Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 11 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
When thinking about Melbourne as a City of Literature, we should be celebrating the extraordinary literary achievement of our songwriters.
Diverse, imaginative and daring, they’re an eclectic and talented bunch. Four of our much-loved musical talents come together to compare notes on process, on craft and on inspiration.
Featuring
Rebecca Barnard
Rebecca Barnard is one of Australia’s most respected singer/songwriters who led the band Rebecca’s Empire.
Rebecca Barnard has sung on recordings for Paul Kelly, Tim Rogers and Stephen Cummings as well as releasing three EPs and 2 albums with Rebecca’s Empire. The band featured for 3 years in a row in the Triple J Hottest 100, while Barnard herself appeared on the afternoon show with a cooking segment called Pot O Rock.
In 2006 Barnard released her solo album, Fortified, on her own record label. She regularly appears on SBS’s Rockwiz and ABC’s Spicks and Specks as well as ABC radio 774 co-hosting with Derek Guille and was a regular on Triple R’s The Word.
She is a founding member of the Mirabel Foundation, which works to assist children who have been orphaned and abandoned due to parental drug use. She conducts songwriting workshops with intellectually disabled adults in Ballarat (who have recently formed a band, the Funky Turtles) and at the Footscray Community Arts Centre with a Sudanese Choir.
She released her new album Everlasting in June of 2010.
Clare Bowditch
Clare Bowditch is an ARIA Award winning musician, broadcaster, sometimes actor, speaker, entrepreneur, and author whose first book “Your Own Kind Of Girl” won the ABIA for “New Writer of The Year” and has been named ...
Stephen Cummings
Stephen Cummings is a celebrated singer/songwriter and former lead singer of the Sports, who had the late 70s classic “Who Listens to the Radio?”.
Leaving the Sports in 1981, Cummings started a solo career with a top 5 success of the single “Gymnasium”. He’s released over 20 albums including his ARIA award-winning A New Kind of Blue and his 8th album Falling Swinger was named one of Australian Rolling Stone’s 100 essential Australian albums.
Cummings has written two novels, Wonderboy and Stay Away from Lightning Girl and most recently added his memoir, Will it Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?, to his bibliography.
Jess McGuire
Jess McGuire is a writer and broadcaster based in central west NSW, and hosts breakfast radio each weekday morning on on ABC Western Plains. She previously appeared regularly as a reviewer and cultural commentator ...