Tony Hillier’s World of Music – The Mojowire

The Cairns Festival gets underway tomorrow – as always, there’s some great local music on the program. Tony Hillier picks some highlights. [audio https://rdontheroad.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tony-2908.mp3 |bg=0x0000ff|righticon=0xff0000] PLAYLIST  Shape Of The Day — Mangrove Jack – self-titled album Rum and Coca-Cola from the new Seaman Dan album A Caribbean Songbook  Kick It from the new Kooii  album Call Out

The Cairns Festival gets underway tomorrow – as always, there’s some great local music on the program. Tony Hillier picks some highlights. [audio https://rdontheroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/tony-2908.mp3 |bg=0x0000ff|righticon=0xff0000] PLAYLIST  Shape Of The Day — Mangrove Jack – self-titled album Rum and Coca-Cola from the new Seaman Dan album A Caribbean Songbook  Kick It from the new Kooii  album Call Out Advertisements

Choirs are our theme this week on Tony Hillier’s World of Music – in honour of the Soweto Gospel Choir visit to Cairns. Their gig at the Tanks Arts Centre was sold out long in advance – not surprisingly. Music from them and other choirs from  the South Pacific, Bulgaria and Haiti/Cuba. PLAYLIST Seteng Sediba — Soweto […]

Two of America’s most endearing and enduring troubadours have simultaneously released two of the strongest records of their respective careers 44 years after their debut albums. Loudon Wainwright III and Chris Smither share other characteristics and qualities. Both are uncompromising and committed singer-songwriters whose consummate blues, country and folk-flavoured compositions record life’s absurdities, injustices, vicissitudes […]

This week, Tony Hillier features some of the superlative string-benders that knocked his socks off at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival last weekend.  PLAY LIST Vendredi 13 from the Stochelo Rosenberg 2010 album Djangologists Brejeiro from the Yamandu Costa 2003 self titled debut album Kirwani One Five Eight Five from the Debashish Bhattacharya 2013 album Beyond The […]

This week, Tony Hillier presents songs from three brand new Australian releases featuring the exquisite voices of female singers who draw on world music for their inspiration. PLAYLIST Benta by Miriam Lieberman – Birds Of The Moon Maika i Sin – Chaika – I Monti Navaie –Tara Tiba – A Persian Dream LISTEN to Tony Hillier’s World of Music

This week on Tony Hillier’s World of Music, we sample four new folk albums featuring English artists of diverse ages, but they share a connection – they all have a relationship of one form or another with the great British folk-rock pioneer Ashley Hutchings.  PLAY LIST The Queen Of Hearts – Martin & Eliza Carthy – The Moral Of […]

Cairns is the centre of the ukulele universe this weekend – with the 5th Cairns Ukulele Festival well underway. Players of the four-stringed instrument have come to far north Queensland from around Australia and from faraway shores to celebrate an instrument that evokes the tropics more eloquently than any other. Tony Hillier takes a forward and backward look at […]

The world has been watching Brazil around the clock for a couple of weeks – as the football World Cup continues. And Brazil plays the round ball game with great style, skill and enthusiasm. This week’s World of Music reminds us that the powerhouse of South American soccer also plays music with similar flair and […]

Our local music man Tony Hillier has been part of the far north Queensland music scene for decades now, as a journalist, publisher, supporter and as a musician. One of his many musical enterprises is Snake Gully – a band that began in 1987 – and they’ll be performing tonight at a new Cairns music […]