Cabaret Fringe Festival

Gal's still got it...right down to shedding layers in the final moments. Pasties were worn, but purely as a precaution 💎💎 CabLive is a new, open mic-style showcase presented by @cabfringe . With the Cabaret Festival on hiatus this year due to funding (or lackthereof), these new showcases are being presented as a grassroots initiative, giving emerging performers opportunities to get in front of audiences and test new material. And for Tippy Darlington, what an amazing night it was. She even won a surpise award, donated by two CabFringe patrons, to encourage emerging talent to keep developing their ideas and material. Stay tuned for the launch of a brand new TD website! Thank you to: 🎉 @cabfringe for bringing CabLive into the world 🎉 @imageconstruction1 for taking these fabulous photos for us board-trippers 🎉 @charlessturtsa for supporting local performing arts that brings joy to the world.

CabLive makes dreams come true @holdenstreettheatres @charlessturtsa @imageconstruction1

Triple the talent from CabLive! Ros Lock, Matt Hawke, and Teresa Alves. Photos by @u.r.framed Supported by @charlessturtsa

Sing your own special song. Elliott Sarre, Dr H (Anthony Hubmeyer), Jolie & Anon, James Murphy & Kara White. Photos by @u.r.framed Supported by @charlessturtsa

A few of the fabulous CabLive performers from Sunday. Photos @u.r.framed - David Gauci, Catherine Campbell, Shelley Dunstone and Alison Kimber. Supported by @charlessturtsa

CabLive Returns! It’s official - we’re excited to announce the return of our iconic open-mic night, Cabaret Live, under its sassy new name, CabLive. To get things started, we are offering a series of three dates, supported by @charlessturtsa Sunday 12 April Sunday 3 May Sunday 7 June All shows will be held at The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, 32-34 Holden St Hindmarsh. Doors open 6 pm, show starts 6.30 pm, show ends around 9 pm. We are inviting registrations from singers, who will get free entry. If you’d like to sing, please fill in the registration form: /forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8j7C3q3z-PqP0e9eY7RhXTkgepCav3gp4pwlizabxMBoxsw/viewform Buy Tickets here: / #cablive #cabaretlive #adelaidecabaretfringe @holdenstreettheatres

Encore Award Winner at the Cabaret Fringe Festival, ‘Bond Songs: The Music of 007’ will be at Holden Street Theatres during Adelaide Fringe. Black tie optional. #cabfringe #adelaidecabaretfringefestival #cabaret #bond #007

Not a sequin or champage flute in sight. An evening fuelled by fruit juice and sandwiches. We are the usually invisible business brains powering cabaret in Adelaide - the board of the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Association. We may have lost the funding to hold our beloved Cabaret Fringe Festival, but we are not giving up on our love of this art form. Thanks to some generous private donors we will be able to provide emerging cabaret artists with opportunities to accrue stage time and test new material. Watch this space to join us on stage, or in the audience! #adelaidecabaretfringe #cabaretfringefestival #AdelaideFestivals #adl #cabfringe #cabaret #cabaretfringe #cablive #adelaide #lifeisacabaret

IT'S TIME FOR A SHAKE UP ⭐ whether you're new to boards and looking for experience, or this would be your 10th board and you're ready to give back, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! 🙏 Email us now for more info and to share your CV. #board #boardpositions #art #cabaret #director #giveback #applynow

Audience reactions and photos from @adlfringe and @cabfringe I encourage you to add your own! .au/fringefeed/customer_reviews?event=holographic-charizard-af2025&event_title=Holographic+Charizard Or linktr.ee/CharizardComedy First photo by @spozitron

Celebration Day #5 A Second Chance Exposing Edith with Greg Wain Dad kept saying to me “you have to create a show about Edith Piaf, you have to”. I was busking in the @adelcentralmarket , singing La Vie en Rose on my ukulele and a guitarist walked up to me (he was in the busking time slot after me). He said “I love Piaf”, I said “so do I”. It was Greg Wain and the rest is history. We created Exposing Edith and submitted it to Melbourne Cabaret Festival, because Adelaide Cabaret had rejected my previous three years of applications with an Edith Piaf show 🫢 The timing wasn’t right. MCF accepted our application. We did a preview/warm up season for @cabfringe . The whole season sold out…and again the rest is history from performing at the @adelaidecabaret to performing twice in @edfringe and beyond (so much more to this story, but it’ll take too long to write it all here!). I call this celebration ‘Second Chance’ as I’d spent eight years OS, getting a masters in Musical Theatre and performing, only to come back to Australia and to not be able to get an audition for…anything. No one would see me. Not theatre, not musical theatre, not children’s theatre…TV. (Btw I’m now SOOO grateful for this, otherwise I wouldn’t have been forced to created my own works!). It wasn’t until the success of Exposing Edith that companies began to accept me for an audition. So Exposing Edith gave me (amongst many many other things) a second chance in Australia. The lesson here is that having to constantly prove ourselves in this industry is a positive thing. It pushes us to be the best that we can and to do something that will make a difference and stand out and that’ll generate work for us without needing to rely on being the perfect fit for someone else’s show. It’s a win win. I’m not saying it’s easy. But it’s a good thing. This video was taking for @assemblyfest for @bbc ❤️

Stars, Storytelling, Standing Ovations & Survival | Check your inbox for the latest news: CabFringe Awards 2025 Winners Announced! Ruby Award Nominations and the big question.... can CabFringe survive? 2025 Frank Ford Award winner Kylie Ferreiera taken by Frank Lynch (Image Construction)