The Boite presents Songs from Home

Four families come together to sings songs from Georgia, Ireland, Poland and beyond.

Knight Family  

Canadian ethnomusicologist Matthew Knight lived with his young family in Georgia for several years to enable him to study Georgian traditional music. Now based in Winnipeg, the Knights are a singing family and keep in touch with like minded musicians across the world. The Knight Family are making their way to Naarm/Melbourne and will be working with Melbourne Georgian Choir in August, and headlining the concert.  

The O'Hanlons 

The O'Hanlon family are Glendyr (mother), Conor (older brother) and Lloyd (younger brother) who have been singing folk music for many years. Georgian music brought them together, but more recently they have embraced their own anglo-celtic heritage, and branched out to learn traditional irish songs.

Zosia Kaszubska, Gosia Kaszubska, Chris Kaszubski 

Mother and daughter duo Zosia and Gosia have been harmonising together for decades. Their unique interpretations bring to new life traditional folk melodies, usually sung acapella.  While they are drawn to Poland's rich folk tradition, Zosia and Gosia also share the best of the nation's musical present through their arrangements of contemporary songs and original compositions. At this concert they will also be joined by their son/brother, Chris, rounding out the family harmonic bonds.   

King Family  

Therese Virtue and Roger King were ‘folksingers’ who slid across genres to join Il Gruppo Folcloristico Italiano, and from there dabbled in Bulgarian polyphony, Turkish monophonic songs, various other styles and settled on Georgian with the arrival of Nino Tsitsishvili and Joseph Jordania in Melbourne. Travelling in Georgia with their son Martin, they sang with various family ensembles, who encouraged the three of them to work as a trio.