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Geoffrey has had an extraordinary musical career. In this podcast, he thinks back over his teenage determination to be a soul/pop singer, how he achieved that dream, and how his life has taken shape in the years since he had 5 songs in the charts and wrote for Michael Jackson and Dusty Springfield. A great performer, we can't wait to see him at CresFest in 25!
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Joe has had an amazing career, from Indigenous reggae rock group No Fixed Address in the 80s, through to the Black Arm Band in the 2000s, and periods of leading his own band before and since then. His father and mother were forcibly removed from Palm Island in 1957, before he was born, after a strike in which indigenous workers campaigned to be paid for their work. His take on indigenous matters is always worth hearing, as is his best known song Yil Lull, an Indigenous anthem, and recent songs just recorded for a new vinyl.
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Mark is the guitarist and one of 6 singers in The Cherrypickers, a contemporary bluegrass band from Adelaide, recently one of the headliners at CresFest 24. We started talking during the festival, then caught up again a couple of weeks later, covering topics as varied as his experience at CresFest, singing harmony, the band's music and history together over the last 20 years, and then about his new life regenerating a rural property in Tasmania. You'll have no chance to get bored!
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Lucy Wise, one of Australia's great songwriters and performers, talks openly with Neil about her journey balancing good mental health and a career in the performing arts, her new album Into The Blue and the influence of her mum, musician and songwriter Louisa Wise!
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For 15 years, Melisande and her partner Alex have been taking traditional Quebecois music and turning it into something quite different and incredible. They talk about their mission to support the music of their area and their part in a more general community approach to keeping French Canadian language and life flourishing. It's a fascinating conversation! Come and see them get the place moving with their band at CresFest 24.
Tickets at cresfest.com.au
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Neil talks about the Flood Opera project with Professor Jane Davidson, Mark, a local who lived through the storm and took part, and Lisette, an opera student. The project is an amazing co-operation between Creswick people, the local Creswick Lions Club, CresFest, and students and staff from the post-graduate Masters in Opera course at Melbourne University.
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Catherine and Mark are a couple who had been living in Creswick for more than 20 years when the floods and storms hit in January 2022. Here they talk about their experiences during and after the storm, its impact on them, and how they have managed to rebuild, literally and figuratively, since then.
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Alisa and Brian are a young couple who had just moved to Creswick before the January 2022 storm and floods. Here they talk about their experiences during and after the storm.
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Stella Savy is a professional musician and choir leader from Ballarat. But that doesn't tell much of the story. In this podcast, Judy Turner (Director of CresFest) talks with Stella about the journey to investigating her family roots in the Seychelles, and her views on the importance of community music. It's an inspiring conversation!
https://cocosounds.com/
https://cresfest.com.au/
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Simmy was one of the best known traditional singers ever recorded in Victoria, and he lived in Springmount, near Creswick, in the Victorian Goldfields. He passed away in 1968, but in the decade before that, 30 hours of recordings were made of him singing and talking about his life. With the permission of the Anderson family, this podcast from the National Library of Australia replays the first section of the recording made by Hugh Anderson in 1967, and gives insight into Simmy and his life.
https://www.neiladamandjudyturner.com/the-simmy-show
https://cresfest.com.au/
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Paddy is in his late 70s, and has a repertoire of around 200 Irish songs, many learnt from his family as a young person growing up on the family farm in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Paddy moved to Australia in the 1970s, and has only recently got back into singing. We recorded an album's worth of songs which you can hear on Spotify (by typing his name into the search function), and in this podcast, Paddy talks about one of the songs we recorded, The Stately Woods of Truagh. The discussion moves backwards and forwards between Ireland's history and Australia's, and Paddy reflects on the importance of Survival Day.
https://www.neiladamandjudyturner.com/paddycaulfield
https://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/city/my-community/aboriginal-ballarat/survival-day-dawn-ceremony#:~:text=While%20a%20day%20of%20mourning,Torres%20Strait%20Island%20people's%20history.
https://cresfest.com.au/
