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In this episode of Making Music While The World Falls Apart, Mal and Ash are joined by Pauline Pearce for a warm, wide-ranging chat about music, community, volunteering, and the many creative things happening across Gippsland.Pauline shares how stepping into community music, radio, theatre, jazz ev…

Can musicians still make it without social media? In this episode, Malcolm and Ash talk Les Mis barricade-building rehearsals, winning grants, new music festival planning, 90s cover gigs, and what it might take for Ash to break into the London West End as a pit musician.

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What actually makes music “good”? In this episode, Mal and Ash are joined by composer and educator Hannah Comrie-Weston for a wide-ranging conversation about taste, beauty, subjectivity, gatekeeping, and whether music can ever really be judged objectively. From Bach to Baby Shark, musical theatre p…