RNZ: New Horizons

On 13 May we lost the 97-year-old singer and actress Doris Day. In this New Horizons William Dart plays some of the musical sunshine that she left behind.

Two generations of blues, country, and Kiwi individuality come together in Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders' new album Word Gets Around. And so it should! says William Dart.

William Dart features American singer Melissa Etheridge, who has politics on her mind and in her songs on her latest album The Medicine Show.

William Dart finds some surprises when singer Norah Jones pairs up with the electronic Svengali, Doveman, and Bruce Hornsby veers from the middle of the road to play Bach and delivers it dark with his own songs.

The legendary singer Scott Walker died recently. William Dart looks at a singer hailed as everything from existential chansonnier to avant-garde pioneer.

William Dart draws some connections between new albums from Kurt Wagner's Lambchop and Hollie Fullbrook's Tiny Ruins.

William Dart celebrates the joy of live music with two new concert recordings: Mavis Staples Live in London, and a full scale 75th birthday party for Joni Mitchell in Los Angeles.

Rhiannon Giddens leads a group of four musicians on a new album from the Smithsonian Folkways label, putting the experiences of African-American women into historical and musical context. William Dart calls it epoch-making.

Songwriter Finn Andrews is back in the country with a new album and a national tour. This week's New Horizons investigates how he put aside his work with The Veils to produce a homegrown solo turn.

William Dart looks into the rock-to-cabaret journey taken by artists such as Bryan Ferry and David Johansen. And there's a tribute to the late André Previn on the side.