Day 2. By Brian Wise. Another perfect festival day at Port Fairy. Temperature around 30C, not too hot. Cool breeze arrives in the late afternoon like the famous Fremantle Doctor in WA. Tomorrow is predicted […]
By Brian Wise. It could not have been more perfect weather for the opening day of the Port Fairy Folk Festival set in Southcombe Park near the beachfront in this delightful seaside town. With a […]
By Brian Wise. Singer/songwriter, musician and playwright Anais Mitchell had an exceptional career even before she teamed up with Josh Kaufman and Eric D. Johnson in Bonny Light Horseman five years ago. Their latest album […]
Todd Rundgren, currently in Australia, has certainly lived up to the title of his fourth solo album A Wizard, A True Star, released in 1973. First, he was a wizard as a producer in his […]
By Brian Wise Ruthie Foster’s tenth studio album Mileage finds the folk-blues singer-songwriter reflecting on a musical journey as a self-described “little Black girl with a guitar” singing at churches in rural Texas, to multiple Grammy […]
Nashville-based Australian musician Jedd Hughes who has played with many of the greats there, including Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill, is set to release his third album, Nightshades, on May 2. “I came […]
Recent visitor to Australia Sierra Ferrell has capped off an amazing couple of years with four wins in yesterday’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Ferrell won Grammys for Best Americana Album with Trail of Flowers, Best […]
By Brian Wise AN EVENING WITH GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS Hamer Hall, Melbourne – January 28, 2025 The reverence of the audience for Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, on only their third tour here […]
By Brian Wise TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET CHANNELS DYLAN IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY FILM. Let’s face it, the problem with most music biopics is that musically most of them are not entirely convincing. No matter how good the […]
Garth Hudson, multi-instrumentalist, keyboard player, founding and last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday (Jan 21), after a lengthy illness, at a nursing facility in his hometown of Woodstock, N.Y. aged 87. […]
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