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00:11Hello and welcome. We're on Bunurong Country here in the bustling Dandenong Market. We've got fresh
00:18fish, we've got fruit and veg, we've got spices galore and you know what, just because I like
00:23you I'm gonna throw in some piano. After clocking up the kilometres across the country,
00:29our travelling piano arrives here in Melbourne. Searching for ordinary Australians with extraordinary
00:39musical talent. The people that will play these keys today aren't looking for fame or glory,
00:52they just want to share the connection that they have with this very special instrument. Because
00:57a public piano has the power to move you. Look at how she looks at him. I want someone to
01:03look at me
01:03like that when I play. Lift you to your feet and sometimes bring you to tears. I'm sorry, I never
01:12thought I'd play again. Watching on from a secret hidey hole are two of Australia's biggest musical
01:19success stories. Award-winning concert pianist Andrea Lam. This is our store for the day. Oh. And
01:29multi-instrumentalist Guy Sebastian. This is the nicest one we've had. This is gorgeous. They are searching for one
01:37final pianist for a very special event. They are putting together a once in a lifetime concert at the
01:44City Recital Hall in Sydney. They've already invited mum of two Erin, Tasmanian teenager CJ,
01:58Western Australian duo Peter and Rosie, and schoolgirl Caitlin. I'm so surprised. I couldn't believe it
02:08actually. So who will round out this very special group? I can't wait to find out. This is the piano.
02:27Well, hi. Pella, you look nice. You look fantastic green. You're in all the greenery. Can you see me?
02:32Am I just a floating head? You match perfectly. Well, I'm just going to plant myself down and try
02:37not to soil myself. Good. That's what you were thinking of the whole way down here. The whole way
02:42down here. What puns have I got? Nailed it. Today, a big day. One final, final slot. What do we
02:48need to
02:49round out a concert? Well, I still feel we need an entertainer. Like just a bit of energy at that
02:54concert that's going to get people on their feet. You need light and shade. I always want someone
02:58who can play the piano and knock my socks off. Right. So ideally, we would have both. We want
03:03everything. Okay. Today. I'm excited to see who's going to fill that gap. Yes, we'll get to work.
03:08Okay. All right. All right. All right. Hands off. Love you.
03:11Don't touch the merchandise.
03:19You live here in Melbourne. I've got high expectations of being here in Dandenong today.
03:24I think we're going to get some good musos. I think so too.
03:36How are you feeling about today? Excited. Oh. It'll be fun, won't it? Yeah.
03:42My name is Kane. I am seven years old and I'm from Coburg North. The piano, it makes me feel
03:51good.
03:52Smells good. I'm so hungry. Look at this kid. He's beaming. He's either getting some hot donuts
04:03or he's playing the piano. Oh, hello. Are you looking for me? Yeah. Hello, I'm Amanda. Yeah.
04:09What's your name? Kane. Hi, Kane. Come and sit here. Oh. How old is he? Well, hi. Yeah. How old
04:17are you?
04:18I just turned seven. Just turned seven. Just turned seven. Just turned seven.
04:24That's definitely the youngest one that we've seen. Yeah. Tell me about you and music.
04:29Did you grow up with a piano at home? A toy piano.
04:38Do you have a piano teacher? No, I'm self-taught. Are you? Yeah. At the age of seven? Yeah.
04:44What sort of music do you like? Classical. Oh. Who are your favourite composers?
04:50Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, some of Bach and Rachmaninoff. Why only some of Bach?
04:58You don't like some of his other stuff? Some of early Bach? Yeah, just too easy.
05:03Too easy? Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. What? What are you going to play for us today?
05:11Ragtime. Ragtime? How do you know ragtime? I just watch videos of ragtime.
05:17So is this how you've learnt to play? By watching videos? Yeah. YouTube videos? Yeah.
05:22Hang on. So you just watch videos of ragtime and then just plays it?
05:25This is when the internet is amazing. Yes. Why don't my kids watch stuff like that on YouTube?
05:42What? Oh, my gosh.
05:47Wow.
05:58I genuinely think we're watching something special here. Like, the future for Kane is...
06:06It's very bright. It looks pretty bright.
06:17Look at everyone's faces. Everyone's got their phones out. Everyone's got their phones out.
06:21He's totally made people's eyes. There's a lot of jaws that are dropped, right?
06:34He's amazing. I mean, the focus you need to be able to make all of those calculations on distance.
06:55That's the most shocked I've been on this show so far.
06:58Kane, take a bow.
07:01Oh.
07:05I just think we're watching the little genius here.
07:09It smells like fish.
07:14With proper maintenance, a new piano will very likely outlive you.
07:18A well-cared-for piano can last 100 years or more.
07:21And in fact, the world's oldest surviving piano is over 300 years old.
07:27Find that thing there, yes. People are away from the steps there.
07:32I'm Noel Griffith. I'm two weeks off 96.
07:37And I'm Patricia Griffith. An exciting day, isn't it?
07:41Yes, it is.
07:43Here we are.
07:44Look at all the lovely flowers over there. Aren't they lovely?
07:48I can't see them.
07:49Lovely.
07:51Hello. How are you?
07:54Hello, Amanda.
07:54I'm Amanda.
07:55You're Amanda.
07:56I am. Hello.
07:57I'm Noel.
07:57Hello, Noel.
07:58Oh, my goodness.
07:59Are they playing?
08:01Or maybe they're just fans of Amanda.
08:04And hello, I'm Pat.
08:05Hello, Pat.
08:06That's my wife.
08:07Yes, isn't she beautiful?
08:09Yes.
08:09Do you need some help up the stairs?
08:10There's a step there.
08:12Oh, they are playing.
08:13Oh.
08:14How old are you?
08:15I'm 96 in 10 weeks' time.
08:19Yes, a round of applause.
08:21Today, we've had a just turned seven-year-old.
08:24And now, Noel is about to turn 96.
08:27At the opposite end.
08:28Other end.
08:29And Pat, how old are you?
08:30Do you mind me asking?
08:31I'm 94.
08:31And you're 94, the child bride.
08:33Oh, I'm not.
08:36How long ago did you two get married?
08:3972 years ago.
08:41Love at first sight, was it?
08:43No.
08:46Three years he courted me and played the piano to me.
08:50So he played piano for you in the courtship?
08:52Yes.
08:53Is that what wooed you?
08:54I think so.
08:55I thought he was pretty good.
08:56It must have been more than playing a piano.
09:08Right.
09:10Which is mine?
09:12Yours is your cup there.
09:14That one?
09:15Yeah.
09:16I think he's the nicest person one could ever know.
09:19He's the gentle, kindest man that, you know, that I've ever met in my life.
09:25We both look very happy.
09:27Yeah.
09:28Oh, he was a good looking fellow.
09:30He's a good looking fellow.
09:33Look at him.
09:34Handsome man.
09:36It's very common for some people to have about three marriages in their life these days.
09:41I can't tell you why that's the case, except that I don't think they spend time thinking about each other
09:49personally properly.
09:52Is that a biscuit there?
09:53Yes.
09:54Would you like a biggie?
09:55What sort of?
09:56It's all your sorts.
09:57I'll have that one.
09:59Oi.
10:00When did I start playing the piano?
10:03When I was about 12.
10:05But at school you didn't tell anybody you learned the piano.
10:08He used to go to the dentist a lot.
10:11Yes.
10:11They don't want to know this dopey kid plays the piano.
10:19What does the piano mean to me?
10:22It means everything to me.
10:25If you can think about music and enjoy music together, I think that is one of the
10:33greatest sort of things you could have together, really.
10:40How often do you play for Pat?
10:42Every day.
10:43You're a lucky woman, Pat.
10:45I think I am.
10:47Their relationship is so beautiful.
10:49It is.
10:51Yeah, you can start playing your wings of song now.
10:54Start playing what?
10:55You can start playing your wings of song.
11:09Oh my goodness, he's good.
11:13It's beautiful phrasing.
11:16To have that kind of dexterity and flow still at 96 years old.
11:21Yeah, and the voice and the melody's in the middle now.
11:36I love that this is part of their daily routine, you know, brush your teeth, eat food, play some
11:43beautiful Mendelssohn.
11:44Put your teeth back in.
11:46Put your teeth back in.
11:59Look at how she looks at him.
12:01Look at how she looks at him.
12:01It's really sweet.
12:11Oh, well done.
12:13Oh, well done.
12:14Wow.
12:15Wow.
12:15Oh, good.
12:17Take a bow.
12:18That was beautiful.
12:20How did you feel, Pat?
12:21It's lovely, isn't it?
12:22It's beautiful.
12:23I made a few mistakes.
12:24No, you did not.
12:25I refuse to believe that.
12:29I think it went very well.
12:31It brought tears to my eyes.
12:33I was a bit, I thought I went wrong in the middle somewhere.
12:36But you patched it up.
12:38But I patched it up, yeah.
12:41This has been the best start I think we've had.
12:45It's better around here.
12:46You don't get the draft.
12:48Here you are.
12:57Oh, it's all right, guys.
13:01Hello.
13:02Oh, sorry.
13:03I saw you fighting your way through the crowd.
13:04Come and join me up here.
13:06Hello, how are you?
13:06Oh, I'm Amanda.
13:07I'm Rob.
13:07Hi, Rob.
13:08Come and sit down.
13:09Tell me about you.
13:10I'm a lawyer who works a lot with refugees.
13:13And I'm married and I have my beautiful wife here.
13:16Point her out.
13:17Oh, there she is.
13:18Her name's Heidi.
13:19Where did you meet?
13:20We met online.
13:22I wanted to learn Spanish.
13:23She's Colombian.
13:25So it wasn't a dating app, or it was?
13:26No, no, no, no.
13:27It's an app that we've managed to make, a dating app.
13:30And how's that gone for you?
13:32She's gotten a lot more out of the exchange than me.
13:34Her English is perfect.
13:35My Spanish is mediocre at best.
13:39He is everything to me.
13:40And I am super in love with him.
13:43What made you want to come and perform at this public piano today?
13:48The piano for me has become a language of its own.
13:53A way I've been able to express some of my rawest and deepest emotions.
13:56My wife and I lost our son at 31 weeks.
14:02I'm so sorry.
14:03Oh, that's terrible.
14:05I felt for a long time that I wouldn't ever really have the confidence that my wife has
14:10talking about my son.
14:12She found her words very easily and very early on.
14:15I didn't find my words very easily, but the piano is my voice.
14:20And so if music helps me to do that, then I think that's a great thing.
14:24He speaks beautifully, doesn't he?
14:26He really does.
14:34The song I'll be playing is a piece that I've written
14:42in memory of my son Tiago and losing him.
14:49It's called Born Asleep But Dreaming.
15:07It's beautiful.
15:15On the 4th of September 2022, it was our wedding anniversary.
15:25It was also Father's Day.
15:29And we heard those words that nobody ever wants to hear, which is,
15:34we can't detect a heartbeat.
15:41I've never heard that kind of pain come from a human being before,
15:48let alone the person you love.
15:51That kind of just, like, scream of anguish.
15:58A midwife behind me just said, go to her.
16:02In that shock of the moment, my body just didn't know what to do.
16:06And we just hugged each other because there was nothing else to do.
16:21When the midwife delivered him.
16:26And she showed me my son.
16:29And I've never seen, I've never seen someone with that kind of peaceful expression.
16:39It was peace personified.
16:44He looked like the most pure thing that had never suffered a moment in his life.
16:49And had just been fed with love for each of those 31 weeks.
16:56And I just felt immediate peace.
17:01And I think if I hadn't done that, and if Haiti hadn't seen that as well,
17:07I think we might have been in a different place.
17:09And I think people won't know the story behind this,
17:38But the fact that it's so beautiful and so personal I think would carry people would know that this means
17:44a lot
17:45There's someone who said you struggled to show your emotions. It just poured off you. How are you feeling about
17:51the future you two?
17:53Well, we have hope we we have each other and
17:59Heidi's just found out that
18:09Congratulations you two. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck to you. That's very exciting news. Please thank Robert
18:22I honestly couldn't be more so overwhelmed in joy in
18:29Anxiousness in everything, but it means that that maybe I can dare to dream again
18:37There's not enough Kleenex in the world for this show
18:48Can I have a cuddle? Yeah, we on me yeah
18:52I'll let know. Yeah, just sorry. Can you please bring that puppy in here? Oh
19:00My goodness
19:14My name is Lewis. I'm from Perth, West Australia, and I'm 19 years old
19:19I brought my mom my dad my Nana and my nona the whole army of family is here with me
19:25today
19:26We have a really tight bond and we've gone through a lot together, so it's really special to have family,
19:31you know
19:39Look at this guy you see sticks out. It's got to be here. Look at the quiffs like Elvis
19:47Wow, I hope you're coming up here. Yeah
19:50Look at you go. I'm Amanda. Hello. Hello, Amanda lovely to meet you. What's your name?
19:54My name's Lewis Lewis come and sit down. Oh, wow. He's a character. I'm loving this look. Are these real?
20:01They are real. I've had them since I was in year 10 high school. You can grow sideburns in year
20:0610
20:08I started playing piano at nine years old
20:11I used to watch live videos of people playing and I would watch their hands and my ears developed to
20:17a point
20:18Where I could listen to the record and take it off the record what I was hearing. Hello family. Oh
20:26This look isn't traditional for every 19 year old. No, not really. He looks like a showman, right? Oh, yeah
20:33Who are your musical inspirations? I think I can probably guess. My first big
20:39Musical inspiration was Elvis and I discovered that through my dad and his music. He was doing Elvis shows. Oh,
20:44that's where I got the Elvis thing from
20:46And it's so awesome to have him here today
20:49My dad was diagnosed with an illness recently and there was a couple of months that were really tough
20:58My dad was diagnosed with cancer. Yeah, that was most frightened of it been in my life
21:04It was a startling that this illness it's made its way into my family
21:09He's going through treatment and he's getting better and and I hope my music makes him feel better as well
21:16It's great to be a blue play the music he played walk in my father's footsteps. That's really special to
21:21me
21:21How do you feel watching him on a day like this?
21:24So proud
21:26at the moment just blows my mind and
21:29Does he bring joy into your home? Oh my god a lot of joy every day
21:38This one's for dada
21:39Oh
21:47Party in the county jail
21:49There's a man was there they begin the well
21:52John was jumping and that John began the sweet
21:55Shoulda held and knocked them jailbirds and let's rock
21:59Everybody let's rock
22:01That's wow
22:03Everybody in the hotel
22:05He can play
22:07It's really great
22:16Everybody's moving
22:17I love it
22:18I'd love bringing joy and happiness to people
22:22I love to make people happy and make them feel something they hadn't felt that day
22:27Maybe they're at work all day and they got the blues and I want to play them some blues
22:31Like trying to push something out of them and and then that pushes something out of me and it just
22:36creates this magical moment
22:50It sounds like he can do anything like just the way that he plays and he's understanding of rhythm and
22:55harmony in general
22:55Right technique
23:11I
23:17Really enjoyed it was fantastic and
23:20He's just totally over the moon with him very very proud of louis absolutely
23:38Are you looking for a piano you've come to the right place hello i'm amanda so nice to meet you
23:44Hello what's your name alice hi alice come and sit down thank you
23:48Welcome to dandenong market it's not the most common place you'd play a piano no it's great it's awesome tell
23:55me about alice
23:56I'm a mum and a carer i'm 47 years old i live in ringwood just up the road and how
24:01old's your child he's 12 12
24:03What's his name look at your face when you're talking about it lucky and have you played piano for a
24:08long time
24:09I started learning at a young age when i was eight years old
24:14I was talent scouted and one of these top music schools in britain and i got in and that meant
24:20going to a boarding school
24:22We were very much taught if you if you want to make it you have to make it by the
24:26age of 14 15
24:29i was practicing eight hours a day on top of a full curriculum i was working until two in the
24:33morning
24:34and so it was push push push a lot of us were like crying ourselves to sleep most night so
24:39it was
24:39it was a hard place to be you know yeah so the piano i loved but it was also kind
24:45of like i was kind of
24:45chained to it you know and i think that's probably why at 14 i ended up having a nervous breakdown
24:50i just i couldn't cope with the situation oh my goodness wow and i spent my later years and
24:57right into adult hill going in and out of psychiatric hospitals trying to get on top of this and i
25:02haven't
25:03played for 30 years until just nine months ago oh my gosh for 30 years i mean i always felt
25:11like
25:11i lost a part of me when i stopped playing it was such a grief i couldn't look at a
25:16piano it was
25:16like losing a loved one you know lachlan is 12 years old yeah have you encouraged him to play at
25:23all when lock started playing i was like okay maybe i could try playing he does it in such a
25:30free way i'm
25:31like you know i should have done that as a kid i think that's exactly how it should be yeah
25:37this is
25:38an extraordinary step you're taking i can't wait to hear you alice thank you oh i can't wait to hear
25:44her play like going through that much in your life that's a massive turnaround
26:29so many things go into making this a beautiful performance
26:36just getting to the notes themselves because there's a lot of cross rhythm all of these shadings
26:43between the fingers
26:50am i correct in saying this feels like the most difficult piece to play that we've seen so far
27:08what a waste being able to play like this and not and not being able to share it
27:14and not be able to experience it too yeah
27:39it's like she couldn't believe that she did it at the end right oh i hope you just felt joy
27:45oh sorry i never thought i'd play again i really didn't and to be here just in a real place
27:54not
27:54like a squeaky clean performance situation just with everyday people just to share some beautiful
28:00music it was what it was all about and i just didn't realize it as a kid i hope you
28:05got from today what
28:06you were hoping to get yeah more than that i think oh welcome back alice yes piano and music thank
28:13goodness
28:15oh that's one of those chip sticks
28:18god i'd kill for some chips on a stick
28:25the dandenong market is one of the oldest traditional working markets in melbourne
28:30today more than 150 nationalities are represented here and with over 200 traders every aisle tells a story
28:40and our piano is providing the perfect soundtrack
28:46with everything from mendelssohn
28:50wow
28:51this is a very difficult piece to pull off it needs to be tossed off with brilliance and
28:56and alan and he's definitely on the way there to kiss
29:12she's a beautiful singer and she plays great but i think there's a reason kiss kept it so upbeat
29:28and even a spot of sondheim
29:36i'm adrian i'm 69 i live in a country town called meredith
29:41i love the country there's no way you'd get me in the city
29:45i grew up on the same farm i still live in
29:5069 years in one spot
29:56i live alone but i'm not lonely you know after sharing and all of that of the day all i'd
30:02do is
30:02just come home and muck around on the piano for half an hour
30:07it's been an old friend it really has it's always there his touch his dynamics are so nice it's a
30:14great
30:14use of registral contrast as well going way into the base
30:35thank you thank you that was wow
30:38wow now you know why i'm not lonely now i know why you're not lonely yeah adrian it's beautiful
30:45thank you very much let's hear it for adrian thank you he's high-fiving his fans sorry
30:58all right who have we got we've got quite a crew here it's a big family
31:05hello you lot and you've brought an entire entourage as a superstar should have yes hello
31:10i'm amanda hi i'm amanda kane hello kane hi peggy i'm amanda great to see you both here today thank
31:15you i'll be speaking for peggy today because she's lost her ability to speak because of m and d
31:20motor neurone motor neurone disease that's right okay and who's the musician amongst you oh peggy is
31:25100 the musician but today i believe you're going to be playing for her yeah so i'll be playing a
31:33piece
31:33that she's composed so i've been madly practicing the last week so there we go
31:40and has piano ever been your thing i'm not a pianist by any stretch of the imagination but you're
31:44stepping up today for peggy i'm 100 here just for peggy i'm not a pianist not a single piano lesson
31:50but i'm here today for my wife to be able to express her music to the world so tell me
31:55about
31:56peggy's diagnosis so peggy got diagnosed about a year ago symptoms probably started about
32:02six years ago and peggy has always been musical yeah peggy is um an extremely accomplished musician
32:09she's a classically trained singer and now today the first time we've played a piece that she's
32:15composed oh wow is it going to be any good you reckon that's a thumbs up
32:21okay so we're been married for 24 years since august i don't even remember at this time i was so
32:34nervous and almost numb that day but i was definitely excited
32:41there we go it's recording so merry christmas to men
32:47yeah there's been music in our house right from the beginning
32:56we didn't have lullabies we had peggy's acapella group the ice halos they'd come and practice at our
33:00place and kind of singing our kids to sleep the whole situation has definitely brought us closer
33:09and i love her so much that i just hope i can do her creativity justice
33:17i guess the question here is what sort of tempo you want sort of as we run through this part
33:22here
33:26it's a bit faster if you can okay cool life must be tricky at the moment our plans for life
33:43have
33:43changed everything's different you know it's kind of a privilege to be able to be here for peggy
33:51doing this but yeah i mean i'm kind of the expression of peggy now i guess and doing my
33:59best to express her communications others in the way that she would i can understand things
34:05that others can't but that's just that kind of harmony of having been together for so long
34:11what are you hoping today will give you both
34:14well for me again it's just it's oh she's i thought i was going to be fine you don't have
34:21to be
34:21fine for me it's just all about her this is her time and um this is just it's peggy's chance
34:33to
34:33express her music and i'm just the means of uh doing that that's such a beautiful gesture of love
34:41this love story is next level it's it's unfathomable
35:05oh kane's hands are shaking he's so nervous understandably
35:14he's peggy's voice
35:33breathe kane you got this you got this
35:55this is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen like his hands are shaking so much
36:02trying to do the best job he's trying to do the best job he possibly can for peggy what a
36:06beautiful
36:07man look at his
36:09oh wow
37:03i would say this is probably one of the most
37:05important and meaningful moments i would say of my life to be able to do this for
37:11this amazing woman here how do you do we need to see the thumbs up yeah thumbs up you could
37:18have
37:19got the best piano player in the world to play that piece and it wouldn't have been as beautiful as
37:24kane
37:24playing it like as an act of love i don't know if i've seen anything quite as beautiful as that
37:33i hope people take hope that no matter the situation no matter the condition i think the human spirit i
37:42think what peggy has shown is that despite all of this she can still create this beautiful music and she
38:00this is our final pianist i know we've been everywhere we've been everywhere we've heard a lot of things
38:17oh thank you so much pleasure i've got to get back to the piano here's a piano on wheels it's
38:24obviously
38:24him he really did not pack light did someone not tell him that we've got a piano here
38:31better put the brakes on
38:34i'm amanda peter hello peter you didn't have to byo we actually already have a piano that's right
38:40i love taking a piano around the place what kinds of places have you taken it
38:47i've asked in lots of different places all over australia country towns and the outbreak
38:55it's had some fun times because music's social it's got to connect with people
39:03the piano is my companion
39:09about 10 years ago i thought i'll turn it into an autograph book as well
39:12that sting it is there's one here which is faded that's bruce springsteen
39:17bruce springsteen oh wow wow and what's this one on the front that's the last one i think i have
39:24to retire the camera now because that's uh for mccartney oh wow sir paul mccartney wow i'd put some
39:33plastic or something over that when did you meet sir paul that was two years ago well how did you
39:39find him outside his hotel long enough for three days for three days yes you were like a teenage
39:45girl that is commitment isn't it here we are signing pete's piano two please cheers
39:57and then he played it he played it he's played this piano i don't want to touch the keys
40:10whoops did you play for him yeah oh wow playing in front of paul mccartney that's serious pressure
40:17so you played for sir paul i did i played the wrong thing what do you mean my face about
40:22the drum
40:24did you have a brain fight you do with those situations
40:30he must have replayed that moment in his mind on repeat
40:34what are you going to play today it's a fun piece and i should have played it the first time
40:39i'm gonna play hey jude are you oh great redemption yeah over to you sir peter this is a really
40:49nice
40:50moment to be able to redo a memory i know can we sing along something dude yes he's not singing
40:56he's
40:56just playing but he'd love you too all right
41:23he plays beautiful you know what we need our friend guy sebastian
41:32what's she saying i think she's saying come on out really
41:40all right all right all right all right go for it guys which way some piano
41:49where are your voices
41:55here's a voice
42:16is
42:21yeah
42:21Na-na na na na.
42:24Hey Jude, yeah.
42:25Na-na na na.
42:28Hey Jude...
42:29Jude, Jude, Jude, Jude.
42:32Na-na na na.
42:34Na-na na na.
42:36Yeah.
42:37Na-na na na.
42:40Hey Jude!
42:43Come on, Danny. Now give it up for Peter.
42:47You played beautifully. Nice to meet you, too.
42:54Do that feel like at least you've redeemed yourself sir Paul would have loved you playing
43:00Elton anyway he would have loved it.
43:03You've got to go back and hide.
43:03I'll go back and hide.
43:05I didn't see you at all.
43:06I'll keep going.
43:07Go, go, go.
43:08What about that?
43:10Yeah that's good.
43:11It's better than the first time around.
43:13Guys, Besson came out the same, he came away at the end of the song.
43:18So yeah, that was a good surprise.
43:22Let's hear it for Peter.
43:25On he goes.
43:26Casually wheeling a piano.
43:28Oop, sorry.
43:29Wouldn't a harmonica be easier to take around wouldn't it just?
43:33Oop.
43:35Oop.
43:36Well that's going to be in my head now for the next week.
43:40Thank you for being a good sport.
43:41Oh it's my pleasure.
43:42I thought that it would make Peter's day to have you there.
43:46So thank you.
43:47Oh, to get the crowd.
43:48The crowd were all going off.
43:50It was very triumphant.
43:51It was fantastic.
43:52Everybody was singing along.
43:52It's been big hasn't it?
43:54In all kinds of ways.
43:55Yeah, some really fantastic pianists too.
43:57So, the last slot.
43:59What do we need to round out a concert?
44:01I really liked Lewis.
44:06I thought he had a mixture of everything they were looking for.
44:10He's great.
44:11He's great.
44:11And he can play as well.
44:13Fantastic pianist.
44:14I mean there's Kane.
44:19Just turned seven.
44:20Never had a listen.
44:21Plays by ear.
44:23I think Kane coming out at City Recital Hall would be a great shock for the audience.
44:28And then there's Alice who played Ravel like a dream.
44:33The best?
44:34The best pianist we've heard.
44:39You don't have to use your entertainment chops, your musicality to make this decision.
44:43Oh yeah, we go deep.
44:44Yeah.
44:45Seriously factor in all the possibilities.
44:47All the stuff?
44:48Yeah.
44:50Well I'm glad it's not me.
44:52I'll leave you to it.
44:53I'm not sure what that one is.
44:54Even this is difficult.
44:59As the market makes its final call.
45:02Please make your way safely out of the market.
45:05And the stalls begin to pack down.
45:07Thank you for shopping at Dandenong Market.
45:09We've asked our pianist to gather one final time.
45:12Hello, how are you all?
45:14Hi.
45:14Hi.
45:15I love this bit where I get to see all of you together.
45:19You may have an inkling that it's not just the market goers who have been watching you
45:24today.
45:25And you'd be right.
45:26Hiding up there in a plant room are two of Australia's best musicians.
45:31I'd love to introduce you to concert pianist extraordinaire Andrea Lam, an Australian
45:38superstar, Mr Guy Sebastian.
45:48If I knew I was playing to Guy Sebastian I would be very, very, very overwhelmed and
45:52nervous.
45:53I'm glad I didn't know.
45:54Dude, how do you play so well at your age?
45:58Oh no.
45:59You must love Mr Piano the same as he loves music.
46:03I think so.
46:04It's amazing to have the piano in your life every day.
46:06Yes, we've had a very interesting day.
46:09We don't often get days out like this.
46:11No.
46:16My friends don't know I'm here today.
46:18It probably will be a surprise to them.
46:20Being here is like insanely better than normal day at school.
46:27In my opinion Dandenong was my favourite.
46:30We had such a range of emotions.
46:33There was so much joy.
46:34Some great piano playing.
46:36But all in all Melbourne brought it.
46:38The audience here were great and it was a lot of fun.
46:41For those of you who are familiar with the piano, we have a concert at City Recital Hall in Sydney.
46:49And we'll both be playing.
46:50But we are going to get somebody to join us on stage.
46:56And the person that we decided on to put on a show on that night is you Lewis.
47:09Well done.
47:12Yeah, I'm just, I'm completely flabbergasted.
47:15I'm just honoured to be, you know, able to do this and people actually think it's good.
47:33It's a really good feeling.
47:35We've been in so many locations around Australia.
47:37We've heard some brilliant musicians.
47:39And now we're finally at the pointy end where we're putting this concert together.
47:42And I'm stoked with who we've got.
47:44Now we're going to be dancing.
47:49We're going to just have a level.
47:52Yeah.
47:53Come back.
47:53Come back.
47:54Come back.
47:55Yeah.
47:57Yeah.
48:02Next time.
48:03Hello, beautiful people.
48:05It's all been leading to this.
48:08Come out there, give it your all.
48:10Five extraordinary pianists.
48:12I'm doing this for my family.
48:14One unforgettable night.
48:17Thank you, everybody.
48:18You feel good?
48:19Yay!
48:20We win!
48:21A celebration of music.
48:26Connection.
48:31And the power of the piano.
48:34Thanks for sharing a lot of things.
48:34You know what you think?
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