Karen Jacobsen's voice is familiar to the users of more than a billion devices worldwide, as the voice of Siri.

But her movements in the past year are less well known than her voice, which has directed people to their destination through GPS devices around the globe.

The pandemic meant she picked up from her home of 20 years in New York, and returned to Australia. She tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast, that she thought this would be a short sojourn.

But more than 18 months down the track, Karen and her family are still living in the Whitsundays, and Karen has just released her latest album “Ready for What I Came Here For”, which she started recording in New York before Covid-19 hit, and finished by recording remotely from her island home.

She tells us in this episode of Streets of Your Town how she feels she is now embarking on the most exciting chapter of her life as an independent artist in her 50's, embracing the positivity of her music and message.

Karen Jacobsen's voice is familiar to the users of more than a billion devices worldwide, as the voice of Siri.
But her movements in the past year are less well known than her voice, which has directed people to their destination through GPS devices around the globe.
The pandemic meant she picked up from her home of 20 years in New York, and returned to Australia. She tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast, that she thought this would be a short sojourn.
But more than 18 months down the track, Karen and her family are still living in the Whitsundays, and Karen has just released her latest album &ldquo;Ready for What I Came Here For&rdquo;, which she started recording in New York before Covid-19 hit, and finished by recording remotely from her island home.
She tells us in this episode of Streets of Your Town how she feels she is now embarking on the most exciting chapter of her life as an independent artist in her 50's, embracing the positivity of her music and message.

Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.

Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work HERE

Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.
Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>

A slice of Australian (audio) life from The Wandering Journo

Streets of Your Town

Karen Jacobsen

New Meanjin/Brisbane band Yirinda is widening the scope of Indigenous music with a unique take blending Aboriginal language and songs with classical genres.



Yirinda combines ancient Aboriginal language performed by Butchulla songman Fred Leone with dramatic soundscapes from Samuel Pankhurst, accompanied by a string quartet, to invoke thousands of generations of story and culture through music.



The band has just released its debut album on vinyl, CD and digital following on from their performance debut at last year’s Brisbane Festival, before going on to play at the Woodford Folk Festival over New Years. 



Fred and Samuel tell Streets of Your Town about their unique evocative sound evolved,  and their excitement taking Yirinda on the road with a tour up Australia’s east coast, finishing in Cairns on May 31.



Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE



Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

New Meanjin/Brisbane band Yirinda is widening the scope of Indigenous music with a unique take blending Aboriginal language and songs with classical genres.
 
Yirinda combines ancient Aboriginal language performed by Butchulla songman Fred Leone with dramatic soundscapes from Samuel Pankhurst, accompanied by a string quartet, to invoke thousands of generations of story and culture through music.
 
The band has just released its debut album on vinyl, CD and digital following on from their performance debut at last year’s Brisbane Festival, before going on to play at the Woodford Folk Festival over New Years. 
 
Fred and Samuel tell Streets of Your Town about their unique evocative sound evolved,  and their excitement taking Yirinda on the road with a tour up Australia’s east coast, finishing in Cairns on May 31.
 
Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
 
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Yirinda on combining ancient Aboriginal language with classical music

There’s only two people who have made it onto Streets of Your Town podcast more than once. And journo and author extraordinaire Trent Dalton is one of them. 

With the Netflix series adaptation of his first breakthrough novel Boy Swallows Universe now number one in Australia and top ten in the US, it’s time to revisit this Brisbane born and bred talent, whose gritty but hopeful representations of the wrong side of town in his novels have thrust beloved Brissie icons such as the Story Bridge onto the worldwide map.

He knows this underworld because he grew up in it, and Trent tells us on Streets of Your Town how he never could have envisioned as a young child how a story he wrote could one day make it onto screens around the country and around the globe.

Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE



Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

There’s only two people who have made it onto Streets of Your Town podcast more than once. And journo and author extraordinaire Trent Dalton is one of them. 
With the Netflix series adaptation of his first breakthrough novel Boy Swallows Universe now number one in Australia and top ten in the US, it’s time to revisit this Brisbane born and bred talent, whose gritty but hopeful representations of the wrong side of town in his novels have thrust beloved Brissie icons such as the Story Bridge onto the worldwide map.
He knows this underworld because he grew up in it, and Trent tells us on Streets of Your Town how he never could have envisioned as a young child how a story he wrote could one day make it onto screens around the country and around the globe.
Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
 
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Trent Dalton on the worldwide release of Boy Swallows Universe on Netflix

With all the agitation and conflict in the world at the moment - I thought what we need on Streets of Your Town to start this year - is whimsy. Something to make us smile and stir a sense of childlike awe in us again.

And so off I meandered in Mildred the Cantankerous Kombi to the Woodford Folk Festival. It’s on every year in the foothills of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland helping hippies and hippies at heart to spread harmony and see in the New Year with three minutes of silent contemplation.

The festival attracts more than 130,000 people to the pop-up town of Woodfordia on the site of a former dairy farm, making it the largest gathering of artists and musicians in Australia.

Amidst this glorious muddy throng of people and throbbing music is a contemplative corner of Woodfordia called the Lettering House.

It’s where festival goers can go back to times gone by, and connect to their fellow Woodfordians the old fashioned, non-digital way - by writing a letter or typing it on an old fashioned type-writer.

A team of Woodfordian posties search out the identify of each letter recipient, often based on the vaguest of addresses and identifies, then get on their bikes to find them and deliver the letter by hand, or notify the recipient by text that they have a letter to pick up.

So sit back, and let's ponder the magic of the Lettering House through the words of Postal Clerk Aaron, who explains how they spread their little bit of writing wonder through the festival.

Contact Nance aka The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE

Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

With all the agitation and conflict in the world at the moment - I thought what we need on Streets of Your Town to start this year - is whimsy. Something to make us smile and stir a sense of childlike awe in us again.
And so off I meandered in Mildred the Cantankerous Kombi to the Woodford Folk Festival. It’s on every year in the foothills of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland helping hippies and hippies at heart to spread harmony and see in the New Year with three minutes of silent contemplation.
The festival attracts more than 130,000 people to the pop-up town of Woodfordia on the site of a former dairy farm, making it the largest gathering of artists and musicians in Australia.
Amidst this glorious muddy throng of people and throbbing music is a contemplative corner of Woodfordia called the Lettering House.
It’s where festival goers can go back to times gone by, and connect to their fellow Woodfordians the old fashioned, non-digital way - by writing a letter or typing it on an old fashioned type-writer.
A team of Woodfordian posties search out the identify of each letter recipient, often based on the vaguest of addresses and identifies, then get on their bikes to find them and deliver the letter by hand, or notify the recipient by text that they have a letter to pick up.
So sit back, and let's ponder the magic of the Lettering House through the words of Postal Clerk Aaron, who explains how they spread their little bit of writing wonder through the festival.
Contact Nance aka The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

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