On Thursday 20 June 2019 classical trained soprano Sara Macliver joined Gemma on Thursday Drive to chat about her current performance; a song recital with Ian Munro on the piano titled Songs My Mother Taught Me – a selection of well-known and not-so-well-known songs to champion women, their stories and their music. A homage to [...]

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Don Was and Justin Seltzer at Eastside The President of Blue Note records, Don Was, has been in Sydney as part of his world tour celebrating the 80th birthday of this iconic jazz label. With Blue Note’s Vice President Justin Seltzer, he joined Mick Paddon in the Eastside studios during Time and Space. Don Was [...]

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Matt McMahon chats to Billy Childs ahead of the Sydney Con Jazz festival taking place on June 2. [...]

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No other musician has shaken the foundations of folk, alt-country and rock n’ roll more than Bob Dylan. His career spans 6 decades and has amassed a back catalogue of some of the world’s most loved and iconic songs. Songs that made a generation and changed the world. Bob Dylan Revisited is a night filled [...]

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Guitarist Bill Frisell has been described as one of the most important, pioneering and panoramic musicians at work today. A consummate jazz player, composer and improviser, over a career or more than 40 years he has performed with most of the jazz greats across a wide range of interpretations of jazz and appears on more [...]

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Famous musicians Dahlia Dior and Courtney Severini joined  The Gypsy Hot Club host Hannah to chat about their get together and the creation of Cafe Continentale. The show they describe as Luscious Latin from Italy, Spain and Beyond. Listen to them speaking about how they got into singing, their spectacular story of how they have [...]

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Nora Fischer chats with Eastside’s Elsen Price about her experience joining the Silkroad Ensemble. Nora Fischer is challenging the way we listen to the voice. The Amsterdam-based singer is renowned for her adventurous approach to live performance and her innovative projects fusing classical and contemporary repertoire. This can range from traditional concert programs to genre-defying collaborations [...]

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Angélique Kidjo from Benin has changed from the femme fatale of Afro-Funk to the new Mama Africa as successor to Miriam Makeba. In the Australian premiere of her latest project, she remains unpredictable: transforming the iconic Talking Heads album Remain in Light. Angélique chats with Eastside’s Matt McMahon during his show Blow on the 7th [...]

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Jazz musician Sean Wayland sat down for a chat with Matt and Dan on their show Blow at Eastside FM on Thursday the 7th of February discussing the legendary Horst Liepolt. Horst Liepolt, immigrated from Germany in 1951 and after a period in Melbourne, where he opened the club Jazz Centre 44, came to Sydney [...]

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Elaine Chia the CEO of City Recital Hall joined us at Eastside FM for an interview by Virginia Lowe on Arts Wednesday. Chia tells Eastside how though she’s always had a passion for music, her degree was actually in interior architecture. During her time studying she worked at The Princess Theatre in Melbourne as an [...]

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