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Is the right to be who you are - in terms of gender and sexuality - another form of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination? And - does it matter whether or not theres a precedent for homosexuality and gender diversity in traditional culture?We ask some leading scholars working in the fields of queer and Indigenous studies who met at a symposium recently at the University of Wollongong. We meet a Maori artist who uses traditional weaving techniques to create digital artwork, and whose practice has included transgender performance; a queer academic at the University of Melbourne who explores Aboriginal sovereignty in literary texts; and a Cree scholar and community activist who recasts self-determination in terms of gender and sexuality.
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hail from rural Malawi where they earned a living selling cooked mice on sticks, singing all the while. Producer Ian Brennan heard them, recorded their CD's and took them out of Africa to play on festival stages. They combine gospel harmonies with home-made guitars and percussion. Musicians are: Nelson Mulligo Zondiwe Kachingwe Alfred Gavanala Joseph Newkwankwa Songs played live MACHIMO ANGA NGAMBIRI KUFANANA Composed Newkwankwa
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One of the great jazz pianists alive, , is part of Womadelaide 2015. He talks to Andrew Ford about improvisation and martial arts and his latest album
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was born in the Al Amari refugee camp in Ramallah. Music changed his circumstances when he joined the Edward Said music conservatory and then did further study in France. Since then he's given back to his community by forming the in 2005. Its mission is to bring music education to Palestinian children, in particular, to those who are most vulnerable the children of the refugee camp. Musicians: Ramzi Aburedwan, viola and bazouki Ziad Ben Youssef, oud Yanal Steiti, percussion Songs: Improvisation on Middle Eastern folk melody Sodfah Comp: Aburedwan
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South Korean band Jambinai play thoroughly post-modern music on traditional Korean instruments like the piri [small oboe], the haegum [type of erhu] and geomungo [zither, like a small koto]- and they held 2015 Womadelaide audiences enthralled. Jambinai is: Ilwoo Lee, guitarist and piri Bomi Kim, haegum Eun Youg Sim, geomungo Live performance of: Connection, Dur: 6.10 Comp. Ilwoo Lee, arr. Lee/ Kim/Sim
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fosters and celebrates the musical traditions of Puglia- especially those of 'pizzica pizzica'- but they also apply those traditions to their music in the 21st century. The band is: Mauro Durante, vocals, violin, percussion, moog Giancarlo Paglialunga, vocals, percussion Maria Mazzotta, vocals Massimiliano Morabito, accordion Emanuele Licci, vocals, bouzouki Guilio Bianco, recorders, harmonica, bass Songs performed live on The Music Show: Pizzica Indiavolata, TRAD. Dur: 6.00 Nu te Fermare, Comp. M. Durante Dur: 4.00 Solo Andata, Comp. Erri De Luca, D. Durante, M. Durante Dur: 3.30 [from brand new album- Quaranta]
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A new dance theatre work by choreographer Vicki van Hout explores the lives of the homeless, itinerant people who emerge from the long grass. Long Grass - which premiered at the Sydney Festival - combines weaving, shadowplay and text and is narrated live by dancer-choreographer Gary Lang.
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In a career spanning nearly 50 years, has cemented himself as a champion of American film and theatre music. As conductor and collaborator, he has worked with the biggest names of the industry: Leonard Bernstein, Madonna, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Next month, Mauceri will appear alongside composer Danny Elfman and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in CD Track Title: North by Northwest: Titles Comp. Hermann Perf Danish National Symphony Orchestra Label:Toccata Classics Tocc0241 Duration: 2.50 CD Track Title: Hitchcock : Music from the End Credits Artist: Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor: John Mauceri Composer: Elfman Record Co/Number: Toccata Classics Tocc0241 Duration: 4.00
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has shaken the hand of any bluesmen who matters and played with many of them. Names like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson to Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder and Ben Harper; all part of the great American blues lineage. His 2014 CD with Ben Harper won a Grammy, one of many blues gongs Charlie has received over the years. His latest album Duke Joint Chapel was recorded down in Clarksdale Mississippi in the cradle of the blues where he was donating his time and money to an after-school care project in the local blues museum. Charlie's on tour bound for WOMADelaide and the Charlie's tour dates: 03/02/15 Crawley Perth International Arts Festival Australia 03/06/15 Adelaide Womadelaide Australia 03/07/15 - 03/08/15 Port Fairy Port Fairy Folk Music Festival Australia
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is 'one of Britain's most important post-minimalist composers', and has a catalogue that spans the concert hall and theatre stage. This year, the of the Arts will present the largest representation of Bryars' work ever seen in Australia. The Composer in Residence program will also include Bryars' latest opera, , and newly composed .
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Sinead O'Connor has a new album called I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss. And she's touring Australia: PERTH FESTIVAL Saturday 28th February Perth Concert Hall PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Friday 6th and Saturday 7th March Port Fairy VIC BRISBANE Wednesday 11th March Queensland Performing Arts Centre SYDNEY Thursday 19th March Sydney Opera House

is a vocalist, poet and a bassist, like his famous father. He is in Australia to lead the band in performances of , The Who's 1969 rock opera, at the 2015 .
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Her early days were split between Sweden and New York City, and her influences ranged from Miles Davis to Yoko Ono and Ari Up. 's distinctive vocals and powerful lyrics are on show on her new album , and Australian audiences are about to see and hear her in concertwith band RocketNumberNinefor the first time. talks to Andrew Ford about beginnings, influences and and where she's at. Australian dates: Feb 28/ March 1: Perth Festival [Festival Gardens] March 6, Melbourne, Arts Centre March 7, Golden Plains Festival in Meredith, VIC March 8 and 9, Womadelaide March 11, Sydney Opera House
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Great jazz trumpeter Clark Terry has died at the age of 94.

When Gilbert McAdam dreamt of playing in the the AFL, there was only a handful of Aboriginal players competing at the elite level. When he debuted for St Kilda in 1989, the league's Racial Vilification Code was still years away. But incidents including the racial abuse of Nicky Winmar in 1993 changed the sport. Gilbert McAdam retired from the game in 1996 after 111 games and 89 goals, but he went on to work for the AFL for 10 years. Now, he uses his intimate knowledge of the game to co-host the Marngrook Footy Show which is broadcast free to air on NITV and on pay television.

James Tylor is an artist whose diverse practice is hard to define installation, photography, sculptural forms and performative acts in the landscape all figure in his extraordinary work. He produces historicised images - aged through the use of photographic techniques such as ambrotype and daguerreotype - that are postcolonial visions of memory, erasure and the Aboriginal presence. His latest series Whalers, Sealers and Land Stealers meditates on the seizure of Gunditjmara country in south-western Victoria. James is of both Aboriginal and Maori heritage. A sense of history is embedded in so much of his work, which casts the viewer back to the frontier wars and conflict, from both an Aboriginal and a Maori perspective.
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After the release of her full-length debut Lamentations, Papua New Guinea singer-songwriter Ngaiires futuristic soul sound was welcomed by critics and music lovers alike. A grinding touring schedule to promote the record included a trip to Glastonbury, and a string of UK club performances in 2014. Ngaiire is currently piecing together the follow-up to Lamentations, though has still had time to begin 2015 with select performances around Australia.
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Joshua Pether is a man who is driven by his passion to dance - and not even a spinal condition or small-town discrimination could extinguish the fire. His particular focus is emerging new forms of movement that broaden our idea of ability and supposed limitations of dis-ability - as he so articulately puts it, of the physicality and virtuosity of the disabled body. As a boy he was diagnosed with scoliosis, the curvature of the spine, and underwent corrective back surgery. But it was self-preservation in rural outback Queensland that drove him to alter his career path. Joshua felt compelled to give his passion for dance away and although it didnt come naturally, to recast himself as a scientist... he went on to study and graduate in Pharmacy at the University of Queensland. Now - hes focused on the emerging field of dance and disability, and later this year will travel to the UK to work with Candoco, a dance company that integrates disabled and non-disabled performers. Hell also undertake a research project on the idea of dance perfection and how the disabled body is perceived.
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matches his oud quartet and string orchestra and comes out on top. Track Title: Artist: Anouar Brahem oud with quartet and Orchestra della Svizzera italiana Composer: Brahem CD Title: Souvenance Record Co/Number: ECM 2423/24 Duration: 5.00

The English 'consort' was a popular form of making music in the 16th and 17th centuries- and it's the inspiration for a new collaboration between - who spend a lot of time playing Baroque music on original instruments- and who play new music, much of it Australian. Members of and come in to play 'something old and something new' from their ', and to talk about how productive the consort can still be. Guests: Daniel Yeadon [Ironwood] Jason Noble [Ensemble Offspring] Felicity Wilcox- composer Live performances in The Music Show studio: Consort a 4 in D minor: Sarbande [Comp. Locke] Ironwood string quartet line up - Julia Fredersdorff violin; Veronique Serret violins; Nicole Forsyth viola; Daniel Yeadon cello Dur: 2.00 Trace Elements: excerpt [comp. Damien Ricketson 2010-2012] Jason Noble (clarinet), Lamorna Nightingale (flute), Nicole Forsyth (viola), Daniel Yeadon (cello) Dur: 2.00 Concert dates: Saturday 21 February, 2pm Burnie Arts & Function Centre, Burnie Art Gallery Monday 23 February, 6.30pm fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Saturday 28 February, 3pm & 6.30pm Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Sunday 1 March, 3pm Newcastle Museum, NSW
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Select record company Nonesuch and producer of choice T Bone Walker allows this former Caroline Chocolate Drops musician to expand her sound world singing covers. Track Title: O Love is Teasin' Artist: Rhiannin Giddins Composer: Traditional CD Title: Tomorrow is My Turn Record Co/Number: Nonesuch Duration: 4.30

is a singer/songwriter and is a beatboxer. Together, their music becomes an infectious soul fusion. As they tour Australia later this month, they will also join forces with some of the nation's best local talent: a 10-piece band from Western Australia, and Melbourne-based composer . Music performed live for The Music Show: Keep Looking Up from The New Mystique, Perf. Tuomo Duo DUR: 4:00 Why, Perf. Tuomo Duo, DUR: 4:00
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Piedmont bluesman Phil Wiggins has hooked up with our own guitarist and blues musician Dom Turner producing a cracking new album Owing the Devil Day's Work. And a forthcoming Track Title: Last Fair Deal Gone Down Artist: Dom Turner & Phil Wiggins Composer: Robert Johnson CD Title: Owing the Devil a Day's Work Record Co/Number: Phil Wiggins & Dom Turner Duration: 3.30

grew up listening to traditional songs from 'round the Mediterranean and Grappelli's hot club string quintet while studying classical violin. learnt classical piano, but began serious jazz pursuits and composing operas when based in Germany. He's also Keith Jarrett's brother. The duo balance various bands and side projects along the way and are in Australia now. Music performed live for The Music Show Cancion Sefardi Trad arr Ciarla Dur: 5.00
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