Monday, October 29, 2018
UKRAINIAN VERANDAH MUSIC
Here's how Ukrainians look after their musical traditions. It's an interactive project that brings high tech together with fieldwork and research to make the riches of Ukrainian folk music available to all, as they describe it:
The mission of the Polyphony Project is to explore, preserve and present the living musical folklore of Ukrainian villages. In addition to recording the intangible cultural treasures of the Ukrainian peasantry using state-of-the-art technology, our priority is to make this heritage of unparalleled value accessible to contemporary society. Having accumulated over centuries, this legacy is finally available online in an organised form.
They're on Youtube as well, of course.
Thanks Rob and Ollie Willis.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
VERANDAH MUSIC ITALIAN STYLE
2018 National Folk Fellow Presentation
SONU
Songs from the Homeland
2018 National Folk Fellow Salvatore Rossano presents ‘Sonu’, a project that explores themes of migration using field recordings taken from the National Library’s Oral History collection. Join us as Salvatore and his band, Santa Taranta, present this research and original compositions inspired by these recordings.
In association with the National Folk Festival
Thursday 29 November | 6pm
Theatre | free
Book here or 02 6262 1111
Salvatore Rossano
Monday, October 22, 2018
MORE RAIN LORE
Further on weather lore - it seems that in Central Queensland they can tell when it's going to rain by
looking at the cactus flowers - the more there are blooming, the more it rains. Look at that sucker!