Katanga Junior has won the 2024 Song of the Year NT Music Award for the Blues & Roots category with his track 'Move', from the Pamoja album released early this year. This big recognition follows a string of successes for the artist this year, and Katanga shares his story on the Big Brekky. Listen in on demand. 

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The Big Brekky Show hosted Shaquille Swan, Research and Archive Assistant at Congress, and Eleanor Hogan, historical researcher, to hear about the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress timeline project. It encompasses facts, photos and video collected throughout their 50+ history and places these in relation to key historical and political developments across the country.

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The Big Brekky Show caught up with UK's John Reilly as he unleashes his new single Shapeshifters, cowritten with Lewis Nitikman. John is a renowned singer-songwriter, celebrated for his profound lyrics and powerful vocals as a solo artist, as well as frontman of Boy on a Dolphin. 

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The Big Brekky Show, broadcasting live from the 2024 Alice Springs Show at Blatherskite Park, chats with local Mparntwe performers at the Show, such as singer songwriter Shilo Monkland. Shilo treats us to some live music, so tune in and hear all the news from this established talent!

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Ola Rzeszowska from the Alice Springs Town Council chats to the Big Brekky about this year's Alice Springs Show happening this weekend. Tune in and find out all that's happening down at Blatherskite Park. 

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Artist, author, and musician, Joshua Santospirito and violinist/musician, Natalya Bing, are visiting Mparntwe to present Joshua's new graphic novel, 'The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors', by way of a hand-drawn musical storytelling performance. The novel details Joshua's visit to the Aeolian Islands of Italy with his parents to seek out past connections and family roots. Mparntwe last saw a performance from Joshua around a decade ago, with the nationally acclaimed graphic novel 'The Long Weekend In Alice Springs'. The Big Brekky were lucky enough to catch Joshua and Natalya during their visit, tune in to hear all the details of this. The duo performed at Epilogue on July 7th. 

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The Kevin Sullivan and his family from Gerringong NSW, are back performing at Threeways for July and had time for a chat with Shauna in Tennant Creek.

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Ken Perkins was not long in the Northern Territory before he became aware of the buffel problem, inspiring him to write a poem. Having researched the situation, he was led to approach the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) for information and he hopes to find a songwriter to make it into music.

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Dan The Underdog & Tumi Radebe visited the Big Brekky Show. They are here to announce their EP launch Time Flies at the Gap View this Friday the 5th of July at 8pm.

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Local Mparntwe musician and storyteller, Ray Murtagh, live at the studio with guitar in hand, reminisces with the Big Brekky and plays some of his favourite country tunes.

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