns, in fact.

Audience choose from over 80 stories like: Fear in Tangier; Imagineer Candy Man; Croc Crossing; The Dumbest Thing; A*sehole Angel; Clown Cops and Fringe Criminals. Every show is different. Playing live original songs, farmboy, actor, comedian and NT Greens candidate Robbie Hoad masterfully weaves fantastically ridiculous true tales. He’s done all the dumb things!

Tickets available through FringeTix

Ticket prices

Full Price: $33.00

Concession: $28.00