Jazz Made In Australia 17 October 2016 Features SEAN FORAN

Brisbane based pianist, composer and educator Sean Foran is developing a profile not only in Australia, but also internationally. He graduated from the Old. Conservatorium with a Major in Jazz Piano, also has a Masters of Arts in Jazz Performance – with distinction – from the Leeds College of music in England. He has been […]

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Album of the week – One of Us by Cash Savage and The Last Drinks

‘One of Us’ by Cash Savage and the Last Drinks is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. Last week we brought you an artist’s third release and this week it’s the same, that is what we love here at Eastside bringing you the people music that you might not of heard of by artists who […]

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Jazz Made In Australia – 10.10.2016 – Wangaratta Jazz Festival 2016

The Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival is always held the weekend before the Melbourne cup, this year it is from 28th to 30th October and as usual there are some wonderful Australian jazz artists performing. This week on the program I’m going to you as many as I can fit into this short hour, but […]

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cetaceans under siege, peculiar children, 1787 reviewed

  Ever wondered why whales and dolphins periodically commit suicide with mass beachings?  Often it’s because they can’t stand the noise we are making. Imagine the loudest pub band or noisiest cafe that’s ever battered your ears to a pulp and amplify it till your brain bleeds, to get some idea of the aural horrors […]

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Album of the week – Tocororo by Alfredo Rodriguez

  ‘Tocororo’ by Alfredo Rodriguez is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. This week we give some well deserved special attention to the highly talented pianist and composer Alfredo Rodriguez the man who left Cuba to undertake ‘The American Dream” and to share stages with some of the best in the business is what he […]

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Welcoming Refugees to Parliament with Comfort Food

A small café on King Street in Newtown  has won awards from the Sydney  Good Food Guide and from the Refuge Council of Australia for its innovative initiatives training refugees and asylum seekers in preparing and presenting food for professional catering and hospitality.  The cafe also gives them a chance to give the local neighbourhood  a taste […]

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Arts Thursday- 29 September- Taking It To The Streets

Presented by Bronwyn Rennex This Thursday I speak to Tamara Voninski, a second year PhD student currently studying at Sydney College of the Arts – University of Sydney. We discuss University of Sydney’s plans to close the Rozelle campus of Sydney College of the Arts, the failed merger proposal with University of NSW School of […]

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SOS Sydney! – our disappearing oysters, trees, humans

It wasn’t just this week’s guests who got us thinking about quality of life, from friendly streets to Sydney Rock Oysters. Seems like everywhere we go at the moment there’s a chainsaw or a whipper snipper, an Ausgrid team or a bull dozer, menacing Sydney streets and knocking down things we love. When you see yet another […]

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Moodswing Playlist – RnB, NuSoul & Funky Beats

Tonight’s Moodswing has some tasty RnB, nusoul, funky breaks & beats…with the likes of Alice Russell, The Herbaliser, Reggie B, Raphael Saadiq, Erykah Badu, DJ Shadow, Beat Spacek, Nightmares On Wax, Blockhead, Boozoo Bajou, Mark Ronson & more. Selected & Presented by DJ Taline for Moodswing on Eastside Radio 89.7FM […]

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The Public Body & ‘The Days are as Grass’-Arts Monday

The Public Body co-curator, Talia Linz, and Jane Edwina Seymour, Director of ‘The Days are as Grass’, are my guests today. The Public Body .01 explores the sexualized body and, in particular, the types of sexualized bodies that proliferate in the public sphere today – high key, orgasmic, debased, agitated, violent but also self-empowered, vulnerable, […]

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Album of the week – Family Tree by Kylie Auldist

  ‘Family Tree’ by Kylie Audits is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. If you like it funky then you are going to be blasting this record, coming out of Melbourne Kylie Auldist is up there with the creme de la creme when it comes Australian soul and funk artists. With a career that has […]

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