Newtown resident, cellist and psychologist Anthea Cottee will join some of Australia’s finest baroque instrumentalists in June when Bach Akademie Australia presents Collegium Musicum,...
Japanese chanson singer Amita Hachidori and button accordionist Kentaro Tamura thrilled audiences in Sydney last month during their Tokyo Dark Cabaret Tour, including performances...
Members of Australian South Sea Islanders – Port Jackson joined other community businesses and organisations at the media launch for the 2026 Pyrmont Food...
Sydney University student Jihan Wang produced an outstanding performance to come second in the World Students GO OZA Championship held in Tokyo last month.
The...
Award-winning multi-instrumentalist Richelle ‘Bootsie’ Booth hopes a weekly residency at Sean & Dolly’s in Kings Cross will help bring music back to the middle...
Zambian-born, London-educated, Paris-trained and now Botany resident Major Zulu, this month unpacks her well-travelled musical suitcase to entertain Sydney fans of soul and jazz....
Award-winning street photographer Alex McClintock and internationally recognised audio documentarian Mike Williams will perform a new live, genre-bending slideshow documentary ...
Independent, not-for-profit community radio station FBi has weathered a financial crisis with an emergency fundraising campaign that saw it “live to fight another day”.
Dog Trumpet’s new album is cheerfully bleak. Bubbling melodies float on an undercurrent of anxiety about the state of humanity and the future of the planet. Yet ...
SIMA’s 2025 Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival Opening Night will feature fearless musical innovator and Grammy Award–winning Japanese composer and pianist Hiromi ...
From the Sydney Opera House to Budapest to London’s West End, from arts festivals in Adelaide, Edinburgh and Tasmania, Mikelangelo – the “Nightingale of the Adriatic”, the “Balkan Elvis” – appeared with his new band, the Long Lost Friends, at Petersham Bowlo on March 21 and left the crowd singing, swaying and spellbound.
The City Recital Hall at Angel Place in the Sydney CBD held a Sydney Sounds Better showcase on July 25, with attendees invited to join a journey that would revitalise the venue.
What could New Orleans and Lismore have in common?
New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinctive music, for being the birthplace of jazz, its annual...
If you are interested in music new and old, read this book, listen to Coupe on FBi and 2SER, and follow him on Facebook. Jump aboard his long, strange trip.
Two Erskineville residents will perform in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir’s exciting new concert, We Belong, on Saturday 5 August at NIDA’s Parade...
An Australian spirituality magazine celebrating 40 years of publication believes it can still make a contribution to Australian culture despite an ageing readership and...
Ann Willy was one of over 77,000 people across Australia collected data for The Aussie Bird Count 2022 that will help Birdlife Australia’s researchers better understand the birds we live with and how their populations are changing over time. She’d love others join her in 2023.
Today’s Bird of the Day, the Australian white ibis, was recommended by City of Sydney Councillor, curator and author Jess Scully.
“I know they divide...
Today’s Bird of the Day was nominated by founder and CEO of PlantingSeeds Projects, Judy Friedlander, whose favourite urban native bird is the kookaburra.
Although...
Today’s Bird of the Day, the spangled drongo, was chosen by Darryl Jones, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Planetary Health & Food Security and School of...
Today’s Bird of the Day, the sulphur-crested cockatoo, was chosen by John Martin, Research Scientist, Animal Ecology Lab, Western Sydney University, based at the...
Long-time Redfern resident Marlene Cummins, considered Australia’s foremost Indigenous female blues writer and performer, is a headline act at this year’s Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival.
If you weren’t already aware, we are in a climate crisis that is leading to profound global societal and environmental change.
Changes to Earth’s climate...
On Saturday July 16, in the Opera House’s atmospheric Utzon Room, “The Intimacy of Jazz Now” will see songstress Martha Marlow alongside legendary pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks) presenting an exclusive preview of her forthcoming album Queen of the Night.
Current events such as conflict, Covid-19 and intensifying climate emergencies are resulting in increased inequalities and risks for women, according to a United Nations...
As Sydney’s lockdown restrictions lift, Randa Kattan, CEO of the Arab Council of Australia says “the road out must be a broad highway that can carry all of us, not just the lucky few”. Others say to “build back better” we must seek diverse perspectives from those communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
Julia Holter’s latest album Aviary, described as a “90-minute search for meaning in a dehumanising age”, was included in many lists of the best albums of 2018.
The colourful and intricate tapestry of Woven Threads, a new animated documentary series, reminds us that, regardless of creed or colour, we all belong to the same human family
