THE GLAD TOMORROW
For the first time ever, powerhouse will be joined by the acclaimed Australian String Quartet for a national tour of their new project ‘The Glad Tomorrow’.
To our fathers’ fathers
The pain, the sorrow:
To our children’s children
The glad tomorrow.
The new album sees Katie set the uniquely Australian poetry of Queenslander and First Nations icon Oodgeroo Noonuccal to music, commissioning ten stellar Australian contemporary composers to create a song cycle based on Oodgeroo’s poetry, bringing together 4 distinct worlds – Contemporary Australian and Queensland Composers, the searing poetry of Queenslander, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the Australian String Quartet and Katie Noonan’s unique voice and innate musicality. For me the most spine-tingling part was hearing the language of Oodgeroo’s homeland spoken by her great-granddaughter, Kaleenah Edwards who read each poem in the Stradbroke language of her homeland Minjerriba.
This unique combination of creative powerhouses will deliver a spectacular and spine-tingling live performance.
