2016 Freedman Fellow Announced

Shimmering drum performance claims Australia’s most lucrative jazz prize Drummer and composer James McLean has taken out Australia’s most lucrative jazz prize when he was last night named the 2016 Freedman Jazz Fellow.  McLean succeed in claiming the $20,000 cash prize against pianists Joseph O’Connor and Luke Sweeting following an epic play off at Freedman […]

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Album of the Week – ‘Live at Uptown’ by the Paul Williamson Quartet

‘Live at Uptown’ by the Paul Williamson Quartet is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week! To kick off this week’s album of the week review, we give you three great reasons to read on: Long time listeners of the station will know that jazz music is the canon that the station was founded on. We also […]

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Close to Home and Two Views by Marie Mansfield and Louise Whelan now showing at Juniper Hall.

Some of my best past times have been spent getting lost amongst the stalls of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Wandering around, I always noticed the country kids amongst the throngs of city kids looking at the animals like they were aliens and marvelling in the country kids ability to walk up to the animals […]

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Album of the week – ‘La Despedida’ by San Lazaro

‘La Despedida’ by San Lazaro is Eastside Radio’s Album of the week. This week we are bringing you an album that showcases real truthful Latin music that is full of originality, as the band San Lazaro from Melbourne have brought us an album with almost-live production that gives for a real sense of connection. You almost […]

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Album of the Week – Shout Until Our Lungs Turn Blue by Mother Jack

  ‘Shout Until Our Lungs Turn Blue’ by Mother Jack is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. Last week our featured album here at the station was an artist’s debut record and this week we bring you yet another debut album from an emerging duo act. Being a debut album some may expect it to […]

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Louise Whelan and Marie Mansfield to exhibit at Juniper Hall

Artists Louise Whelan and Marie Mansfield will be showcasing their latest artistic creations in their new exhibitions entitled Two Views: Landscapes of a Plastic Universe & The Agricultural Shows of Australia and Close to Home respectively. Juniper Hall has a fine history of being home to some of their Moran Prize winners exhibitions for many […]

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Album of the week – Culture How Could You by Alice Night

  ‘Culture How Could You’ by Alice Night is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. An album that is full of freshness, unique sounds and Australian talent is the brand new release from Alice Night. With honest lyrics the Brisbane lady has stepped on her own specialty style of folk music, which she collaborates with […]

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Album of the week – One More Step by Henri-Pierre Noël

  ‘One More Step’ by Henri-Pierre Noël is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. Kicking off the month of July we are bringing you an album full of funky sounds, as pianist and singer/songwriter Henri-Pierre Noël works his fingers in a very special way to show us his tropical background of Kompa Funk. With disco and afro-funk elements blended […]

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