Rescued

This week on Rescued , we head all the way to Townsville in Far North Queensland to meet a force of nature who is really trying to find stillness and peace: Madonna Davies . I first met Madonna 30 years ago, when one of my bands, Women in Docs, was starting out and playing the infamous Palm Creek Folk Festival. Madonna might not be a songwriter with tunes on Spotify or Bandcamp, but she is a theat...

This week on Rescued , meet Sarah Stockholm ,  Brisbane electro-pop princess by night, senior executive by day, chronic illness survivor, dog trainer, and devoted dog mum to two ridiculously clever Border Collies, one of whom who spends his days making life better for people living with mental health challenges. Sarah is one of those people who seems to have lived three lives already, She's wh...

This week on Rescued , meet Anje West ... and fair warning... this conversation might just change the way you think about making music (if that's your jam!) and maybe even life. Anje has been part of Queensland's music story for decades. She's the extraordinary force behind A View from Madeline's Couch , a fearless artist whose music is deeply inspired by the Portuguese traditions...

This week on Rescued , meet Sally-Anne Whitten — Tamworth born and bred, one of country music's quiet achievers, a songwriter who's spent more than twenty years doing things her own way, staying true to herself, lifting up the people around her, and rescuing a dog or two along the way. Sally's one of those people who makes authenticity look effortless. Her voice has shades of Linda Ron...

This week on Rescued , meet my old friend, the remarkable Donna Dyson; award-winning songwriter, former teacher and education lecturer, creator of the children's sensation Spotty Kites, devoted lover of Tibetan Spaniels and one of the most resilient people I know. Donna's path into a full-time creative life hasn't been straightforward, but it's been extraordinary. So, get ready! Be...

This week on Rescued , I'm spending some time with one of my songwriting heroes, Vikki Thorn from The Waifs, and her wonderful solo project, Thornbird. We chat about Nacho the rescue dog who quite literally changed the course of her family's life by keeping them in Australia during COVID , what he brings to Vikki, her husband and their kids, and Nacho’s rather impressive side hustle as an...

This is Season 3 of Rescued, and on this episode I'm chatting with country darling Hayley Jensen  about Australian Idol, Kylie Minogue, unhealthy relationships, healthy relationships, the way of the independent artist (close to my heart) and of course her furry bestie/s - Majestic the horse, amongst others four legged friends.  If you’re enjoying  Rescued , please follow, rate and review — it...

Hey friends! This is just a quick note to let you know that  Rescued  is taking a short breather between Season Two and Season Three. I’m currently gathering some really special conversations for Season Three, which kicks off on  1 July , and it’s shaping up beautifully, if I do say so myself. In the meantime, we’ll be dropping a few little treats your way in the shape of playlists, phone-ins, bit...

In our Season Two finale, we meet formidable songwriter, producer and performer Sue Ray, and her trusty doggos - Barnsey and Bingo. A very special conversation, and a must-listen for neurospicy creatives. And some great insights into Sue's country music pedigree, including a cracking story about her guitarist father Owen Ray, his obsession with improving the design of famous guitars, and his f...

This week on Rescued , meet Sally Balfour - a Darwin local with a gentle presence and a quietly  resilient  core. She’s a singer-songwriter, children’s theatre maker, graphic designer, mum… and, as it turns out, a pretty strategic operator. I first stumbled across Sally at a Christmas show during my short stint in Darwin where she was the special guest at a Railway Club gig in Parap with Dave Garn...

This week on Rescued , meet Carla Lippis - a total firecracker of a woman who I first saw in the incredible theatre production Private View out of Restless Dance Theatre in Adelaide , a work that boldly challenges ideas around sexuality and disability. I then very casually stalked her at the Adelaide Fringe Festivalin 2023 where I was performing All Fired Up and she was tearing it up in The 27 Clu...

This is Rescued - a podcast created and edited by me, Roz Pappalardo, with creative support from Joanne Bell and production guidance from Melissa Robertson at Arts Nexus. If you’re loving the show, please follow, rate and review - it means a doggone lot us!  Lyn Bowtell - a country darling with a gloriously luscious voice, who’s weathered her share of heartbreak and disappointment and come out the...

This week on Rescued we travel all the way to the glorious harbour city of Cork in Ireland to meet singer-songwriter Eavan O’Leary; a thoughtful, big-hearted, community-first kind of artist. Eavan isn’t chasing the traditional music industry dream. She’s building something much more meaningful right where she lives .... running community songwriting groups, facilitating wellbeing workshops in scho...

This is Rescued , a podcast created and edited by me, Roz Pappalardo, with creative support from Joanne Bell and production guidance from Melissa Robertson at Arts Nexus. If you’re loving the show, please follow, rate and review ... it genuinely helps us live to see another day. This week I have the absolute pleasure of spending time with Brisbane’s quietly brilliant songwriter, Mardi Lumsden ......

Rescued is a podcast created and edited by me, Roz Pappalardo, with creative support from Joanne Bell and production guidance from Melissa Robertson at Arts Nexus. In this episode meet the fearless, super fun, grounded and unstoppable spirit of Jayne Denham .... her independence, her honesty, her crazy sense of humour, her love of animals, her colouring her poodle pink and making the dog the pin u...

Season One of  Rescued  has come to a close and before we launch into Season Two, I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you to everyone who’s listened, shared, messaged, and supported the podcast so far. We’re taking a brief four-week production break between seasons, and in the meantime, I invite you to go back and revisit the beautiful stories from Season One featuring LT, Greta Stanley, Frances...

I’m Roz Pappalardo, a songwriter, storyteller and creative producer, and for most of my life I’ve made sense of the world by turning it into songs and theatre. My work has taken me across stages, communities and collaborations, but underneath it all, art has always been how I survive. In this final episode of Season 1 of Rescued, I hand the microphone to Cairns-based arts campaigner Melissa Robert...

Claire Anne Taylor is a Tasmanian-born singer-songwriter whose hauntingly raw voice and vivid storytelling reflect her upbringing in the ancient Tarkine rainforest. Raised in a barn-turned-home alongside five siblings, music and creativity were woven into her childhood, with some saying her distinctive raspy tone was inspired by listening to Tasmanian devils growling beneath the floorboards. After...

Francesca de Valence is a multi-award-winning Australian songwriter, educator, and creative coach based in Brisbane. As the founder and CEO of the pioneering online community, I Heart Songwriting Club , she has sparked the creation of thousands of songs, empowering songwriters through weekly creative challenges. With a heroic catalogue exceeding 700 songs, including songwriting commissions by arti...

Emily Wurramurra (also spelled Wurramara) is a celebrated Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter and producer, proudly Warnindhilyagwa, hailing from Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory. Raised on the Gulf of Carpentaria islands before moving to Brisbane at age six, her artistry entwines stories of family, culture, and country, delivered in both English and her ancestral tongue, Anindilyakwa....

Greta Stanley is a captivating indie-pop artist hailing from the lush landscapes of Far North Queensland. Raised in a small rural community of Mena Creek, south of Innisfail, North Queensland, she started writing songs in her early teens with her father’s guitar and what began as a private sanctuary in her bedroom quickly evolved into powerful storytelling honed through her debut EP Bedroom City ....

Meet LT - née Leanne Tennant - a UK-born, Papua New Guinea–raised, Cairns-based singer-songwriter whose music blendsdream-pop, indie, and alternative blues roots. After a childhood in Papua New Guinea and formative years busking the streets of Brisbane, she settled in Cairns, where the wild, tropical environment deeply inspired her songwriting. Under the recent moniker LT, she’s gained acclaim as...