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Opening the second hour with a heartfelt plea from small island nations artists about the effects of climate change on their homes, Katie presents more ripper new songs by ripper singer-songwriters from around Australia (and a band from the UK). Here is the playlist:

* Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Small Island Big Song ft. Emlyn, Putad, Sauljaljui, Vaiteani & Selina Leem

* Things Will Be Fine – Metronomy

* Will You Miss Me When You’re Sober? – Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater

* Don’t Believe the Hype – Jack Carty

* Miss Lily’s – darby

* Somewhere in Soho – Matt Boylan-Smith

* Alaska – Portair

* Dig (Variation) – Fanny Lumsden

* Gundry’s Track – Brendan McMahon

* Pemulwuy – Peter Baxter

Above: Small Island Big Song’s ‘Mercy Mercy Me’ single cover artwork by Jenn Da Costa

The morning after the women’s singles final at the Australian Open, Katie celebrates Ash Barty’s magnificent win and plays an outstanding set of new songs by emerging and established artists, including a fabulous collaboration between past guests the Teskey Brothers and Emma Donovan. Here is the playlist:

* Geneva – Lucy Lorenne

* Sunscreen – Don McGlashan

* Water – Gabriella Cohen

* Get Back to the Land – The Teskey Brothers ft. Emma Donovan

* Love Is Selfish – Jack White

* Heaven – Grace Cummings

* If You Don’t Know Me, Who Am I – Josh Pyke

* Less Than a Man – Madi Colville-Walker

* Absence of You – grentperez

Above: The Teskey Brothers & Emma Donovan’s ‘Get Back to the Land’ single cover – the painting Desert Breeze by Wurundjeri artist Grace Brown

Katie counts down her top 20 favourite songs of 2021. In another challenging year for everyone, there was no shortage of fabulous tunes to keep us all going – big love to all the artists who released new music. Eight of the songs in numbers 10 to 1 are by Australian artists and two are by US artists. Five are by solo women artists. Here is the playlist:

10. Graceful Lady with the Lamps – Nick Batterham

9. Right on Time – Brandi Carlile

8. Little Things – Ziggy Ramo ft. Paul Kelly

7. Tender Moment – Paula Punch

6. Blood Moon – Jeb Cardwell

5. Louise – Montgomery Church

4. As Long as It’s Not Us – Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes

3. Water Flowing Downward – Andrea von Kampen

2. you should do this for a living – Ruby Gill

1. First Time Really Feeling – Liz Stringer

Hear numbers 20 to 11 of Katie’s top songs in Part 1 of the show here, and check out her 2021 interview with Nick Batterham in show no.199.

Katie counts down her top 20 favourite songs of 2021. In another challenging year for everyone, there was no shortage of fabulous tunes to keep us all going – big love to all the artists who released new music. Eight of the songs in numbers 20 to 11 are by Australian artists, one is by a US artist and one is by a Scottish artist. Five are by solo or duo women artists, and two are by woman-fronted bands. Here is the playlist:

20. Make a Baby – The Maes

19. Deep Black Water – Georgia Van Etten

18. Wellerman – Nathan Evans

17. Lonesome Winter Blues – Jessie Monk

16. Canyon – Charm of Finches

15. Just for You – Joan & The Giants

14. The Cast – Michael Waugh

13. Boab (Time Is a River) – Jack Carty

12. Bones – Telenova

11. Starlight – Yola

Hear Katie’s top 10 songs in Part 2 of the show here, and check out her 2021 interviews with Charm of Finches in show no.218 and Yola in show no.213.

As well as being the grande dame of Australian folk music and a queer icon, Judy Small is the chair of the Midsumma Festival Board. She returns to Miss Chatelaine to talk about the 2022 festival, which starts on Sunday 23 January. She tells us how she became involved with Midsumma, how the festival has adjusted to Covid conditions, the AND/OR events (a platform for artists who are queer and disabled), the Midsumma Pathways mentorship initiative, what to expect at Carnival, the musical theatre show Fun Home, Melbourne Pride, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Be Still My Soul – Saara Aalto

* Waterfall – Cris Williamson

* Girls in Our Town – Margret RoadKnight

* I Can Be a Lesbian – Judy Small

* Love on a Rooftop – Ronnie Spector

Check out this year’s Midsumma Festival events and make a booking or two!

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

Midsumma 2022 image (above) by Gonketa

This hour there are gorgeous new songs about love in a crazy world, noticing the small miracles as well as the big ones, and an odd couple in Los Angeles; recent releases by Miss Chat favourites Emily Soon and Jack Carty; an excellent new version of a classic folk song; and more. Here is the playlist:

* The Way I Feel About You – Cass Eager

* Will the Circle Be Unbroken? – The Dead South

* Fraction – Alius ft. Rasmus Hagen

* Everything Matters – Aurora ft. Pomme

* Is It Just the Bruise – darby

* Airplane – Les Ms

* Kid Codeine – The Delines

* Rush – Emily Soon

* Boab – Jack Carty

Above: Aurora’s The Gods We Can Touch album cover photography by Xin Li; design by Leif Podhajsky

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