Dumbo Feather is an iconic Australian magazine. Published quarterly for seven years, and hailed around the world as a design leader, it is a magazine like no other. Our readers are people who want to be told a different story than the one they hear every day. Each quarterly issue features five extended (20 page) profiles of people worth knowing, across enterprise, education, science, sport, politics, fashion and the arts. Whether they’ve touched millions, or just those around them, we take the time to get to know these people, and ask them to tell us their stories.
Dumbo Feather
EDITORIAL
The Dawn Chorus • Somewhere around the world right now, day is breaking. Should that light touch songbirds across cities and countrysides, nature’s greatest symphony begins: a dawn chorus. One bird sounds, then the next and another… all together! An incandescent crescendo! Fweet-fweet, ooh-ooh, aaw-aaw! As the sun keeps circling us, so too do these birds keep singing us awake.
Bonded by Song
An Ode to the Oud
For Love of the Beat!
Singing the Sun Up
The Melodies that Make Us
Accordion Lessons with Nico
BERNARD FANNING IS A ROCKSTAR
MONIQUE DIMATTINA COMPOSES BEAUTY
ANDREW SWAIN IS A “RUSSIAN” CHOIRMASTER
Between the Notes • We ride melodies through time and space, and unpack just some of the treasures that music brings to our lives.
From Our Community • We asked some of our partners, readers and alumni about the music that rocks their world.
NATALIA MANN IS A RESONANCE ARTIST
SHELLIE MORRIS SINGS HER WAY HOME
Finding Ourselves Within Music
The Hard-Won Potential of this Moment
Holding Space for a New Creative Process
At the Performance Café