TRACEY YARAD at Claire's petit cabaret 2

3 courses from our a la carte menu and a fourty minute show in 2 live sets  $120 p/p

Arrival 6pm sharp

Tracey Yarad's All These Pretty Things is a beautiful alchemy, taking the shocking discovery of her then husband’s affair with their goddaughter--and the subsequent emotional fallout of a devastating divorce--and transforming it into a deeply moving collection of breathtakingly honest and gorgeously sung songs on the themes of loss and abandonment and the restorative power of music and love.

Yarad has taken the paradigm of a new music release as simply a collection of songs, and redefined it as an experiential and sensory journey of sight and sound, with music, writing and spoken word, accompanied by original artworks from ten celebrated Australian artists whose only brief was to listen to and be inspired to create an illustration for the song they were given.

The result--a beautiful illustrated hardback book with fragments of memoir, reminiscent of  New Zealand author Janet Frame's writings, along with a CD of each song and an audio version of each story--is a work of art to be treasured forever.“This album effectively carried me along for a peek into the emotional roller coaster ride described in these songs, from thoughtful resignation to heartbreak, rage, acceptance, and back again. It’s a great production in every aspect, supporting a soulful, steely-eyed storyteller and her defiant determination.

 I like it when I hear her roar!”—Madeleine Peyroux