"sing for no one - sing for everyone."


 

 2018 GIGS at a GLANCE

 May 4th 8pm  Kavisha and Santa Taranta OPEN STUDIO HIgh St Northcote


MAY- Italy Musician in  Residence - May 12th -19th  OSTRA Marche, Workshop and Concert 19th May

 

May 21- June 2 Lucca-Siena and surrounding areas CANTIAMO 2018

annual trip exploring Tuscany in depth through art music history and food co- lead with Valdo Micchelangeli

June 2-9 Naples.  Tammuriata folk dance study.

August 4th  Kavisha Mazzella Trio  at Saint John's  Anglican Church Creswick Book Here

Oct 1-8th  STRINGMANIA CAMP bookings here

OCT-NOV Regional Centre for Culture 2018  Phee Broadway theatre residency to produce production of "How the Hell Did We Get Here?" NOV 3rd and 4th

ONGOING PROJECTS

RADIO " Planetary Wanderer" on Friday mornings 11 am -1pm  repeated on TUESDAYs 3-5pm Music and talk celebrating many cultures through music at Castlemaine's own Community Radio Station 94.9 Maine FM

 Join us!  THE MOON'S A BALLOON CHOIR....ALL WELCOME to join with us Tuesday Nights  hosted by Wellways .Starts at 7.45pm at rear of Saint Marks Baptist church Hall 100 Hodgkinson St Clifton Hill .Gold Coin Donation. Food to share afterward. Enquiries please contact WELLWAYS

From September - March Ballarat Italian Association CHOIR CORO del ORO  rear of Sacred Heart Chapel,Welcome Centre 145 View St Ballarat Wednesdays 5.30pm -7pm. All Welcome   contact HERE

 

<<<<NEWS>>>

APOLOGIES :Unfortunately due to an accidental electrical Fire  , most of Kavisha's CDS have been destroyed

so there are very few cds left however you can enquire here  for remaining stock that is in perfect condition at

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. price=  $25 plus postage THANKYOU


 

  1. Fammi Restari (Sicily 1600s)
  2. Riturnella (Calabria 1800s)
  3. Ricciulina (Campania 1700s)
Please tell us which CDS you want

BIOGRAPHY

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...MORE HERE.

 COLLABORATIONS on Youtube .

BELLA CIAO di Risaia with I Viaggiatori

VA PENSIERO with La Voce Della Luna

LOVE and JUSTICE Choir Women's Anthem with VICTORIAN WOMEN'S TRUST CHOIR

 

Kavisha's music

Mermaids in the Well(1995 )

Under the loving guidance and musical arrangements of Lee Buddle (Crank Recording, Perth West Australia) and John Reed, this album took 5 years to make! It was released in 1995 Featuring INVISIBLE INDIVISIBLE & CLOUDS OF GLORY.

Fisherman's Daughter - ARIA WINNER (1998).

Kavisha collaborated with one of Australia's best loved singer-songwriters Michael Thomas ( ex-Weddings, Parties, Anything) to create " Fisherman's Daughter".The album won the 1998 ARIA award for the best Traditional/Folk/ World music album of the year. One of the album's songs "Big Blue Above" was chosen for Australian t.v series Seachange. Features BIG BLUE ABOVE & GYPSY SONG.

Canberra Cork Calgary...live (2000).

Live recordings of Kavisha solo tour in Ireland,Canada and Australia.(CDs sold out, but you can purchase on itunes))

Silver Hook Tango (2003 ) ARIA nominee.

"Kavisha Mazzella, one of the brightest stars on the Australian folk scene, has produced a beauty with her fourth and latest enstallment "Silver Hook Tango." Taking the masterstroke perfect musical settings to accompany her dreamy poetic word pictures. Mazzella's beautiful singing works so well with Gerry O'Beirne's ravishing impressionistic array of guitar sounds."Paul Barr, Readings Book shop Carlton Melbourne.  Features SILVER HOOK TANGO,ALL GOD"S BEGGARS & VENEZUELA

Suitcase Serenata (2010) Kavisha with I Viaggiatori.

Kavisha sings with I Viaggiatori (the travellers) who are Dave de Santi, Mark Holder-Keeping and Itrine Vela .Suitcase Serenata is made up of Italian old time tunes that are the soundtrack to Angelo Drovetti's 1924 silent movie Dall Italia All'Australia".This film discovered in the Milan Silent Film archives by Italo Australian journalist Tony Di Bolfo i.Featuring BELLA CIAO di RISAIA is availble for sale as a dvd .SHOP here

Love and Sorrow (2011).

Winner of National Film and Sound Archive award 2012

"Tis a musical match made in Heaven" says Tony Hillier of Kavisha's latest album. Produced by Nano Stern and recorded again at Spring Studios Prahan in Melbourne,engineered mixed by Harry Williamson this album features the wordless and beautiful " OLIVE TREE " as featured in the 2013 film Summer Suit , GECKO SONG, GETHSEMENE, AMOUR and MAGDALENA

Riturnella (2014)

“Riturnella" is a beautiful collection of Italian folk songs from the 1400s onwards. 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 Books and Music Magazine.

This album features the beautiful title track RITURNELLA and FAMMI RESTARI

 

The Fearless Note (2017)

featuring Sing for no One Sing For Every One

"For a long time, Kavisha Mazzella has established her place in the quiet tradition of singer-songwriters who paint the colours of a world where we all, each in their own way, live our ordinary and extraordinary lives. Now, with humble passion, she continues to draw from that endless well." Maxwell Ryan

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Love and Sorrow

 

WINNER of National Film and Sound Archive Award for best Cd release 

 of the National Folk Festival ,Easter 2011.

"ARIA award winning artist, Kavisha Mazzella, delivers another album, featuring her exemplary songwriting and singing skills. Her songs marry the rich folk music traditions of her Italian parentage, with an ability to articulate the contemporary everyday. This album produced by Chilean guitarist Nano Stern, has a sweet musicality that enhances Kavisha’s sweet,marvelous voice." Paul Barr Readings Books and Music

Love & Sorrow Kavisha Mazzella (Mazzella Music)

**** (four stars)

 

 "Subtle multi-instrumental colouring from producer, Nano Stern 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"  **** Tony Hillier     The Weekend Australian