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The Rebel Chorus

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6247 4400

Address: Level 3, Griffin Centre 2903 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://www.2xxfm.org.au

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25.01.2022 His local newspaper called Hank Williams the Hillbilly Shakespeare. At a young age Bob Dylan identified fully with Hank and played his 78s endlessly. Leonard Cohen placed him in the tower of song, coughing, one hundred floors above. Paul Kelly would sing his songs if he could only choose one artist. Apollo Astronauts took those songs of lost highways, lonesome tears and cheating hearts to the moon. A Hillbilly Shakespeare edition on Saturday (22 August) features Lucky Oceans’ new album, Purple Sky, where he teams up with lots of great Australian singers to do Hank Williams covers. The show includes an interview with Lucky himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VtXqHZE_p4

25.01.2022 A National You Have When You’re Not Having a National/Bright as You Can edition of Rebel Chorus on Radio 2XX on Saturday (4 April, 10 am12 midday), featuring artists who would have performed at the 2020 National Folk Festival. International artists like The Mammals from Woodstock, NY, Daoiri Farrell, Colum Sands and SON (Susan O’Neill) from Ireland and the White Top Mountaineers from the Virginia-Carolina border. And, of course, lots of Australian artists: The Audreys, Bush ...Gothic, Chloe and Jason Roweth, Cloudstreet, Kutcha Edwards, Liz Frencham, The Raglins, Ruth Hazleton and Spooky Men’s Chorale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=778vu4ss1Cc

22.01.2022 A Rough and Rowdy edition tomorrow (11 July): Featuring tracks from the new Dylan album, Dylan covers, retro Dylan stuff and some very late career Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash songs. Rough and Rowdy Ways is an old man's album with lots of reflection on mortality as well as one apparent abject love song and one truly weird song. This isn’t new territory for Dylan. He's knock, knock, knocked on heaven's door before and even in his debut album all those years ago he was fixin' to die and asking Jesus to make up his dyin’ bed in a 21 year-old ancient bluesman's voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgEP8teNXwY

21.01.2022 A Chimes of Freedom edition tomorrow (15 May) looking forward to Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday on Monday 24 May and International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia next Monday (17 May) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQbSPuxRs4

20.01.2022 A May Day edition today featuring tracks from two great lockdown albums: All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (Gillian Welch and David Rawlings) and They’re Calling Me Home (3:50), (Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi) as well as a selection of songs for the international day of worker solidarity and for Workers Memorial Day (the 28th of April, last Wednesday)

20.01.2022 The killing of George Floyd in Minnesota on 25 May has led to outrage and protest around the world and drawn attention to Aboriginal deaths in custody here. Rebel Chorus has a Black Lives Matter edition tomorrow (13 June). Featured artists include Kev Carmody, Archie Roach, Ezra Furman, and Rhiannon Giddens. There’ll also be a few songs about justice and injustice written by a guy who was born in the state of Minnesota in May 1941 https://youtu.be/o2xqm9y1ey8

19.01.2022 A Reconciliation Long Weekend edition on Saturday 29 May celebrating Reconciliation Week, Amnesty International’s 60th birthday and Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1V5Q7kz0vc

18.01.2022 Like Beyoncé, Madonna, Cher, Bono and Prince, Odetta had the confidence to go by one name. In the late 1950s, she inspired a jazz promoter to set up the first Newport Folk Festival and a young Bob Dylan to throw away his electric guitar for an acoustic. Saturday’s Odetta Sang Ballads and Blues edition features her singing and draws on Ian Zack’s recently published biography, Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest, for glimpses into her life, including an interesting Australian angle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKVpzN0dE5A

17.01.2022 A Brooklyn Cowboys edition on Saturday (5 September) Arlo Guthrie was born in Brooklyn in 1947. In 1973, he released what would now be called an Americana album, Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys. Elliott Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn in 1931. He ran away from home when he was 15 to join a rodeo. His parents soon brought him home but he’d caught the singing cowboy bug. He reinvented himself as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and teamed up with Arlo’s dad, Woody Guthrie, hard travelin’ together from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zu5HAtujoQ&t=8s

17.01.2022 A Mix ‘n’ Match edition on Saturday with Scottish songs (continuing our Caledonia theme from last week), Australian multicultural songs and tunes, songs of revolution, songs for the High Court decision that Indigenous Australians cannot be deported as ‘aliens’ from their own country, love gone wrong songs (the days after Valentine’s Day) and songs from artists who’ll visit Canberra in the next few months. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI66qM2h660

17.01.2022 On 2 May, the day after May Day, the international day of workers’ solidarity, we have a Bring Out the Banners edition with songs of strikes and struggles, unions and workers and an interview with new UnionsACT secretary Matthew Harrison. Featured artists include Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Shane Howard, Jessie Lloyd, Truckstop Honeymoon, Bush Gothic, John Warner, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwbzxemJZIc

13.01.2022 Arrêtes Pas la Musique. Don’t Stop the Music. Rebel Chorus is going all Cajun (and Zydeco) on Saturday (7 March) A bit of Cajun history and music from Cajun legends like Blind Uncle Gaspard, the Balfa Brothers, Clifton Chenier, C J Chenier and Anne and Marc Savoy and fans of Cajun music like Fairport Convention, Linda Thompson, Eric Bibb, Emmylou Harris, and Nick Lowe.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYu1N8-R1t4

13.01.2022 Going all bluegrass tomorrow (27 June) with a Lockdown Hoedown Homemade Haircut edition. Featured interests include Bill Monroe, Tim O’Brien, Alison Krauss, Truckstop Honeymoon, Bluegrass Parkway and The Lurkers https://youtu.be/LQslIPAkDV8

12.01.2022 A Reconciliation Week/Charcoal Lane edition tomorrow morning (30 May). Featured artists include Archie Roche, Ruby Hunter, Kev Carmody, Tiddas and a multi-duetting Paul Kelly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEFUG10mXs

11.01.2022 Bob Dylan was born on 24 May 1941. Radio 2XX is celebrating his 80th birthday with special programming on the day itself (Monday): 2.00 am 6.00 am: Dylan Covers Overnight (mainly in English) 6.00 am 7.00 am: A Dylan-themed Folk Show 7.00 am 8.30 am: Bob Dylan’s Birthday Breakfast Show with Pete West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uf5gi3E_rQ

08.01.2022 An Aussie Dylan Covers edition on Saturday 14 November features Emma Swift’s album Blonde on the Tracks, an interview with Emma Swift, festival folk singing Dylan, a few songs from the man himself and a song for NAIDOC week (98.3FM, Canberra and live streaming around the world from the Radio 2XX website) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R94s8vxi9A

07.01.2022 A World Music in Adelaide edition this morning (21 September) featuring some of the big acts from WOMADelaide 2020: Rhiannon Giddens, the Blind Boys of Alabama and Mavis Staples and artists like Sheila Chandra, Afro-Celt Sound System, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Youssou N’Dour, who have headlined at WOMADelaide over the years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIQ_tjBt0M

05.01.2022 In this strange no live gigs, no festivals world, an Aussie Festival Folk edition tomorrow (18 April) featuring artists like Chloe and Jason Roweth, The Raglins, Cloudstreet, Bush Gothic, Shane Howard, the late Michael Kennedy, Enda Kenny, The Stray Hens, Alanna and Alicia, Liz Frencham, Bruce Watson, the late Danny Spooner, Jenny Fizgibbon, Daniel Champagne, Archie Roach, Siobhan Owen, Jessie Lloyd and more. We’ll also have a couple of songs to honour American country/folk singer-songwriter John Prine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8l2B4ulzg

03.01.2022 Saturday’s Rebel Chorus is inspired by David Mitchell’s novel Utopia Avenue, the best novel about a band since The Commitments (would make a great film too). It explores the short life and fascinating times of a psychedelic/folk/rock band formed in London in 1967, when the world seemed full of musical and political possibilities and a band might have called itself Utopia Avenue. Featured artists include Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Pentangle, the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, "Lenny" Cohen, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and Jerry Garcia to name a few.

01.01.2022 A Green Bans Forever edition tomorrow morning will honour Jack Mundey and look back at the Green Bans in Sydney in the 1970s. There’ll be songs about the Green Bans and an interview with Pat Fiske who directed the award-winning film, Rocking the Foundations, about the Green Bans (www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/474/rocking-foundations.html). We’ll also have selection of songs with a political edge from the 70s and early 80s written by Eric Bogle, Judy Small, John Dengate and Redgum. www.theguardian.com//jack-mundey-was-an-australian-hero-wh