Miss Chatelaine

Melbourne sister duo Charm of Finches return to the show for their third visit to talk about their recently released album, Your Company, and touring to promote it (including an appearance at the Nannup Music Festival in WA), the effects COVID-19 is having on live performances, and doing shows with Anna Cordell and Amanda Palmer; and they deliver beautiful performances of two songs from the album. Katie also plays a bunch of fabulous new tracks by other female-identifying artists. Here is the playlist:

* Trams – Rachel Caddy

* Her Quiet Footsteps – Charm of Finches

* She Knows – Hollie Col

* Fish in the Sea – Charm of Finches (live in the studio)

* Ahead of Your Game – Anna Cordell

* Black Smoke – Amanda Palmer with Clare Bowditch

* Where Do the Ducks Go? – Charm of Finches (live in the studio)

* Fresh Out of Love – E^ST

* Outcast – Elsy Wameyo

Visit Charm of Finches’ official website and follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

You can buy Amanda Palmer’s bushfire charity album at Bandcamp – all proceeds go to Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous-led network reinvigorating and teaching cultural land burning and management.

Photo of Charm of Finches and Katie (above) by Betty Sujecki

Montreal indie-folk artist Leif Vollebekk was recently in Australia and he popped into JOY for a chat with Katie. They talk about his love of Bob Dylan and his deep knowledge of popular music, their mutual love of k.d. lang, his latest album New Ways, how he met Australia’s Angie McMahon and ended up touring with her in 2019, and building an audience here; and they go deep on the recording and production of Leif’s magnificent song ‘Transatlantic Flight’ and how changing the beat slightly made a huge difference to the final song. There’s also a quick recap of Katie’s time at the 2020 Port Fairy Folk Festival and a couple of new tracks! Here is the playlist:

* Lilacs – Waxahatchee

* It Hurts Me Too – James Thomson

* Never Be Back – Leif Vollebekk

* Transatlantic Flight – Leif Vollebekk

Visit Leif Vollebekk’s official website and follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Photo of Leif Vollebekk and Katie (above) by Georgia Cooke

In this hour, Katie plays a couple of new tracks and then calls up US correspondent Mark Blankenship in New York for their first chat of 2020. With the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade having taken place the night before this show, it seemed like a good time to talk about PRIDE songs. Katie chooses three songs by queer women, and Mark adds one song by a gay man and one by a trans artist. Here is the playlist:

* Anything You Want – Robert Cray Band

* Spirit World – Van Walker

* Not Worth Hiding – Alex the Astronaut

* Hometown – Brandon Stansell

* Pride – Chris While & Julie Matthews

* Everything Is New – Jaimie Wilson

* Pride – Grace Petrie

Mark Blankenship is a New York–based podcaster and writer who co-hosts the podcast Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs (MASTAS) with Sarah D. Bunting; visit MASTAS’s Patreon page and follow the podcast on Facebook and Twitter. He also hosts the iHeartRadio Showtune Countdown podcast. Follow Mark on Twitter.

Above: Artwork by Julie Matthews for While & Matthews’ ‘Pride’

As the calendar ticks over to autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, Katie plays fabulous new and recent tunes by artists from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Scotland via the USA, including two absolute winners by Indigenous favourites Christine Anu and Mitch Tambo. Here is the playlist:

* Kerikeri – Lucille

* You and Me – Issac Main

* Rainbow – Isobel Campbell

* Sparks Fly – Casey Barnes

* Seasons – Miss Elm

* Baby Talk – Mick Flannery & SON (Susan O’Neill)

* Samson – Reb Fountain

* Colours of Your Life – Christine Anu

* You’re the Voice – Mitch Tambo

Above: Isobel Campbell’s There Is No Other album artwork by Luke Insect

Out-and-proud UK artist Grace Petrie, who describes herself as ‘a socialist, feminist, lesbian, left-wing protest singer’, is currently in Australia for her first tour here. Just before she arrived, Katie had a long chat to her on the phone about her connection with revered English folk-activists Roy Bailey, Billy Bragg and others; her song ‘Pride’, which she wrote in response to the UK media’s coverage of the Orlando nightclub murders in 2016; the recent British election and the rise of homophobia and transphobia in England; wonderful women folk artists from northern England, including O’Hooley & Tidow, Chris While & Julie Matthews and Nancy Kerr; and more. Here is the playlist:

* Nádia – Luísa Sobral

* Pride – Grace Petrie

* Burning Times – Roy Bailey

* Black Tie – Grace Petrie

* A Young Woman’s Tale – Grace Petrie

* Gentleman Jack – O’Hooley & Tidow

Above: Photo of Grace Petrie by David Wilson Clarke

Katie plays superb new folk, pop and roots music by artists from Canada, the USA, Sydney, Melbourne and the Blue Mountains in this hour, plus an older track from an Amsterdam-based queer US singer-songwriter and ‘love warrior’. Here is the playlist:

* Lost Time – Tuaca Kelly

* A Thought Is Just a Passing Train – John Moreland

* Already Forgiven – Basia Bulat

* Atlas Love – Ed Wells

* Tried So Hard – Anna Cordell

* Laundromat – Alexander Biggs

* Fragile – The Bell Streets

* Outlaw – CJ Stranger

* Cheesy Love Song – The Lazy Eyes

Above: The Bell Streets’ ‘Fragile’ single artwork; photography and design by Nick Batterham

UK-based Australian singer-songwriter and Miss Chatelaine favourite Emily Barker returns to the show to chat to Katie about her new album, Shadow Box, and her 2019 release with English folk artist Marry Waterson, A Window to Other Ways. Their conversation also covers Emily’s recent debut at the Woodford Folk Festival and her Folk in a Box project, and she performs the gorgeous song ‘Sister Goodbye’ – her tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe – live in the studio.  There are also some gorgeous new songs by other artists. Here is the playlist:

* Raw Stuff – Didirri

* Save the Rivers – Marcia Howard

* Sleep, Australia, Sleep – Paul Kelly

* Värmeland – Ida Wenøe

* Tougher Than the Rest – Emily Barker

* Twister – Marry Waterson & Emily Barker

* Sister Goodbye – Emily Barker (live in the studio)

Visit Emily Barker’s official website and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Photo of Emily Barker and Katie (above) by Betty Sujecki – please visit the Miss Chatelaine Facebook photo album for more pics!

Melbourne-based Malaysian-Australian electronica, pop and R&B musician, producer and multi-instrumentalist Yeo is Katie’s guest in the second hour. He talks about all the different music-making hats he wears, working with the fabulous Mojo Juju, and his new album Recovery Channel, and chooses songs to play by some of his favourite artists. Katie also plays more new and recent music by Australian, Danish and US artists. Here is the playlist:

* Sweden – Chloe Styler

* All of You – Greg J. Walker ft. Andrew Nolte & Vanessa Fernandez

* Six Years – Yeo

* Change Me a Little – Ida Wenøe

* Bullet to the Heart – Jackson Wang

* Restless – Yeo

* A Heart Is Not a Yo-yo – Mojo Juju

* Don’t Start Now – Dua Lipa

* Rise – Steve Scott

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

Photo of Yeo (above) by Betty Sujecki

Katie plays stunning new folk, alt-country, blues and roots music by Australian artists from the NSW Central Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Byron Bay, Launceston, Canberra and Gold Coast, and by US artists from Denver and Philadelphia. Here is the playlist:

* Devil’s Ivy – Little Quirks

* Good Momma Bad – Andrew Farriss

* Carry You – Missy Higgins

* What a Drag – Nathaniel Rateliff

* Breathe It In – Garrett Kato ft. Julia Stone

* Become the Fool – PARKER

* The Rolling Thunder of Love – Owen Campbell

* Whiskey Room Shuffle – Brandon Dodd

* Fire – Waxahatchee

* Mountain Peak – Hussy Hicks

Above: Missy Higgins’ ‘Carry You’ single artwork

Melbourne-based electro-acoustic duo Përolas are Liana, who plays harp and sings, and Fabian, who plays guitar, trumpet, keyboard and live electronic drum loops. Named Best Intercultural Act at the 2019 Music Victoria Awards, they are Katie’s guests in the second hour. Here is the playlist:

* East October – John Moreland

* Benjamin – Kelly Brouhaha

* And It’s Still Alright – Nathaniel Rateliff

* Low Road – Emma Bosworth

* Flores de Melipeuco – Përolas

* Universal Traveler – Air

* Rainbow – Përolas (live in the studio)

* Sunset ­– Nitin Sawhney

* Underdog – Alicia Keys

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Photo of Përolas (above) by Katie Purvis