Tales from the High Stool - 9pm.
Pádraig Ó Cuinn hosts this program on 2RRR with interviews with people involved in local & global music. Guests are invited into a virtual 'pub' to sit on 'The High Stool', & discuss music, musical influences, & whatever they like, with their virtual 'bar-person'.
This week his guest is Keith Preston of the Australian Folk Alliance.
As well as being a musician and the president of the Australian Folk Alliance, Keith is Arts Manager at the Australian Migrant Resource Centre in Adelaide.
We discuss the upcoming Award night of the Australian Folk Alliance next Thursday and the various categories as well as the background and history of the Folk Alliance.
Keith is involved in managing and coordinating a range of arts projects with artists from new arrival communities which includes traditional music & dance, school exhibitions and presentation of several key cultural festivals. Each year he produces a major concert at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
He is involved with a range of performance projects through HATs Inc, including the acclaimed Adelaide Songs project and he currently plays with fusion band Moonta Street who blend European and Chinese music, Sufi Highway a South Asian and Middle East music show and works regularly as a performer of traditional puppetry.
He previously worked for many years as coordinator of the SA State Folk Festival (Victor Harbor), the SA Medieval Festival and established the SA Folk Centre.
Streaming live on 2RRR (88.5MHz FM). Podcasts online after each show. Send suggestions for music, suitable guest etc. to Patrick.
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