Album of the week: Is What You Make It – TaxiCab Versus // Giving It Away – Clair Anne Taylor

Is What You Make It – TaxiCab Versus Music collective from Athens, TaxiCab Verses has re-released their exceptional album Is What You Make It which was originally released in 2016. The 10-track set is a project of Jim Wilson and Kofi Atentenben and the Warriors, who met in Accra, Ghana in 2008, and quickly grew […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Susie Bishop (IWD 2024)

Motherhood & Music- Not just the Lullaby Approx. 8 minutes 30 seconds to read Things happen to all of us that are beyond our control- sometimes these things are unpredictable and scary. Sometimes unfair and incomprehensible things happen and there is not much support. So much goes unspoken- only dealt with in whispers because if […]

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Con Open Academy Autumn 2024

This year, the Sydney Conservatorium’s OPEN ACADEMY celebrating 50 years of music education for adults and we want to Find the Music in You! Our short courses cater for all levels and styles. You can take group classes in all types of singing styles, Jazz Guitar and Jazz impro, Songwriting, Piano for beginners or composing. […]

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Sydney Philharmonia Presents Fauré’s Requiem

This Easter, Sydney Philharmonia offer you a concert that embraces the uplifting energy and the healing power of choral singing. Fauré’s Requiem is paired with a revival of John Peterson’s Shadows and Light, an SPC commission inspired by both the texts of the requiem mass and the headlines of September 11, 2001. But the key to the […]

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Riverside Theatres Presents Empty Voices By Hamed Sadeghi

Multi-ARIA award nominee composer and Tar (Iranian lute) virtuoso, Hamed Sadeghi brings with him 6 world-class musicians for a brand-new work. Through his melancholic and spellbinding compositions, Sadeghi offers a unique and dazzling dialogue between a plucked section (tar, percussions, double bass) and a woodwind/brass section. The multi-generational ensemble led by Sadeghi and comprised of […]

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Album of the week: Ajar – Chutney // Lotus Glow – Adi Oasis

Ajar – Chutney Chutney is a group that formed in January 2020, where six friends gathered around a piano to jam out tunes and whilst munching on apple slices dipped in a jar of chutney. Four years and over a hundred gigs later, we are presented with Ajar of Chutney. As their name suggests, Chutney […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Jenny Eriksson (IWD 2024)

Motherhood & Music – Not just the Lullaby Approx. 10 minutes to read Jenny Eriksson, my next interviewee, is passionate about keeping music of the Baroque and Renaissance alive on her instrument of the time- the viola da gamba. She performs as a member of the Marais Project, Elysian Fields (a jazz-Baroque group) and Da […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Thea Rossen (IWD 2024)

Motherhood & Music – Not just the Lullaby Approx. 7 minutes 30 seconds to read My next interviewee, Thea Rossen, is a true sound explorer. As a percussionist, improviser and composer, she will guide you to a sonic world that you may never have known without her leading the way. I’ve had many opportunities to […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Andrea Keller (IWD 2024)

Motherhood & Music- Not just the Lullaby Approx. 8 minute read The lost story of the indelible Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the undeniable progenitor of Rock ’n Roll, served as the impetus for my Shout Sister Shout interview series back in 2021. I launched Shout Sister Shout on International Women’s Day (IWD); it’s my way to […]

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Shark & Fox: The Irresistible Canadian-Australian Collaboration On Tour

Frenetic Bulgarian dances, haunting Appalachian twangs, droning Irish reels, Swedish polskas and songs that speak into existence the ephemeral mysteries of life, all effortlessly yet meticulously woven together by the vast shared history of the fiddle and accordion as musical companions. This irresistible Canadian-Australian collaboration shape-shifts between traditions, occasionally to the point that the instruments […]

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Sydney Eisteddfod : The Competition That Changes Lives

Fostering creativity since 1933 – Sydney Eisteddfod offers performance opportunities to everyone that enters, creating a richer and more vibrant culture, so that we all can dream, perform, achieve and inspire. For over nine decades, Sydney Eisteddfod has been contributing to the evolving culture of Australia by nurturing the performing arts at a grass roots […]

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Exploring our Blue World with exceptional Ocean Talks

From the rugged mountain tops of Macquarie Island, down the torrent rivers of millennia to thedeep dark depths of ocean shipwrecks, the Ocean Lovers Talks will take you into the mostremarkable realms of our big blue planet over two days of free inspirational talks and panels fromadventurers, scientists and experts on March 23 and 24 […]

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