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Bob Downe
BOB DOWNE is the comic creation of entertainer and broadcaster MARK TREVORROW. Bob was born in 1984 in Sydney and has sung and danced his way around the world, from London to Sydney to New York, in Theatres and Festivals, Nightclubs and Cabarets, on Television, CD and DVD. Bob insists on working only with the Best and his musical comedy collaborators have included Kath & Kim's GINA RILEY (as Bob's childhood sweetheart, 'Coralee Hollow'), LILY SAVAGE (Paul O'Grady), PASTEL VESPA (Fiona Thorn) and many more.
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Sybil Graham
SYBIL GRAHAM, who died in 2004, was a gifted singer-pianist and a peerless interpreter of the Great American Songbook. For the last three decades of her life, she was an Adelaide legend, one who could achieve the rare feat of transforming a noisy saloon crowd into a rapt audience.
Born in Poona, India, Sybil's piano-playing father was manager of the local turf club and she would fondly recall an idyllic childhood of garden parties, badminton and summer holidays in the family's hillside retreat. The Second World War and India's subsequent independence would bring a sudden halt to all this. Aged eighteen, she migrated with her parents and brother Harold to Australia. The realities of life in Sydney in the early fifties were something of a shock after the serene lifestyle she had enjoyed in India.
But she quickly began making a name for herself in theatre and radio as an accompanist, musical director and composer. During the sixties she worked extensively with the Phillip Street Theatre and on the legendary Mavis Bramston Show television series.
A career highlight was co-writing the show A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down. She toured nationally with comedian Barry Humphries as his accompanist and musical director. During this time she also met and formed friendships with visiting jazz greats including Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McCrae.
Moving to Adelaide in the mid- seventies, here she became an icon, playing countless clubs, theatre restaurants, and piano bars. In her time she played for Louis Armstrong, Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr and Bob Hope.
Sybil ended her days peacefully, in her semidetached on a public housing estate, with her dog Fairy and her five cats, still receiving visitors, regular phone calls and letters from her musician friends around Australia and the world. Her eyesight may not have been what it was but once behind the keyboard, the dazzling delivery and bawdy wit were as sharp as ever.
Sybil Graham has left audiences - the ones lucky to have known her - aching for more.
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Mark Trevorrow
MARK TREVORROW (who created Bob Downe, born1984, still going strong) started performing as himself on ABC (Australia) TV's GOOD NEWS WEEK, which later moved to Network Ten. Mark later presented his own ABC TV series, THE WAY WE WERE, and now regularly broadcasts on ABC Local Radio out of Sydney.
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The Globos
THE GLOBOS, a musical comedy cabaret group, was founded in Melbourne in 1980 by MARK TREVORROW and WENDY DE WAAL. The group mimed old records and commercials, in a loving and hilarious recreation of early Australian TV pop shows, and then recorded (and mimed!) their own material. They signed to Mushroom Records in 1982 and achieved two Australian Top 20 hits: TINTARELLA DI LUNA (1982) & THE BEAT GOES ON (1983). After establishing a cult following in hometown Melbourne, The Globos hit big at Sydney's legendary KINSELAS cabaret in 1982 and made many TV appearances. Along with Mark Trevorrow and Wendy de Waal, group members between 1980-1986 included JANE MARKEY, GABRIELLE HEALY, DAVID PLEDGER, KIM TRENGOVE, JANE TURNER, GRETA MENDOZA, TRACEY CALLANDER, ROBERT THOMPSON, JULIE BAILUE, NELL SCHOFIELD, ELEANOR PAYNE and the late TIM CONIGRAVE. GINA RILEY, KAARIN FAIRFAX, SIMON BURKE, ALAN WILSON, KATHRYN RIDING and GEORGE HUXLEY also made appearances with the group.
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