There’s one chance left to see this show which closes tomorrow.

I caught the  show last night and it was a very casual, laidback performance. It was just Ursula on a bar stool with a bottle of water on a table next to her, and a  Novak Manojlovic, a keyboard accompanist, to the side.

What came across most was her naturalness, authenticity and warmth. And of-course her lovely  voice.

Ursula touched upon her early life. Her mother was an Aboriginal woman from north west Arnhem land. Her father was  an immigrant from Serbia. Her mother left the marriage when Ursula was very young and she was raised by her Dad. Her Dad ended up remarrying a Filipino woman.

From early on Ursula loved languages, almost as she liked singing, and was trying to learn them all. Her father, however, insisted that she concentrate on English.

Further on in the show she spoke about what an enormous change she went through with motherhood and how precious her daughter, now a teenager, is.

The song that spoke the most to me was ‘This life is mine’  with the chorus  ‘This life is mine/I will do with it as I please’.  She is very much her own woman.

The final performance of AN EVENING WITH URSULA YOVICH is at 11am on Wednesday 21 September 2022.

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