America

With America on the cusp of interesting midterms, Fred Smith’s ‘America’ offers a hilarious and thoughtful musical safari through the main streets and back roads of the ‘United States of Anxiety’ to offer some sort of explanation for it all. 120 minutes, including a 20 minute interval With America on the cusp of interesting midterms, Fred Smith’s ‘ America ‘ offers a hilarious and thoughtful musical safari through the main streets and back roads of the ‘ United States of Anxiety ’ to offer some sort of explanation for it all. Fred Smith is one of the few Australian songwriters with both the US Marine Corps medal and a US merchant mariner’s license. He spent years living, working and touring in the US and returned to release the album Texas, a song cycle documenting an America divided, shaky and a little hungover from the first term of G.W. Bush. Fred will be presenting songs from ‘ Texas ‘ and his more recent US travelogue, ‘ Great ‘, interspersed with yarns and observations from his inconclusive experiences in the home of the free. He will be accompanied by an all-star band of Melbourne musicians. This is Fred Smith doing what he does best: weaving song, story, images and comedy t

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