Sorry that was me, but I wouldn’t do that to you unless I had a truly magnificent gift suggestion to lighten your load.

It’s difficult to know what to buy the person with everything but an experience is always a winner.

The Civic Theatre has some great shows already on sale for 2019.  

Here’s just a small sample of your shopping options: Ian Moss, Chamber Philharmonia Cologne, Troy Cassar-Daley, Dami Im, John Paul Young and the Allstars Band and Celtic Illusion.

There are some great daytime shows on sale which are a perfect gift for the person who doesn’t enjoy being out at night.

Practically Perfect in February celebrates the life and music of Dame Julie Andrews, What’s New Pussycat? is a joyous, foot stomping, hand clapping celebration of the swinging sixties heading our way in July and James Blundell will give us a hit of country music later in September.

These concert tickets are also excellent value at $22 a ticket which includes morning tea.

It’s been a huge year at the Civic Theatre and 2019 promises to be even bigger. We are taking a break and will re-open on Wednesday, January 2.  

All shows are available for purchase online, you can organise your tickets to be printed at home so you’ll have something to slide in a Christmas card.

If you’re not sure which show to buy, gift certificates can also be purchased online.

2018 has been a year of transition for Dan Sultan. Having taken six months off and out of the spotlight to recalibrate and steady the ship, he is now ready to take on a whole bunch of new, exciting and fresh challenges. 

The first project to see the light of day in 2019 will be the aptly titled AVIARY TAKES, a collection of older, existing back catalogue songs and a smattering of new tracks including a couple of out-of-the-blue covers and fresh tunes stripped back and all recorded in “one vocal take” at The Aviary Studio’s in inner city Melbourne.

The AVIARY TAKES collection will be released early in 2019 and to celebrate its release, Sultan will head back out on the road armed with a guitar, a keyboard and a fresh batch of anecdotes and bad “dad” jokes! 

“I’m really looking forward to hitting the regional road with The Aviary Takes tour. It’ll be good to make up for the shows I had to cancel earlier this year,” Dan said. 

“The Aviary Takes are a group of songs I recorded recently and they include old, current, new tracks with a couple of surprise covers thrown in. It’ll be great to see all of your lovely faces at the shows.”

The tour run sees Dan traverse the country in regional areas that he is both familiar and not so familiar with. He’ll slide into Wagga on Friday, March 8 at 8pm.

Tickets are all the one price of $49 each and can be purchased online at www.civictheatre.com.au.