KAVISHA’S ITALIAN SONGS
Celebrating her heritage with heartfelt songs and beautifully engaging stories
With Jack NORTON & Nic LYON
7.30pm Saturday 3rd August

Songbird Kavisha Mazzella returns to her second home bringing her Italian father’s heritage to share. ARIA award winner, songbird, choir director and folkloric explorer, KAVISHA's original song's lyrical ingredients include humour, poetry, social justice and the spiritual. Combine this prowess with the voice of an angel and you have the experience of a Kavisha concert. Singing in English, Italian and other languages, she will take you on an uplifting journey of well-crafted stories and songs that will strike a resounding chord within. She is currently director of the Lingua Madre Italian Folk Choir in Melbourne. In 2011 she was awarded an Australia Day Honour for services to music and community and the 2023 Lifetime Contribution Award from Folk Alliance Australia.

Jack Norton

Playing guitars, including the Italian chittara battente guitar, and bouzouki, Jack brings a world of musicality to this show A musicologist as well as a musician, Jack plays across various musical genres, from rock, 'Early' music, folk to classical. In the 1980s he travelled the Middle East and Europe, immersing himself in the music and cultures of the Middle East and Central Asia. In Thank You For The Welcome, Jack brings all these influences to bear, mesmerising audiences with his superb playing.

Nic Lyon

Composer and mulit-instrumentalist, Nicolas Lyon, is a six foot one streak of barely contained impetuous artistic impulse. This travelling troubadour channels this talent into film scores, theatre music, music for dance, sound-scapes, advertisements, gypsy bands and avant-garde happenings. Nicolas plays violin, viola, chello, double bass, koto, sitar, harp, cheng and kalimba. (Meryl Leppard)

Nicolas was born in Flixton, Lancashire, in 1948. He began playing music at the age of five. He received a scholarship to study violin with Robert

Morley at the Royal collage of Music in Manchester and moved to Australia in 1961 receiving a scholarship to study violin and viola with Georgina McLean, and double bass with Walter Sutcliffe at the Sydney Conservatorium. He has been a professional musician since the age of eighteen.

https://www.kavisha.com

You can purchase albums on kavishamazzella/bandcamp.com

Tickets $25 + BF, Packaged Ticket $70 + BF [2 tickets plus bottle of wine saving $10]

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Presented as part of the 2024 World Music Series at The Coolroom at the Northern Arts Hotel