Latest news with #MargretRoadKnight
ABC News
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Margret RoadKnight—60 years in the business
Singer and guitarist Margret RoadKnight doesn't write her own songs but she's had a six decade career interpreting other people's. She has a voice able to sit across a range of musical styles—from blues to gospel, folk to jazz. This career spanning conversation was originally recorded in 2019, and we're running it again to celebrate four of Margret's albums from the 1980s and 90s being made available on Bandcamp for the first time (via Chapter Music). Music in this program: Title: Living Legend (live) Artist: Margret RoadKnight Composer: Shel Silverstein, Bob Gibson Recorded live at Port Fairy Folk Festival, 2006 Title: Girls in our Town Artist: Margret RoadKnight Composer: Bob Hudson Album: Margret RoadKnight Decade: '75-'85 Label: Festival Records Title: Cinderella Acappella Artist: Margret RoadKnight, Jeannie Lewis, Moya Simpson, Blair Greenberg Composer: John Shortis Album: Cinderella Acappella Label: Rascal Records Title: A Bunch of Damned Whores Artist: Margret RoadKnight, Moya Simpson, Jarnie Birmingham, Mara Kiek, Judy Bailey piano Composer: Ted Egan Album: Fringe Benefits Label: Honky Tonk Angels/Chapter Music (reissue) Title: Wasn't That A Mighty Day Artist: Marion Williams & The Stars Of Faith, Princess Stewart, Prof. Alex Bradford & The Bradford Singers Composer: Traditional, arranged Alex Bradford Album: Black Nativity, Gospel On Broadway! Label: Festival Records Title: Sweet Solitary Blues Artist: Margret RoadKnight Composer: Robyn Archer Album: Moving Target >>>>> harder to hit Label: Honky Tonk Angels/Chapter Music (reissue) Title: If You Love Me Artist: Margret RoadKnight Composer: Malvina Reynolds Album: An Audience With Margret RoadKnight Label: Chapter Music (reissue) Title: McMasters Ward Artist: Roger Knox Composer: Roger Knox, Toby Martin Album: Buluunarbi and The Old North Star Label: Flippin Yeah
ABC News
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Bush Gothic on the fine line between pleasure and pain, and director Netia Jones on Purcell's wild semi-opera The Fairy Queen
Bush Gothic are 'unafraid of Australian songs'. From colonial-era folk songs to the Divinyls, their latest album What Pop People Folk This Popular is a showcase of what the band does best: dreamy, detailed, genre-bending music in conversation with Australian musical history. Jenny M Thomas and Dan Witton join Andy. Netia Jones is an English opera director and she's in Sydney to take on Henry Purcell's odd but beautiful 'Restoration Spectacular' The Fairy Queen for Pinchgut Opera. Under rain on a tin roof of the rehearsal room, she and Andy sit to talk about the peculiarities of the piece, and of English language opera. Bush Gothic are on tour: 7 – 8 June National Celtic Festival, Portarlington 13 June Ararat Town Hall, Ararat 14 June Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide 21 June Fitzroy Town Hall, Naarm/Melbourne 22 June Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine 27 – 29 June Festival of Voices, nipaluna/Hobart Pinchgut Opera presents The Fairy Queen: 7 – 14 June at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Sydney. Music heard in the interview with Bush Gothic: Title: Girls in Our Town Artist: Margret RoadKnight Composer: Bob Hudson Album: Margaret RoadKnight Label: Infinity Title: Girls in Our Town Artist: Bush Gothic Composer: Bob Hudson Album: What Pop People Folk This Popular Label: Fydle Records Title: Adeline Artist: Bush Gothic Composer: Gus Unger-Hamilton, Hans Zimmer, Joe Newman, Thom Green Album: What Pop People Folk This Popular Label: Fydle Records Title: Wreck of the Dandenong Artist: Bush Gothic Composer: trad. Album: What Pop People Folk This Popular Label: Fydle Records Title: Pleasure and Pain Artist: Bush Gothic Composer: Holly Knight, Mike Chapman Album: What Pop People Folk This Popular Label: Fydle Records Title: Freedom on the Wallaby Artist: Bush Gothic Composer: trad. after the poem by Henry Lawson Album: What Pop People Folk This Popular Label: Fydle Records In the interview with Netia Jones: Title: 'O Let Me Weep' (The Plaint), from The Fairy Queen Artist: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh Composer: Henry Purcell Album: The Fairy Queen 1692 Label: Signum Classics Title: I know a bank… from A Midsummer Night's Dream Artist: Alfred Deller (Oberon), London Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Britten Composer: Benjamin Britten, libretto Peter Pears after Shakespeare Album: A Midsummer Night's Dream Label: Decca The Music Show was made on Gadigal, Gundungurra and Turrbal Yuggera Country Technical production by Dylan Prins
