Hear My Voice - Adelaide Fringe

Hear My Voice - Adelaide Fringe

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Posted 2023-01-24 by Jamesfollow

Sun 19 Feb 2023 - Sun 26 Feb 2023

Alongside New York trained local jazz pianist Ed Heddle, Alexandra Frost invites audiences to hear her voice, an instrument with a 2.5 octave range that has been compared to a red velvet chaise lounge, in her debut show at Nexus Arts Venue at the Adelaide Fringe from the 19th to the 26th of February.



As a 17-year-old university student still shaping her self-identity, Alexandra Frost received a piece of feedback that altered her relationship to her voice for years to come."It was commented that my voice was unusually deep for a woman and that was in the context of the Adelaide University Choral Society rehearsal when they were looking at me for a solo," Alex recalls. "I think in hindsight his comment wasn't a criticism but possibly just a surprise and a compliment but at 17, I took it as I'm a little bit unusual, I'm a little bit weird".

Having been placed in the contralto box within the classical realm, with roles confined to "witches, bitches and britches", Alexandra gravitated towards jazz and the blues, where she heard voices like hers, such as Nina Simone, Diana Krall and Edith Piaf.

At 51, and with years of well received performances at Wassail Wine Bar in Prospect, Alexandra has mostly embraced her distinctive voice, though she still frequently gets misgendered when making restaurant phone bookings. In Hear My Voice, she will start a conversation about the extent to which our perceptions of our own voices, and the voices of others, shapes our lives. "It's such a personal thing, or voice, it's like a fingerprint; an individual voice print," Alexandra says. "One of the points I make in the show is what would my life or your life be like if you had a different voice: would you have been bolder, would you have done different things with your life? I think my voice has shaped some of my life experiences and my life experiences has shaped my voice."

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