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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: The "doofy folk" of Brisbane band AmaidÃ; and Luciano Berio at 100 with his student Kim Williams
Description: Brisbane trad band Amaidà say they perform "doofy folk stuff": accordion, guitar, banjo and fiddle augmented by stomp box and electronics. Amaidà means nonsense in Gaelic but it's more than just silly stuff, with their new album Beyond Cape Capricorn reflecting the broad and often dark influences of Scottish and Irish music in the Australian folk tradition. That being said, there's plenty to dance to, as you'll hear when they join Andy to play some tunes live in the studio. Well before he was Chair of the ABC, Kim Williams was a composition student of Italian arch-modernist Luc...