Narratives Library National Edition

The Second podcast of three authors featured at the BAD Crime Writers Festival in Sydney in 2022. These three authors will also be featured in this years festival - Margaret Hickey, Suzanne Leal and Rae Cairns. Held annually in the glorious atmosphere of the Mitchell State Library of NSW, BAD features more than 60 top crime writers with  fascinating talks and panels and many lead up events through the year. These three authors move you from small country towns with secrets, to Northern Ireland troubles and a woman tracked by terrorists to a story of how  war has a history that can intrude upon the present when  woman uncovers a secret  past in her family.

BAD Crime Writers Festival is Australia's premier crime writers gathering. Over 5 days of special guests, authors  reads, top crime experts, lawyers, barristers , and more get together and discuss all things criminal, dramatic and mysterious. Held in the historic Mitchell Library in Sydney it is a fun event for lovers of crime novels and authors. In this podcast I have selected three authors whose books centre around crime committed under the cover of medical institutions - Mercedes Mercier 'White Noise'; Lyn McFarlane ' The Scarlet Cross' and Susan White with 'Cut'.All these auhtors have real life exerience to add a depth of detail to their stories..

The first ever Byron Print Fair was held in April in Byron Bay and Ziners from far and wide attended. For organiser Benjo Kazue it was the culmination of months of planning. This podcast contains interviews with more than a dozen of the artists, publishers, poets and fans who attended. 

Michael Sharmon left Australia in 2010 for Hong Kong to pursue a career in musical theatre. What followed was 12 amazing years of writing, producing, directing and performing around the country - sometimes 5 shows in one day! He looks back very fondly on this time and the opportunities it afforded him. Four original tracks of music.

George Smilovici was a highly successful comedian who is  now  a musician  who divides his time between Cuba ( where he grew up) and Byron Bay Australia. He is a guitarist and composer with a 14 piece band  in Cuba  and says he sometimes puts a few jokes in his solo shows just for old times sake. This interview with Karena Wynn-Moylan  was first broadcast on Bay FM 99.9 on September 22, 2022.

Melbourne singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist and choir leader Phia has a brand new self titled album. Karena Wynn-Moylan talks to her about the songs on the album, motherhood and music, and coming back to Australia after success overseas. Four songs from the Album - Someone Out There, All My Friends, Coffee After 3, and Full Circle.

Irish born, Berlin based singer/songwriter Wallis Bird has released a new album 'Hands' - 91/2 songs for 91/2 fingers.

In production and arrangements  it is a fresh take on her material. Here she talks with radio presenter of Arts Canvass Karena Wynn-Moylan.

Contains four  tracks from the album: What's Wrong with Changing, I Lose Myself Completely, Dreamwriting and The Power of a Word.

Interview with world renowned UK artist Bruce Munro with award winning interviewer Karena Wynn-Moylan 

For those  artists  affected by catastropic floodwaters in  Northern NSW Australia who have lost studios, materials and livelihoods. 

Benjamin Gilmour is a writer and director and also poet and paramedic.  His film 'Jirga' is a powerful statement about war and the destruction of innocent people on both sides. In this interview he discusses with broadcaster Karena Wynn-Moylan about the calculating of risk involved in making this film in Afghanistan and  the importance of cinema.

Karena Wynn-Moylan chats to Gareth Koch about his beautiful new album 'Saladin's Dream'. This album reflects many of Gareth's accomplishments as a musician and obsessions with history. Taking his cue from a number of medieval  and middle eastern styles, Gareth plays a range of instruments based around the the idea of the dreams of this historic figure. 

Holly English is fast gaining a reputation in comic zine circles for writing stories about relationships in her personal life that many of us can relate to. In this latest zine she goes in deep and tries to unravel her dysfunctional past with her psychotic father. 

This was the first interview Steve gave on the release of his latest and newest musical offering 'The Hall of Counterfeits'.

Steve is a musician who is always striving to challenge himself and explore new  ways of presenting his musical ideas. Working freely in a two day studio session with musicians Gareth Koch, Barton Price and Roger Mason (The Winged Heels) he has produced over 23 tracks that range from pop to medieval, mystical to manic. He is always wonderful to talk to as he has a clear idea of why he does what he does, and he hasn't run out of things to say musically yet!

Ginger Meggs is 100 years old this year. Tristan Bancks, himself  a popular children's book author,  is the great great nephew of Ginger's creator Jimmy Bancks, and was asked by Penguin to write four new adventures for Ginger and his mates. 

Arts Canvass presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan interviews Superjesus front woman Sarah McCleod on the eve of her solo tour in Australia.

Holly English, Byron Bay contemporary artist, comic creator, cartoonist and illustrator has been shortlisted for the 2020 Broken Pencil International Zine Awards (Comic Section) for her comic 'Grace'

LUKA BLOOM -BITTERSWEET CRIMSON

Luka Bloom’s latest album ‘Bittersweet Crimson’ is actually his 22nd- that’s a lot of song writing, a lot of stories, and a lot of touring.

But as he tells Arts Canvass’s Karena Wynn-Moylan in this revealing interview, he now writes different material to the those first albums, more outward looking, and ironically, he has produced this latest CD knowing he couldn’t tour with it due to the current world situation. Despite this, he has had enormous success in Ireland with  single form the Cd ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things’. We ponder why this particular track struck a chord with listeners and just what  the role of being a songwriter means in today's  world.

Luka was supported on this album by the musicians – Jon O’Connell, Steve Cooney and Robbie Harris with extra vocals by Niamh Farrell and fiddle by Adam Shapiro.

The album is available only  from  his website on www.lukabloom.com.

This interview was first aired on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 on September 3, 2020.