A celebration of electro-Tuareg music this morning with tracks from Tinariwen - coming to the City Recital Hall in February-March 2027. And their March date is already sold out. First track: Tenere Den - Tinariwen First guest: Chloe Charody, composer-creator, whose family opera Mrs Giggly’s Magic School is on for six performances at the SOH in November. She lives in the Blue Mountains but her work is out there in the world - Edinburgh Festival and many other countries. Her focus is empathy and making magic for children of all ages. She is amazing. Second track: Emajer - Tinariwen Second guest: Joan Sauers, well known crime writer whose latest, Murder At Thornwood Park, is out now. In the cosy crime genre, it’s set in the Southern Highlands because she likes the mist and seasons and sort of Englishness that makes a murder a bit of a shock. She will be appearing at BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival at the State Library of NSW, 20-21 November. Sessions all day and if you’re into crime - this is for you. (Three of Joan’s books have been grabbed by the BBC for screen adaptation - woo hoo!) Third track: Tek Algham - Tinariwen Talked about the SBW Playwrights Award - judging now ongoing of the 139 scripts entered this year. The trustees are up to their ears in new plays Reviews and news for the week: Strong Is The New Pretty (Sydney Theatre Company) at the Drama Theatre, SOH. An 80 minute, non-stop, all moving, all illuminating history of the AFLW. You don’t have to be into footy to enjoy it, just like you don’t have to be into Elizabethan England to enjoy Shakespeare. By Suzie Miller and starring Lucy Bell as a thinly disguised Sam Mostyn - first women's commissioner of the AFL, with Tara Morice and Amber McMahon, plus five relative newbies. Just glorious. Fourth track: Talyat - Tinariwen Don’t forget: Sculpture by the Sea - go during the week if you want to actually look at the works; Cirque du Soleil (Kooza) on across the summer at the Entertainment Quarter; the David Hockney immersive exhibition at Carriageworks - it is Utterly Spectacular and not to be missed. Fifty minutes in the presence of genius is almost overwhelming. We Are The Tigers at the Hayes - still running. Final track: Iswegh Attay - Tinariwen