MOON CALLER from Penny Davies & Roger Ilott

MOON CALLER new music from PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT

For over 30 years PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT’s  performances of songs such as Hey Rain!, Where the Cane Fires Burn, Beside a Railway Line, Ridin’ on the Fruit Train, The Monkeys Sing Soprano and When the Cooper’s Coming Down have been taken to Australia’s heart and are part of the Australian psyche.

MOON CALLER is their latest release and features son Jordy on drums along with old bandmate Jed Hudson on bass – creating a strong rhythmic feel on every track. The album features songs about people, climate, greed, the price of war, human achievement and human frailty, the lessons of history, bushrangers, growing up and growing older.

The moon is a strong symbol throughout this new album – with its focus on the mysteries and the tides of human life on this planet. MOON CALLER is their 17th album. Tracks:  She’s Like A Tree, Aurelia, Four Horsemen, The Circle Game, Crazy Weather, O’Mara’s Front Verandah, The Goldfield, Wet Season Blues, Song Of The Artesian Water, Pte. Herbert Thomas Scard, Must Have Been The Moon, Armstrong, Goodbye To Your Schooldays, Peaceful, Storm King Jam.

Visions of Hawai’i & the Art of Adrienne Mierzwa

An Invitation to visit the artwork of Adrienne Mierzwa
at Roy’s Poipu Bar & Grill in Kola, Hawaii

Trio Yumuri Release AZUCAR DE CUBA

Trio Yumuri
Evelio Morejon, Marialis Abreu Y Alonso Cobas

Trio Yumuri is from Matanzas, Cuba. They perform nightly in Varadero at the Varadero Oasis 1920. Their sound is typically Cuban with much jazz and arabic influences combining with their strong vocal harmonies. Trio Yumuni has released two CDs which are available directly from them by mail.

Jeanette Wormald To Tour Europe

Utah Phillips May 1935 – May 2008

On May 23, 2008, folk singer, labour organizer, poet and story telling Bruce ‘Utah’ Phillips passed away quietly in his sleep after a long illness. His voice will be missed but his stories and songs will last for a very very long time.

Maunalua in Waikiki

photo courtesy of Adrienne Mierzwa, Rye, NY

Maunalua in Waikiki

photo courtesy of Adrienne Mierzwa of Rye, NY

Ballad Singer Graham Rodger Releases New Album

Australian Multiple Golden Guitar finalist Graham Rodger has teamed up with Jeanette Wormald to record a duet which is included on his new album The Fire Within Me.

Graham Rodger is a Multi-Award winning country music songwriter and recording artist specialising in Australian Ballads. His songs have been played all over Australia and have been recorded by a number of country music artists including the late Slim Dusty. On this new album, Graham teamed up with Jeanette Wormald for a duet. Jeanette travelled to Brisbane in January to record the duet in producer, Michael Fix’s studio. The song is an Australian classic about a little lake in South Australia’s outback Carra Barra Wirra Canna. Jeanette tells that Graham rang her up and asked whether she would consider doing a duet with him. “I was honoured,” Jeanette says. “But our initial choices for a duet didn’t work out. I was in the studio listening to Graham’s new songs and was really excited by the direction he was heading. I did the vocal arrangements for him on Diamantina, and then realised that Carra Barra Wirra Canna would work really well for us. We learned it that night and recorded it the next day. I was so excited by the harmonies I got teary and Graham got goose bumps. Even Michael was excited and called Susan Jarvis in to have a listen.” The duet features on Graham’s seventh album which was launched in Queensland the first weekend in April.

The Tara Cafe Project

The Tara Café Project promotes the cultural continuity of Tibetan music. Live performances, recordings, and film documentation involving Tibetan artists, both inside Tibet and in exile, are supported. The Tara Café Project began in 2003, taking its name from a small cafe in Dharamsala, India, where refugees from the Amdo region of Tibet often gather to visit and play music together.  In 2003, the Tara Café Project CD was produced, featuring the music of Gompo Kyab and Gompo Dhundup. These two talented musicians were living in exile in Dharamsala, home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Songs of the Inland