The Sydney Folk Festival is a three-day celebration of the best and most adventurous in today’s folk music from worldly beats to original voices, traditional music including ballads, celtic, shanties, blues, bluegrass, newgrass, bush music and beyond. Sydney-based sextet, Chaika are headlining at the Sydney Folk Festival. Their new album, ARROW is inspired by Australia’s stunning landscapes mixed […]
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Arts Thursday 25 July 2019 This week on Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton the focus is on contemporary art. David Hockney prints are on exhibition at Hazlehurst Regional Gallery, as a touring exhibition from the National Gallery of Australia until 8 September. The exhibition explores the artist’s experimentation with printmaking for over 60 years and […]
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At 10:40 am, it’s time for Part 2 of Birds and Bones with Dr Jacqueline Nguyen, ornithologist at the Australian Museum and this week the topic is songbirds and where they came from. At 11:00 am, I’m pleased to welcome back to Arts Wednesday, Elise Edmunds, Senior Curator at the State Library of NSW, talking […]
The Lost Lost Cabaret is a comedy cabaret like no other! Presented by Choo Choo Troupe, this cabaret style show is a world of alt-comedy – burlesque, music, magic, and characters – all emceed by a nutbag of arguable brilliance and humour. The show features special guests who together with members of Choo Choo Troupe […]
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Eastside Radio’s Album of the Moment is Small Island Big Song by Small Island Big Song as an independent realise 3 years in the making Small Island Big Song is a collaboration of first nation artists from 25 Indigenous nations across the Pacific & Indian Oceans, united for their Island homelands. The album was composed, […]
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What makes a successful costume designer in Australia? Join me, Maisy Stapleton, to meet Jennifer Irwin, key costume designer at Bangarra and previously at the Sydney Dance Company. She is the winner of many awards and nominations for her designs and recognised by her industry for her contribution to the performing arts. Jennifer has recently […]
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. […]
At 10:40 am, it’s time for Part 1 of a new series: Birds and Bones, with Dr Jacqueline Nguyen from the Australian Museum. Jacqui is an ornithologist who specialises in palaeontology and in the first episode, we talk about who an ornithologist is and what she does. With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 […]
Drugs, Death, Art and Love. This is the stuff of opera. Celebrated composer Elena Kats-Chernin discusses the characters, the music and the long process of collaboration, that after two years has culminated in the opera, Whiteley. Opening this week at the Sydney Opera House it promises a visual feast of Whiteley’s art immersed in a dramatic […]
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Grammy Award-winning composer-producer-multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier, makes his New Zealand debut, and returns to Australia this August-September on the back of acclaimed sell-out shows in April of last year.The 24-year old prodigy has been dubbed by many as one of the most innovative, creative musicians of his generation, rising to popularity through his viral homemade multi-track YouTube videos. Jacob Collier’s […]
Eastside Radio’s Album of the week is The Composer’s Voice: Celebrating Australian Women Composers by Elly Hoyt on the Earshift Music label London based vocalist-composer Elly Hoyt’s third album The Composers’ Voice: Celebrating Australian Women Composers, out through Earshift Music, is a commissioning project that presents her alongside some of Melbourne’s best jazz artists Motivated by recent […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week:11th Jul 2019