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Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner is welcoming visitors back to Brisbane with the launch of an interstate domestic tourism campaign highlighting the city’s appealing new attributes. Launching Brisbane. Even Better With You. in New South Wales and Victoria, Schrinner said the campaign would inspire people to come and experience the sights, sounds and tastes of a Brisbane they may not have seen before.
“Brisbane is getting better all the time, and this campaign is about capturing the essence of how Brisbane has evolved as a visitor destination with more to see and do for holiday makers,” Schrinner said.
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I want to burn your candle, find your angle
And read all your bad poetry
RUSSH, introducing a series of live performances from acclaimed poet and songbird WASHINGTON.
From tomorrow, February 16, musical artist WASHINGTON will release two live performance videos each week - all recorded during her high-energy, live show at Brisbane Festival in 2020
Each video is a performance of songs from her ARIA Award Winning Album
Batflowers, with a new video shared each Tuesday and Thursday at 7.00pm (AEDT) until March 23rd.
The opening performance video, premiering here first, is naturally the album title track
Batflowers. See it below and experience the intensity and passion of WASHINGTON , live in concert.
ABC Radio National s The Music Show clocks up 30 years on air
By presenter Andrew Ford
SunSunday 14
Andrew Ford interviewing a trumpeter on the streets of New Orleans in 2000.
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You ll have to imagine the anticipation.
It s a Saturday morning in May 2008, and as usual The Music Show is live in the studio.
I m quite used to speaking to famous musicians, but this morning it s one of the great jazz musicians of all time.
Sonny Rollins has played with Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach.
His tunes some of them now standards include Oleo and The Bridge, the latter named after New York s Williamsburg Bridge on which Rollins used to practice so as not to disturb his neighbours.
One of Australia's top musical directors and conductors, George Ellis, will replace Doug Hawkins as Lismore's 2021 Australia Day Ambassador at tomorrow's.
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It was 6am on New Yearâs Day when the text pinged in from ABC TV. The Prime Minister had changed a word in Australiaâs national anthem. As if in sudden, surprised recognition that our country has been populated for more than 60,000 years, we would no longer sing of being âyoung and freeâ, but instead, âone and freeâ.
The national anthem doesnât come from who we are as a nation , says Deborah Cheetham.
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âWhat a way to start the year,â says Deborah Cheetham, AO, with a sigh. Obviously the adjustment was very welcome, she told the ABC in words relayed around the world. As was changing âAustralian sonsâ to âAustralians allâ when