Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Starting to discover some of the smaller venues in Sydney... and this Art Gallery in Mosman in Sydney is one of the more common ones, with a regular concert series for chamber sized ensembles.
Mosman (in Sydney), for those who don't know, is one of the more affluent suburbs in Sydney... its pretty nice, and the people there are pretty damn well off as well. Sort of the thing that gets annoyingly associated with Classical music... something that my wife and I are trying break... but we are fighting decades of entrenched perception.
Anyway, off topic... the art gallery seems to be a repurposed church of some sort... and there are quite a few things that are going on... kids concerts, concert concerts, art lectures, and other community events.
I didn't think that I had been here before... but somehow, the place seemed quite familiar. Sure, I did some house-sitting in the are when I was a student... but I think that I also had played a concert in this place a very long time ago as well.
So, the main business of the gallery is... gallery stuff. So, the walls are lined with lots of artwork that is for display and sale. No surprise there!
But one of the old large spaces (I wonder if it was the gym or the church hall?) has been converted into a large performance space.... which I guess also doubles as a community space, and likely hosts yoga classes as well!
... but for this moment, a very high spaced concert space!
And as you would expect from all the wood and brick, it is a very live acoustic to play in... but interestingly enough, as soon as there was an audience... they really soaked up the reflections and resonance... not a problem on the bass end, but the trebles lost carrying power and definition.
... and in the park, there was a really aggressive kookaburra that snatched my lunch out my hands. Bastarad!
