Annie makes the 'Annie, Are You Okay?', a plum daquiri on offer this Winter season at Basement Theatre. Also joining HALFQUEEN and Annie in the studio are Nicko and Nicky, the crew behind the Live Reel improv night (now in it's 10th year).
Matthew is joined in the studio by folk musicians Australian Ned Collette and American Thalia Zedek (on the phone) to chat about their upcoming show at the Auckland Unitarian Church this Wednesday. Whakarongo mai nei!
Broadcasting from the studio Carlotta spends the final eve of the 25th NZ Music Month, Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa, selecting a soul-filled variety of her favourite productions from the motu and the wider Pacific.
LEIGH joins Geneva in the studio to chat about her new album Empathy for My Future Self which dropped last Friday, plus selects some of her favourite tunes. Whakarongo mai nei!
LEIGH's track selections
Totorro - Yaaaago
Heroes for Sale - Bouvet Waltz
Kynikos - Blue Eyes (demo)
Matthew is joined by members of the Medena Ensemble, the only Bulgarian Folk Choir in Aotearoa, to discuss their upcoming trip to a folk festival in Bulgaria and to perform two pieces live-and-direct from the 95bFM studio.
Petrina Togi-Sa'ena, from the team behind the annual Pacific Music Awards, calls into the studio for a kōrero with Nick about the just-launched Pacific Music Collection. Whakarongo mai nei!
Liam from Garage Project Kingsland is in the studio for a taster of the breweries range of non-alchoholic beers, just in time for the start of Dry July!
Dr Alicia Didsbury, a research fellow in the Faculty of Science, joins Hugh Sundae in the studio to chat about her research into cell and gene based therapies for Cancer treatment.
Dr Kirsten Zemke phones into the studio to have a yarn with Annabel and Callum about jazz scat vocals and is evolution this morning on Travelling Tunes!
Playlist: Dizzy Gillespie - Oop-Pop-A-Da (1947-1994 Remastered) Tania María - Yatra – Ta (1981) Mark Murphy - Bebop Lives (Boplicity) (2015)
Suri is up in the studio to chat about Mary McCarthy's 1957 memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: a witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written reflection on the author's 1920s upbringing. Whakarongo mai nei!
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