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LR: Russell Holmes, Ben Vanderwal, Jessie Gordon and Lucky Oceans. Four musicians (LR: Russell Holmes, Ben Vanderwal, Jessie Gordon and Lucky Oceans) stand at a street corner, some leaning against the trunk of a paperbark tree. Blues songstress goes bush

The Festival Sessions

Blues songstress goes bush

11 January 2021

Local jazz and blues hero Jessie Gordon gives Seesaw readers an insight into Ballads, Banksias and Beauty, a program that immerses the audience in memories of growing up in Western Australia.

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Australia nostalgic

11 February 2020

In Ballads, Banksias and Beauty, Jessie Gordon shows she’s the complete package, even if she’s a little road-weary, David Zampatti says.

Jess with Barrelhouse, Kidogo, Fremantle, 12 December 2018 Jess with Barrelhouse, Kidogo, Fremantle, 12 December 2018 Playing landscapes on guitar

The Festival Sessions

Playing landscapes on guitar

24 January 2020

Fremantle-based musician Lucky Oceans loves pushing the pedal steel guitar in new directions and he does just that in “Ballads, Banksias and Beauty”.

Always was, always will be…

Seesaw respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we live and work, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation and their elders, past, present and emerging. Continue

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Blues songstress goes bush

Australia nostalgic

Playing landscapes on guitar

Seesaw respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we live and work, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation and their elders, past, present and emerging.
Continue