Owen is from country Victoria, but developed an obsession with Argentinian music, went there to learn the bandoneon, and stayed. He tells his story, and the story of the music he is bringing to his Australian tour with the Guanaco trio this autumn. CresFest performers 2024.

Gerry Paul and Richard Klein are great exponents of roots music... and gourmands! This podcast celebrates their music and culinary histories. Stand by for a couple of great recipes. CresFest performers in 2024.

Neil talks about the Flood Opera project with Professor Jane Davidson, Mark, a local who lived through the storm and took part, and Lisette, an opera student. The project is an amazing co-operation between Creswick people, the local Creswick Lions Club, CresFest, and students and staff from the post-graduate Masters in Opera course at Melbourne University.

Catherine and Mark are a couple who had been living in Creswick for more than 20 years when the floods and storms hit in January 2022. Here they talk about their experiences during and after the storm, its impact on them, and how they have managed to rebuild, literally and figuratively, since then.

Alisa and Brian are a young couple who had just moved to Creswick before the January 2022 storm and floods. Here they talk about their experiences during and after the storm.

Stella Savy is a professional musician and choir leader from Ballarat. But that doesn't tell much of the story. In this podcast, Judy Turner (Director of CresFest) talks with Stella about the journey to investigating her family roots in the Seychelles, and her views on the importance of community music. It's an inspiring conversation!

https://cocosounds.com/

https://cresfest.com.au/

Simmy was one of the best known traditional singers ever recorded in Victoria, and he lived in Springmount, near Creswick, in the Victorian Goldfields. He passed away in 1968, but in the decade before that, 30 hours of recordings were made of him singing and talking about his life. With the permission of the Anderson family, this podcast from the National Library of Australia replays the first section of the recording made by Hugh Anderson in 1967, and gives insight into Simmy and his life.

https://www.neiladamandjudyturner.com/the-simmy-show

https://cresfest.com.au/

Paddy is in his late 70s, and has a repertoire of around 200 Irish songs, many learnt from his family as a young person growing up on the family farm in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Paddy moved to Australia in the 1970s, and has only recently got back into singing. We recorded an album's worth of songs which you can hear on Spotify (by typing his name into the search function), and in this podcast, Paddy talks about one of the songs we recorded, The Stately Woods of Truagh. The discussion moves backwards and forwards between Ireland's history and Australia's, and Paddy reflects on the importance of Survival Day.

https://www.neiladamandjudyturner.com/paddycaulfield

https://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/city/my-community/aboriginal-ballarat/survival-day-dawn-ceremony#:~:text=While%20a%20day%20of%20mourning,Torres%20Strait%20Island%20people's%20history.

https://cresfest.com.au/