Saxophonist Sandy Evans is an extremely talented and highly respected musician in Australian jazz, and has been for a number of years. Sandy says that in her resent musical work her passion has been exploring intersections between improvises from jazz and Indian music background. Sandy’s CD recording ‘Kapture‘ with drummer Toby Hall, bassist […]
Read More… from Jazz Made In Australia Monday 14 November 2016 ‘Sandy Evans’ Kapture’
Jacqui Newling returns with Part 2 of Eat Your History at 10:40 am and this week the topic is sugar. At 11:00 am you’ll meet celebrity GP Ginni Mansberg, making a welcome return to the show. Recent statistics show that accidental overdose of prescription pain killers now accounts for the same death toll as road […]
‘Frame of Reference’ by Sean Foran is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. Bringing us his first debut album as leader Australian pianist and composer Sean Foran gives us a project that is full of talent and original music. Music that may sound quite different for those of you who are used to Foran’s […]
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Cultural Leadership and the Wonders of Lake Eyre This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton to meet arts leader Cheryl Stock AM, the Director of Graduate Studies and Head of the Cultural Leadership Course at NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Cheryl is a dancer by training and has had a stellar […]
Food historian, Jacqui Newling, joins me today at about 10:40 am for e new 7 – Part series entitled Eat Your History and Part 1 is about bread. This week Nude: Art From the Tate Collection opens at the Art Gallery of NSW so, by way of background, at 11:00am I am repeating an interview […]
And yet again we have blasted past another Tuesday Drive! We laughed, we cried, and we listened to a ten minutes live Muddy Waters song. What an afternoon. In a great start, we had the former premier of NSW Bob Carr on the show to talk with David about the state of politics in the US, […]
Pianist Matt Baker left a successful carrer in Sydney in 2010 to try his luck in New York and so far he’s doing very well thank you! He has recently released his fifth recording as a leader, but it is only his second since arriving in New York. He said he wanted to […]
Read More… from JMIA 31 Octobre 2016 “Matt Baker, Almost Blue”
ASIAN INTERSECTIONS and YOSHITOSHI This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton for the second discussion in a special series, Asian Intersections, examining how we intersect with Asia through culture and art. The program will also focus on the exhibition of Japanese woodblocks at the Art Gallery of NSW Yoshitoshi: One hundred aspects of the moon. Asian Intersections […]
Long lost cousins, reef restoration and Operation Crayweed. Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here:https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/# Chantelle took us back through hominid history to find one of our long lost cousins:… The Smithsonian human origins Tim went under the sea to see how bleached reefs are being rehabilitated: And we took a sneak peak at […]
Colour concludes this week with Part 6: The Right Hand of Creation with guest, Professor Geraint Lewis. This will go to air at 10:40 am My special guest at 11:00 am is Jane Cafarella, author of e baby, a new play at the Ensemble Theatre, about surrogacy. It is a wonderful night’s entertainment – you […]
Review of Wild Marmalade, Sydney Opera House, October 19 The primal didge and drums improvisation of Wild Marmalade had the crowd dancing and swaying from one climactic moment to another last Wednesday night at the Opera House. Didgeridoo maestro, Si Mullumby, combined with no fewer than four percussionists, an indigenous didgeridoo player and guitarist […]
Read More… from Earthbeats presents Wild Marmalade at The Opera House
Another Tuesday, another awesome Drive session. We started with a somber tone (after some technical mishaps) on a discussion about the recent report by Amnesty International that has put the issues surrounding our treatment of refugees back into the public sphere. David talked with the Australian Refugee Coordinator Dr Graham Thom about some of the […]