Items tagged with 'Sounds of Australia'

Nigel Ubrihien, creator of the NFSA’s new touring sounds show Cooee Cabaret, came face to face with one of the show’s inspirations when in Gunnedah recently… well, at least face to statue.

The performers stalked about the rehearsal studio, flapping their arms and clucking like chooks. ‘They’re crazy, Dad!’ my daughter whispered to me, smiling like this was a good thing.

As the NFSA was preparing to award its first Sound Heritage Award to Dr Karl Neuenfeldt for his work in documenting the music of the Torres Strait region, we heard of the death of jazz and blues singer Georgia Lee in her home town of Cairns at the age of 89.

A new, more interactive presentation of the Sounds of Australia collection is now available from australianscreen.

One of the main reasons we started the Sounds of Australia in 2007 was to find out what recordings people care about and why. This new website makes it easy for you to give us feedback – by adding a review or commenting about the sounds online. We would love to hear if you have information or personal reminiscences about the recordings in the collection.

Last Friday night I attended the premiere of Cooee Cabaret in the Mercury Theatre in Mildura (north-west Victoria). The ABC regional radio station in Mildura publicised the performance, interviewing Brendan Smith and the cast, promoting the Sounds of Australia registry and encouraging residents in Mildura and surrounds to make their nominations.

The Cooee Cabaret had its second outing on Friday night in Gunnedah. Whilst the audience was smaller in size than the turn out in Mildura, they looked like they had a great time.

The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of activity to finalise selection of the 2010 additions to the National Registry of Recorded Sound – Sounds of Australia. We have had some really interesting and, at times very imaginative, nominations which have come in from all over the country.

The Cooee Cabaret is the NFSA’s new live show based on the Archive’s Sounds of Australia registry – a collection of iconic and culturally significant songs, sounds and recordings…like the Happy Little Vegemites and Aeroplane Jelly Song jingles, Along the Road to Gundagai and Waltzing Matilda.

Shane Howard, of the classic Aussie band Goanna, will tonight perform one of the band’s biggest hits Solid Rock for the people of Warrnambool as part of Cooee Cabaret.

Cooee Cabaret is an original family cabaret show that weaves together iconic Australian songs and sound recordings, drawn from the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia registry.

Bernie Carson is a 19 year old performer from Harrisville in regional Queensland with a magical voice and an infectious enthusiasm for life. She will be singing at the Cooee Cabaret when it rides into Boonah on March 1st.

The NFSA congratulates Belinda Webster, an indefatigable advocate for contemporary Australian music and this year’s recipient of the Don Banks Award from the Australia Council.

'We Have Survived’ by No Fixed Address was added to the Sounds of Australia registry in 2008. This unofficial anthem for Indigenous people was recently celebrated at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne.

Oz Soundtrack — NFSA announces 2011 Sounds of Australia

National Film and Sound Archive CEO Michael Loebenstein delivered a speech to mark the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October.

The NFSA’s Cooee Cabaret family cabaret show is hitching up its wagon and making its way down to Tasmania in early February, and we’ve got a diverse range of local performers helping us to bring Australian sound and music history to life while we’re there.

Graham McDonald takes listeners on a tour of songs about Australian towns and cities written between the two World Wars.

Western Australia has a wealth of talent, and we’re featuring two vibrant young performers as part of Cooee Cabaret's swan-song tour to Mandurah, Bunbury, Margaret River and Perth.