Miss Chatelaine

Katie catches up with Irish singer-songwriter and activist Áine Tyrrell as Áine prepares to move back to Ireland after more than ten years living in the Northern Rivers region of Australia. Áine talk…

In the first hour of today’s show, Katie bookends seven great new Australian songs with one from Ireland and one from the USA. The songs cover themes of home, train travel, dusk and the night, grief …

This hour’s artists make music in the genres of folk-rock, singer-songwriter, pop-folk, alt-folk, Americana, blues, indie-pop, contemporary R&B/soul, and alt-country. Whatever their genre is called, …

Katie plays nine gorgeous songs in the first hour of today’s show, with eight of them being brand-new releases. The artists hail from Australia’s Newcastle, the Southern Highlands of New South Wales,…

The hot new talent keeps on coming! Katie is delighted to discover Clare Perrott and Lloyd & The Leftovers from Western Australia and Nectar Woode from England via Ghana, and also to give Stewart Nes…

An hour of beautiful songs on themes of death and transformation, the climate crisis, holding onto the important things in life, the healing power of nature, moving and starting anew, heartbreak and …

Starting the hour with two beautiful tracks with summer and mythical vibes, Katie continues with a selection of folk, pop, roots and funk songs with important messages about bodily autonomy, relation…

After all of the excitement for JOY’s annual Radiothon last week, Katie is alone in the studio on a cold Melbourne morning to offer listeners an hour of beautiful music. There are songs about the cyc…

In the second hour of this year’s JOY Radiothon show, Katie and her co-host, Triana Butler, talk about three mutual passion for music and play some fabulous new tunes. Triana tells us about her show …

In keeping with this year’s JOY Radiothon theme, ‘Stronger Together’, The Sound of Now’s Triana Butler joins Katie to co-host today’s show. They welcome Brian Nankervis to the studio to chat about hi…

This hour starts with another track from Liz Stringer’s superb new album, The Second High, and continues with songs by artists based in Narrm/Melbourne, northern New South Wales, Perth, Los Angeles, …

This hour features songs about the importance of sisterhood, that ‘final straw’ moment in a relationship, joy and release, fighting for First Nations rights, homemade jam, surrendering and longing, l…

At the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Katie chats to Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth Moody about the band she has brought to Australia for her current tour (Anthony da Costa on guitar and vocals…

Katie is back in the JOY studio after a week off, during which she went to Canberra for the National Folk Festival and to catch up with friends and family. In the first hour today she plays great new…

This hour is full of beautiful sounds! Along with a short and stunning call to arms by US artist Nick Shoulders, there are glorious songs from the new albums by LA-based Indonesian singer-songwriter …

It’s Midsumma Carnival day in Narrm/Melbourne, and Katie warms up her listeners with ten gorgeous songs by Australian artists – based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, western Victoria, Sydney, nipaluna/Hob…

Katie welcomes London-based musical comedy duo Flo & Joan, aka English sisters Rosie and Nicola Dempsey, to the JOY studio for a chat about their work. Named for their grandmother and her sister, Flo…

The past month has been full of fantastic new releases, and Katie plays some of them in the first hour of the show today. The songs are by emerging artists such as Savanah Solomon, Daisy Kilbourne an…

This hour features awesome songs about running away only to be confronted by your past, marriage and divorce, the pressure of not conforming to society’s pressures, breaking intergenerational pattern…

Katie presents a simply beautiful hour of songs by artists based in Los Angeles, Nashville, Vancouver, Unama’ki/Cape Breton Island, Narrm/Melbourne, NSW’s Illawarra region, Meanjin/Brisbane and Kathe…