Miss Chatelaine

This hour’s songs are on themes of overcoming sadness, getting older, existential burnout, the threat of AI to jobs, and more. Here is the playlist:

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Fabulous new folk, roots, acoustic and pop songs by artists based in Boorloo/Perth, Narrm/Melbourne, New South Wales, Queensland, Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), the United States and London. Here is the playlist:

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Katie welcomes Australian singer-songwriter, producer, barrister, author, and former Australian Idol judge Mark Holden to the JOY studio for a wide-ranging chat that covers the ABC-TV hit music show Countdown and how Mark dealt with fame as a very young man; writing songs for his new album, Now and Then and Shirley Maclaine, and the story behind the album’s title; setting up and singing with a barristers’ choir; surviving thyroid cancer and how he feels about the resultant “old man’s gravelly voice” he now has; producing songs for highly respected Indigenous elder Richard J Frankland; his moving cover of Tom Waits’ ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’, recorded as a tribute to the victims of the Bondi terrorist attack in December 2025; his continuing musical ties with Anthony Callea; and more. Mark also performs ‘Shine’ – the hit song he co-wrote with Vanessa Amorosi – live in the studio. Here is the playlist:

Visit Mark Holden’s official website and follow him on Facebook and Instagram.

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Katie reports on Queen Kylie Minogue’s stunning performance at yesterday’s AFL men’s Grand Final and spins tracks from some of the great new albums released lately, including by past guests of the show Les Thomas and Lucy Wise. Here is the playlist:

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This hour includes a couple of very special songs: trans Bendigo singer-songwriter Ash Perseus’s debut single, ‘Bone Girl’, and the first radio play of a beautiful new tune by Australian singer-songwriter and actor Keegan Joyce. The rest of the songs aren’t too shabby, either! Here is the playlist:

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Songs about a relationship breakup, telling people you love them while you can, finding beauty in the present moment, longing for home and more, by artists from Narrm/Melbourne, NSW’s north coast, Ireland, Canad and the USA. Here is the playlist:

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Katie chats to one of the nicest people she has ever interviewed, singer-songwriter and guitarist Nathan Cavaleri, about his remarkable life, which includes stardom and serious illness when he was a child, a long mental health journey, parenting two sons, his relationship with Australian music legend Diesel over the years, working with rising artist Olivia Lay, his autobiographical Growing Pains show, and more. We are treated to a wonderful live performance as well. Here is the playlist:

Visit Nathan Cavaleri’s official website  (where you can find HOME, his online course about overcoming anxiety) and follow him on Facebook  and Instagram.

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Songs about commitment, seasons changing, childhood memories, a ghost town, a lake, and more, by artists from Perth, Melbourne, Ballarat, Bathurst, Sydney, south-east Queensland, the Sunshine Coast, the United States and Belgium. Here is the playlist:

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This hour features truly excellent new songs by past Miss Chatelaine guests Valley Road, Les Thomas and Lucy Wise; rising local folk artists Seal Prince & The Roof Rats and Olivia Lay; Byron Bay super-producer and singer-songwriter Garrett Kato; and more. Here is the playlist:

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Katie plays a bunch of new songs, several of which are tracks from some of her favourite recently released albums. These albums include Wastrels by Canberra and Melbourne singer-songwriter Tom Woodward, The Breakdown by US blues legend Keb’ Mo’, Pod by brilliant Narrm musician Mal Webb, tattoos used to come off in the pool by Meanjin-based singer-songwriter Jem Cassar-Daley, and A Horse Named Friday by NYC-based artist Theo Kandel. Here is the playlist:

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