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
Polyphony and protest with Windborne, loops and language with Allara
Windborne are a vocal quartet from New England in the US. Their tagline is 'old songs, bold harmonies' and their varied repertoire puts Corsican polyphony next to 17th Century English protest songs. …
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Sun 03 Mar 2024
Dancing across the world with Angélique Kidjo & Maatakitj, and from opera to cabaret with Anna Dowsley
With sixteen albums and five Grammys under her belt, Angélique Kidjo doesn’t need much of an introduction. She’s back in Australia to perform songs from her 2021 album Mother Nature as well as gems f…
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Sat 02 Mar 2024
Jazz Money's poetic ventures into music and Cameron Undy's ghostly rhythms
The Music Show is about the creation and enjoyment of music.
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Sun 25 Feb 2024
Fearless voices: Joseph Keckler and Raehann Bryce-Davis
Joseph Keckler creates operatic monologues that cover subjects such as psychedelic mushroom trips, haunted houses, and buying a jacket. He also does Schubert lieder. He’s about to tour to Australia w…
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Sat 24 Feb 2024
The exile of Arooj Aftab and what Alana Valentine built from the fire of Notre-Dame
Arooj Aftab’s 2021 album Vulture Prince took her ten years to write, and for the final two she had to shut all other music out of her life. “I just was trying to make a thing that didn't have a bluep…
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Sun 18 Feb 2024
Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson plays his Hawaiian roots and Katharine Dain sings 20th Century desire
Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson on the band's latest and fifth album V, which combines reggae with Hawaiian music and psychedelic rock. But rather than being a deliberate fusion, V is instea…
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Sat 17 Feb 2024
Lonnie Holley is part of the wonder
Lonnie Holley has dedicated his life to art, but his music career – as a recording artist at least – only started at the age of 62, decades after he became a sculptor displayed at the White House and…
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Sun 11 Feb 2024
Aboard the Arka Kinari, & Frank Yamma live in studio
Embarking on a nautical adventure this week, Andy is welcomed onboard the ‘floating cultural platform’ known as the Arka Kinari, sailed by musical duo Grey Filastine and Nova Ruth. Made of steel inte…
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Sat 10 Feb 2024
Eddie Perfect gets candid about Candide and Forest Collective enter the Labyrinth
Eddie Perfect has been to Broadway and back with music theatre composer credits including Beetlejuice and King Kong, not to mention home-grown hit Shane Warne: The Musical. Now he’s set to play as Dr…
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Sun 04 Feb 2024
Rivers with Richard Tognetti, oceans with Iran Sanadzadeh, and remembering Chita Rivera
Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, returns to The Music Show to catch up with Andy about River, the latest in the ACO’s series of cinematic collaborations, and l…
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Sat 03 Feb 2024
Cigány Weaver live in studio & Lotte Betts-Dean's distinctly medieval collaboration with Stuart MacRae
Formed out of a love for Django Reinhardt and excellent band-name puns, Cigány Weaver play in a style reminiscent of jazz Manouche, traditional swing and Romani music. We hosted the full six-piece ba…
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Sun 28 Jan 2024
David Keenan's Irish Songs & remembering David Lumsdaine
When Irish singer songwriter David Keenan came onto the scene he was described as “the sound of Tim Buckley and Brendan Behan arguing over a few jars, while Kavanagh deals Dylan a suspicious hand of …
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Sat 27 Jan 2024
From Little Things Big Things Grow on RN Summer
This is the story a song written by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly around a campfire in 1988. What started off as a casually recorded folk number has become what Carmody calls “a kind of cultural love so…
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Sun 21 Jan 2024
Electric Fields & Stiff Gins on RN Summer
Robbie speaks to Electric Fields - Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross about the perspectives that have been infused into the music through collaborative songwriting and Zaachariaha's upbringing i…
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Sat 20 Jan 2024
The Lives of Noël Coward on RN Summer
Author Oliver Soden tackles the public and private personas of Noël Coward in his biography Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward. He joins Andy on to unpack the way that life yielded one of the most …
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Sun 14 Jan 2024
Fred Leone & Marcia Hines on RN Summer
Marcia Hines marks fifty years since her debut recording, but her life in music started long before that. Raised with gospel in Boston, she was at Woodstock when she was 16 and then shortly after on …
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Sat 13 Jan 2024
James Gavin's Ravaged Voices on RN Summer
An hour in the company of music writer James Gavin whose biographies include George Michael, Chet Baker and Peggy Lee. Gavin discusses ‘ravaged’ voices; singers whose voices became utterly wrecked i…
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Sun 07 Jan 2024
ANOHNI & the Johnsons return and we’re In the Moog on RN Summer
ANOHNI & the Johnsons return with My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, and Robbie visits the ACO studios to chat with Will Gregory and his Moog Ensemble.
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Sat 06 Jan 2024
Pop Hooks on RN Summer
Pop music is an art, it’s a science, it’s an industrial complex. Ring in the new year with some of your favourite pop hits, and a favourite conversation from 2023.
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Sun 31 Dec 2023
Hozier's Inferno & Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit on RN Summer
New albums from some of the most iconic voices of 2023: Hozier chats about Unreal Unearth, and Benjamin Appl on Forbidden Fruit.
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Sat 30 Dec 2023
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