The Music Show
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The Music Show
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
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The "doofy folk" of Brisbane band Amaidí; and Luciano Berio at 100 with his student Kim Williams
Brisbane trad band Amaidí say they perform "doofy folk stuff": accordion, guitar, banjo and fiddle augmented by stomp box and electronics. Amaidí mean...
Messiah
What do an actress mired in scandal, a grieving political dissident, a previously enslaved African celebrity, and a court composer have in common? The...
From Mixtapes to MTV: The Music of the 1980s with Tony Wellington
Tony Wellington returns to the show to race through the 1980s in a single episode. It's a decade of contradictions, where big hair, commercial pop hit...
JJJJJerome Ellis on the musicality of stuttering, and a masterclass in the chromatic harmonica
JJJJJerome Ellis styles their name with five Js because it’s the word they stutter on the most. The artist, writer, composer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reed and Oak: DOBBY & Cate Kennedy
Reed and Oak - composed and performed by DOBBY, words by Cate Kennedy.
One of two winning poems from our Middle of the Air competition, run in c...
The Abour: Leah Senior & Giles Watson
The Arbour - composed and performed by Leah Senior, words by Giles Watson.
One of two winning poems from our Middle of the Air competition, run...
Poetry becomes song: Middle of the Air winning songs revealed with DOBBY and Leah Senior
In August, ABC Radio National and Red Room Poetry put out the call for Australian poets to submit new poems to be set to music by two great local musi...
Leo Sayer is still dancing, and art and song in Warlpiri women's ceremony
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the voices of people who have died.
As a post-war kid, L...
Performing Assyrian-ness with Lolita Emmanuel
Lolita Emmanuel is a creative researcher. She’s a musician, a storyteller, and an academic (moments away from finishing her Doctor of Musical Arts) an...
Guzheng, standards, and Yolngu manikay: three very different albums from Paul Grabowsky and friends
Most people would think of Paul Grabowsky as a jazz pianist. And they wouldn't be wrong, except he's much more than that. He's a composer of film scor...
Cover Story: Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now was written by Joni Mitchell in 1966, when she was just 21 years old. She wasn't the first artist to record it though - in true folk tr...
Seckou Keita retunes West African traditional music, and Rowena Wise & Didirri's couples therapy through song
Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita's relationship with the West African string instrument is delicate, thoughtful, and expansive. Through developing...
Cover Story: Reckless
In 1983, the Manly Ferry was making its way to circular quay and James Reyne was laying down Reckless (Don't Be So...) with his band, Australian Crawl...
The sound of County Clare with Martin Hayes; and Piotr Anderszewski connects Bach, Beethoven and Brahms
Martin Hayes is one of the world's most celebrated fiddle players, and a very influential figure in Irish traditional music. He draws from the musical...
Cover Story: Time After Time
Time After Time was a last minute addition to Cyndi Lauper's debut album She's So Unusual in 1983 - a final songwriting session between Lauper and Rob...
Come to the cabaret with Le Gateau Chocolat, and music from the borderlands of Iran and Afghanistan
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
Cover Story: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
Sorrow and songwriting: Irish musician Inni-K, and Joe Camilleri's The Black Sorrows
Inni-K, the alias of singer songwriter Eithne Ní Chatháin, blends Ireland's rich music traditions with her own playful compositional voice. Her new al...
Cover Story: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was made famous by the version Roberta Flack recorded for her 1969 album First Take, which was then used in Clint...
From Mao's Last Dancer to Master and Commander: Christopher Gordon on his film music and beyond, and The Apartments' Peter Milton Walsh
Composer Christopher Gordon is being handed the Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen award at this year's Screen Music Awards. Responsible...
Cover Story: The Times They Are A-Changin'
Ahead of new episodes of Cover Story (dropping very soon!) we bring you one of our favourites from season one.
Singer and rapper Ziggy Ramo and...
Inside a showtunes sing-along bar, and composer Fritz Hart's unsung career
When was the last time you gathered around a piano to belt out showtunes with friends or strangers? Marie's Crisis Cafe is a beloved New York City sin...
Shellie Morris sings for our little ones and Tim Brady composes for 100 electric guitars
Wardaman and Yanyuwa woman Dr Shellie Morris AO grew up speaking English in her adopted family, but has since gone on to learn over 20 First Nations l...
Meow Meow's The Red Shoes and saxophonist Tessie Overmyer's Tidelands
Post-post-modern chanteuse Meow Meow returns to The Music Show to talk about The Red Shoes, the third show in her series of Hans Christian Anderson ad...
Red Headed Stranger: how Willie Nelson's obsession spawned a classic country album
Willie Nelson first encountered the song Red Headed Stranger in the 1950s, working as a DJ at radio station KCNC in Fort Worth TX. It was a jaunty num...
Stormy skies, Bulgarian voices, and Mervyn Peake with Neko Case and remembering legendary bassist Danny Thompson
Neko Case's dazzling voice and kaleidoscopic band sound have developed slowly and assuredly over her 30 year recording career in what she calls "count...
Modern monodramas: deconstructing Pierrot Lunaire and unravelling The Big Idea
Laura Bowler is often described as a "composer, performer, and prevocatrice". That may be the perfect combination for "deconstructing" Schoenberg's Pi...
Recovering and uncovering: early Black music from America and the Persian music of Afghanistan
Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo is a new book, a collaboration between Carolina Chocolate Drop...
Bleak Squad: a supergroup with DNA from Magic Dirt, the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three; and a striking conversation with percussionist Steven Schick
Adalita and Marty Brown join Andy to talk about their new supergroup with Mick Harvey and Mick Taylor - they're called Bleak Squad and with a history...
Irish trad-punk for the 21st century with the Mary Wallopers, and music for dark times with Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon
The Mary Wallopers are in Australia, far from their hometown of Dundalk in Ireland's County Louth. They're a raucous, political band with a folk/punk...
Bold performances in music new and old: Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Havlat
Carolyn Sampson is an English soprano who began her career in early music (Bach and before), working with some of the world's best-known specialists i...
Music teachers on screen, and how to score a film
Was your music teacher anything like the ones in the movies? Three academics - Hugh Gundlach and Rhiannon Simpson from Melbourne University and Katrin...
80 years since the end of WWII: the Music of Remembrance with Jeremy Eichler
Four pieces of music written in the years after World War II – Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Britten’s War Requiem, an...
A musical portrait of Guinea-Bissau, and pianist Ana-Maria Vera on surviving as a child prodigy
As a child prodigy, pianist Ana-Maria Vera made her concerto debut when she was nine, going on to record and perform with some of the world’s great or...
"I have seen rock and roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen": Born To Run at 50
On the 25th of August, 1975, Bruce Springsteen released Born to Run, the "dividing line" of his career. Starting with the title track, written on the...
Beyond bluegrass with Molly Tuttle, and harpist Marshall McGuire on bravery and leadership
The harpist Marshall McGuire is Chair of the Australian Music Centre. He made his name playing impossibly virtuosic music by modern composers, often p...
Liz Pelly on the Spotify machine, and remembering jazz greats Judy Bailey and Sheila Jordan
Liz Pelly's book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has been received as an evisceration of the streaming platfor...
Leading an orchestra with Jaime Martín and putting words to music with DOBBY and Leah Senior
It's Poetry Month and our Middle of the Air competition (run in collaboration with Red Room Poetry) is in full swing. Two of our listeners who submit...
Gregory Porter on his jazz foundations and Michael Collins on the clarinettist-composer relationship
Gregory Porter is becoming a harder and harder singer to pigeonhole. His voice is at home in gospel, blues, soul, and R&B, but the foundation of it al...
Jerrah Patston's world in songs, and the music of outback fences and pied butcherbirds
Jerrah Patston is a singer and songwriter who’s part of Club Weld—a Parramatta-based studio for neurodiverse musicians run by the Arts & Cultural Exch...