Sunday January 14th, 2024, is the second anniversary of Nick Polites’ passing at the age of 94. Nick was a much-loved iconic Melbourne jazzman, an early, influential, and respected advocate …

The Australian Government’s current Multicultural Framework Review is looking at ways for government and the community to work together to support a cohesive multicultural society and advance a vibrant and …

Georgina Tsolidis, a friend who shares my keenness for old school African-American blues and Rn’B music, recently put me on to blueswoman Kaliopi. Kaliopi is a Melbourne-based Greek-Australian Blues Artist, …

Last Sunday afternoon Constantinos Emmanuelle launched his second book in the Tales of Cyprus series – ‘The Corsica’ – at a packed Saint John’s College Auditorium in Preston. This new …

When Frenchmen arrived in the bend of the Mississippi River that would eventually be named New Orleans, they encountered a place that had been home to Native Americans for about …

My father, Nicholas, was born nearly 100 years ago, in 1923, to Paraskeva and Lefki Pagonis; and lived his childhood in the Cypriot township of Arathipou, near the port city …

Nick Polites OAM passed away on 14 January 2022; he was 94 years old. Nick was a much-loved iconic Melbourne jazzman, an early, influential and respected advocate for migrant services, …

My Australian-born mother, Helen Kathleen, grew up in a community of ‘displaced persons’ of Greek heritage from Asia Minor who resettled in South Melbourne in the aftermath of the First …

Now retired, 93-year-old Melbourne-born Jazz legend Nick Polites OAM gave a rare public performance on the morning of Christmas Eve outside the Degani Café in Ivanhoe Mall. He was accompanied …

“I come from a musical family where the piano was central in the home and at gatherings. I was immersed by classical, theatrical, radio-pop before I could string a sentence …