Music Mothers and Others

We here at Music Mothers and Others LOVE talking about gigs that you can bring your kids to. And our next guest Liz Irby is someone who loves this topic as well! She lives in Collorado with her husband and two little  kids, where she works for a music non-profit called the Music Appreciation Society which curates intimate shows for multi-generation audiences.  AND She’s just completed a Masters with Distinction from the Berklee Col...

We're now spoken to Georgia Fields twice on MMO - and in this second chat we were lucky enough to also feature some new music, with Georgia's permission, pieces from her new songs "How A Girl Becomes A Puddle", "In My Blood" and "Find Your Way Back".

In addition to working as a self-managed artist for over a decade and raising two children, in recent times musician & songwriter Georgia Fields has launched a new online commun...

Gary Eck is a comedian, writer, actor. He’s also written specifically for children’s film, television and books, including Happy Feet 2 (just that tiny little thing…).

Right now you might be enjoying his work on
“Ginger and the Vegesaurs” on the ABC TV, or about to get into his next kids book “The Day The Moon Came to Stay” (all of which is excellent), whatever else is in your way stop it now so you can come and chat with us an...

Amber Horsburgh is music industry exec, artist coach, major label whisperer, educator and consultant to a bunch of amazing different services. Through Deep Cuts she also provides education for the rest of us – showing that having a good idea or song isn’t enough to get noticed – and that’s ok – we can all be creative in getting our art out!

Amber is also the creator of “Sew It Goes”, a video series going beyond the bounds of mothe...

Our guest for this week is Dr Phoebe Green. She's a musician, a teacher and a performer, and keen listeners who have gone along to see the smash hit musical “& Juliet” in Melbourne may have spotted her in the band! Phoebe is also a nominee for an APRA/AMCOS ‘Art Music’ award for the “performance of the year: notated composition” category, for “While You Sleep” by Kate Neal. We’re super excited to hear more about her wonderful m...

Mezz Coleman is Melbourne-based vocal coach, a singer-songwriter, and a musician. In short, she’s in the middle of a long and varied career! So far highlights include a support spot for NZ’s Kimbra, backing vocalist and sessional singing work for Marcia Hines, Delta Goodrem, and Anthony Callea; and performing at the 2021 Vision Australia ‘Carols by Candlelight concert' - who hasn't dreamed of being part of that special annual eve...

Mike Williams is podcast maker, producer and general audio wiz, he’s worked for the ABC, BBC, Listnr and as an awesome indie audio maker as well.

In this chat we talk about how to juggle audio production and the creative life in general, also facing all the challenges of mid-career (ish) life and experience. Mike and Liz met at uni when he was an undergrad, and to say she’s super proud of him is a complete understatement.

A Dad t...

Our guest for this week is Danny Chifley. He’s also been in community broadcasting (in some way, shape or form) for 20 odd years – and counting! In Sydney, 2SER listeners will know him as the voice to wake up to – smooth and sunny, but not so sparky to make you hate being up early.

Before he was with us he was (and still is) Banga, making music for more than 20 years including hip hop with Chaos Maths and Dirtbox Kings, and more r...

Melbourne listeners may think of Jacinta Parsons like an awesome extended family member. A stable for ABC radio Melbourne for many years, nationally and internationally she has written books (Unseen and A Question of Age) and worked in television and podcasts.

Jacinta Parsons is not just a prolific voice in the Australian media, but also an important intersectional advocate, MC and speaker. Way back when she started in community r...

Claire Tonti is a Naarm-based singer/songwriter and podcaster. While she’s spent time in the trenches of motherhood, teaching, CEO-ing of the Big Sandwich Media Company and former Primary School Teacher and sound and media (including with her super interview pod TONTs), it’s only in the last little while that she’s finally made it back to music.

The result is her debut album “Matrescence”. In these 11 songs Claire has dug into the...

Angie Who has been on our radar for quite some time, and we are so happy to have her as the final guest for this series of Music Mothers and Others! She’s the host of “Sing-a-Song” on Kinderling radio, she’s an independent singer-songwriter (with albums “Little Folk” and “I love you the most” + the book) , and she performed recently at the inaugural Major Minor Music Australia  Awards —known as “The Ma’s”! - we're exhausted thinkin...

With The Big Moon Juliette Jackson makes gorgeous albums with connection, drive and dreamy indie rock edge. The latest, Here Is Everything, leans right into Jules' life change exploring how becoming a parent, and especially becoming a mother, works (or doesn't) with the ol' ways of rock and roll. She, and the album, are a bloody joy. In our chat the UK musician talks about how a decade's worth of gigging and touring prepared her fo...

This week’s guest is a producer, artist, multi-instrumentalist, collaborator, and generally awesome force in the Australian music industry. You might know him through his work on various projects with Mo’Ju, Tim Rogers, Emma Donovan, Ecca Vandal, Hermitude, Wil Wagner, Parvyn Singh and others, or you might be a standout fan of his own work - three albums (and counting) released as Joelistics. We are thrilled to have him with us, pl...

This week’s guest is an ARIA nominated children’s musician for "Benny and Friends”, an award winning early childhood educator, dad and passionate supporter of Australia’s children's music scene. He’s a podcaster at “Benny Time”, featuring a star studded cast of Australian and New Zealand children music greats, and ALSO the creator of Major Minor Music Australia (MMMA), a collective who work toward the celebration, support, and upli...

Who is in charge of preserving the history and memorabilia of Australian music? Kylie’s hotpants, Nick Cave’s archives, Split Enz costumes, the early photos of The Seekers… these are all artefacts of a particular time in our lives and they’re all on display in the physical collection at the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne. The words of bands, musicians, and music industry workers are also documented in the many onli...

Lo Carmen is across it all in the Australian industry – musician, writer, actor – and general awesome creative force. You might have seen her in The Year My Voice Broke, Red Dog or Blue Murder, heard her as a solo artist, including with new single “Half Girl Half Beast” (as Lo Carmen and the Great Beyond); or read her recent book Lovers, Dreamers, Fighters: A Love Story about songs, secret histories and self-invention through Harpe...

This guest speaks to the very core of what we do here at Music Mothers and Others – helping us make the music industry more of a literal and metaphorical family! John Cheong-Holdaway is a parent, musician, member of the punk kids band RIOT BABY and now, booker for the new “Family Jams” concert series in suburban Brunswick in Melbourne. The idea is to make events that our own families wanted, using original music, drawing on the exi...

Josh Kelly is a Melbourne-based saxophonist and composer with a diverse musical practice that is rooted in jazz and also  draws on a range of influences and styles. He’s a busy, busy person: composer-bandleader for his own bands JK Group and Josh Kelly Trio, and—for the latter— the proud owner of EP “Rising”, which launched at The Melbourne International Jazz Festival in October 2022. All this while he's also also wrangling a lovel...

This week’s guest is a legend of the dancefloor. As DJ Kate Monroe she made House a Home for so many of us learning our way in the 2000s and beyond; and since 2006 she’s also been the founder of Kiddo Disco – a proudly inclusive and bloody amazing series of events where anyone can disco, and where the next generation of music fans and given an invitation, and permission, to find their people and their tunes. It’s with a little gigg...