Bonjour, Good Morning beautiful souls! On today’s show, we will have a special NAIDOC segment on where to go and what to do and I will talk quickly about Fanforce Virtual Indigenous Films. Prepare yourself to travel into a musical journey where Jazz meets the Suave Rhythms of Latin America and Mother Africa. Mixed with some […]
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1,000 COVID-Safe live gigs rockin’ across NSW this November More than 2,500 artists and 300-plus live music venues across NSW are primed for the Australian-first music event, Great Southern Nights, with tickets for over 900 gigs now on sale. A NSW Government initiative, Great Southern Nights has been created to kick-start the recovery of the […]
Tim Freedman brings one of his rare solo tours to City Recital Hall to launch The Whitlams’ new single “Ballad of Bertie Kidd”, a six minute crime caper that describes a little known escapade in the long career of one of Australia’s most notorious criminals. Tim will settle in with his piano to tell tales, reinvent […]
Sydney Opera House Announces New Season of UnWrapped Celebrating Independent Voices & Contemporary Australian Work The Sydney Opera House has announced the latest offering of live music and physical theatre as part of its UnWrapped season of diverse, rarely seen and critically acclaimed work curated by Sydney Opera House Director of Programming, Fiona Winning. Launched in […]
Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival (SIWJF) is back in 2020! From Friday October 30 to Sunday November 8, Sydney’s clubs and venues will come alive with the sound of more than 30 leading female musicians celebrating music from Australia and the world. From breath-taking improvised solo performances to vivid and energetic Afro-Cuban ensembles, the remarkable multiplicity of music makes this […]
Paul Cutlan’s String Project launch their keenly anticipated second album Living. The program traces a narrative which traverses human life and its myriad experiences in compositions by Cutlan himself, Gary Daley, Jann Rutherford, John Coltrane and Jenna Cave. The planning of this album developed between the time of Australia’s catastrophic bushfires in January 2020, and […]
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Harp’s a Breeze Harmonica Workshops have designed a fantastic step-by-step online program teaching primary school students all over Australia how to play the harmonica! The tutorials are kept short at 15 minutes each, reducing too much screen time, yet the worksheets and extra learning devices provided between each tutorial ensure self-directed learning to be most effective throughout the month-long […]
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Palace along with the new Principal Partner of the Italian Film Festival, ST. ALi Coffee, are pleased to announce the full programme of films which will screen nationally from 29 September. The flagship event will showcase Italian culture, stories and language in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Byron Bay at reduced capacity and then […]
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After a search for Australia’s most promising young jazz artist, The Music Trust’s 2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship finalists have been announced today from a list of 18 nominees from across the nation. This year, the distinguished judges comprised Mike Nock, Chris Cody and Laurence Pike, who are all accomplished musicians, composers and educators. The judges made the decision […]
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Maria Schneideris a multi Grammy Award winning composer and band leader. Originally from Minnesota, she moved to New York City in the mid 1980s to study composition with the great jazz trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. Around the same time, she also began working for legendary jazz composer and arranger Gil Evans. In 1993, she formed the […]
ISO MUSIC – Connecting with Music through Conservatorium Open Academy We all hear the stories about iso baking, knitting and gardening but iso music-making is taking off. We asked some of our students, August, Contemporary Vocal Studio and Steve from Soul Ensemble what they get out of Open Academy Music classes during COVID. Why did […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3aD4qlf-Q The Twelve is a feature length documentary that transits one of the most powerful and worthwile message of twelve highly spiritual Elders from wisdom traditions around the globe. Directed by Lucy Martens and Oliver Girard and produced by Le Ciel Foundation, this film is about giving them the opportunity to speak their truth and let […]
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