Haunting harmonies from Charm of Finches, and the spark of modernism in Australian music - a podcast by ABC Radio

Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes are a sister folk duo who started busking Appalachian folk songs when they were 11 and 8. Songwriting followed, and now they’re regulars on the folk festival circuit. They sing gorgeous harmonies and play violin, guitar, banjo, cello, piano… the list goes on.

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960–1975 charts a time in Australia’s recent past when music (and the arts in general) were a vital and stimulating part of the national discourse. Composers such as Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale and Nigel Butterley, Don Banks and David Lumsdaine, brought an Australian accent to cosmopolitan modernism.

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