The Music Show

The Music Show


Latest Episodes

Jim Moginie at the piano and Kultar Ahluwalia on a life in hip hop
November 30, 2024

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 joined

Surveying the Australian music landscape with Paul Kelly and Amanda Brown
November 29, 2024

Paul Kellys 29th(!) album Fever Longing Stillis 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 d

Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia
November 23, 2024

From the very first shot of John Travolta strutting his stuff down a busy New York street, Saturday Night Feveris an iconic film, and the music is even more iconic. Well, the five Bee Gees tracks th

JADE Ensemble's intercultural sound world and Ken Murray plays Christopher Sainsbury
November 22, 2024

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 ta

Jerron Paxton's blues and Chloe Kim's basses
November 16, 2024

Jerron Paxtons 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 pla

Sharp observations: Bill Bailey and Darren Hanlon
November 15, 2024

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 Mo

From Brazil to The Beatles with Esperanza Spalding, and Affinity Quartet live in the studio
November 09, 2024

Composer, bass player and vocalistEsperanza Spaldinghas become one of the most important voices in 21st century jazz. She has also worked across almost every style of music with some legendary music

Kankawa Nagarra’s Blues on Country, guitarist Sean Shibe in studio, and remembering Quincy Jones
November 08, 2024

In Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley, Walmajarri Elder Kankawa Nagarraplays her guitar and sings the blues. Her latest album, Wirlmarni, was recorded in the desert with her great

Live in the studio with Parvyn and Elana Stone
November 02, 2024

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 traditions

Meet this year's Boyer lecturers, and Afghan-American musician Qais Essar performs live
November 01, 2024

We hear from this years four Boyer lecturers; pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy, violist and conductor Aaron Wyatt, composer, conductor and performer Iain Grandage, and Artistic Director of Gondwa