Launceston, Tasmania community station City Park Radio has a new folk music show called The Folk Project. You can tune in Thursdays 8 to 9pm 103.7FM and 96.5FM or stream HERE
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Launceston, Tasmania community station City Park Radio has a new folk music show called The Folk Project. You can tune in Thursdays 8 to 9pm 103.7FM and 96.5FM or stream HERE
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Louisa Wise has an album Launch to showcase her new release ‘All of These Things’
Date Sunday 23rd May 2021, 2pm-5pm, a house concert in Carlton Victoria – address provided once you book tickets here.
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Fans of the Chapel Hill North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange will have to readjust to the couple’s new name Watchhouse, announced recently after a career of over a decade.
The duo have been announced to play at Port Fairy Folk Festival 2022.
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Applications for the 2022 National Folk Fellowship program are now open and will close at 12pm, Monday 21 June 2021.
The annual National Folk Fellowship is offered jointly by the National Library of Australia and the National Folk Festival.
The National Library holds the most significant collections of folklore and related material in Australia. This Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for the recipient to discover and explore original collected material at the Library for use in their own artistic work.
The outcome of this residency at the National Library will result in a performance at the 2022 National Folk Festival, and any recordings arising from the project will be acquired for the National Library’s Oral History and Folklore collection.
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Check out Frank Frikker’s new album and award winning video.
The album has been recorded by Frank Frikker’s band ‘Wolf’Tales and produced by Nigel Pegrum/Pegasus Studio (former drummer of The Small Faces, Uriah Heep and Steel Eye Span) using several studio musicians.
The music video of “The Leaf Blower Anthem” was shot for the annual International Short Film Festival in Port Douglas/Daintree and won the award of best music video in 2016, produced by Paul Sinkovic filmmaker/editor.
The song is from the album ‘Yarmouk’. His latest album is 2020’s ‘Anyway’.
Find out more about the songwriter and musician and his latest CD including The Leaf Blower Anthem here: http://geckomusicproductions.com.au
Frank’s music can also be found on most music platforms such as Itunes, Spotify, MySpace, Soundcloud etc.
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Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission have announced a national ‘Out and About’ July tour ahead of the April 30 release of their new album ‘City’s Calling Me’, a warm collection of songs about the inner suburbs of Melbourne.
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The Goderich Celtic Roots Festival, North America’s longest-running pan-Celtic event, is offering the opportunity for qualified emerging artists to participate in a virtual showcase at this year’s festival, to earn a spot to perform live on stage at next year’s festival.
The program has two phases: a virtual phase and a showcase phase. A panel of judges will select a shortlist of 10 artists who will be presented in virtual format during this year’s festival, August 6-8, 2021. An audience poll will determine the top two artists who will go on to receive a year of artist development workshops and mentorship before appearing onstage in Goderich at next year’s festival.
The submission deadline is June 4, 2021
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Tasmanian-based singer-songwriter Fiontan Cassidy (pronounced Fintan) has just released a beguiling single “Windwater Waters”.
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Country music trailblazer Joy McKean OAM will be the 2021 recipient of the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music. Finding a talent for writing songs as a young child, Joy has had a stellar career as a performer, songwriter and manager, spanning more than 70 years.
She became famous performing, recording and broadcasting with her sister Heather in the 1940’s and 50’s, and went on to compose some of country music’s most celebrated songs including “The Biggest Disappointment”, “Ringer from the Top End”, “Walk a Country Mile” and “Indian Pacific”. Joy was making her mark, composing hit country songs and touring regional and remote Australia at a time when the perceived role of women was that of home maker. She created a lifelong partnership with her husband Slim Dusty, writing many of his most famous songs and was his manager for more than 50 years.
Joy was recently subject to a documentary and accompanying soundtrack Slim & I
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Queensland Music Festival has unveiled an inaugural travelling music festival dubbed ‘The Outback Trail’ which will run across June and July, rolling through the Western Downs, into the heart of the Australian outback and towards the red desert.
The event will kick off with Opera At Jimbour, which will feature a series of intimate opera and chamber music performances, before a series of unique events at various locations involving Kate Miller-Heidke, Emily Wurramara and Karl S Williams. Paul Kelly, John Williamson, Kate Ceberano and more will then take the stage at the annual Big Red Bash.
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