New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2023 – Weekend #1
New Orleans Jazz& Heritage Festival, Friday April 28, Saturday April 29 & Sunday April 30, 2023 By Brian Wise It has been four years since my last JazzFest, my 25th, so it felt somewhat like […]
Reviews
Cresfest – A User-Friendly Alternative
CRESFEST 2023, March 31 – 2 April 2 Creswick, Victoria By Chris Lambie When major events grow too big and busy for some, smaller community-led gatherings provide an affordable user-friendly alternative. The CresFest folk & roots […]
Byron Bluesfest 2023 – Part Two: Saturday and Sunday
Review by Nick Corr | Images: Steve Ford A beautifully sunny Saturday kicked off with a similarly sunny set from Dog Trumpet. Brothers Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa, best known as founding members of Mental as Anything, […]
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Bluesfest Melbourne – Day One
Bluesfest Melbourne – MCEC, Saturday April 8, 2023 By Brian Wise| Images: Michael Mackenzie Check Out the 2023 Bluesfest Byron and Melbourne Image Galleries Here It’s just over two decades since the first attempt to […]
Dangerous Decision: MacDonald, Burke, Grabowsky, Haywood, Floyd
Review by Des Cowley. MacDonald, Burke, Grabowsky, Haywood, Floyd Dangerous Decision (FMR Records, CD & digital release) This adventurous recording sees UK saxophonist Raymond MacDonald team up with a stellar group of Australian players: saxophonist […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
DYLAN’S FRAGMENTS BOX SET: DO YOU REALLY NEED IT?
CONSIDERING FRAGMENTS, A COLLECTION OF TIME OUT OF MIND SESSION RECORDINGS Do You Really Need This Five-CD Box Set? By Michael Goldberg The questions I am frequently asked when a new Bootleg Series set is […]
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Samantha Fish On Tour In February: Louder & Faster
By Brian Wise If you saw Samantha Fish at Bluesfest in 2019 you probably don’t need me to tell you what a dynamic performer she is; her shows were spectacular. The good news is that […]