Nick Galvin

Sydney

Arts Editor at Sydney Morning Herald

Arts Editor at Nine

Arts Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, cyclist, dad, trumpeter, dog person, husband, gardener, runner. Not necessarily in that order or all at the same time.

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Articles

‘Jumping out of their skins’: Joy for African choir over visa backflip

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin April 30, 2025 — 11.51am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of young performers from Uganda and Kenya will tour Australia after all, following an 11th-hour backflip from the Department of Home Affairs to issue visas that had previously been denied.
Chaos as young African singers locked out of Australia at last minute

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Nick Galvin

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Chaos as young African singers locked out of Australia at last minute

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin April 28, 2025 — 5.20pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of young African performers has been left in limbo and a 21-date Australia tour has been thrown into chaos after their applications for temporary visas were knocked back just days before they were set to travel. The dancers, instrumentalists and singers from Uganda and Kenya were due to arrive in Australia on Saturday.
Crowds flock to the ‘last ever’ Bluesfest

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin April 19, 2025 — 5.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Numbers at this year’s Bluesfest have swelled to near capacity, in part on the back of widespread but unfounded fears it would be the final year for the iconic Byron Bay event. Organisers said they expected 108,000 in attendance over the festival’s four days, compared with about 70,000 at last year’s five-day event.
Despite her horror childhood, Allison Russell is overflowing with joy

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin April 15, 2025 — 5.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Russell wears her heart on her sleeve. And never more so than with her 2021 debut solo album, Outside Child. A searing depiction of the abuse she suffered from her adoptive father from the age of five to 15, Outside Child manages at the same time to be a joyful and defiant celebration of survival.
‘Very shocked’: How a Sydney artist’s odd inspiration won her a major prize

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin April 10, 2025 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Construction sites are such inescapable part of Sydney life it’s easy to walk past and barely register the activity beyond the scaffolding and temporary fencing – but not for artist Rosemary Lee. For her, building sites are a source of fascination and inspiration, providing an intricate and colourful subject for her drawings.
Inside the frantic dash to get entries into coveted art show

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin March 28, 2025 — 5.37pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s 3.55pm at the Art Gallery of NSW loading dock and tension is rising. Among the gathering of gallery staff, watches are being consulted as the time ticks down to 4pm, the Friday deadline for entries to this year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. The packing room staff is well used to artists leaving it to the very last minute.
It’s one of the world’s most famous pieces of music – but like you’ve never heard before

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin March 28, 2025 — 5.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Naming the world’s best-known piece of classical music is something of a fool’s errand, but it’s a safe bet Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons would be close to the top of most lists.
It’s one of the world’s most famous pieces of music – but like you’ve never heard before

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Nick Galvin

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The secret process that helped this trainer prepare two dogs for the stage musical Annie

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nick Galvin

By Nick Galvin March 27, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Luke Hura is trying to figure out how to train a dog to complete an unusually complex task on stage or screen he sometimes turns to his furry charge for inspiration.