Kate Ceberano will return to Tasmania in June as part of the annual ‘APIA Good Times tour’.
It will be a homecoming of sorts for Kate, as Henry Mundy, her maternal great, great, great, great, grandfather, was a painting master, teacher, composer and musician that practised his craft in Hobart, eventually passing away under tragic circumstances. Kate recounts an unusual experience, a strange feeling of sadness that enveloped her when she was in St David’s Park a couple of years ago. She later discovered that St David’s park is Henry Mundy’s final resting place. Kate’s grandad Douglas was also born in Hobart.
Kate’s mum, Cherie, has inherited her ancestor’s visual artistic talent and is a skilled portrait artist who has even done some portraits of her famous daughter! Kate says her mum is quite prolific and is busy with commissions whilst studying additional classes in art.
It follows from this connection that Kate’s family has a great love for Tasmania. They especially love the atmosphere of walking around the dock area and the Henry Jones Hotel. Kate also loves Launceston where every year she takes part in a ‘gorgeous night time’ performance under an Elm tree.
When I ask Kate how it is being the one girl with three male musicians (the tour also features Daryl Braithwaite, Jon Stevens & John Paul Young) in the APIA Good Times tour she is very generous, citing the joy she gets from communal performance.
Kate’s refreshing attitude to performing and lack of diva status continues in her attitude to her unfinished works. Not one to leave them lying around ‘just in case’ she ‘might go back’ to them, Kate calls these uncompleted opuses ‘creative debris’ and considers if she hasn’t done anything with them up to now she probably never will and shreds them!
Kate is a multi-talented woman, performer, song writer, author and mother, Kate exercises her writing talent by writing a regular column for a weekly mother’s magazine.
Kate says soon she will be catching up with a friend that resides in Tasmania and will do pottering around at their house and by that she means the kind of ‘pottering around’ that requires a kiln!
Ever the creative, Kate tells me her family history still has much to be discovered and one could assume this lady has a lot more history to create.
You can see Kate perform in APIA Good Times at Theatre North Friday 17th June Wrest Point Casino Saturday 18th June at 8pm.
Paula Xiberras
