Folk

Singer songwriter Nadia Reid plays a new song about moving to Wellington, in a sunny field at Camp Wainui. Audio

Musician and entrepreneur Chris Priestley is a folk musician and songwriter, a founder of Real Groovy Records and Auckland venues Java Jive and the Atomic Cafe. Chris recounts his story from folk… Audio

The Clevedonaires were a harmonious little family folk group from South Auckland which, after some local chart success and regular TV appearances, headed to Australia where they became a sought after… Audio

Lorenzo Buhne toured the world as the bass player for 80's punk bands The Dickies and Fear. In 2003 Lorenzo moved to New Zealand. Leaving the hectic LA scene has given him the opportunity to get in… Audio

"It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's recordings from the '90s up to the present day (circa 2006), a time where Mitchell was… Audio

"If you had that house/ car/ bottle/ jar your lovers would look like movie stars"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's music in the '80s and her disdain for the social and political climate of… Audio

"Now we are black and white, embracing out in the lunatic New York night"

Rebecca Blundell looks at the three albums Joni Mitchell made with fretless jazz bass player Jaco Pastorius in the late… Audio

"The lights go down and it's just you up there"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's life in the early '70s from the recording of Blue which ended in Mitchell's emotional collapse, through her… Audio

"Songs like tiny hammers hurled at bevelled mirrors in empty halls"

Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's early song-writing, focussing on the late '60s recordings.

At the time Mitchell's… Audio