Lonnie Holley is part of the wonder

Lonnie Holley has dedicated his life to art, but his music career – as a recording artist at least – only started at the age of 62, decades after he became a sculptor displayed at the White House and collected by The Met, The Smithsonian, and the Art Gallery of NSW. He grew up in Jim Crow era Alabama and suffered a huge amount of abuse at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, which has always informed his art and his music.  His first album came out in 2012 and his most recent, Oh Me Oh My, came out last year. He’s back in Australia to perform live with Moor Mother and Irreversible Entanglements.

Liquid Pearls is a duo performance by harpist Hannah Lane and viola da gamba/lirone player Laura Vaughan, and it takes that name from a 1500s madrigal: “from her eyes, Cupid scattered liquid pearls…”. Hannah and Laura join Andy to perform live in studio, demonstrating how their exploration of 16th and 17th century Italy and Spain has resulted in something simultaneously “organic and rarified”.