Port Fairy Folk Festival 2023 Review
PORT FAIRY FOLKIE – STORIES, RESPECT AND A WHOLE LOTTA MUSIC By Alan Calder. Proudly flying under the new Folkie branding and having been named Victoria’s Best Regional Festival in 2022, the Port Fairy Folk […]
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Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission New Single ‘Lilac Trees’, New Album On Way
Following a hectic end to 2022 – including a full national tour supporting their brilliant Back In the Day EP (which was voted #6 Best Australian Album in the Rhythms Readers’ Poll even though it […]
Billy Bragg@The Forum, Melbourne – Chop & Clang!
Review by Nick Corr Billy Bragg – Chop and Clang at The Forum, Melbourne, Thursday March 16, 2023 Night two of Billy Bragg’s One Step Forwards Two Steps Back three-night residency focusses on his earliest […]
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Womadelaide 2023 – Roaring Back To Life!
Womadelaide, March 10-13, 2023 By Brian Wise It was fitting that Youssou N’Dour closed this year’s Womadelaide, signalling that the event was back to normal after the Covid hiatus. N’Dour played at the very first […]
Delines Announce Australian Tour With Jimbo Mathus For June
Love Police presents a taste of Real American Music with the return of Portland’s the Delines and the Australian debut of Mississippi’s Jimbo Mathus in June 2023. Touring Australia for just the second time and coming on […]
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Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn – Duelling Banjos On Tour
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are known as the ‘king and queen of the banjo’ and their tour, which started today, is sure to demonstrate the amazing sonic possibilities of the instrument. By Brian Wise It’s a […]
Mark Moldre Video Premiere For New Single, ‘Every Waking Hour’
On the back of a highly successful crowdfunding campaign for his fourth solo album Nambucca Fables, ‘Every Waking Hour‘ heralds the return of Mark Moldre, four years after his acclaimed album Fever Dreams. Following the release of the single, Mark is excited […]
David Lindley R.I.P.
David Lindley, the eclectic slide guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who played on some of Jackson Browne’s most successful albums, died on Friday March 4. He was 78. No cause of death has yet been disclosed but a fundraiser […]
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R.I.P. Jazz Legend Wayne Shorter
Visionary composer, saxophonist, visual artist, devout Buddhist, devoted husband, father, and grandfather Wayne Shorter has passed away at age 89, departing the earth as we know it and embarking on a new journey as part […]