DARREN Coggan will celebrate 50 years of Cat Stevens at Wesley Performing Arts Centre on Friday through his Peace Train ‘Remember The Days’.
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Mr Coggan said the performance strikes a chord inside audiences.
“We take our audience on that same journey of self-discovery that Cat went on and try to answer the question as to, why did he leave the music industry?,” he said.
“I had the privilege of being invited to London to meet with the great Cat Stevens in 2007 and I heard first hand some of the many anecdotes and stories that we share with the audience throughout the performance.”
Mr Coggan performs twenty-five hit songs and takes the audience on a ride of discovery, back through the joys and the sorrows, the triumphs and the pain, in a celebration of the life of one of the most inspiring and prolific singer songwriters of our time, Cat Stevens.
“Cat Stevens defined a generation with songs that the whole world sang along with and fifty years later his messages of peace, tolerance and understanding are still just as relevant as when they were first written, perhaps even more so,” he said.
“These timeless songs including Moonshadow, Wild World, Peace Train, Where Do the Children Play, Father & Son, Morning Has Broken and many more, continue to unite the world, bringing people together in the name of love and peace.
“Our audiences obviously come expecting to hear those timeless songs of Cat Stevens, but I think they walk away with so much more, a real insight and understanding of who he was.
“It’s a very positive, uplifting show; with the underlying theme being that we all have the ability to make changes in our lives should we not be content.”
Since its debut performance in Darren’s hometown of Wagga Wagga at the Civic Theatre back in 2008, Darren Coggan’s Peace Train, has inspired many others, and played to standing ovations in the most prestigious venues in Australia including The Sydney Opera House.
Darren Coggan has toured extensively with stage shows Grease The Mega Musical, Happy Days The Arena Mega Musical, and Shout The Musical Of The Wild One. He has appeared regularly on TV, including several guest appearances on Channel 7’s All Saints and currently is a presenter on Sydney Weekender.