The Music Show
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 274
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Modernism, Catholicism, and Birdsong: Olivier Messiaen
French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his most famous piece, Quartet for the End of Time, from the prisoner of war camp where he was interned in 1940. A devout Catholic, Messiaen was a church organi…
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Sun 27 Apr 2025
Deep Inside the Blues
The Music Show goes Deep Inside the Blues with photographer and writer Margo Cooper, who’s assembled a beautiful book of photographs and interviews with blues musicians from Chicago to the Mississipp…
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Sat 26 Apr 2025
Messiah
What do an actress mired in scandal, a grieving political dissident, a previously enslaved African celebrity, and a court composer have in common? They’re all integral to the story of Messiah becomin…
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Sun 20 Apr 2025
Irish music new and old: Fontaines D.C. and Daoirí Farrell
The bouzouki has been a feature of Irish folk music since the mid-1960s, and one of the instrument’s finest modern exponents is Daoirí Farrell. He’s also a singer and a song collector, and he's broug…
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Gospel meets disco with family band Annie & the Caldwells, and Tenzin Choegyal and Matt Corby team up
The Music Show is live at Canberra International Music Festival on 3 May - come join our audience!
Annie & the Caldwells make music that could equally be at home in the church or at the club. The fa…
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Sun 13 Apr 2025
In rehearsal with Zubin Kanga's cyborg piano, and at the art gallery with Julius Eastman's Femenine
The Music Show is live at Canberra International Music Festival on 3 May - come join our audience!
Zubin Kanga is known as the ‘cyborg pianist’, because throughout his career he’s been using technol…
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Sat 12 Apr 2025
Marlon Williams' te reo Māori album, and canons in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Who hasn't sung a canon or round at some point in their life? 'Frère Jacques', 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' and 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree' are among the best-known children's songs and they'r…
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Sat 05 Apr 2025
Genre-defining strings with Abel Selaocoe and Aaron Wyatt
Almost every description of South African singer, cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe starts with a phrase like “genre-defying”, but Abel refers to himself as genre defining. He’s here to perform with…
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Fri 04 Apr 2025
Stasis, flux and stamina: saxophonist Adam Page can improvise for 24-hours non-stop
Saxophonist, composer, improviser and master looper, Adam Page, has brought a bunch of looping pedals and instruments into our Adelaide studio to show us how he builds layers of music on the fly. Ada…
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Sat 29 Mar 2025
Allison Russell on jamming with Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Hozier and more; and Lucy Sante's Six Sermons for Bob Dylan
Allison Russell’s jazz, blues, and folk influences create a sound that seems infinitely adaptable across her many projects. Her collaborators include Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Hozier, Brandi Carli…
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Fri 28 Mar 2025
Organised Delirium: Pierre Boulez at 100
People talking about the French composer Pierre Boulez tend to wear out the word iconoclast pretty quickly. To celebrate the “High Priest of Modernism” on the occasion of his centenary, The Music Sho…
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Sat 22 Mar 2025
The legacy of the Shangri-Las, and Palestinian band 47SOUL
Melbourne historian and musician Lisa MacKinney has written the first full-length history of 1960s New York pop group The Shangri-Las. They were responsible for hits like Leader of the Pack and Remem…
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Fri 21 Mar 2025
From the Bronx to BBQs to Barkaa—the evolution of Australian hip hop
In the years since it originated in New York City in the late 1970s, hip hop has become a global music phenomenon. Reaching Australian shores in the early 1980s, tensions quickly arose between those …
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Sat 15 Mar 2025
Anarchy and acoustics: Sex Pistols and Pistols in St. Paul's
For a band that weren't around very long and only really put out one studio album, the cultural and musical impact of the Sex Pistols is staggering. Guitarist Steve Jones opens up to Andrew Ford abou…
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Fri 14 Mar 2025
Nana Benz du Togo, Sauljaljui and The Joy live at WOMADelaide
The Music Show is back on Kaurna Land at Adelaide's Botanic Park for WOMADelaide 2025, a festival celebrating music from all over the world.
Named after a group of powerful grandmas in the 1970s and…
Sat 08 Mar 2025
Eleanor Jawurlngali, Duo Ruut and Ana Carla Maza at WOMADelaide
Alice Keath presents The Music Show for International Women’s Day, with some of the great international and local women on the WOMADelaide line-up.
Latin American pop and classical sensibilities mee…
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Fri 07 Mar 2025
Cover Story: The Times They Are A-Changin'
In the final episode, for now, of Cover Story, singer and rapper Ziggy Ramo and musician and broadcaster Alice Keath look at Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin’ – a political anthem just vague …
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Sat 01 Mar 2025
Innovation and imitation: Maurice Ravel at 150
Aspirations of modernity, progress and innovation drove music through the 20th century. For French composer Maurice Ravel, inspiration from (and imitation of) his peers, of the voices and styles arou…
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Fri 28 Feb 2025
Cover Story: Under The Milky Way
In 1987, Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson were living together, and armed with a joint and a piano, one night they came up with the bones of Under The Milky Way. It became a hit for The Church as part …
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Sat 22 Feb 2025
Otherworldly sounds with Charm of Finches and The Cloud Maker
Sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes have been making music as Charm of Finches since they were children. Now seasoned touring artists with four albums under their belts, they swing by The Music Show…
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Fri 21 Feb 2025
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