Delphi Goes Bassooning - a tiny musical

A gawky schoolgirl gets given a lumbering bassoon by her mother, a professional musician. The bassoon opens doors – to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, to a private school – but Janet hates it. After 3 long years of playing she fails an exam and abandons the bassoon to the depths of her mother’s garage. 32 years later she rediscovers the bassoon and now she is ready for it. She is ready to re-examine her own family history, to re-discover her talented but frustrated musical grandmother, to accept and embrace her own creative spark. 

Enter Delphi - the accomplished musician and cabaret star - and her bassoon.

So begins a story that explores mother and daughters, a woman’s struggle for a creative life, expectations, disappointments and the relentless wheel of generational patterns.

This is Janet’s very first solo show and it features 9 original songs, and one bassoon. It had it first performance to a sold out house at Brunswick Picture House in Brunswick Heads in March 2021. The show has since been performed twice at the Drill Hall in Mullumbimby. Upon receiving a Create NSW Quick Response grant in November 2022, the show has continued to evolve - this performance is part of the work in progress process.