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HELEN MUSA reviews Shortis and Simpson’s final Under The Influence session, this time featuring Fred Smith.

CASSIDY RICHENS reviews the opening concert of this year's National Folk Festival.

It’s music all around as Canberra’s arts scene shifts back into gear – especially folk music, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.

We are pleased to announce Mr John Shortis as the 2024 National Folk Fellow.

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of the 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and National Folk Fellowship. Drawing on the Library’s extensive collections to inform their projects, the 2024 recipients will use the National Library’s unique collections to conduct research into subjects as diverse as award-winning Australian fiction writers, international finance and the World Bank, Australian aviatrixes, the migrant experience and the Jesuit mission to ...

"Michael (Mikelangelo) Simic was such a huge personality on stage that, at times, you could see Shortis and Simpson struggling to keep up." HELEN MUSA reviews the latest edition of "Under the Influence".

HELEN MUSA review the latest iteration of Shortis and Simpson’s series, "Under the Influence”.

Shortis & Simpson are at it again with the next episode in their “Under the Influence” series, reports HELEN MUSA.

"This year the folk festival was openly focused on recapturing the character and essence of earlier years and there was a marked sense of community, exhibited by happy artists, volunteers and staff," writes reviewer CASSIDY RICHENS.