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TROPIC  •  LIFESTYLE

            Tropic like                            Love Blue


            it’s hot                               GREAT GIG


                                                   Tropic chats to rising star Vera
                                                   Blue about her upcoming tour
            Welcome to our shiny                   to Cairns.
            new section, bursting                  From folk music and busking to scoring
            with the best in local food,           third place in The Voice, singer-songwriter

            fashion, music and fun.                Vera Blue has come a long way. Now, the
                                                   gifted musician is coming all the way to
                                                   Cairns for a special gig at Brothers on
                                                   October 11.

                                                   Are you surprised by the reaction to your
                                                   recent material and the video for The
                                                   Way That You Love Me?
                                                   It’s been awesome! Definitely a few
                                                   different reactions for sure. Not everyone   evolved in production and performance.
                                                   is going to like everything and that’s just   I am so comfortable with the band as
                                                   something that comes with being an   we have been playing together for a few
                                                   artist and creating art. I have to evolve   years so on stage I can dance freely and
                                                   and experiment and it’s super fun! I’m   give the crowd all of my energy. Having
                                                   really happy with the song and the video.   an incredible sound and lighting team
                                                                                    really enhances the live show too so the
                                                   What can the Cairns audience expect   audience gets a full experience.
                                                   from your live show?
                                                   Some new songs, new arrangements and   MORE: brotherscairns.com.au
            Art lovers rejoice!                    loads of energy and colour! The show has

            Internationally acclaimed artist Patricia
            Piccinini and her new exhibition at Cairns   Hemingway’s 7th Heaven
            Art Gallery is attracting record crowds,
            so it’s a real treat to discover she is the   Hemingway’s Brewery is joining forces with non-profit
            guest speaker at the Cairns Art Gallery   organisation Great Barrier Reef Legacy to help save the Reef
            Foundation’s annual gala dinner. To be   - one craft beer at a time. Hemingways CEO and founder Tony
            held on October 19 at Pullman Cairns     Fyfe announced GBR Legacy with get 50% of profits from
            International, the dinner will launch the   sales of the brewery’s award-winning 7th Heaven Tropical
            Annual Giving Campaign to purchase work   Ale. The money will go directly to a raft of projects from
            for the gallery’s Permanent Collection. Seats   cutting edge reef research and restoration to community
            are limited so grab your tickets early via the   engagement. With its aromatic notes of pineapple and citrus
            gallery’s website.                       fruits and easy drinking, 7th Heaven Tropical Ale is one of
                                                     Hemingway’s flagship beers launched earlier this year.
              TICKETS: cairnsartgallery.com.au
              or phone 40464800                       MORE: hemingwaysbrewery.com









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