Music By The Sea to Welcome Kavisha Mazzella, 1 November

If you enjoy really good folk music, make sure you mark your diary for Saturday 1st November when Aria Award winner, songbird and folkloric explorer Kavisha Mazzella headlines for Music By The Sea.

Passionate about justice, Melbourne based Kavisha was awarded an Order of Australia in 2011 for her services to singing and song writing, reflecting the experience of refugee, multicultural and indigenous communities through performance.

Singing original songs, the lyrical ingredients of her style mixes a delicious blend of humour, poetry, social justice and spirituality.

The effect is an uplifting, boundary riding journey of well-crafted stories and songs ringing with echoes of Celtic, Fado, Italian and Gypsy influences that are the hallmark "Voice of an Angel" - experience of a Kavisha concert.

Born Paola Mazzella, she was just three when her father from the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Napels and Scottish-Burmese mother brought the family to Western Australia from London.

This Italian influence saturates her latest album Riturnella (The Swallow), influenced by a 19th century Calabrian song about a little bird that returns from migration to Africa.

She describes the album as being "Very earthy and somehow a relief to all the spin and glitter and glitz and the speed of our times."

For program information and bookings: musicbythesea.com.au

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