Director of Art Fairs Australia, Barry Keldoulis, and Author, Art Critic, and Gallery Director, Patrick McCaughey, are my guests today. Art Month Sydney is the annual city-wide festival that celebrates contemporary art and artists. Artists are at the heart of Art Month and the festival gives the opportunity to explore artists’ studios, take artist-led tours […]
Category: Program Blogs
Exhibition – Lake Eyre by The Light Collective
Thursday 12th of January 2017, Black Eye Gallery was starting the year with striking visuals of interpretive aerial imagery from The light Collective. Five Australian photographers had the desire to inspire, empower and invite the audience to a deeper connection with Australian interior Lake Eyre now known as Kati Thanda. Adam Williams, Luke Austin, Ignacio […]
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Goodbye Baird, Koalas, Leonard Cohen….?
We wanted to ask Mike Baird if he could imagine Australia without koalas? But he made a tactical retreat from politics this week by resigning – some would say NSW just got too hot for the Premier whose popularity has been severely dinted in the past 12 months by community opposition to his government’s controversial […]
The New Thing: Interview with Stuart Vandegraaff, Masha’s Legacy
A global-fusion of cultures and rhythms, independent Sydney 8-piece Masha’s Legacy create music that celebrates both unity and identity in modern day Australia. With the beginnings of the group culminating over 6-years ago, this collective has evolved into a captivating live act with both live dancers and talented musicians. It’s a show that brings to life exhuberant and […]
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Australian Women who are Changing the Face of Jazz-New Series
Image: Pianist Jann Rutherford performing in Sydney in the 1990s. Photo copyright Joe Glaysher Over the past decade the face of jazz in Australia has been changing, slowly but surely. While we are used to seeing women singers fronting bands, there have been few women playing the instruments we associate with jazz-trumpets, saxophones, pianos, basses. […]
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Album of the Week – ‘Paris in the Rain’ Sarah McKenzie
After enchanting jazz fans with her 2015 Impulse! Records debut, We Could Be Lovers, Sarah McKenzie returns with the sensational follow-up, Paris in the Rain. Like before, the 28-year-old, Melbourne, Australia-born singer, pianist, composer and arranger teams with the acclaimed Brian Bacchus – who has produced classics for such stars as Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, […]
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Arts Thursday 12 January 2017
MARGARET OLLEY This Arts Thursday, celebrate the life and contribution of the beloved Australian artist Margaret Olley. Margaret Olley: Painter, Peer, Mentor and Muse on exhibition at the SH Ervin Gallery tells of Olley’s life not only as an accomplished artist herself but also as a friend and supporter of many of her own contemporaries […]
Arts Wednesday 11 January 2017
I am very happy to be back at the console and presenting this week’s show. We start with Elly Baxter, who goes by the intriguing title of Ginstress. She is co-author and researcher for Mother’s Ruin, a cabaret about gin, showing for a very short season at this year’s Sydney Festival. Mother’s Ruin was the […]
Album of the Week – Mister Ott ‘Single Shot’
Mister Ott’s second album ‘Single Shot’ sees the band expand their Ethiojazz sound to incorporate psychedelic guitars, reverb-drenched horns, intergalactic keys, and a crunchy drum/bass combo. The result is a mesmerising marriage of eastern sounds, tight jazz/funk instrumentation, and hypnotic dance grooves with a psychedelic edge. The music blends native melodies with improvisation for which […]
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Queen Kafé is on hold, a new time slot is coming soon…
Whilst waiting for Queen Kafé to be back on air, tune in to Forever French as I will be producing and hosting the show every second Wednesday’s from 8-9:30pm. Forever French is all about sharing French culture and music from French speaking countries with Australia. For anyone part of la Francophonie, if you would like […]
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Demolished Sydney: our ever-changing built environment
Join me, Jane Raffan, on Arts Monday 9 January 2017 for a program exploring some of Sydney’s lost buildings, places and spaces, and the debates and protests their demolition aroused. You’ll hear interviews with Bob Whight, Project Manager at the Museum of Sydney, on MOS’ latest exhibition Demolished Sydney. In 1856, Harper’s magazine published a […]
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Jazz Made In Australia Monday 9th January ‘Last One Before Summer Break’
Usually early in a New Year we reflect on the previous one and that’s what I’ve done in the program this week. I’ve selected some tracks from CD releases that I’ve particularly enjoyed over the past year or two. Of course I can’t fit nearly as many as I would like to in one program […]
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