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ENTERTAINMENT
Live Music Revival
Ajak Kwai
MONASH UNIVERSITY is spearheading the live music revival in Melbourne, with the blockbuster free Sound Gallery Sessions.
MLIVE is hosting a third season of the popular live-streamed concert series climaxing with iconic Indigenous singer-songwriter Archie Roach on December 2.
The final season is bringing live music back into the living rooms of music lovers across Australia, and the world, and caps a stellar line-up of talent. Since the season launch in April, MLIVE has hosted some of Australia’s most renowned artists, including Lior, Deborah Conway, Thando, Rita Satch and Hoang Pham.
The Sound Gallery Sessions are streamed on Facebook and YouTube weekly at 7pm AEDT, and have reached an audience of more 300,000 people, as Monash finds innovative ways to connect artists with audiences during a challenging year.
Sessions are performed in the intimate and acoustically superb David Li Sound Gallery, part of the Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, and broadcast using multi-camera live streaming technology. At the end of the performances, artists can engage with the audience via a Q and A.
MLIVE is hosting a third season of the popular live-streamed concert series climaxing with iconic Indigenous singer-songwriter Archie Roach on December 2.
The final season is bringing live music back into the living rooms of music lovers across Australia, and the world, and caps a stellar line-up of talent. Since the season launch in April, MLIVE has hosted some of Australia’s most renowned artists, including Lior, Deborah Conway, Thando, Rita Satch and Hoang Pham.
The Sound Gallery Sessions are streamed on Facebook and YouTube weekly at 7pm AEDT, and have reached an audience of more 300,000 people, as Monash finds innovative ways to connect artists with audiences during a challenging year.
Sessions are performed in the intimate and acoustically superb David Li Sound Gallery, part of the Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, and broadcast using multi-camera live streaming technology. At the end of the performances, artists can engage with the audience via a Q and A.
Flinders Quartet
Season dates and lineup:
November 18 - Ajak Kwai
An icon of Australian-Sudanese music whose soulful tunes are infused with funky afro-beats.
November 25 - Flinders Quartet
One of Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles, with a spine-tingling classical repertoire.
December 2 - Archie Roach with Paul Grabowsky
November 18 - Ajak Kwai
An icon of Australian-Sudanese music whose soulful tunes are infused with funky afro-beats.
November 25 - Flinders Quartet
One of Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles, with a spine-tingling classical repertoire.
December 2 - Archie Roach with Paul Grabowsky
Archie Roach
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This musical collaboration sees singer-songwriter and national treasure Archie Roach team up with pianist Paul Grabowsky for a spectacular season finale.
Grabowsky, the Executive Director of MLIVE, said the concerts brought people together through the power of music. “In uncertain times, music and live performances can bring joy and a momentary distraction from feelings of stress, anxiety or suffering,” he said. “We are also able to support our brilliant, original and diverse Australian artists whose livelihoods have been severely impacted by COVID-19. “I encourage anyone who is missing art, who is missing attending live music performances, to tune in from their living rooms and reconnect with like-minded people for our final season of 2020.” Past performances can be seen here. To find out more and view the live stream click here. |
Get Carter
Indrani Bandyopadhyay
Indrani Bandyopadhyay
APROPOS of nothing (except perhaps my love of history, humanities and folk music!) here's some music that's been giving me so much joy lately.
I love folk music from all over the world including American "mountain" music.
Maybelle Carter was the mother of Helen, June and Anita and mother-in-law of Johnny Cash. She grew up in the mountains of Virginia and was a folk guitar impresario (self-taught!) in her own right and developed a style of guitar playing that is still being emulated today.
With her brother-in-law AP Carter and cousin Sara, Maybelle was part of The (Original) Carter Family — one of the earliest folk/country/mountain music groups to be recorded in America (1927) — and is one of my favourite female performers of all time.
Here she is still killing it at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. The male voice you hear is the wonderful Mike Seeger, ethnomusicologist and fellow folk music fan (+ step brother of Pete Seeger) who had the foresight to find and record so many American musicians — including Lesley (or "Esley") Riddle, a black musician who spent a lot of time with AP + the Carters (remarkable during the Jim Crow restrictions!) — and from whom Maybelle learned one of the guitar styles she later refined.
I love folk music from all over the world including American "mountain" music.
Maybelle Carter was the mother of Helen, June and Anita and mother-in-law of Johnny Cash. She grew up in the mountains of Virginia and was a folk guitar impresario (self-taught!) in her own right and developed a style of guitar playing that is still being emulated today.
With her brother-in-law AP Carter and cousin Sara, Maybelle was part of The (Original) Carter Family — one of the earliest folk/country/mountain music groups to be recorded in America (1927) — and is one of my favourite female performers of all time.
Here she is still killing it at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. The male voice you hear is the wonderful Mike Seeger, ethnomusicologist and fellow folk music fan (+ step brother of Pete Seeger) who had the foresight to find and record so many American musicians — including Lesley (or "Esley") Riddle, a black musician who spent a lot of time with AP + the Carters (remarkable during the Jim Crow restrictions!) — and from whom Maybelle learned one of the guitar styles she later refined.
