Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am with Part 2 of our current season of Sydney By Design about Sydney and this week Ed talks about Sydney’s history. At 11:00 am, art consultant Anna Groden joins me to talk about our annual visit to the Archibald Prize. It’s one of those exhibitions where we all […]
GIG REVIEW – Julien Wilson Quintet at SIMA Sound Lounge, Sydney 6th August 2016.
Julien: tenor sax, Carl Dewhurst: electric guitar, Barney McCall: piano, Jonathan Zwartz: bass, Hamish Stuart: drums. I knew this wasn’t going to be just another gig! Five of Australia’s top artists all on the one stage was guaranteed to create fireworks! Ostensibly this was a CD launch of ‘This Narrow Isthmus’ which was recorded in […]
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Album of the Week – Sensations Wind, Waves, Birds, and Fire by Margaret Brandman
‘Sensations Wind, Waves, Birds, and Fire’ by Margaret Brandman is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. The album we are focusing on this week across the station is one that hosts some lengthy experience and talent, this Australian artists’ career in the music industry spans over 40 years. A lady who has been awarded the International […]
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Emma Pask Performs in Randwick
Discovered at just 16 years old by legendary jazzman James Morrison, Emma Pask has since had an award winning career in which she has performed all over the world. Largely considered to be one of Australia’s best jazz vocalists, Emma Pask has performed in as far as London and China and as close to home […]
Community Billboard 3 August – 10 August 2016
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
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A haunting soundtrack to a movie not yet made…on Monday Drive
Enjoy some extraordinary melodicism and dazzling technique in-studio with me next week, when Monday afternoon gets hot and high octane with a visit from Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians. In town with his trio for one gig at the Sydney Recital Hall, Muthspiel’s last recording, Bright Side, was described as “gorgeous, […]
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The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
On Arts Wednesday 3 August 2016, Sylvia played an interview she recorded with Ann Moss at the The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Listen to the conversation below: That was Part 1 of the conversation and here is Part 2: […]
Corey Harris: Blues With All The Roots and Branches
With one foot in tradition and the other in contemporary experimentation, Corey Harris is a truly unique voice in contemporary music. He is a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader who has carved out his own niche in blues. Beginning his career as a New Orleans street singer, he traveled through the Southern US before spending […]
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Wheelie Bins Rolled Out
Fight Against Pedestrian Deaths in Sydney & the Eastern Suburbs Australia is on track in 2016 to equal the number of pedestrian fatalities recorded in 2015 which grew for the third consecutive year. The Australian Road Safety Federation (ARSF) has extended an initiative it hopes will reverse the statistics and start to see a decline […]
Boiling Point August 2nd
Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here:https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/# Tim talked about turning a new leaf in solar-generated syngas https://www.abc.net.au/…/humans-and-wild-birds-talk-…/7650038 … Chantelle reported in from tropical Panama with an interview with Dr. Graham Zemunik on soil driven vegetation assemblages and the role of manganese in reducing growth rates of tropical trees https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Graham_Zemunik And Luke led us […]
Arts Wednesday 3 August 2016
This week at 10:40 am, we start a new series of Sydney By Design – our second for 2016 and this series Ed devotes to the city of Sydney and the challenges we face. At 11:00 am, I will play an interview I recorded some weeks ago when I was in Philadelphia visiting the Barnes […]
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 […]