The Music Show
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The Music Show
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
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What Did You Hear: listening to the music of Bob Dylan
Writing about and scholarship of Bob Dylan tends to focus on the words - he's a Nobel Prize winner for literature, after all - but his music deserves...
Riccardo Tesi and Giua open their retablos & Rafael Anton Irisarri searches for connection
Riccardo Tesi and Giua are bringing their melodeon, guitar, and Italian folk tradition to Australia for a series of concerts called Retablos. These ar...
Music Now & Then: Andy Irvine
Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Irvine has been coming on The Music Show for over thirty years, so he's the perfect person to start our oc...
Violinist María Dueñas and percussionist Claire Edwardes
Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Signed to Deutsc...
Live at WOMADelaide 2026: Ganavya, La Perla and the Zawose Queens
On stage at WOMADelaide, the world's festival on Kaurna Country, Andy hosts bands from Tanzania, Colombia, and India via the USA. The Zawose Queens, L...
The magnificent voices of Annahstasia and Åkervinda
First discovered as a 17-year-old, Annahstasia found the music industry had a vision for her that she didn't recognise. Leaving the industry behind ga...
Ron Sexsmith and Mary Coughlan
Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter who more than earns the title of tunesmith with his melodies and storytelling. He's back on The Music Sho...
Marisa Anderson's UnAmerican Folk Music and paying tribute to Éliane Radigue
Marisa Anderson says she learned to play the guitar three times. Once, as a young learner of classical guitar as a child. Then, being exposed to folk...
György Kurtág at 100
It's the hundredth birthday of György Kurtág, one of the most revered and increasingly performed of living composers. Cellist Steven Isserlis and bari...
The surprising and eclectic sounds of Ben Nobuto and Black Country, New Road
British Japanese composer Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim. opened the BBC Proms in 2024, garnering a roaring, standing ovation (a rare feat for a world pr...
Nairobi comes to Adelaide with Blinky Bill, and the weird and wondrous sacred music of Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo was a Renaissance composer, a prince, and a murderer. His sacred music, including his Tenebrae Responsoria, is a strange collection of...
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings celebrate new music and a big anniversary; and Raphael Pichon's surprising choice of Orfeo
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are one of the great couples of Americana, with a catalogue that stretches back decades. Along the way they've put th...
Lachlan Skipworth on expanding his compositional palette and Worlds Only embrace the moment
Lachlan Skipworth, one of Australia's most beautiful compositional voices, has a very unusual new double concerto - for trumpet and clarinet - set to...
Andrea Keller's Transients; and Ian Thompson takes us to the French musical underground of 1968
Andrea Keller is not only a pianist, composer, bandleader and educator, she's also the Jazz Ambassador at this year's Clarence Jazz Festival, celebrat...
Neil and Tim Finn unsplit the Enz and Reuben Brown on the music of Arnhem Land
Tim Finn and Neil Finn have worked together in a number of guises over the years: Crowded House, The Finn Brothers, and guesting on each other’s solo...
Lucy Dacus on feelings, bread, and roses; and 'a country trying to sing itself free' in Celtic Utopia
Lucy Dacus is now perhaps best known for being one third of boygenius, one of the great sad girl groups of all time. But her latest album, Forever is...
Ursula Yovich sings NIna Simone and Toshi Maeda on pop-punk and Mach Pelican
Singer and actor Ursula Yovich joins Andy to talk about Nina Simone. Yovich has been taking on Simone's music for a show at Sydney Festival and she ex...
The backbone of Midnight Oil: Rob Hirst (1955 - 2026)
From a teenage band driving up and down the coast in a station wagon to one of the biggest Australian bands of all time, Midnight Oil survived on the...
The bouzouki in Irish folk with Daoirí Farrell; and The Red Shoes with Meow Meow
The bouzouki has been a feature of Irish folk music since the mid-1960s, and one of the instrument’s finest modern exponents is Daoirí Farrell. He’s a...
From broken piano to bestseller: Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
In February 1975, Keith Jarrett turned up at the Cologne Opera House to play a solo concert. He was tired, hungry and in pain, and the Bösendorfer pia...
Storytelling, beats and soundscapes on Warlpiri Country, and the legacy of the Shangri-Las
Lajamanu is one of the most remote places in Central Australia, and it’s where we meet Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu, his father Jerry Jangala Pa...
"I have seen rock and roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen": Born To Run at 50
On the 25th of August, 1975, Bruce Springsteen released Born to Run, the "dividing line" of his career. Starting with the title track, written on the...
Collecting Scots songs on horseback with Quinie; and The Sex Pistols with Steve Jones
The Glasgow-based singer Quinie travelled across Argyll on her horse Maisie to collect old Scots songs for her new album Forefowk, Mind Me. On this re...
The Violin in the Colony
“Ships become obsolete; fine furs are ravaged by moths, faded by the sun, worn by rubbing against show cases; garments go out of style; the gold watch...
Chamber music by women with Anna Goldsworthy and Richard Dawson's evocative songwriting
Seraphim Trio have been making chamber music together for over twenty years. Pianist Anna Goldsworthy joins Andrew Ford to talk about her relationship...
Innovation and imitation: Maurice Ravel at 150
Aspirations of modernity, progress and innovation drove music through the 20th century. For French composer Maurice Ravel, inspiration from (and imita...
Genre-benders: Abel Selaocoe and Bush Gothic
Almost every description of South African singer, cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe starts with a phrase like “genre-defying”, but Abel refers to him...
Ellen Stekert on a full life in folk music
Ellen Stekert has spent a lifetime in folk music. She got her first guitar at 13 (to assist with her rehab after contracting polio) and soon after hig...
The "doofy folk" of Brisbane band Amaidí; and Luciano Berio at 100 with his student Kim Williams
Brisbane trad band Amaidí say they perform "doofy folk stuff": accordion, guitar, banjo and fiddle augmented by stomp box and electronics. Amaidí mean...
Messiah
What do an actress mired in scandal, a grieving political dissident, a previously enslaved African celebrity, and a court composer have in common? The...
From Mixtapes to MTV: The Music of the 1980s with Tony Wellington
Tony Wellington returns to the show to race through the 1980s in a single episode. It's a decade of contradictions, where big hair, commercial pop hit...
JJJJJerome Ellis on the musicality of stuttering, and a masterclass in the chromatic harmonica
JJJJJerome Ellis styles their name with five Js because it’s the word they stutter on the most. The artist, writer, composer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reed and Oak: DOBBY & Cate Kennedy
Reed and Oak - composed and performed by DOBBY, words by Cate Kennedy.
One of two winning poems from our Middle of the Air competition, run in c...
The Abour: Leah Senior & Giles Watson
The Arbour - composed and performed by Leah Senior, words by Giles Watson.
One of two winning poems from our Middle of the Air competition, run...
Poetry becomes song: Middle of the Air winning songs revealed with DOBBY and Leah Senior
In August, ABC Radio National and Red Room Poetry put out the call for Australian poets to submit new poems to be set to music by two great local musi...
Leo Sayer is still dancing, and art and song in Warlpiri women's ceremony
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the voices of people who have died.
As a post-war kid, L...
Performing Assyrian-ness with Lolita Emmanuel
Lolita Emmanuel is a creative researcher. She’s a musician, a storyteller, and an academic (moments away from finishing her Doctor of Musical Arts) an...
Guzheng, standards, and Yolngu manikay: three very different albums from Paul Grabowsky and friends
Most people would think of Paul Grabowsky as a jazz pianist. And they wouldn't be wrong, except he's much more than that. He's a composer of film scor...
Cover Story: Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now was written by Joni Mitchell in 1966, when she was just 21 years old. She wasn't the first artist to record it though - in true folk tr...
Seckou Keita retunes West African traditional music, and Rowena Wise & Didirri's couples therapy through song
Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita's relationship with the West African string instrument is delicate, thoughtful, and expansive. Through developing...