Kavisha Mazzella, singer, song writer, choir leader

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Kavisha Gigs 2025

EXCITING NEWS 2025

TUESDAY 29th JULY 7.30pm $25 Silk Road Healing Collective presents

EMPTY SKY Sacred Songs,Chants and sound Healing journey

with Kavisha at the Magical Yurt at

SILK ROAD RUGS and TOURS .

306 HIgh St Northcote.

Please Book your space with Nina 0433457563

SUN AUG 3rd 5-6pm at Saint Kilda South Melbourne Uniting Church

327-329 Dorcas St South Melbourne

EMPTY SKY Songs chants and silent meditation (similar to TAIZE)

held the 1st Sunday afternoon of the month / Donation entry

*FRI 8th 7:30pm Aug -BOITE WORLD MUSIC CAFE presents MARE PROFONDO DUO

at BOX HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE 470 Station St Box Hill

with Rosario De Marco and Kavisha Mazzella

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL BOOK HERE

*SAT 9th AUGUST 2:00pm - 4.30pm CHURCH of ALL NATIONS CARLTON

-BOITE WORLD MUSIC CAFE presents

3 songs for 3CR Community Radio Fundraiser. Guests include Kavisha and Lingua Madre Choir

AUG 23rd 5 -7.30pm *Saturday afternoon concert I am a guest of the wonderful singer songwriter and Nina Rose and the Smashing AVOS (singing in Spanish,Timorese and English)

at Lomond Hotel 225 Brunswick St Brunswick East Melbourne VIC

SAT AUG 30th 2.30pm COOLROOM Castlemaine

NORTHERN ARTS HOTEL 159 BARKER ST CASTLEMAINE

ITALIAN FOLK Afternoon with Kavisha and the amazing LINGUE MADRE italian folk choir

(details to be announced) with italian jazz guitar composer ROSARIO di MARCO

SEE FILM OF CHOIR HERE by Sean Summers BOOKINGS 0491 074 340

SUN AUG 31st 2.30 pm - 5 pm Kavisha is special guest with melbourne singer songwriter LES THOMAS as he launches In The FIRING LINE at Wesley Anne 250 High St Northcote

SUN 7th SEPT 5-6pm at Saint Kilda South Melbourne Uniting Church Dorcas St South Melbourne

EMPTY SKY Songs chants and silent meditation (similar to Kirtan and TAIZE)

held the 1st Sunday afternoon of the month Donation entry

*WA TOUR (more dates coming )
FRI September 13th and SAT 14th September in the historic town of GUILDFORD West Australia Kavisha is a guest teacher at SONGFEST - a wonderful participatory CHOIR FESTIVAL held in historic buildings of Guildford

Please BOOK HERE

The fabulous GUILDFORD SONG FEST West Australia SEPT 13-14 Please BOOK HERE

SUN OCT 5th 5-6pm at Saint Kilda South Melbourne Uniting Church Dorcas St South Melbourne

EMPTY SKY Songs chants and silent meditation (similar to TAIZE)

held the 1st Sunday afternoon of the month Donation entry

Photo of Kavisha and Rosario De Marco 2024 © Mauro Trentin

SAT OCT 25th and SUN 26th

MARE PROFONDO DUO (Kavisha and Rosario)

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will be apprearing at the fantastic SEGMENTO TARANTA FESTIVAL 2025

( free entry ! ) A great day out for all the family at the Calabria Club in beautiful rural Bulla just outside Melbourne (28 kms up the M2 ). It's near the Melbourne airport hosted by SEGMENTO MAGAZINE .Please join us for a relaxing day in rural beautiful Bulla for a day of italian language ,culture, music and food .

2026 offering !!! NOV 15th - 26th 2026

Travel to the Himalayas INDIA with Jo Cresswell and myself!

NEW !!!! Come to DARJEELING INDIA with us for 14 magical days !

HIMALAYAS WALKING and SINGING TRIP NOV 15th - 29th 2026

with musician & walking guide Jo Cresswell and Kavisha

See beautiful film here about Darjeeling ! and BOOK HERE

Review of a concert at KIDOGO ARTHOUSE Fremantle WA

photo © Clare Moodie - Kavisha with JOhn Reed at KIDOGO ARTHOUSE FREMANTLE

_Concert_{REVIEW : Kavisha and Johnny Reed at Kidogo ARTHOUSE 2022 by Bill Lawrie}_{"From the first song, the haunting ‘Invisible/Indivisible’, Kavisha has, not just a voice but an approach to the performance that is all conviction, as if she is out to join heaven and earth. Some moments have the immediacy of a nearby lighting strike. She tells a story about folk music legend Liam Clancy telling her to banish the internal critic and “see the song inside”, then moves into ‘The Fearless Note’ a song about authenticity in life and song. There are more songs about people and places by the sea from Fremantle and around the world. One song about street life and generosity in St Kilda sounds like it would have been a great duet with L Cohen, another servant of the song. Folk music at its best."}

Bill Lawrie .Fremantle Shipping News

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WHAT RADIO SAYS

"Her voice flows like tears of joy and sorrow, there’s a saltiness and warmth of sensuality here that sings the great bitter sweet song of life. Kavisha Mazzella may have the first and last letters of the alphabet in her name but in truth, there’s a power and presence in her stage performance which is simply beyond words." Colum Sands

"Rootin'About" for RTE Radio in Dublin. Folkclub BBC Radio Ulster

LISTEN HERE as Kavisha sings "She Moves Through The Fair "

above : Kavisha and the Continentals at the Casa Musica ,Festival of Perth FEB 2025 .

MORE WHAT THE PRESS SAYS

"Kavisha is adorable ,simply and barbarously,She knows how to devastate a stage with her sunny energy" Pino Lamberti -Il Globo

"Kavisha a warm and voluptous summer breeze,who with this latest work once again demonstrates her qualities as an enchantress" Pino Scuro -La Fiamma Newspapers

"Clear and beautiful vocals" Bruce Elder - Sydney Morning Herald

"Mazzella's voice has a wonderful purity of tone and can lift over a melodic line with bell-like, weightless grace." Jessica Nichols -The Age

"She sings with militancy of a Joan Baez or the voice of a heartbroken angel "Victoria Laurie -The Australian

"Her songs have a great sense of melody and lyrical depth.." Jim Lee, Dirty Linen Magazine. UK

"Irrestistable,heartfelt collection of beautifully produced songs" Robyn Johnston , ABC Radio National on " Love and Sorrow"

"Fabulous album, sophisticated, aromatic, beautiful, soulful, moody." Matthew Donlevy ,Peermusic on " Love and Sorrow"

OTHER REVIEWS

Photo 2024 ©Billie Wilson Coffey

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Kavisha Mazzella AM

is an Australian singer-songwriter and composer whose music has Mediterranean, gypsy and Celtic influences .Influenced

by her rich multicutural background ( Italian and Celtic-Burmese ) she pays respect to folk traditions whilst creating new

music .In 1987 She joined the quirky band "RICH n FAMOUS" with creatives John Reed and Lee Buddle ,

who collaborated with her to create the seminal album "Mermaids In The Well Album "in 1995 .

Other members include Rueben Kooperman , Peter Grayling and Gary Burke . They toured many West Australian Folk

festivals and journeyed east to the Maleny Folk festival , Woodford festival ,Port Fairy Folk Festival and the National Folk

Festivals making a big impression ( hear their version of FEVER ) and attracting alot of fans.

While she parted with them in 1993 to head to Melbourne they came together for reunions Mazzella says "If it hadn't been for the enthusiasm and sheer love and support of Rich N Famous I wouldn't be the musician I am today .

They really supported me and helped me blossom and we had alot of fun on the way . It's always beautiful to have reunions and play and time just disappears .

IN 1993 , Kavisha came to national attention through the film The Joys Of The Women an award winning

documentary by Franco Di Chiera about her founding of an italian diaspora community choir "The Joys Of The Women" choir in Fremantle WA which she lead from1989-1992 .The 1992 film also shows her search for her roots through traditional Italian Folk music The groundbreaking film was shown on National Television and internationally to great reviews and garnered awards for the director Franco Di Chiera

Kavisha then formed more choirs such as The Voice Of The Moon - La Voce Della Luna in Melbourne from 1996-2013

1998 saw Kavisha won an ARIA for Best World Music CD release "Fisherman's Daughter"This was a collection of original songs produced by the much loved Australian Singer Songwriter Mick Thomas of Weddings Parties Anything fame. you can see the FISHERMANS DAUGHTER .INTERVIEW HERE with Adrian Pertout

In 2000 the Italian Government awarded Kavisha the "Italia Nel Mondo" Award for her work promoting Italian Culture in Australia through choirs such as La Voce Della Luna Italian Women's Choir (1995 - 2013 ) in Melbourne.Kavisha and the choirs moving version of version of Va Pensiero was featured in Aaron Wilson's 2021 film Little Tornadoes.

Kavisha has a passion for sharing traditional Italian folk songs as well as composing her original music which reflects the Italian migrant Diaspora experience such as Wedding Sheets .

Kavisha is an experienced musician and workshop leader having been part of MUSICA VIVA's award winning schools programme (1993-96) ,and has played major festivals in Australia such as Woodford Folk Festival, Maleny Music Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival winning Port Fairy Artist of TheYear Award in 2006,The Brunswick Music Festival , Creswick Music Festival Castlemaine Fringe and Perth International Festival.

She has performed International festivals abroad such as Calgary Folk Festival Canada, Cork Festival Ireland, European Union Broadcasters Festival in Miscolc Hungary. Ethno Histeria in Slovenia .

She has performed alongside Australia's best artists such as Judy Small, Tiddas, Kev Carmody, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, Dili AllStars, Mick Thomas, Louis MacManus, Bruce Hearn , Jan Wositsky, Jack Norton, Nic Lyon and Matthew Arnold .

Kavisha has supported and worked with International artists such as

Andy White ( Belfast N IRE ) ABOVE

Gerry O'Bierne (Ireland), Colum Sands (Ireland) Andy White ( Belfast ), Riccardo TESI ( Pistoia Italy,) Mimmo Cavalaro ( Calabria ITALY ),James Keelaghan Canada ) and Nano Stern (Chile) and Doug Ashdown ( AUS )

TEACHING - Kavisha co lead 7 Cantiamo singing in ITALY cultural immersion choral tours from 2015 - 24 with Dr Valdo Micchelangeli .

SOCIAL JUSTICE In 2016 -2017 She lead a choir of men "Brothers in Song "in the Loddon Prison as part of Restorative Justice programme of Friends of Castlemaine library Literacy programme "Read Along Dad's and Mums"

Choral Composition COMMISIONS

In 2004 the year celebrating 150th anniversary of THE EUREKA STOCKADE Rebellion , Kavisha was invited by the Echoes of Freedom Festival to create a new choral composition TUNC JUSTUS (Thus Justice) celebrating the italian connection .Kavisha chose to nominate Raffaelo Carbone the Goldfields translator and right hand man of Rebellion Leader Peter Laylor as her subject..

In 2008 Her Choral composition "Love and Justice" was commissioned by the Victorian Women's Trust to celebrate 100 years of the vote for women in Victoria in 2008

"As musicians we have been given a real gift .I feel this gift we cannot keep to ourselves.That's why I love to teach choirs .When i was young my mother and grandmother passed this on to me and now surely I must pass it on.I love to awaken and empower people to their own friendship with their singing voice "

Kavisha and fellow tour leader DR Valdo Michelangeli at San Galgano Tuscany (Cantiamo Tour 2024)

2024 has been a big year for Kavisha .She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024 by Folk Alliance Australia

and Life Membership of one of Australia's premier multicultural music organisations The BOITE which promotes peace and community harmony through promoting concerts of multicultural musicians that have migrated to Australia .Kavisha continues her passion for sharing culture through music with the formation of a new Italian Folk Choir Lingua Madre Italian Folk Choir ( Mother Tongue Folk Choir ) which is based in Clifton Hill, Melbourne Australia.

She also performs at various festivals and continues to offer school and community workshops such as"Songs Of ITALIA "

( A social and historical journey through Italy though its folk songs ) through such companies as CULTURAL INFUSION for our younger generations.

Kavisha's performances are filled with humour, wit, warmth and wisdom. Her songs focus on social justice, community building and the search for deeper meaning in Life. Audiences are sure to be invited to sing along and feel uplifted inspired and united.You can BOOK Kavisha for your special event :

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Kavisha Gig highlights 2025

Festival Of Perth Casa Musica with Peter Grayling (cello) and John Reed (cittern)

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Kavisha's brother GIri Antonio Mazzella with Kavisha at Never Never Mind Cafe Dorrigo NSW .

Playing with ROSARIO de MARCO in Lygon St Carlton Melbourne VIC Photo© MAURO TRENTIN 2024

BIOG of KAVISHA MAZZELLA AM

"ARIA award winner, songbird and folkloric explorer Kavisha's original song's lyrical ingredients include humour, poetry, social justice and the spiritual. Combine this prowess with the voice of an angel and you have the experience of a Kavisha concert. Singing in English, Italian and other languages, she will take you on an uplifting boundary riding journey of well-crafted stories and songs ringing with echoes of Celtic, Fado and Gypsy influences that will strike a resounding chord within. In 2011 she was awarded an Australia Day Honour for services to music and community. In 2023 she was awarded a Lifetime Contribution Award by Folk Alliance Australia for championing diversity in the folk music scene ."

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Photo ©Cole Kelly 2024 Kavisha at Carmel Hall Cygnet Tasmania at Cygnet Folk Festival 2024

REVIEW From ITALY FROM THE ITALIAN BLOG POST SERENUS BLOOM OF Italian academic CIRO A R Abilitato.

"Kavisha Mazzella is an Italian-Australian singer-songwriter awarded prestigious international awards. She was born in London and resides in Melbourne, Australia. Her mother is Anglo-Burmese, while her father is Neapolitan, originally from the enchanting island of Ischia, the largest of the Phlegraean archipelago, the ancient Pithecusa. Kavisha's lyrics reproduce original songs from the folk tradition of different cultures around the world. Only rarely have I heard a Neapolitan or Sicilian song sung so well even by my fellow countrymen, also due to the attention to accents and diction. Kavisha's songs are authentic lyrical masterpieces, offered with the voice of an angel in various languages: Italian, Neapolitan, Sardinian, Sicilian, French, Spanish, English. These are authentic melodic masterpieces in which Celtic, Fado, Catalan, bardic, Gothic and Gypsy mix lively with truly original effects. Kavisha Mazzella's songs are stories woven of weightless grace and traditional gems that carry within them a great sense of poetry and lyrical depth. This singer possesses the remarkable ability to effortlessly throw her clear and beautiful voice into a microphone, from a meter away, almost like a ventriloquist, and to move from side to side across the stage to fill it with delicate and vibrant sonority. all the surrounding space. Something that really goes beyond words. Her warm and passionate voice conveys emotions that touch her heart. Her energy and love of music are contagious." CIRO A R Abilitato

LINGUA MADRE ITALIAN language Folk Choir 2025

Mondays TERM 3 .(10 weeks ) ..Starts JULY 7th - SEPT 8th

Lingua Madre is Melbourne's newest Italian language choir. We share not only singing but Food!!! Coffee, Biscotti and great recipes that our nonni have made ! We celebrate Australia's amazing Italian immigrants and all they have bought here to Australia ! We sing beautiful traditional italian folk songs of work , love ,death, protest and hope that come from all regions of italy and resonate through at least 600 years of singing if not more!We learn harmonies, dialects language and community sharing with stories and recipes in a safe caring environment

WE REHEARSE Monday evenings 7pm

at Saint Mark's Community Church ,100 Hodgkinson St Clifton Hill Melbourne Victoria Australia

TERM FEE is $20workers /$15 per session - scholarship on a sliding scale for hardship is also available TERM FEE $200/$150

please contact Kavisha 0412893355 LINGUA Madre is on Facebook

SEE OUR FILM by Sean Summers of 6 Sylable Films

MY PHOTO GALLERY

LINGUA MADRE Italian Folk Choir after rehearsal!

Kavisha with Valdo Cantiamo in Tuscany

Cantiamo 2024 Here we are in the world' s tiniest Opera House in Vetriana ,Tuscany Sept 2024 .

Kavisha and Trudy Edgeley ...YES!!!! SEPT 2024

JOYS of the WOMEN 30th Anniversary celebration in Brisbane in July 2023 with Family and Director Franco Di Chiera

Kavisha with Trio Riturnella - NIC LYON and Jack NORTON in Castlemaine

Sam & Dave De Santi , Giri Mazzella at JOYS of the Women 30th Anniversary celebration Brisbane

WARLAYIRTY ARTS CENTRE 35th Anniversary Concert BALGO WA Aug 22 with Giancarlo Mazzella & kids

Collaborating with Kenny Dawson Goondiyandi singer songwriter and visual artist from Yiyili WA

SINGING in Villa Corsano,Ville di Corsano ,Tuscany ITALY Cantiamo Choral Tour 2015

HEARTLPLACE CHOIR FREMANTLE WA 2020 - 2023

At the NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL BUDAWANG STAGE 2023

On Tour with the WOODY GUTHRIE SONGS OF FREEDOM SHOW with BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS Brisbane Powerhouse 2017

Kavisha founded La Voce Della Luna Italian Women's Choir in Melbourne in 1996 and directed them until 2013 LISTEN HERE

SHENPEN SOUNDHEALING

In 2018-2021 Kavisha studied Integral Sound healing with SHA international Bristol UK and is a qualified level 2 One on One Sound healer .

Her teachcers were Tony Nec , Sally Hutchinson of Soundhealing Journeys and Anne Ridgeway of Laxshmi Sound Sanctuary

She has called her Soundhealing practice " Shenpen" which in tibetan means of benefit to all . her Facebook Page is HERE

Sound with intention creates a beautiful healing journey for you at Shenpen Soundhealing .

Sessions $100 per hour at Kavisha's studio

BOOK YOUR SESSION HERE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ph 0412893355

SOUND HEALING BENEFITS

What are the benefits of sound healing?
Some of the most highly reported benefits of music therapy and sound healing that is experienced over time
(say 4 sessions a month )
include:
Reduced stress.
Fewer mood swings.
Lower blood pressure.
Lower cholesterol levels.
Better pain management.
Reduced risk of strokes and coronary artery disease.
Improved sleep.

and most importantly
self knowledge ...self awareness... and self realisation !

price is $100 per hour session - one on one
To book your session via email:
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TESTIMONIALS
( after 4 sessions over a month )

"I highly recommend the use of this modality.it can go where alot of other healing techniques can't. Kavisha is a natural in this field"AG

"I would encourage people to do soundhealing as it os stimulating on all levels.ones awareness of health is increased through relaxing into the vibrations of sound energy and being immersed in quiet attention "K M

"My levels of Stress have decreased and my ability to let go and relax have improved enormously" DW

" I felt more in tune with my true nature.i was seeing my true self more clearly I became more confident to be myself.(i experienced )Self Acceptance and let go of alot of resistance to my true nature which is a very loving being.Its a necessary experience . Everyone should try it ! " PH

"The healer (Kavisha) was empathic,being well caring of the client (myself).I wholly recommend this process and know it will be helpful for clients "LE

EMPTY SKY ONENESS SONG CIRCLE and World Peace Kirtan

TESTIMONIAL "It was such a delight to experience Kavisha’s introduction to Kirtan. It was a beautifully crafted, calming, heart-centred and easy space for people to be in. I think it’s so important that festivals have quiet places where people can restore and reboot. " Jo Cresswell Artistic Director , 2023 National Folk Festival Australia

We sit in a circle .Then I teach healing and beautiful heart opening chants from Sacred World Traditions that contain the lyrics of the mystic poets such as Rumi , Kabir ,Saint Francis of Assisi and others.We sing for a while and the energy generated by all of us singing creates a moment when we stop and experience a beautiful silence together .The whole experience takes about an hour .

Here are some of the songs we sing at EMPTY SKY listen here

KAVISHA's LATEST CD

Empty Sky Sacred Songs and Chants

"She seems to have delved deep into her spirituality with the richness of her voice touching the listener’s heart." Pete Dawson Trad and Now

In SEPT 2018 I recorded these songs with my good friend veteran world musician Nicolas Lyon in Malmesbury .By March 2019 only 6 months later, it was ready for the world but COVID came along ! Time to lockdown so we never had a chance to launch it properly ! However a few friends got copies and they say it got them through the difficult lockdown which made me so happy that the music was healing and useful .We then launched it 4 years later at the 2023 Maldon Folk Festival !

The songs include a soulful version of Jarek Czechowicz's "Love, I call Your Name ", a reworking of the popular "Magnificence" by Peter Makena, my original melodies to traditional wisdom texts the Gayatri Mantra, Heart Sutra, Om Mani Padmi Hum, and the words of the mystic poets such as Kabir and Saint Francis. Finally ending with a rallying call for Mother Earth.

FULL REVIEW by Robbie Greig Melbourne Singer Songwriter , mentor and music teacher. March 2020

"What a beautiful CD it is! Especially in these distressing times, it has provided a calming and uplifting mood when it was most needed. THANK YOU." Jeannie Marsh- Melbourne singer and choir leader

"What it is ..is it calms me and makes me feel grounded and secure and it talks to a part of me which is beyond words .There's something about being from different traditions on one album that makes it absorbing. It touches different emotions from lament to uplift " Padma Locana ,Yoga teacher Melbourne

REVIEWS

PRAISE for Kavisha’s Music

EMPTY SKY

"Empty Sky is a pilgrimage to places in the world and in the mind where the sacred is still honoured. Through a selection of prayers, kirtans, chants, devotional poetry and songs of praise, Kavisha weaves a spell of beauty and tranquility. Flowing along like a gentle river, hypnotic, repetitive, timeless, it’s no surprise that that the album is intended as an aid to meditation and relaxation." Robbie Grieg

RITURNELLA

"Kavisha's new album of centuries-old Italian folk songs is a beautiful thing to hear - a great vehicle for these songs of the heart that have stood the test of time. She plays guitar, mandolin and accordion and the spare production lets her voice naturally shine."

Lucky Oceans ,ABC Radio National Weekly Planet. March 2014

“Riturnella is a beautiful collection of Italian folk songs from the 1400s onwards. Here, Kavisha Mazzella has returned to a collection of songs she heard many years ago on a friends cassette player that ultimately lead to her work with I Papaveri and La Voce Della Luna. These songs of love and loss from all over Italy are rendered starkly and exquisitely with Kavisha accompanying herself with some very fine guitar and mandolin work.”

Paul Barr Readings, Book and Music.****

LOVE AND SORROW Kavisha Mazzella Black Market Music **** (four stars)

‘TIS a musical match made in heaven, though forged in Melbourne during a break in one of Nano Stern’s tours. Local artist Kavisha Mazzella was destined to collaborate with the talented young Chilean, whose own work also exudes a Latin passion for life and travel, and a predisposition to break down musical and cultural barriers. Subtle multi-instrumental colouring from the album’s producer, allied to an exemplary sound engineering and mixing job by Harry Williamson, has helped convert a batch of characteristically well-crafted songs into Mazzella’s magnum opus. Love & Sorrow certainly has an epic sweep, reflecting the writer’s “travels and misadventures” near and far, the former in the case of the evocative St Kilda Lullaby, which poetically encapsulates the raffish charms of Melbourne’s beachside suburb in lines like: “Luna Park’s mask is grinning and blowing the breeze through the dark / The winos are dancing with shadows and glancing for cops as they sleep in the park”. Gecko Song, on the other hand, captures the velvety ambience of a tropical Southeast Asian night via a combination of Mazzella’s Balinese flute, Stern’s marimba and ukulele, and Williamson’s gamelan gong. Elsewhere, the South American’s nylon-string guitar and harmony singing provide simpatico support to the leader’s emotional vocals in Gethsemane and Magdalena. Charango adds a whiff of Andean air to Green Eyed Songbird. Mandolin and fiddle lend a classic British folk feel to All You Sailors.

Tony Hillier *** and a Half

THE FEARLESS NOTE by JOHN SHAND Sydney Morning Herald 7/10

Recorded live in Melbourne, The Fearless Note catches such a strong sensation of intimacy that it is if Kavisha Mazzella is singing for your ears alone. This is crucial, because it ensures you are drawn into the dream worlds of her lyrics: hazes of words that suddenly snap into focus and impale you on a thought, a sentiment or a memory. Often they contain observations from her travels, so the effect is like images drifting past a rainy train window, although she can also lighten the mood with a song like Philosophy Man (“I’m in love with a philosophy man who cannot fix my car”).

LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEW BY BILL LAWRIE and Photo by CLARE MOODIE

"Kavisha takes the stage with John Reed, with whom she first played in 1981 and with whom she has performed many times, notably in the band ‘Rich and Famous’ in the late 1980s-early 90s. John plays cittern, a bouzouki type instrument, as well as ukulele. He also provides some back up harmony and irreverent humour. Kavisha has her nylon string guitar and her amazing voice. There is an easy rapport and fine musical understanding between two first-class musicians.

From the first song, the haunting ‘Invisible/Indivisible’, Kavisha has, not just a voice but an approach to the performance that is all conviction, as if she is out to join heaven and earth. Some moments have the immediacy of a nearby lighting strike. She tells a story about folk music legend Liam Clancy telling her to banish the internal critic and “see the song inside”, then moves into ‘The Fearless Note’ a song about authenticity in life and song. There are more songs about people and places by the sea from Fremantle and around the world. One song about street life and generosity in St Kilda sounds like it would have been a great duet with L Cohen, another servant of the song. Folk music at its best."

Full review here Kavisha at Joanna's Candlight Soiree

TESTIMONIALS

"Gene and I agree that when we attend festivals, Kavisha impresses with her supportive attitude to fellow performers" DR TONY SMITH

"Your beautiful warm heart, music and songs were the perfect antidote for us here in Melbourne at present when we are in the midst of so much doom and gloom.The feedback from all the singers has been overwhelmingly positive and grateful for your sessions - and we can't thank you enough!"

Jonathon Welch AM ( Choir Of Hard Knocks Founder) Melbourne International Singers Festival

"Like all great artists, you bring so much joy into peoples' lives and make it possible for them to get out of their noise ... and ... rest with their feelings ... that's a teacherless teaching. "Robert G

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"What an absolutely fabulous performance you spoilt us with!! Thank you." Margot Leake, Albany Entertainment Centre WA

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"Just wanted to say a heart felt thank you for the wonderful workshop and concert at Woy Woy last week. It was such fun - the Seven Hundred Rolls song is truly fabulous. You not only sing like an angel, you know how to get other people to sing. What a gift. " Grace - workshop participant

"I have seen Kavisha concerts for years and have her Dvd's so when I heard she had a choir it seemed the one to try. It has met my expectations being an informal fun class but we do learn. My son- in- law mentioned my singing round the house has improved ! You can change anyrhing you want!!!!" Ange Heartplace Choir member

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On the Ganges 2008 with my husband Philosphy Man !

BUY YOUR CDS HERE or PURCHASE Kavisha's Albums of Digital Music on Bandcamp

$25 CD plus $10 postage, you can pay here paypal.me/mazzellamusic

Please write to Mazzella Music 7 High St Kyneton VICTORIA 3444

or email kavisha(at)kavisha.com THANKYOU !

KAVISHA'S CATALOGUE

EMPTY SKY sacred songs and chants ( 2019 ) CDS and also digitally on Bandcamp
The Fearless Note (2017) also Digitally available on Bandcamp
Riturnella (2014 ) Italian folksongs of 600 years also Digitally available on Bandcamp
Love and Sorrow ( 2010 )also Digitally available on Bandcamp
Silver Hook Tango ( 2003 )also Digitally available on Bandcamp
Fisherman's Daughter (1998 ) also Digitally available on Bandcamp
Mermaids In The WEll ( 1995 ) also Digitally available on Bandcamp
Canberra Cork Calgary...live (2000) also Digitally available on itunes

Kavisha on ABC Radio Conversation HOUR with JON FAINE, Ralph McTell and mysterious box player!

MY Yo utube Channel - INTERVIEWS plus Songs in Alphabetical Order

RECENTLY DISCOVERED !

an interview with SHANKAR KASYNATHAN for RADIO Community Radio 94.9 MAIN FM

COMING SOON 2024 - a short Documentary about Italian folk influence in Australia "Echoes of a Tradition "

MARCH 21st 2024 FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER live at Kew Courthouse with ROSARIO DE MARCO

MARCH 1st 2024 WORLD MUSIC CAFE PERTH Episode 4 Learning Burmese Cooking with my cousin!

JULY 27th 2023 INTERVIEW with ADA GUGLIELMO of FREMANTLE RADIO about her first choir JOYS OF THE WOMEN reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the film Joys Of The Women by Franco Di Chiera

July 23 2023 PODCAST / YOUTUBE CONVERSATIONS Kavisha with Canadian musician LEAH ROSEMAN
LA VOCE DELLA LUNA Italian Choir sinsg VA PENSIERO featuring Kavisha from the album "Luna Yarra" produced by Paul Petran -AS FEATURED IN Australian Filmmaker Aaron Wilson's 2021 accaimed FILM "LITTLE TORNADOES "

AL GRASSBY'S Grandfather with Neil Adam,Judy Turner and Spanish band from the Asturias FELPEYU
AMOUR from Love and Sorrow 2011
ALL GODS BEGGARS from Silver Hook Tango 2003
ALL YOU FASCISTS with BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS 2017
BELLA CIAO di Risaia with I Viaggiatori Italian Folk from Suitcase Serenada 2011
EMPTY SKY CHANTS and SACRED SONGS session LIVE Aug 2020
FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER from Fisherman's Daughter 1998
GECKO SONG from Love and Sorrow 2011
INVISIBLE INDIVISIBLE from Mermaids In The Well 1995
KINDNESS OF STRANGERS Xmas Carol 2016
LOVE and JUSTICE Choir Women's Anthem with VICTORIAN WOMEN'S TRUST CHOIR 2008
LOVESWING (Kabir) 2021
LOVE I CALL YOUR NAME by Jarek Czecowicz from Empty Sky 2020
MEET ME TONIGHT live with Matthew at the Lomond OCT 2023
NIGRA SUM from MARE PROFUNDO Kavisha ,Irine Vela and Richard Tedesco with Boite Millenium Chorus 2006
PHILOSOPHY MAN live performance at Kidogo Arthouse Fremantle NOV 2021
RITURNELLA from Riturnella Italian Folk songs 2014
ROSE IN THE BONES from Silver Hook Tango 2003
SHE MOVES THROUGH THE FAIR from Mermaids In The Well 1995
SING FOR NO ONE from The Fearless Note 2017
TO THE RIVER co written with Arnold Zable
TWO GOOD MEN (Sacco and Vanzetti) with BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS 2017
THE FEARLESS NOTE from The Fearless Note 2017
VA PENSIERO Kavisha with la Voce Della Luna from LUNA YARRA
VENEZUELA from Silver Hook Tango 2003
VENEZUELA LIVE at the LOMOND with MAtthew Arnold on Violin at the LOMOND ACOUSTICA OCT 2023

VIVA SARA Live with Matthew Arnold on violin at the LOMOND ACOUSTICA JUly 3rd 2024
VULUMBRELLA ancient Southern Italian Folk Song from Mermaids In The Well 1995
WE ARE ANGELS from Mermaids In The Well 1995
WEDDING SHEETS from Suitcase Serenata 2010
WOODY GUTHRIE SHOW from BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS 2017