Only three years from Melbourne Ska Orchestra’s debut album –sees the release of their second album, Sierra-Kilo-Alpha, April 22, 2016 – picking up where they left off, taking the age old style of Ska and adding to it with aplomb. The band’s debut resulted in sell-out shows both in Australia and abroad, many high profile […]
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David Barr of Drive Tuesday talks to Glenn Wright about the upcoming Bellingen winter music festival. Glenn is the organiser of the festival. […]
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‘Evolving’ by Francesca Prihasti is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. If you are always on the look out for new music and are keen to see what the next generation of musicians are coming up with, then an album that is full of enjoyable Jazz is ‘Evolving’ by Francesca Prihasti. If you are worried […]
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As a part of the Head On Photo Festival, Art Atrium will be hosting a spectacular exhibition by renowned artist Claudia Chan Shaw. Called Poster Boy, it is a in depth interpretation of what Claudia sees when a message left on wall space is taken down and replaced by many different posters that leaves a […]
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David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks with Mikelangelo about his new album with the Black Sea Gentlemen. Titled After the Flood,the album is set around the Snowy Mountains Scheme in the 1950’s when thousands of workers from post war Europe came to Cooma to work on the scheme. The band stayed in Cooma to soak […]
On Arts Wednesday 27 April 2016, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Leroy Gonsalves, talking about his work with microbats. Follow the prompts to hear the conversation: Above is Part 1 of the conversation: now for Part 2: And now for Part 3: […]
It’s January 1966 and the Top 40 chart has The Beatles We Can work it Out at Number 1, The Seekers are number 2 with The Carnival is Over and Rob Thomas is at number 10 as Bobbie Thomas and the Beaumen with Lavender Blue. Eastside Radio listeners will know Rob Thomas from his Jammin’ […]
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Music historian, Andy Bromberger, makes a welcome return to the program at about 10:40 am with a new series entitled Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism and she starts the season with a general introduction. My special guest at the 11:00 am spot is Dr Leroy Gonsalves, Biodiversity Research Officer with the Department of Primary Industry, talking […]
‘Cold Radish Coma’ by 30/70 is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. Here at Eastside Radio we love originality and this weeks featured album is full of it. Melbourne is widely known for its music scene and for producing some of the finest artists in the country, a Melbourne collective that are starting to get […]
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Oumar Touré, Aliou Touré, Garba Touré and Nathaniel “NAT” Dembele are Songhoy Blues – all hail from Gao in the north Of Mali. With growing unrest in the north of Mali these young men and their families were forced to take refuge in the southern town of Bamako. They turned crisis into opportunity by forming a band which they baptized Songhoy […]
This April/May, the Moran Arts Foundation will be showing a photography exhibition by artist Peta-Anne North at Juniper Hall. The exhibition is a series of aerial shot photography that show off the excellence of the Australian landscape with lots of imagery and sites that come alive from the canvas. There is always a sense of […]
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Following three sell-out performances during her Australian premiere at the 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the dazzlingly talented Hiromi makes her long-awaited Sydney debut. Dominating the next wave of jazz superstars, her credits include a gig with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at age 14, a personal invitation to play with Chick Corea at 17 and […]