"sing for no one - sing for everyone."
KAVISHA MAZZELLA A.M.
BANDCAMP YOUTUBE SOUNDCLOUD SPOTIFY
AWARD WINNING SINGER SONGWRITER, CHOIR LEADER and SOUNDHEALER
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" Kavisha Mazzella AM is an Australian singer-songwriter and composer whose music has Mediterranean, gypsy and Celtic influences .Influenced by her rich multicutural background ( Italian and Celtic-Burmese ) she pays respect to folk traditions whilst creating new music . She first came to national attention in 1993 through the film The Joys Of The Women an award winning documentary by Franco Di Chiera about her founding an italian diaspora community choir "The Joys Of The Women" choir in Fremantle WA in 1989 .The film also shows her search for her roots through traditional Italian Folk music .She also went on to form more choirs such as The Voice Of The Moon - La Voce Della Luna in Melbourne from 1996-2013 .In 2000 the Italian Government awarded Kavisha the "Italia Nel Mondo" Award for her work promoting Italian Culture in Australia . La Voce Della Luna's moving version of version of Va Pensiero is featured in the 2023 film Little Tornadoes . Kavisha is bilingual, with a passion for sharing traditional songs as well as composing her music which reflects the experiences of the Diaspora . Her song focus on social justice, community building and the search for deeper meaning .Her performances are filled with humour, wit and warmth. She currently directs Lingua Madre Italian Folk Choir in Melbourne .
BOOK KAVISHA to play at your event on +61 (0)412893355
Kavisha Gigs 2024
SUN July 28th 5pm -6pm Empty Sky song circle with Rev Alex Sangster at Southport Saint Kilda Uniting Church 325 Dorcas St South Melbourne Donation entry . tix by Donation. Proceeds go to Medicine Sans Frontiers GAZA
SAT 3rd August 8pm The Coolroom ,Northern Arts Hotel Castlemaine FOLK songs of ITALY and the Diaspora Concert with Jack Norton and Nick Lyon tix $25 / $18 concession (10 available )
WED AUG 21st Songs of Italia! Cultural Infusion presents Kavisha's solo School Show
for Brunswick East Primary School Multicultural Day .
AUG 25th 2 - 3pm Sunday Serenades presented by The City of Joondalup -Kavisha and AMICI
with John Reed and Peter Grayling (cello) at Redmond Theatre at Prendiville College 11 Prendiville Drive,
Ocean Reef West Australia TIX $18/$14/$10
SEPT 7th and 8th Guildford Songfest WA Wonderful Choir festival held in Historic Guildford Town .WA .
SEPT 10th - 22nd POP UP CHORAL TOUR Starting at Palazzo Tucci ,Lucca , Siena ITALY and surrounding Sienese countryside at Villa Corsano Kavisha and Valdo Michelangeli and 12 lucky choir members will experience the magical music food and Art culture of Tuscany .
Valdo and Kavisha lead their 7th famous CANTIAMO popup choir , food and wine tour .SOLD OUT
Kavisha is doing 2 gigs in SOUTH GERMANY in Late September !
27. Sept. 2024 in Gechingen, 19:30 Opening of the room, Start Concert 20:00, Evangelisches Gemeindehaus Gechingen, Brunnenstraße 4, 75391 Gechingen
28. Sept. 2024 in Sindelfingen, Stiftgymnasiums in der Böblinger-Straße von Sindelfingen, at the moment we don´t know the Time of the concert, it will be in the evening.
SUN OCT 13th 12.30pm - 8.30pm Segmento Tarantella Festival corner of Griffiths st and Edwardes Lake Park Reservoir Vic FREE entry!
TUES OCT 15th 6.30pm Segmento Tarantella Festival closing ceremony for Victoria at
Open Factory 9 Cobham St Reservoir VIC
FR OCT 18th Segmento Tarantella Festival SYDNEY - venue to be announced
SUN OCT 20th Segmento Tarantella Festival Brisbane - venue to be announced
NOV 1- 3rd TARANTA FESTIVAL BELLENGEN NSW
NOV 8th and 9th COOL EVENTS present Kavisha concert and vocal workshops in Dorrigo NSW
Enquiries please text Annie Arnold 0431473498
© Photo Mark Hopper
BIOG of KAVISHA MAZZELLA AM
"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. In 2011 she was awarded an Australia Day Honour for services to music and community. In 2023 she was awarded a Lifetime Contribution Award by Folk Alliance Australia for championing diversity in the folk music scene ."
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Photo ©Cole Kelly 2024 Kavisha at Carmel Hall Cygnet Tasmania at Cygnet Folk Festival 2024
REVIEW From ITALY FROM THE ITALIAN BLOG POST SERENUS BLOOM OF Italian academic CIRO A R Abilitato.
"Kavisha Mazzella is an Italian-Australian singer-songwriter awarded prestigious international awards. She was born in London and resides in Melbourne, Australia. Her mother is Anglo-Burmese, while her father is Neapolitan, originally from the enchanting island of Ischia, the largest of the Phlegraean archipelago, the ancient Pithecusa. Kavisha's lyrics reproduce original songs from the folk tradition of different cultures around the world. Only rarely have I heard a Neapolitan or Sicilian song sung so well even by my fellow countrymen, also due to the attention to accents and diction. Kavisha's songs are authentic lyrical masterpieces, offered with the voice of an angel in various languages: Italian, Neapolitan, Sardinian, Sicilian, French, Spanish, English. These are authentic melodic masterpieces in which Celtic, Fado, Catalan, bardic, Gothic and Gypsy mix lively with truly original effects. Kavisha Mazzella's songs are stories woven of weightless grace and traditional gems that carry within them a great sense of poetry and lyrical depth. This singer possesses the remarkable ability to effortlessly throw her clear and beautiful voice into a microphone, from a meter away, almost like a ventriloquist, and to move from side to side across the stage to fill it with delicate and vibrant sonority. all the surrounding space. Something that really goes beyond words. Her warm and passionate voice conveys emotions that touch her heart. Her energy and love of music are contagious." CIRO A R Abilitato
LINGUA MADRE ITALIAN language Folk Choir TERM WED 3rd July - Aug 21st 10 am 2024
Lingua Madre is Melbournes newest Italian language choir. We share not only singing
but Coffee, Biscotti and great recipes that our nonni have made ! Please note
WE REHEARSE alternative Monday evenings 7pm
and Wednesday Mornings 10am.
See DATES below
We celebrate Australia's amazing immigrants and all they have bought here !
We sing beautiful traditional italian folk songs of work ,love ,death, protest and hope that come from all regions of italy and resonate through 600 years of singing.
We learn harmonies ,language and community sharing with stories and recipes in a safe caring environment at Saint Marks Community Church 100 Hodgkinson St Clifton Hill Melbourne Victoria Australia
JULY 2024
DATES:WED morning July 10th- 10 am
WED morning July 17th -10 am ,
MON evening 7pm July 22nd ,
WED morning 31st JULY 10am
AUGUST DATES FRI 2nd AUG
Fundraiser GIG at 1 Mark St Hall BOITE 3 songs for 3CR
MON 5th Aug 7pm,
WED Morning 10 am ,
Final evening MONDAY 19th AUG 7pm
Please note - scholarship is also available please contact Kavisha 0412893355
please contact Kavisha 0412893355
PHOTO GALLERY
Kavisha and Trudy Edgeley ...YES!!!! SEPT 2024
JOYS of the WOMEN 30th Anniversary celebration in Brisbane in July 2023 with Family and Director Franco Di Chiera
Kavisha with Trio Riturnella - NIC LYON and Jack NORTON in Castlemaine
Sam & Dave De Santi , Giri Mazzella at JOYS of the Women 30th Anniversary celebration Brisbane
WARLAYIRTY ARTS CENTRE 35th Anniversary Concert BALGO WA Aug 22 with Giancarlo Mazzella & kids
Collaborating with Kenny Dawson Goondiyandi singer songwriter and visual artist from Yiyili WA
SINGING in Villa Corsano,Ville di Corsano ,Tuscany ITALY Cantiamo Choral Tour 2015
HEARTLPLACE CHOIR FREMANTLE WA 2020 - 2023
At the NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL BUDAWANG STAGE 2023
On Tour with the WOODY GUTHRIE SONGS OF FREEDOM SHOW with BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS Brisbane Powerhouse 2017
Kavisha founded La Voce Della Luna Italian Women's Choir in Melbourne in 1996 and directed them until 2013 LISTEN HERE
SHENPEN SOUNDHEALING
In 2018-2021 Kavisha studied Integral Sound healing with SHA international Bristol UK and is a qualified level 2 One on One Sound healer .
Her teachcers were Tony Nec , Sally Hutchinson of Soundhealing Journeys and Anne Ridgeway of Laxshmi Sound Sanctuary
She has called her Soundhealing practice " Shenpen" which in tibetan means of benefit to all . her Facebook Page is HERE
Sound with intention creates a beautiful healing journey for you at Shenpen Soundhealing .
What are the benefits of sound healing?
Some of the most highly reported benefits of music therapy and sound healing that is experienced over time
(say 4 sessions a month )
include:
Reduced stress.
Fewer mood swings.
Lower blood pressure.
Lower cholesterol levels.
Better pain management.
Reduced risk of strokes and coronary artery disease.
Improved sleep.
and most importantly
self knowledge ...self awareness... and self realisation !
Good News!!! NDIS Funding is available. Sound Healing is categorised as Sound Therapy . price is $100 per hour session - one on one
To book your session
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TESTIMONIALS
( after 4 sessions over a month )
"I highly recommend the use of this modality.it can go where alot of other healing techniques can't. Kavisha is a natural in this field"AG
"I would encourage people to do soundhealing as it os stimulating on all levels.ones awareness of health is increased through relaxing into the vibrations of sound energy and being immersed in quiet attention "K M
"My levels of Stress have decreased and my ability to let go and relax have improved enormously" DW
" I felt more in tune with my true nature.i was seeing my true self more clearly I became more confident to be myself.(i experienced )Self Acceptance and let go of alot of resistance to my true nature which is a very loving being.Its a necessary experience . Everyone should try it ! " PH
"The healer (Kavisha) was empathic,being well caring of the client (myself).I wholly recommend this process and know it will be helpful for clients "LE
EMPTY SKY SONG CIRCLE and introduction to World Kirtan
TESTIMONIAL "It was such a delight to experience Kavisha’s introduction to Kirtan. It was a beautifully crafted, calming, heart-centred and easy space for people to be in. I think it’s so important that festivals have quiet places where people can restore and reboot. " Jo Cresswell Artistic Director , 2023 National Folk Festival Australia
WHAT WE DO AT EMPTY SKY
Sunday 28th JULY 5pm
at Saint Kilda South Port Uniting Church South Melbourne 325 Dorcas St South Melbourne and co hosted
with my good friend Rev Allie Sangster . Donation entry .Proceeds to Medecine Sans Frontier
Here are some of the songs we sing at EMPTY SKY listen here
KAVISHA's LATEST CD
Empty Sky Sacred Songs and Chants
In SEPT 2018 I recorded these songs with my good friend veteran world musician Nicolas Lyon in Malmesbury .By March 2019 only 6 months later, it was ready for the world but COVID came along ! Time to lockdown so we never had a chance to launch it properly ! However a few friends got copies and they say it got them through the difficult lockdown which made me so happy that the music was healing and useful .We then launched it 4 years later at the 2023 Maldon Folk Festival !
The songs include a soulful version of Jarek Czechowicz's "Love, I call Your Name ", a reworking of the popular "Magnificence" by Peter Makena, my original melodies to traditional wisdom texts the Gayatri Mantra, Heart Sutra, Om Mani Padmi Hum, and the words of the mystic poets such as Kabir and Saint Francis. Finally ending with a rallying call for Mother Earth.
FULL REVIEW by Robbie Greig Melbourne Singer Songwriter , mentor and music teacher. March 2020
"What a beautiful CD it is! Especially in these distressing times, it has provided a calming and uplifting mood when it was most needed. THANK YOU." Jeannie Marsh- Melbourne singer and choir leader
"What it is ..is it calms me and makes me feel grounded and secure and it talks to a part of me which is beyond words .There's something about being from different traditions on one album that makes it absorbing. It touches different emotions from lament to uplift " Padma Locana ,Yoga teacher Melbourne
REVIEWS
PRAISE for Kavisha’s Music
EMPTY SKY
"Empty Sky is a pilgrimage to places in the world and in the mind where the sacred is still honoured. Through a selection of prayers, kirtans, chants, devotional poetry and songs of praise, Kavisha weaves a spell of beauty and tranquility. Flowing along like a gentle river, hypnotic, repetitive, timeless, it’s no surprise that that the album is intended as an aid to meditation and relaxation." Robbie Grieg
RITURNELLA
"Kavisha's new album of centuries-old Italian folk songs is a beautiful thing to hear - a great vehicle for these songs of the heart that have stood the test of time. She plays guitar, mandolin and accordion and the spare production lets her voice naturally shine."
Lucky Oceans ,ABC Radio National Weekly Planet. March 2014
“Riturnella is a beautiful collection of Italian folk songs from the 1400s onwards. Here, Kavisha Mazzella has returned to a collection of songs she heard many years ago on a friends cassette player that ultimately lead to her work with I Papaveri and La Voce Della Luna. 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, Book and Music.****
LOVE AND SORROW Kavisha Mazzella Black Market Music **** (four stars)
‘TIS a musical match made in heaven, though forged in Melbourne during a break in one of Nano Stern’s tours. Local artist Kavisha Mazzella was destined to collaborate with the talented young Chilean, whose own work also exudes a Latin passion for life and travel, and a predisposition to break down musical and cultural barriers. Subtle multi-instrumental colouring from the album’s producer, 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, reflecting the writer’s “travels and misadventures” near and far, the former in the case of the evocative St Kilda Lullaby, which poetically encapsulates the raffish charms of Melbourne’s beachside suburb in lines like: “Luna Park’s mask is grinning and blowing the breeze through the dark / The winos are dancing with shadows and glancing for cops as they sleep in the park”. Gecko Song, on the other hand, captures the velvety ambience of a tropical Southeast Asian night via a combination of Mazzella’s Balinese flute, Stern’s marimba and ukulele, and Williamson’s gamelan gong. Elsewhere, the South American’s nylon-string guitar and harmony singing provide simpatico support to the leader’s emotional vocals in Gethsemane and Magdalena. Charango adds a whiff of Andean air to Green Eyed Songbird. Mandolin and fiddle lend a classic British folk feel to All You Sailors.
Tony Hillier *** and a Half
THE FEARLESS NOTE by JOHN SHAND Sydney Morning Herald 7/10
Recorded live in Melbourne, The Fearless Note catches such a strong sensation of intimacy that it is if Kavisha Mazzella is singing for your ears alone. This is crucial, because it ensures you are drawn into the dream worlds of her lyrics: hazes of words that suddenly snap into focus and impale you on a thought, a sentiment or a memory. Often they contain observations from her travels, so the effect is like images drifting past a rainy train window, although she can also lighten the mood with a song like Philosophy Man (“I’m in love with a philosophy man who cannot fix my car”).
LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEW BY BILL LAWRIE and Photo by CLARE MOODY
"Kavisha takes the stage with John Reed, with whom she first played in 1981 and with whom she has performed many times, notably in the band ‘Rich and Famous’ in the late 1980s-early 90s. John plays cittern, a bouzouki type instrument, as well as ukulele. He also provides some back up harmony and irreverent humour. Kavisha has her nylon string guitar and her amazing voice. There is an easy rapport and fine musical understanding between two first-class musicians.
From the first song, the haunting ‘Invisible/Indivisible’, Kavisha has, not just a voice but an approach to the performance that is all conviction, as if she is out to join heaven and earth. Some moments have the immediacy of a nearby lighting strike. She tells a story about folk music legend Liam Clancy telling her to banish the internal critic and “see the song inside”, then moves into ‘The Fearless Note’ a song about authenticity in life and song. There are more songs about people and places by the sea from Fremantle and around the world. One song about street life and generosity in St Kilda sounds like it would have been a great duet with L Cohen, another servant of the song. Folk music at its best."
Full review here Kavisha at Joanna's Candlight Soiree
TESTIMONIALS
"Gene and I agree that when we attend festivals, Kavisha impresses with her supportive attitude to fellow performers" DR TONY SMITH
"Your beautiful warm heart, music and songs were the perfect antidote for us here in Melbourne at present when we are in the midst of so much doom and gloom.The feedback from all the singers has been overwhelmingly positive and grateful for your sessions - and we can't thank you enough!"
Jonathon Welch AM ( Choir Of Hard Knocks Founder) Melbourne International Singers Festival
"Like all great artists, you bring so much joy into peoples' lives and make it possible for them to get out of their noise ... and ... rest with their feelings ... that's a teacherless teaching. "Robert G
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"What an absolutely fabulous performance you spoilt us with!! Thank you." Margot Leake, Albany Entertainment Centre WA
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"Just wanted to say a heart felt thank you for the wonderful workshop and concert at Woy Woy last week. It was such fun - the Seven Hundred Rolls song is truly fabulous. You not only sing like an angel, you know how to get other people to sing. What a gift. " Grace - workshop participant
"I have seen Kavisha concerts for years and have her Dvd's so when I heard she had a choir it seemed the one to try. It has met my expectations being an informal fun class but we do learn. My son- in- law mentioned my singing round the house has improved ! You can change anyrhing you want!!!!" Ange Heartplace Choir member
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On the Ganges 2008 with philosphy Man !
BUY YOUR CDS HERE or PURCHASE Kavisha's Albums of Digital Music on Bandcamp
$25 CD plus $10 postage, you can pay here paypal.me/mazzellamusic
Please write to Mazzella Music ; WabiSabi House 338 Rathmines St VIC 3122
or email kavisha(at)kavisha.com THANKYOU !
KAVISHA'S CATALOGUE
- EMPTY SKY sacred songs and chants ( 2019 ) CDS and also digitally on Bandcamp
- The Fearless Note (2017) also Digitally available on Bandcamp
- Riturnella (2014 ) Italian folksongs of 600 years also Digitally available on Bandcamp
- Love and Sorrow ( 2010 )also Digitally available on Bandcamp
- Silver Hook Tango ( 2003 )also Digitally available on Bandcamp
- Fisherman's Daughter (1998 ) also Digitally available on Bandcamp
- Mermaids In The WEll ( 1995 ) also Digitally available on Bandcamp
- Canberra Cork Calgary...live (2000) also Digitally available on itunes
Kavisha on ABC Radio Conversation HOUR with JON FAINE and Ralph McTell and mysterious box player!
MY Youtube Channel - Songs in Alphabetical Order
COMING SOON 2024 - a short Documentary about Italian folk influence in Australia "Echoes of a Tradition "
MARCH 21st 2024 FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER live at Kew Courthouse with ROSARIO DE MARCO
MARCH 1st 2024 WORLD MUSIC CAFE PERTH Episode 4 Learning Burmese Cooking with my cousin!
JULY 27th 2023 INTERVIEW with ADA GUGLIELMO of FREMANTLE RADIO about her first choir JOYS OF THE WOMEN reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the film Joys Of The Women by Franco Di Chiera
- July 23 2023 PODCAST / YOUTUBE CONVERSATIONS Kavisha with Canadian musician LEAH ROSEMAN
- VA PENSIERO Kavisha with La Voce Della Luna Italian Choir featuring Kavisha from the album "Luna Yarra" produced by Paul Petran -AS FEATURED IN Australian Filmmaker Aaron Wilson's 2021 accaimed FILM "LITTLE TORNADOES "
- AL GRASSBY'S Grandfather with Neil Adam,Judy Turner and Spanish band from the Asturias FELPEYU
- AMOUR from Love and Sorrow 2011
- ALL GODS BEGGARS from Silver Hook Tango 2003
- ALL YOU FASCISTS with BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS 2017
- BELLA CIAO di Risaia with I Viaggiatori Italian Folk from Suitcase Serenada 2011
- EMPTY SKY CHANTS and SACRED SONGS session LIVE Aug 2020
- FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER from Fisherman's Daughter 1998
- GECKO SONG from Love and Sorrow 2011
- INVISIBLE INDIVISIBLE from Mermaids In The Well 1995
- KINDNESS OF STRANGERS Xmas Carol 2016
- LOVE and JUSTICE Choir Women's Anthem with VICTORIAN WOMEN'S TRUST CHOIR 2008
- LOVESWING (Kabir) 2021
- LOVE I CALL YOUR NAME by Jarek Czecowicz from Empty Sky 2020
- MEET ME TONIGHT live with Matthew at the Lomond OCT 2023
- NIGRA SUM from MARE PROFUNDO Kavisha ,Irine Vela and Richard Tedesco with Boite Millenium Chorus 2006
- PHILOSOPHY MAN live performance at Kidogo Arthouse Fremantle NOV 2021
- RITURNELLA from Riturnella Italian Folk songs 2014
- ROSE IN THE BONES from Silver Hook Tango 2003
- SHE MOVES THROUGH THE FAIR from Mermaids In The Well 1995
- SING FOR NO ONE from The Fearless Note 2017
- TO THE RIVER co written with Arnold Zable
- TWO GOOD MEN (Sacco and Vanzetti) with BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS 2017
- THE FEARLESS NOTE from The Fearless Note 2017
- VENEZUELA from Silver Hook Tango 2003
- VENEZUELA LIVE at the LOMOND with MAtthew OCT 2023
- VIVA SARA Live with Matthew Arnold on violin at the LOMOND ACOUSTICA JUly 3rd 2024
- VULUMBRELLA Italian Folk Song from Mermaids In The Well 1995
- WE ARE ANGELS from Mermaids In The Well 1995
- WEDDING SHEETS from Suitcase Serenata 2010
- WOODY GUTHRIE SHOW from BRUCE HEARN and the MACCHINISTS 2017
INTERVIEWS
Kavisha speaks Glenn Williams on 94.9 FM Castlemaine VIC
Kavisha & Franco Di Chiera with TONY TARDIO on RETE ITALIA May 20 2023
Kavisha & Franco Di Chiera with Magica Fossati from SBS 30 years of Joys Of The Women 2023
Kavisha talks with Vanessa Mills from ABC Kimberly about the Power of Music 2022
Kavisha with Patricia Hamilton of Concious Living TV NOV 2021
Kavisha with Suvas Agam from his Youtube Show SECRETS OF LIFE NEPAL NOV 2020
Kavisha and Franco Di Chiera INTERVIEW about the film The Joys Of The Women 2012
OTHER Interesting Snippets
Kavisha Community Xmas play Jesus was a Middle Eastern Refugee 2012
Kavisha Kavisha Community Xmas play Beggars Orchestra play Hava Nagila 2012
Kavisha wins ARIA AWARD for best World Music Album 1998