Canberra-based Taiwanese-Australian indie-folk singer-songwriter Kim Yang joins Katie in the JOY studio to chat about her musical background, being mentored by Fanny Lumsden through the Women in Music Mentor Program run by the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR), her experience of the terrible 2019–20 bushfires, and more – and to give us two exquisite live performances. Here is the playlist:

* Go Back In – Don McGlashan

* Junk Truck Head Fuck – DMA’s ft. MAY-A

* This Is My Year – Woodes

* Ocean of Mind – Kim Yang

* Fierce – Fanny Lumsden

* Fantasy – Kim Yang (live in the studio)

* Hold – Vera Blue

* Garden of Eden – Kim Yang

* Brave – Kim Yang (live in the studio)

Visit Kim Yang’s official website and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Photo of Kim Yang (above) by Betty Sujecki – please visit this Miss Chatelaine Facebook photo album for more pics!

Katie plays some 2021 tracks she missed when they were released, another song each from Brandi Carlile’s and Grace Petrie’s great recent albums, and a three-song tribute to Koady Chaisson of Canada’s East Pointers, who left us suddenly and unexpectedly this week at the age of 37. Here is the playlist:

* At the Beach – darby

* We All Need Love – Sam Hawksley ft. Wendy Matthews

* Sexuality – k.d. lang

* Stay – René Le Feuvre

* Throwing Good After Bad – Brandi Carlile

* Tanglewood – The East Pointers

* 82 Fires – The East Pointers

* Wintergreen – The East Pointers

* The Last Man on Earth – Grace Petrie

Above: Sam Hawksley’s Birds album cover art by Jeanne Petersen

Listen to Katie’s chat with the East Pointers in November 2017

In an hour featuring possibly the most eclectic collection of songs ever played on Miss Chatelaine, Katie welcomes Melbourne musician Delsinki (aka Craig Johnston) to JOY for a chat about his forthcoming album City/Country, his Keep the Circle Unbroken concert-series project, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Brave – Kim Yang

* Golden Ticket – The Bamboos

* Helpless (KCRW – Live from Malibu) – k.d. lang

* Across the Ocean – Delsinki

* It’s All Right with Me – Tom Waits

* The Black Hills of Dakota – Jen Mize

* I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair – The Weather Girls

* Will the Circle Be Unbroken? – Hayseed Dixie

Visit Delsinki’s official website and follow him on Facebook and Instagram. Click to find out more about Keep the Circle Unbroken, Sing a Song of Sixpence and Songs for Suzanne: The Songs and Poetry of Leonard Cohen.

Photo of Katie and Delsinki (above) by Betty Sujecki – please visit this Miss Chatelaine Facebook photo albumfor more pics!

Katie’s mum, Joan Purvis, left us on 30 December, and this show is dedicated to Joan. The songs are favourites of Joan and/or by artists she loved. They include popular singers from the past and present, show tunes, folk artists she heard at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, Katie’s own former vocal group, Les Ms, and more. Here is the playlist:

* They Can’t Take That Away from Me – Frank Sinatra

* He Was Beautiful – Cleo Laine & John Williams

* What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

* Featherbed – John McCutcheon

* Everything Possible – Les Ms

* Catch Me a Cloud – Enda Kenny

* Bring Him Home – Colm Wilkinson

* Cabaret – Liza Minnelli

* Carved in Stone – Chris While & Julie Matthews

* The Way You Look Tonight – Michael Bublé

* True Love – Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly

* Rolling Home – Roy Bailey

Above: Photo of Joan and Katie from Christmas 2020

Katie plays more relaxing music for you in this hour, along with a couple of slightly up-tempo tracks to get you moving, if you feel like moving! There are songs about the new year by some familiar and not-so-familiar artists, a couple of classic favourites, and a cheeky tune by k.d. lang to round off the year. Here is the playlist:

* New Year’s Day – Sinead Burgess

* Doin’ Fine – Paula Standing

* Ghost Town – Adam Lambert

* Fashionably Late (Every New Year’s Day) – Shannen James ft. Paul Dempsey

* What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Norah Jones

* New Year – Bek Sarkoezy

* New Year’s Day – Robbie Williams

* I Will Remember You – Sarah McLachlan

* Where Were You – Felivand

* What’s New Pussycat? (live) – k.d. lang

Above: Bek Sarkoezy’s ‘New Year’ single cover art by Ruby Kennedy

It’s Boxing Day and Katie is playing lots of chilled-out tracks to help you relax after a possibly excessive Christmas Day. There are a couple of songs for the new year, some cuts from albums Katie has loved in 2021, and two songs by artists she discovered this week via the Real Songwriters of Melbourne. Here is the playlist:

* Happy New Year Melbourne – Lucy Wise

* Madeleine – Alexander Biggs

* I Get Through the Year Just Fine – Al Parkinson

* Mountainous Gaze – Cahill Kelly

* Carolina – Andrea von Kampen

* i’m tryna – James Franklin

* Stay Gentle – Brandi Carlile

* Grace – Hiss Golden Messenger

* IKEA – Grace Petrie

* Promised Land – Matthew Gilbert

Above: Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days album cover – digital imagery by Neil Krug, design by Mat Maitland

In the second hour, Katie plays tracks from some of her favourite albums of 2021 – Wonderful Oblivion by Charm of Finches, Stand for Myself by Yola, The Million Things That Never Happened by Billy Bragg, Connectivity by Grace Petrie and That Spell by Andrea von Kampen – and some more seasonally appropriate songs. Here is the playlist:

* As a Child – Charm of Finches

* Hurricane – Jack Rayne

* If I Had to Do It All Again – Yola

* I Believe in You – Billy Bragg

* Some Days Are Worse Than Others – Grace Petrie

* Celilo – Andrea von Kampen

* Swing Around the Sun – Paul Kelly

* Chosen Family – Rina Sawayama with Elton John

* Navigating the Night – Delsinki

* (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man with the Bag – Darren Criss ft. Adam Lambert

Above: Screen shot from Darren Criss and Adam Lambert’s ‘(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man with the Bag’ music video

Katie plays relaxing music for the week leading up to Christmas, with tunes by two very young Victorian singer-songwriters, a beautiful cover of a Paul Kelly song about the climate crisis, two seasonal offerings, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Waiting for the Sun – Kim Churchill

* Who’ll Ride the Bus With Me – Maya O’Loughlin

* Bygone Blues – Justin Bernasconi

* Moonchild – Juniper Stone

* Sleep, Australia, Sleep – Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater

* Voices – Sage Roadknight

* Joy to the World – Hiss Golden Messenger

* White Wine in the Sun – Tim Minchin

Above: Hiss Golden Messenger’s O Come All Ye Faithful album cover art by Cody Hudson

Katie’s very special guest in the second hour today is the legendary grande dame of Australian folk music and true queer icon, Judy Small. The chat covers Judy’s start in the 1970s as part of the emerging gay pride movement (she is a 78er) and second-wave feminism, singing about ‘lesbian chic’ in the 1990s, the sad fact that some of her political songs are still relevant today, why she left performing around 2000 and what she did in the interim, and her recent return to the stage. Here is the playlist:

* When You’re Wrong – Brandi Carlile

* Ode to a Gym Teacher – Meg Christian

* Annie – Judy Small

* Hallelujah – k.d. lang

* You Don’t Speak for Me – Judy Small

* Turn Right, Go Straight – Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies

Visit Judy Small’s official website and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Photo of Katie and Judy Small (above) by Betty Sujecki – please visit this Miss Chatelaine Facebook photo album for more pics!

Great new music is still being released in 2021, and Katie is still bringing it to you! In this hour, there are gorgeous new songs by artists from Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and the USA. Here is the playlist:

* Across the Ocean – Delsinki

* Camera Roll – Kacey Musgraves

* Keep Your Head Up Princess – Anson Seabra

* Hot Chocolate – Nuria

* Flashback – Brent Duncan

* My Love – Cassidy Watts

* My Little Kite – Katankin

* Bittersweet Lie – The Kindly Ravens

* December – Lontano

* Saint James Infirmary – The Blues Preachers

Above: Katankin’s ‘My Little Kite’ single cover art by Helen Catanchin