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
Songdreaming with Sam Lee and horn playing with Carla Blackwood
Sam Lee spends a lot of time walking in, thinking about, and singing of the UK's wild places. The singer, folk song collector, pilgrim and activist released his fourth studio album songdreaming earli…
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Sun 08 Dec 2024
Bob Geldof 40 years on from Band Aid and CINTA's soul control
Forty years on, to the day, from when Do They Know It's Christmas? stormed the UK charts and remained at number #1 for five weeks, Bob Geldof is a guest on The Music Show to talk about the song's com…
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Sat 07 Dec 2024
Jim Moginie at the piano and Kultar Ahluwalia on a life in hip hop
We’re used to seeing him with a guitar strapped to his chest or playing keyboards on stage with Midnight Oil, but Jim Moginie returns to the Music Show to sit at the grand piano this time. He’s joine…
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Sun 01 Dec 2024
Surveying the Australian music landscape with Paul Kelly and Amanda Brown
Paul Kelly’s 29th (!) album Fever Longing Still is a modern twist on the contemporary Paul Kelly formula. An “attempt to present all kinds of love songs into one forty minute album”, it features his …
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Sat 30 Nov 2024
Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia
From the very first shot of John Travolta strutting his stuff down a busy New York street, Saturday Night Fever is an iconic film, and the music is even more iconic. Well, the five Bee Gees’ tracks t…
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Sun 24 Nov 2024
JADE Ensemble's intercultural sound world and Ken Murray plays Christopher Sainsbury
JADE Ensemble are four Brisbane-based musicians who compose and improvise across musical styles: Wakka Wakka man and didgeridoo player David Williams, Japanese koto master Takako Haggarty, Nepalese t…
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Sat 23 Nov 2024
Jerron Paxton's blues and Chloe Kim's basses
Jerron Paxton’s music sounds like it could have been unearthed from a time capsule buried in the 1920s or 30s. His new album of original songs, Things Done Changed, finds the multi-instrumentalist pl…
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Sun 17 Nov 2024
Sharp observations: Bill Bailey and Darren Hanlon
Bill Bailey is best known for his stand-up comedy, but one of his first public performances was a Mozart piano concerto, with his own cadenza, in his hometown of Bath. He joins Andy to explain what M…
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Sat 16 Nov 2024
From Brazil to The Beatles with Esperanza Spalding, and Affinity Quartet live in the studio
Composer, bass player and vocalist Esperanza Spalding has become one of the most important voices in 21st century jazz. She has also worked across almost every style of music with some legendary musi…
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Sun 10 Nov 2024
Kankawa Nagarra’s Blues on Country, guitarist Sean Shibe in studio, and remembering Quincy Jones
In Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley, Walmajarri Elder Kankawa Nagarra plays her guitar and sings the blues. Her latest album, Wirlmarni, was recorded in the desert with her great…
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Sat 09 Nov 2024
Live in the studio with Parvyn and Elana Stone
Punjabi Australian singer songwriter Parvyn returns to The Music Show to perform songs from her brand new album Maujuda; a seamless fusion of soul, jazz, disco and Indian classical and folk tradition…
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Sun 03 Nov 2024
Meet this year's Boyer lecturers, and Afghan-American musician Qais Essar performs live
We hear from this year’s four Boyer lecturers; pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy, violist and conductor Aaron Wyatt, composer, conductor and performer Iain Grandage, and Artistic Director of Gondw…
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Sat 02 Nov 2024
Folk singers and the FBI
Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan were being surveilled and, in some cases, blacklisted by the FBI due to their political …
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Sun 27 Oct 2024
Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph
London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia is in Australia for Melbourne International Jazz Festival and to play shows in support of her new album Odyssey. Featuring vocalis…
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Sat 26 Oct 2024
Modernist composer Charles Ives at 150 and countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to Australia
German countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to The Music Show whilst he’s in the country with the Australian World Orchestra. He talks to Andrew about the life of a countertenor: old repertoire, new r…
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Sun 20 Oct 2024
Music from a turbulent 17th-century England, and violinist Véronique Serret explores her voice
Julia Fredersdorff, Artistic Director of Van Diemen's Band, talks about music from perhaps the most turbulent time in England's history - its Civil War. And, violinist, composer and vocalist Véroniqu…
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Sat 19 Oct 2024
Ash Wednesday's AfterMATH on the organ, and the musical marriage of Lutyens and Clark
Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark were a kind of power couple of the 20th century: she a prolific composer; he a less successful conductor but an influential producer and administrator. Annika Forke…
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Sun 13 Oct 2024
Listening to Another Noise with Evelyn Glennie and Raymond Antrobus, and in the throes of Ecstasy with Marcus Whale
Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and poet Raymond Antrobus are two of the UK’s most famous Deaf artists and their first collaboration is Another Noise, an album that captures first-takes of Raymond’…
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Sat 12 Oct 2024
Fiddles, folk and finding the light: The Crooked Fiddle Band and Angie McMahon
Crooked Fiddle Band refer to their music as “chainsaw folk”, but their fourth studio album The Free Wild Wind & the Songs of Birds is heavier on the folk than on the chainsaw. The band comes into The…
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Sun 06 Oct 2024
The Outlaws: Henry Wagons remembers Kris Kristofferson, and Tami Neilson plays Willie Nelson
Henry Wagons remembers Outlaw Country figurehead Kris Kristofferson, who has died at the age of 88. From Nashville to Hollywood, from Oxford University to the US Army, he had a life almost as unique …
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Sat 05 Oct 2024
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