The Music Show is about the creation and enjoyment of music, from Handel to hip-hop, plainsong to punk.
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Sunday 5 Feb 2017
Prodigious talents and old friends, violinist Pekka Kuusisto and Sam Amidon discuss blood orgies, Bartók and the link between the folk tradition and classical music.
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Director Lindy Hume and musician Sam Martin. on the power of making art in the bush, resulting in the former’s passionate essay Restless Giant.
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Saturday 4 Feb 2017
Chinese American conductor and composer of film score Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the ceremonial music for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and many orchestral works is in Australia for Chinese New Year concerts.
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Folk music legend who worked with other greats of Irish music like Christy Moore, Donal Lunny and Paul Brady, is in for a set.
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Sunday 29 Jan 2017
100 Works to carry you through.................
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Saturday 28 Jan 2017
Some rich and flowing Croatian choral music to begin this week's show.
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Meet the young Appalachian with the golden pipes and a song writing finesse well beyond her years.
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The Dionysus vs Apollo tale of King Roger of Sicily.
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From alt-country band Whiskeytown to a prolific solo career starting with Heartbreaker and 17 years on his 16th studio album Prisoner.
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Sunday 22 Jan 2017
Benin singer, activist and Grammy-winner Angelique Kidjo talks about working with orchestra, with Philip Glass, and with the array of artists on her album Eve.
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America's most important writer on rock and pop music talks about his recent book, Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations.
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Saturday 21 Jan 2017
Canadian trio The East Pointers played in The Music Show studio in 2016.
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Descendants of "Hill Country Blues" played on The Music Show in 2016.
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The Old Favourite from The Gloaming 2
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Barney McAll on living in the city, living at Peggy's house, an enduring love of gospel, and what jazz pianists practise.
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Sunday 15 Jan 2017
"I'm a songwriter, I don't know what genre - I don't speak French ...." Elvis Costello.
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![Pulse Heartbeat [photo: Karen Steains]](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209094355im_/http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/image/7176416-1x1-80x80.jpg "Twenty-five years of The Music Show")
