This Is Our City In Summer

Each January, Sydney erupts into a kaleidoscope of colour, diversity and ideas with the Sydney Festival. Now in its thirty-eighth year, the festival is a smorgasbord of theatre, dance, music, arts and free events that take place across the city for most of January. As always, summer is a time to grab a picnic, head outdoors with your friends, and be in the life. And I wouldn’t miss it for the world. In honour of the 2014 Sydney Festival starting today, I decided to put together a playlist inspired by this year’s program.

1.      Small Faces – Ichycoo Park

2.      You Am I – Hourly Daily

3.      Lior – I Thought I Could Sing On My Own

4.      Hilary Kleinig – Dizzy With Love

5.      Grégoire Hetzel – The Tree (Main Theme)

6.      Laura Marling – Under The Greenwood Tree (Alternative Version)

7.      Henry Purcell – Overture, from Dido & Aeneas

8.      alt-j – Taro

9.      Lisa Mitchell – Spiritus

10.  The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly

11.  Vance Joy – Riptide

12.  Ozi Batla – Sydney From A 727

13.  Sufjan Stevens – The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders

14.  Lior – Tumbling Into The Dawn

15.  George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest