Gracemakers Interview

Heya,

Here’s the interview with Tiffany Kommedal from last week. I’ll try to get some other audio up soon from guest visits over the last year. Enjoy and get along to St Kilda Festival next weekend! : )

Gracemakers Interview

Tinderbox Australia Day

Loved being back in the studio last night! And exploring some great Indigenous Australian Music. We heard:

Kutcha Edwards on Rock Wiz (for Margot)

Millay Millay (Butterfly) Hood/Lewis (from Myngarnbi Walking Wth Spirits) for Kristen and co

Gam-ba Lingmarra (Spirit of Men)  Hood/Lewis

From the Bush: Warumpi Band (these guys rule! and apparently played at a 3bbb broadcast in the 80′s!)

Babu: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Pick You Up: Tiddas (Powderfinger cover)

Chat with Tiffany from the Gracemakers. You can catch them at the upcoming St Kilda Festival

Blanket: Gracemakers

Beautiful Child: Archie Roach

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Paul Kelly (just a nice song)

Hold On (I’m Coming) Dan Kelly

Throw Your Arms Around Me: Hunters and Collectors (had to play this oldie)

live performance from Natasha Woods!

Let me Sing Freedom: Rene Sephton and Etienne Dinanga (an example of a beautiful cultural collaboration, and we’ll feature more of these in the lead up to Harmony Fest)

Brown Bird: Cooperblack (cover of Nabarlek’s (Arnhem Land) song, of the album My Art Is bleeding)

World Turning Right :Yothu Yindi

My Island Home: Warumpi Band (for Lisa)

Shellie Morris: Love and Courage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjbTRnhbxrc

also check out The Black Arm Band

Atomic Electric: Rebecca’s Empire (Happy Birthday Effie!)

& as we said on the show we won’t be doing the weekly mini-gig guide formally anymore but will keep letting you know about exciting creative events around town! Here’s a few:

Jade’s new Ballarat Literary Journal called Ex-Parenthesis (more details soon)

The final Summer Sundays is on this weekend in the Botanical Gardens with the twilight screening of Citizen Kane at dusk. Come along early to secure a bean bag! See you there.

The next Art Sparks will be next Tuesday 31st at South St Art Studio so let us know if your’e coming (amy.voicefm@gmail.com) for vegetarian feast, music, storytelling and visuals, yay! Hosted by Tinderbox Radio and supported by the City of Ballarat.

Red Brick Gallery are currently calling for photographers to enter the Click@Red Brick exhibition. It’s a group photography exhibition and anyone can apply to exhibit. People just need to follow this link for more info and to get an application form

http://redbrickgallery.com.au/exhibit-red-brick

Travel Playlisto Jan 19th

Cruise Control: J-Pop 60z

A Toda Cuba Le Gusta: Afro Cuban Allstars

All Aboard the Funky Soul Train: The JB’s

Trains: Kyu

Pilots: Goldfrapp

Have Love Will Travel: The Black Keys

The Mozdok’s Train: Anouar Brahem

Hear My Train a Comin’: Jimi Hendrix

text from Michel de Certeau

Mystery Train: Little Junior Parker

Road to Nowhere: Nouvelle Vague

Postcard Blues: Cowboy Junkies

Travelling Woman: Bat for Lashes

Road to Somewhere: Goldfrapp

We Came Along this Road: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Stolen Car: Beth Orton

Wayfaring Stranger: Johnny Cash

A Wandering Song: Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentleman

Day Tripper: Otis Redding

Don’t Take me For a Ride: Founders 15

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry: Bob Dylan

The Hollow Boat: McKisko

Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire are Falling from the Sky: A Silver Mount Zion

Holiday: Joan as Policewoman

Fly: Lamb

Get Up: Hot 8 Brass Band

We Float: PJ Harvey (going to see her on Sat, so excited!!)

Why hello

Hello! One more theme repeat for y’all this week (tis a pretty groovy travel mix!) then we’ll be back at the mic next week. I’m having a good break, but also missing it heaps!

I was lucky enough to be invited down to SYN Fm last night, a busy little hive of media related action, to join a discussion about the possibilities of multi-platform use in today’s broadcasting world. It was great to meet Ballarat-born luminary Bryce Ives, the fabulous Community Media Trainer  Nicola Joseph and catch up with other presenters, friends new and old. More discussion and projects are in the pipeline so stay tuned! I’m particularly keen to get some more collaboration going between metro and regional stations so will keep you posted.

Anywho, looking forward to getting back into the studio on Australia Day- who needs the hottest 100 when you’ve got the Tinderbox?! Yes? yes?…

We’re off to Hobart tomorrow for Mona Foma Art Festival so will have lots to tell you about on our return.

But there’s lots happening in Ballarat too- the Organ Fest, Beer Fest (featuring Claire Bowditch, Stonefield, and Jordie Lane) and Saturday night at Karova is Paddy’s Night, a host of local talent celebrating a great champion of the scene who sadly passed away last year. Oh and don’t miss the amazing Elsworth St Ramblers there on Friday night!

Here’s the lovely Freya Hollick performing live on the ABC

Catch you soon! x

Happy 2012 Tinderboxers! Taking it easy for the first show back with some laid-back tunes and some artists coming out to Oz shortly like  Feist, Erykah Badu, Bonnie Prince Billy, & Charles Bradley.

Don’t miss the Summer Sunday events coming up at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens over the next 3 Sundays with some great music like the Ballarat Ska Orchestra and Elsworth St Ramblers plus sweet desserts, oh yeah.

You can also check out some pics from the Artist Talk I did at  Red Brick exhibition on Tuesday here, thanks to Aldona for taking them : ) Taking a couple of weeks off to finish thesis and pop over to Mona Foma in Tassie to see PJ Harvey, so excited (oh and Ballarat’s fabulous Tegan Lang shaking her groove thing at the festival club!).  Take it easy and catch you soon.