Judith Owen – Live In Australia!
By Brian Wise. Photos by Peter Rodger. Judith Owen will return to Australian shores for the first time since March 2020 with a new live album and her fabulous ensemble, The Gentlemen Callers. Talk to […]
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Anais Mitchell: An Interview With The Creator of Hadestown
By Brian Wise Hadestown, the theatre musical created by Anais Mitchell, is in Melbourne until July 13, after a season in Sydney. Anais Mitchell is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter and the Tony and Grammy award-winning creator of […]
New Orleans JazzFest 2025 – Second Weekend
By Brian Wise. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2025 – Second Weekend, Fairgrounds Racetrack, May 1-4. If it seems like I haven’t seen the normal number (for me) of JazzFest acts along with concerts […]
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The JazzFest 2025 Trip: Week One
The JazzFest 2025 Trip – Week One By Brian Wise ‘Welcome home,’ said our landlady Marie-Francoise when we arrived at our apartment. We’re on Ursulines Ave at one end of the quarter, close to Esplanade […]
New Orleans JazzFest 2025 – First Weekend
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL WEEKEND 1 – THURSDAY APRIL 24 – SUNDAY APRIL 27, 2025 It has been two years since my last JazzFest but some things about it never change. The range […]
Worshipping At The Church of Gillian & Dave in Hamer Hall
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 […]
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The Chart – November 2024
THE CHART NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024 Til My Song Is Done – Emma Donovan (Cooking Vinyl) Woodland – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (Acony) More Life – Jeff Lang (ABC) Nara – Emily Wurramara (ABC) Backbone – […]
Nashville – Austin #10 : Sunday September 22, 2024
Sunday September 22 I am on the way home via Austin. Anne McCue kindly drove me to Nashville airport at 5.45am and it only took me 20 minutes to clear check in and security. The […]
Nashville #10 – Saturday September 21
Saturday September 21 It’s not often that you get a call from the head of a record company at 8:30 am on a Saturday morning but that’s what happened when David Macias from Thirty Tigers […]
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Nashville #9 – Friday September 20
Friday September 20, 2024 I have to admit that I have seriously under-estimated the effects of my treatment over the past year. My right hip has been seriously weakened by the 13 1/4 hour flight […]