The Music Show

Nov 16 2024 246 ep. 55 mins 99
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Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music.

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Jerron Paxton's blues and Chloe Kim's basses

Nov 16 2024 54 mins  
Jerron Paxton’s music sounds like it could have been unearthed from a time capsule buried in the 1920s or 30s. His new album of original songs, Things Done Changed, finds the multi-instrumentalist playing guitar, banjo, piano and harmonica across blues, folk, ragtime and old-time Black music styles. He tells Andy about being glued to the radio as a young child, his deep love of a

Sharp observations: Bill Bailey and Darren Hanlon

Nov 15 2024 54 mins  
Bill Bailey is best known for his stand-up comedy, but one of his first public performances was a Mozart piano concerto, with his own cadenza, in his hometown of Bath. He joins Andy to explain what Mozart has in common with dancing on television, how timing is crucial to both comedy and music, and making sure there’s enough affection in his musical parodies. Modern troubadour Da

From Brazil to The Beatles with Esperanza Spalding, and Affinity Quartet live in the studio

Nov 09 2024 54 mins  
Composer, bass player and vocalist Esperanza Spalding has become one of the most important voices in 21st century jazz. She has also worked across almost every style of music with some legendary musicians (Wayne Shorter, Stevie Wonder, and Janelle Monáe to name a few). Her latest collaboration is an album with Brazilian singer songwriter Milton Nascimento and includes songs in Por

Kankawa Nagarra’s Blues on Country, guitarist Sean Shibe in studio, and remembering Quincy Jones

Nov 08 2024 54 mins  
In Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley, Walmajarri Elder Kankawa Nagarra plays her guitar and sings the blues. Her latest album, Wirlmarni, was recorded in the desert with her great grandchildren at her feet, insects buzzing and the sound of kangaroo tails being wrapped in alfoil for the fire. Kankawa speaks to Andrew Ford about a life of music, from her earliest

Live in the studio with Parvyn and Elana Stone

Nov 02 2024 54 mins  
Punjabi Australian singer songwriter Parvyn returns to The Music Show to perform songs from her brand new album Maujuda; a seamless fusion of soul, jazz, disco and Indian classical and folk traditions. Elana Stone's new solo album Married To The Sound sees her songwriting tackling some of life's biggest moments. As one quarter of folk band All Our Exes Live In Texas and in-demand

Meet this year's Boyer lecturers, and Afghan-American musician Qais Essar performs live

Nov 01 2024 54 mins  
We hear from this year’s four Boyer lecturers; pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy​, violist and conductor Aaron Wyatt, composer, conductor and performer Iain Grandage, and Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs Lyn Williams. They all reflect on the future of classical music in this country. Master of the Afghan rabab Qais Essar performs traditional Afghan music live in the stud

Folk singers and the FBI

Oct 26 2024 54 mins  
Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan were being surveilled and, in some cases, blacklisted by the FBI due to their political activism and ties to the U.S Communist Party. Writer and historian Aaron J. Leonard has written several books on the subject and is in to reveal why the US Government was so fixated on

Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph

Oct 25 2024 54 mins  
London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia is in Australia for Melbourne International Jazz Festival and to play shows in support of her new album Odyssey. Featuring vocalists like Esperanza Spalding and string players from Chineke!, Nubya revels in expanding her sonic palette and pushing jazz into the realms of dub, R&B, soul and beyond. And, experiment

Modernist composer Charles Ives at 150 and countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to Australia

Oct 19 2024 54 mins  
German countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to The Music Show whilst he’s in the country with the Australian World Orchestra. He talks to Andrew about the life of a countertenor: old repertoire, new repertoire, and looking after a voice when great demands are made of it. American pianist Donna Coleman deep dives into the life and influence of American modernist composer Charles I

Music from a turbulent 17th-century England, and violinist Véronique Serret explores her voice

Oct 18 2024 54 mins  
Julia Fredersdorff, Artistic Director of Van Diemen's Band, talks about music from perhaps the most turbulent time in England's history - its Civil War. And, violinist, composer and vocalist Véronique Serret collaborates with nature on her latest (and ARIA Award nominated) album Migrating Bird.