Who's who of Australian music industry
How many rockers can you fit in a local radio studio? Decades of Australian music history stopped by to talk with Penny Terry on the Tasmanian leg of their national tour. Do you know who they are?
View ArticleFor members only: Soweto Gospel Choir
Northtas e-newsletter subscribers will have the chance to win tickets to Soweto Gospel Choir.
View ArticleThe Devil, the blues, and cigar box guitars
Tasmania has its fair share of guitar makers, and Bruce Trappes has added Devil Guitars to the list. The difference is you may not have heard of, or seen, a cigar box guitar before!
View ArticlePete Cornelius - 'Groundswell'
St. Mary's, Tasmania born and based Pete Cornelius is a very fine blues guitarist. His latest album, with its core band his Hammond trio, New Orleans-inspired King Cake, is a combination of New...
View ArticlePeter Sculthorpe: Prolific Australian composer dies aged 85
Internationally renowned Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, whose work was shaped by his love of the Australian landscape, has died aged 85. The Launceston-born composer passed away at Wolper Jewish...
View ArticleThe Magic Flute comes to Launceston
Would you like a night at the opera? Belinda has tickets to giveaway to the performance at the Princess Theatre Launceston on September 17.
View ArticleCompetitive keyboards in Shepparton
Young pianists from all over Australia have been competing in the Goulburn Valley for big money prizes in the National Piano Award.
View ArticleRareCollections: Collector Ashley Anderson (Katalyst)
When Ashley Anderson was a kid his step dad, who sold top end hi-fi sound systems, told him to forget about CD's and buy vinyl.
View ArticleMusicians and farmers find common ground through the Acoustic Life of Sheds...
The Big hArt music project Acoustic Life of Sheds creates world-class music in north-west Tasmanian farm sheds.
View ArticleTasmania's Residential Summer String Camp attracting high fliers for 25 years
Tasmania's Residential Summer String Camp marks 25 years of classical music geekdom in Tasmania.
View ArticleFather and son piano act from Ulverstone overcome alcohol, abuse to prove...
After seven years apart, a common love for music and the piano reunites a father and son from Ulverstone.
View ArticleBrian Ritchie digs into his American music roots to play on a pig farm at...
Brian Ritchie and Lucky Oceans will play together at a pig farm near Penguin this weekend.
View ArticleTasmanian Symphony Orchestra turns small profit in difficult year
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has described its small 2013 profit as a good result under difficult conditions.
View ArticleCuban band El Son Entero's first tour abroad brings some cha cha cha to Tasmania
Cuba's El Son Entero touring Tasmania this week.
View ArticleLaunceston DJ keeping the vinyl records spinning
Standing in front of two turntables with a pair of headphones covering just one ear and hands laying flat on the spinning records, Launceston's Matthew Flack is in the minority as a DJ who uses vinyl...
View ArticleJessie Vonk's Tasmanian home celebrates music and life with world-renowned...
Wife of renowned Dutch conductor, Hans Vonk, loves her Tasmanian chapter.
View ArticleTasmanian band inspired by poem written by Forth man about battle with ice...
Avargo Groove hope to record song based on a Forth man's poem written in prison about his addiction to the drug ice.
View ArticleMusic therapist Allison Davies says music therapy achieves outcomes and...
Allison Davies explains the science behind the growing interest in music therapy from doctors and medical teams.
View ArticleLaunceston college band ready for performance at Victorian festival
The sound of chatter and wind instruments being blown at different times fills the room at the Launceston College music centre as the band members warm up for rehearsals.
View ArticleSheyana's journey back to her father and roots in Sri Lanka leads to hit song
Sheyana Wijesingha reunited with her father, finds a new audience in Sri Lanka for her music.
View ArticleDrum class allows young people to talk about problems
At a youth conference in Launceston a group of about 15 people sitting in a circle each take part in a drumbeat session that aims to deliver key messages about life to young people.
View ArticleTasmanian live music supporters feel valued following economic report card
Passionate pub owners across Tasmania who support live music acts have a reason to feel valued after new research reveals the live music scene is economically sound in Australia.
View ArticleRosebery's young luthiers making guitars in the high school classroom
Luthier Peter Winskill teaches Tasmanian high school students a unique skill in Rosebery.
View ArticleLaunceston ute lover repaired and almost ready for muster
It has been three years in the making but Justyn Atkins from Launceston is now putting the finishing touches on his trusty ute in preparation for the 2015 Deni Ute Muster.
View ArticleNorthern Tasmanian musicians excited about bringing jazz to the community in...
For years Launceston musician Don Ives has loved jazz music and now he's preparing to share it with northern Tasmania in the Norfolk Plains Jazz festival in Longford.
View ArticleJimmy Powell's pianola: trans-global singalongs via skype for Tullah family
Singalongs via skype keep a great Tullah tradition alive
View ArticleKing Island men down tools to make music by night
A group of King Island men who work the land by day are turning their talents to making music at night in a bush studio-cum-stage.
View ArticleClaire Anne Taylor: A national talent born in the barn, nurtured in the...
The distinctive and powerful voice of Claire Anne Taylor was cultivated in a Tasmanian bush home, designed to be open to musical ideas and a do-it-yourself ethos.
View ArticleWater-powered organ heard in Launceston for first time in 36 years
A historic water organ is powered up using its original engine for a Mother's Day recital at Launceston's Albert Hall for the first time in 36 years.
View ArticlePete Cornelius - 'Groundswell'
St. Mary's, Tasmania born and based Pete Cornelius is a very fine blues guitarist. His latest album, with its core band his Hammond trio, New Orleans-inspired King Cake, is a combination of New...
View ArticleLaunceston artist contemplates the mysteries of guitar in new artwork
Do you play guitar or is it playing you?
View ArticleBrassed off: Burnie band rooms to be bulldozed after 70 years to make way for...
Members of Burnie's 125-year-old brass band are waiting for word on a new home at they make way for the University of Tasmania's move to West Park.
View ArticleFormer concert pianist Harley Tait ready to teach in Ringarooma bank building
Ringarooma's original bank turned out to be the perfect home for a former concert pianist who is excited to be living in the small north-east Tasmanian town.
View ArticleGunns Plains Caves provide unique performance space for brass band Quintagon
Brass band Quintagon adds to the experience of the Gunns Plains Caves in northern Tasmania by performing about 25 metres underground.
View ArticleAre these the cleanest festival goers ever?
A biodegradable cup, Bunnings receipt, part of a Pokemon card and a tiny spattering of nondescript rubbish is all that remained at this music festival campground in Tasmania.
View ArticleWhen She Believes showcasing female performers in Launceston
A Launceston pub night showcasing female musicians goes from strength to strength, and When She Believes is featuring at this year's Junction Arts Festival.
View ArticleIconic Tasmanian music store celebrates 80 years of business in Launceston
Barratts Music has been in Launceston since 1937 and it is still owned by the same family, who are hopeful it might stay in the family for a fifth generation.
View ArticleUkulele fun is anything but a MUGS' game
A group of retirees in Tasmania are tuning into a new life, embracing Hawaiian shirts and ukuleles, some of them lovingly handcrafted.
View ArticleGuitar maker reclaims the 'dying craft' of the luthier
In a skinny shop-space on one of Mount Isa's main streets, a luthier is helping to reinvent the dying craft of guitar-making.
View ArticleDarryl Beaton, musical director to the stars, returns to where his journey began
Darryl Beaton left Devonport and became a sought after musician and musical director, working with Jess Mauboy, Delta Goodrem even Kanye West.
View ArticleForth Valley's beloved blues festival needs help to keep 21-year tradition alive
One of Tasmania's longest running musical traditions, the Forth Valley Blues Festival, won't go ahead in 2019 without some desperately needed help.
View ArticleOne Night Stand: What festivalgoers heading to St Helens can expect
So, you're heading to triple j's One Night Stand being held this year in the Tasmanian town of St Helens. Are you ready? Here's our guide to what to expect.
View ArticleSt Helens One Night Stand draws 'biggest ever' crowd to triple j's annual...
More than 20,000 people crammed in for the biggest ever triple j One Night Stand concert, held this year in Tasmania, but some frustrated festivalgoers found themselves turned away at the gate as the...
View ArticleUnconformity festival dancers make splash in Queenstown's toxic orange river
Dancers jump into one of the most polluted rivers in the world as part of a contemporary arts festival on Tasmania's rugged west coast.
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea entertains crowd in Hobart during band's...
The bass player of one of the world's most popular bands performs handstands across the stage to entertain the crowd after a power outage temporarily cuts the sound system midway through the second song.
View ArticleJazz musician to Zen monk: pianist Tom Vincent changes tune
Jazz musician Tom Vincent's talent has taken him all over the world, but this week, he'll give up performing for good to dedicate his energy to his other life as a Zen Buddhist monk.
View ArticleConvict past explored and myths busted in all-star musical Vandemonian Lags
An all-star musical-theatre production shines a light on Tasmania's convict past, and busts a few long-held myths along the way.
View ArticleSolid rock: Reliving the glory days of Hobart's pub rock scene
In 1985, twin brothers David and Richard Laskey took a leap of faith and bought the Dog House Hotel. It was an era when Hobart's live music scene was arguably as vibrant as anything the mainland had to...
View ArticleComposer's 'deep listening' to extreme wind and waves of Australia's wildest...
Composer Rachel Meyers, immersed in Tasmania's wild west coast, says the wind makes its own unique sound when interacting with her instruments.
View ArticleLucindale to swell to 40 times its size for triple j's One Night Stand concert
The small SA town of Lucindale prepares to balloon to 40 times the size of its population as it hosts a free concert drawing in music-lovers and road-trippers from across the country.
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