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
Radical Son on soulful learnings, and the picturesque compositions of Christopher Cerrone
Kamilaroi and Tongan singer and musician Radical Son (AKA David Leha) has just released his second album, a full decade after his debut. Called Bilambiyal (The Learning) it demonstrates his growth as…
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Sun 21 Jul 2024
Brett Dean's Hamlet and Linda May Han Oh's bass
Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn's Hamlet (2017) has been one of the most successful operas of recent years with performances at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Adelaide Festival, New York's Metropolita…
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Sat 20 Jul 2024
The music of Australian ballroom: disco, house, and the sounds of Western Sydney
This program contains strong language throughout.
Before Madonna brought voguing into the limelight, the queer community had been quietly putting on balls and celebrating this form of expression si…
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Sun 14 Jul 2024
Andrew Gurruwiwi’s new Yolŋu funk and Louis Armstrong’s last great performance
Andrew Gurruwiwi leads the Andrew Gurruwiwi Band in what they call 'Yolŋu funk', a mix between reggae, heavy metal, and funk in language from across the region. Andrew tells us about his music-making…
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Sat 13 Jul 2024
Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan
First Nations listeners are advised that this program contains the names and voices of people who have died.
At the start of NAIDOC Week, The Music Show explores the legacy of the late Ruby Hunter –…
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Sun 07 Jul 2024
The power of three: tabla, veena and violin unite and Opera Australia stages Puccini's triptych
Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya comes to Opera Australia to conduct Puccini’s Il trittico, a rare triptych of operas which span tragedy, farce, and religious fervour. Lidiya is at home …
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Sat 06 Jul 2024
Finding radical newness in tradition with Neal Peres Da Costa's harpsichord and Jenny M Thomas's Welsh choir
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the names and voices of people who have died.
Neal Peres Da Costa’s most recent recordings include a Mozart pia…
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Sun 30 Jun 2024
Grace Petrie's protest songs and Mat Schulz's Unsound festival
British singer songwriter Grace Petrie has an EP called “There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Singer” – but if there was such a thing she would definitely be one of the preeminent ones. Her musical car…
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Sat 29 Jun 2024
The Beatles in Australia
Sixty years ago The Fab Four toured Australia for the first and last time. Greg Armstrong is the co-author of When We Was Fab - Inside The Beatles' Australasian Tour 1964. He takes us behind the scen…
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Sun 23 Jun 2024
Caroline Shaw and Nicolas Altstaedt
American composer Caroline Shaw’s latest album, a collaboration with Sō Percussion, is called Rectangles and Circumstance. It’s a collection of ten songs run through with words by Emily Dickinson, Em…
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Sat 22 Jun 2024
Clive James on words and music
This week on the Music Show, we take a look into the archives to an interview with the late, great Clive James. Andy spoke to Clive back in 2003 about what it was like writing for the song and the st…
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Sun 16 Jun 2024
Novelists on music: Margaret Atwood, Andrea Goldsmith and Anna Goldsworthy
Three authors on music from The Music Show archives.
Margaret Atwood spoke to Andrew Ford back in 2003, after the transformation of her novel The Handmaid’s Tale into an opera by Danish composer Pou…
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Sat 15 Jun 2024
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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Sun 09 Jun 2024
Deerhoof returns to Australia, and soprano Anna Fraser sings through a snorkel
Indie-rock veterans Deerhoof are set to make their first appearance in Australia in a decade, and drummer Greg Saunier joins us on The Music Show to discuss their journey. With a repertoire spanning …
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Sat 08 Jun 2024
Ziggy Ramo's Human?
Ziggy Ramo returns to The Music Show with a new album that’s more than just an album. Human? will be released later this year but right now the only way you can hear it is through QR codes in his boo…
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Sun 02 Jun 2024
Jeremy Deller's acid brass, Bach's St John Passion, and Victoria Pham's singing mushrooms
Artist Jeremy Deller first made the connection between acid house music and brass bands back in 1995. The project that emerged, ACID BRASS, brings community bands together in raucous live events. Del…
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Sat 01 Jun 2024
Becoming a Composer with Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen’s memoir Becoming a Composer is a look into the mind of the composer as well as the life of one. Born in Belize but now based in the far-flung north of Scotland, where she sometimes i…
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Sun 26 May 2024
Kate Mulvany updates Dido & Aeneas and Elefant Traks finishes up after 26 years
Playwright, screenwriter, and actress Kate Mulvany has been commissioned with the task of writing the lost prologue for the first true English opera, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She joins Andy on The …
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Sat 25 May 2024
Omar Musa, turning poetry into music & the music of Jane Austen
Omar Musa is an author, artist, poet, and woodcutter making music and art from Borneo to Brooklyn. He is back in Australia to talk about his latest album The Fullness. His third album touches on the …
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Sun 19 May 2024
Stuart Skelton sings the Song of the Earth, and Reuben Lewis and Huda the Goddess meet in the middle of jazz and spoken word
Australian tenor Stuart Skelton returns to The Music Show as he prepares to sing Mahler’s Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Looking over his increasingl…
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Sat 18 May 2024
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