This CresFest World!

Stella Savy is a professional musician and choir leader from Ballarat. But that doesn't tell much of the story. In this podcast, Judy Turner (Director of CresFest) talks with Stella about the journey to investigating her family roots in the Seychelles, and her views on the importance of community music. It's an inspiring conversation! https://cocosounds.com/ https://cresfest.com.au/

Simmy was one of the best known traditional singers ever recorded in Victoria, and he lived in Springmount, near Creswick, in the Victorian Goldfields. He passed away in 1968, but in the decade before that, 30 hours of recordings were made of him singing and talking about his life. With the permission of the Anderson family, this podcast from the National Library of Australia replays the first sec...

Paddy is in his late 70s, and has a repertoire of around 200 Irish songs, many learnt from his family as a young person growing up on the family farm in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Paddy moved to Australia in the 1970s, and has only recently got back into singing. We recorded an album's worth of songs which you can hear on Spotify (by typing his name into the search function), and in this podcast,...