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Performer - Kim Sanders

We travel the world for this week's performer, Simon chats to Australian Musician Kim Sanders.

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The Soweto Gospel Choir Sing!

The Soweto Gospel Choir are in the country for an extensive three month tour. They spoke with Adam and performed two memorable songs.

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Performer - Arrebato Ensemble

For this week's Sunday Performer, Greg Alfonzetti, Damian de Boos-Smith and Lloyd Gyi from the Arrebato Ensemble - the Australian musicians redefining flamenco - joined Simon Marnie in the 702 studios.

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Performer - Tabla Player Yama Sarshar and Family

In Sydney next week, World Renowned Tabla Maestero Fazal Qureshi will perform with some of Australia's best musicians on the Tabla, Sitar, Flute and Tambur.

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Performer - Band of Brothers

This week for the Sunday Performer, Simon Marnie chats to the Band of Brothers, Slava and Leonard Grigoryan and Joseph and James Tawadros

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Performer - Music from India

On the Sunday Performer - The Sarshar family take us through instruments we rarely hear on Radio - The Tabla, Harmonium, Sarangi and Sitar.

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Seaman Dan wins his second ARIA

One of the more unusual career path's in Australian music has been nicely bookended with our most prestigious musical award.

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AR Rahman brings 'Jai Ho!' to Sydney

Sydney is set for a spectacular Bollywood treat on Saturday night. A rare live performance by AR Rahman, award-winning composer of the Slumdog Millionaire film score.

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Bringing cultures together using music and art

A multimedia and performance artist is bringing together different cultural groups with pleasing results on both personal and musical levels.

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Music from South America via New York: Los Amigos Invisibles

Their music has moved bodies from nightclub dancefloors to world music festivals...

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Musician uses Hurt to heal wounds - the world of Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney can reflect firsthand on the way immigrants enrich a country - his parents moved from India to England in the 1960s and gave birth to a son who has gone on to become a renowned musician,...

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Sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank sing the music of their Northern British...

Rachel and Becky Unthank are making new the folk music of England's north-east.

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The Cat Empire's Felix Riebl shares his favourite music

A special musical 'Conversations' with the Cat Empire's Felix Riebl.

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RareCollections: South East Asian Go Go Divas

South East Asian Go Go Divas of the 1960's

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Live in France

The seventh album from Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero brings plenty of energy but also some pauses for thought in a live recording of mixed results.

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The Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie on middle-age music and life

Violent Femmes bassist, Brian Ritchie has been busy with diverse musical projects since moving to Tasmania.

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Songs of the Silk Road

It was a time of magic. The first gramophones were spreading across the world. Musicians were being recorded onto strange devices, then replayed, their music heard again and again... Remember that...

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International supergroup helps revive legend of 70s Nigerian funk

William Enyeabor was making cutting edge funk in Nigeria through the 1970s and 80s and his music has had a recent revival even though the man himself has become a recluse, thanks to people like the...

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Songs of the Silk Road

It was a time of magic. The first gramophones were spreading across the world. Musicians were being recorded onto strange devices, then replayed, their music heard again and again... Remember that...

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Director Lindy Hume's life in music

Lindy Hume has been surrounded by emotionally potent music all her life.

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Bill Hauritz: creating a folk-music institution

Bill Hauritz founded the Woodford Folk Festival. (R)

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Beatles Eight Days A Week

CJ and Jimbo discuss The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years.

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Riley Lee fell in love with the shakuhachi but it's silence that really moves...

Shakuhachi grand master Riley Lee says silence is just as important as the melodies he plays. It has sacred qualities in Zen Buddhism, a religion he's come to embrace.

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