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3BBR Open Day – Sat 14 Oct

On air interviews - 14 Oct 2023

To coincide with the launch of the Baw Baw Community Hub, 3BBR threw open its doors between 10am and 2pm, and we have photos to prove it!

We broadcast a special program live from the forecourt at 4 Oak Street Drouin from 10am – 2pm, where we heard from community members about the Hub, with live music from Meg Dougherty, Sage Anderson and The Original Covers.

It was great to see come of you there visiting our studios, and learning more about what’s involved in volunteer Community Radio. Thanks to all our 3BBR Members who helped make it all go very smoothly.

The Original Covers - 14 Oct 2023
The Original Covers play live to air

Joseph Baraké, Greg King, Ian Hill, Big John Meyer
Joseph Baraké, Greg King, Ian Hill, Big John Meyer

Meg Dougherty - 14 Oct 2023
Meg Dougherty

Stalls - 14 Oct 2023

Studio 1

José Meyer chats to Paul Strickland - 14 Oct 2023José Meyer, Garry Havrillay and Paul Strickland

Sage Anderson - 14 Oct 2023
Sage Anderson performing live to air

 - 14 Oct 2023
Meg Dougherty plays live to air

3BBR’s Broadcast Licence renewed

3BBR Wordcloud

3BBR FM has recently been granted a renewal of its broadcast licence for another 5 years.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority reviews broadcast licences on a regular basis and has found that 3BBR-FM is meeting it’s service requirements.

Marking the continuation, the Board has recently approved a refresh of the program schedule aimed at improving the listening flow, grouping themes and music styles together to achieve a better listening flow. This new schedule begins on Sunday October 8.

  • Our weekday daytime programs will still largely bring you familiar tunes from the 60s to the 80s
  • Mon-Fri Breakfast will be presented live to include news on the hour from 6 to 9am with local information
  • Evenings and weekends aim to better connect musical threads and specialist programs;
    • Monday evenings have a country & roots focus
    • Tuesdays night goes from gospel to global
    • Wednesday evenings feature a big range of Australian new music, emerging artists and local performances
    • late Wed and Thursday nights features a strong lineup of jazz and fusion
    • Friday evenings still feature local community issues and relishes contemporary and independent music
    • Saturdays flow from country to pop, indigenous & reggae onto blues and rock into the late evening
    • Sundays connect jazz ideas to global music, ambient, neo-classical and classical performances, onto our familiar of evening of nostalgia.

David Bridie concert replay on “Gippsland Live” – Oct 11 and 18

David Bridie

3BBR was delighted to record iconic pianist, composer and activist David Bridie (My Friend The Chocolate Cake / Not Drowning, Waving) at Wesley of Warragul  on 28 May 2023.

3BBR is giving a repeat broadcast of this concert in two parts on Gippsland Live, our weekly showcase of local live performance.  Tune in on Wednesday 11th & 18th October 2023 from 8pm to hear the whole performance (Gippsland Live is now repeated on Friday afternoons at 2pm).

As we’d hoped, David gave a warm and intimate performance from the piano, in a retrospective of his often restrained and thoughtful songs from throughout his career.  He subtly embellished his songs and stories with wild sound or gentle sampled beats, while electric guitarist Rosie Excess drew on his broad sonic palette of often cello-like and plaintive sounds.

Clinkas is wrapping up his programs!

Clinkas' radio shows

Farewell to the four programs made by Andrew Clinkaberry (aka Clinkas).

Since COVID created havoc in our lives in 2020, Andrew has been a massive contributor to setting up and maintaining our systems to help manage pre-recorded programs, being an absolute necessity when it mattered most. It’s been a huge effort on his part, as well as making no less than four programs a week to entertain us for Breakfast  on Mondays, with his Musical Mystery Tour  on Saturday nights, That Was The 70s , and an valuable showcase of new Australian music with Brand New Key .

Many will know that Clinkas moved to South Australia last year, but still continues to maintain vital technical aspects of our operations remotely, work completely hidden to you our listeners. Huge thanks go out to him, as he now winds back his participation in 3BBR for new pursuits.

As you should know, 3BBR is run entirely by volunteers, so whenever we lose such a major contribution to our programming and operations, it has a big impact.

Thanks again Andrew as we sadly farewell all your programs in the first week of October.

Piano Masterpieces in the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall

Gintaite Gataveckaite and Tristan Lee at Yarragon Studio

The amazing Melbourne-based “pianistic power couple”, Gintaite Gataveckaite and Tristan Lee recently gave a fine concert performance at Yarragon Studio, and 3BBR was there to record it for the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall. This concert of works for two and four hands was broadcast on Sunday 27 August from 4pm.

The program included arrangements by Rachmaninov of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Ballet and the mighty Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor and Spanish Rhapsody.

3BBR-FM once again showcased the incredible world class talents of local performers. Like all of our locally porduced programs, the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall with Joseph Baraké can be heard live via FM or web stream, or up to 4 weeks later via audio-on-demand.

3BBR will be recording and broadcasting more local concerts in the near future, and we hope you’ll support us to keep up this valuable service to you our listeners.

Gippsland Symphony Orchestra broadcast on 3BBR

GSO Winds

A first for Gippsland Symphony Orchestra, their recent concert at Wesley of Warragul was recorded by 3BBR-FM. Listen back to the broadcast in the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall on Sunday 23rd July at 4pm.

Like the recent broadcast of the Yarragon Studio concert and interview with the music director of the GSO David Williams, 3BBR-FM is proud to support broadcasts of performances by local and international musicians visiting our region.

This is the first time since the orchestra was established in 2015, that a concert by the Gippsland Symphony Orchestra has been recorded for broadcast by 3BBR and certainly not the last time.

On this occasion, the orchestra was divided into 2 chamber groups of Strings and Wind instruments creating separate chamber orchestras.

The vast program included works by J. S. Bach, Handel, Mozart and Brahms and a variety of fun favourites such as Teddy Bears Picnic and Alexanders Ragtime Band.

Broadcasting of local performances, not only of Classical Music events, but of all genres in the 3BBR-FM wide and varied selection of music programs provides an opportunity for listeners unable to attend or to relive a concert again and to discover the many multi-talented performers living in our region.

Rosanne Hunt and Niels Bijl in concert on 3BBR

Niels Bijl and Rosanne Hunt at Yarragon Studio

On Sunday 9th July from 4pm in the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall, Joseph Baraké presented a recent concert by the virtuoso Melbourne cellist Rosanne Hunt and local though international saxophonist Niels Bijl. This performance at the Yarragon Studio was worthy of any major world concert platform, with works by J. S. Bach, Bestiaire by Alphonse Stallaert, Mark Summer’s Julie-O and a selection of transcribed Bartok violin duos.

Rosanne Hunt, is a virtuoso cellist who comes from a musical family of string players. Her early studies were with her mother Marian Hunt and continued with the Dutch Master cellist in The Netherlands, Anner Bylsma. Rosanne is a founding member of the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and a cellist with several of Melbourne’s professional orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony and chamber groups. Rosanne teaches cello at the University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts and privately. She has made a number of commercial recordings. It was in the Netherlands Rosanne first became acquainted the Dutch Saxophonist Neils Bijl and since his move to Australia they make their duet debut at the Yarragon Studio concert.

Niels Bijl is referred to as an International Saxophone Superstar! Born in the Netherlands Niels quickly established a passion for the saxophone having studied with Arno Bornkamp, and completing his studies at the Banf Centre for the Arts in Canada. Niels soon established a career performing with some of the world’s leading conductors, which included legendries like Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev and Maris Jansons, and major orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In 2020 he settled in Australia, after the past 20 years of international concert touring and giving Masterclasses. He has made Yarragon South his home and now collaborates in performances with the Melbourne Symphony and recently a lecturer at Melbourne University, a visiting artist at ANAM and currently teaches at Monash. Niels is a founding member of the Clinch saxophone quartet giving regular concerts around Australia. In November Niels performs in a Duet Concert with local pianist Brian Chapman at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

This concert was recorded for the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall by Garry Havrillay.

You can listen back to this broadcast until early August 2023 via the 3BBR FM Concert Hall program page.

“Gippsland Live” features the Boolarra Folk Festival 2023

The Hip Pockets performing at the Boolarra Folk Festival 2023

3BBR-FM was there for the jubilant return of the multi-award winning Boolarra Folk Festival, recording every concert for Gippsland Live, our weekly showcase of local live performances.

After a three year hiatus, thousands of people flocked to Boolarra in early March for the festival, a completely free community event held at ARC Yinnar on the Friday night, and in Railway Park in Boolarra throughout Saturday.

Gippsland Live (heard weekly from April) began broadcasting concerts from the festival on April 12, featuring the headline act from the Friday night event, local Steely Dan aficionados Doit Doit . Gutsy blues singer/guitarist Anna Scionti, and brilliant virtuoso guitarist Nick Charles are just a couple of the many acts to follow in subsequent programs.

“The performances were great and we appreciate the help of the Festival and the performers in allowing us to share the joy and musicianship on show,” said producer Garry Havrillay, “We’re also thrilled to be able to give these under-represented and emerging artists a chance to be heard more widely.”

Tune in to 103.1FM on Wednesday nights at 8.00pm, stream online via 3bbrfm.org.au or the Community Radio Plus App, or listen later via our audio-on-demand  service at https://3bbrfm.org.au/programs/gippsland-live.

Broadcast schedule for Boolarra Festival concerts
April 12, 8pm Doit Doit
April 19, 8pm Anna Scionti
Half Cut Hicks, pt.1
April 26, 8pm Half Cut Hicks, pt.2
Hip Pockets
May 3, 8pm Nick Charles
Frolic & Detour, pt.1
May 17, 8pm Frolic & Detour, pt.2
Brasswind Circus
Kindred
May 31, 8pm Harry Hook
Strzelecki Stringbusters
June 14, 8pm Skiffle Party
Coalville Road, pt.1
June 28, 8pm Coalville Road, pt.2
The Reel Deal
July 12, 8pm The Weeping Willows
Jungle Jim Smith

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ on 3BBR

Listen back to 3BBR-FM’s radio version of the Warragul Theatre Company’s production of Oscar Wilde’s witty classic comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest” as directed by Rob and Amy Robson.

Rediscover the fun of making movies in the mind with classic radio drama, and the joy of Wilde’s absurdist play from 1895 described as a trivial comedy for serious people.

The cast for this radio recording;

Luke Pepping as John Worthing, J.P.
Toby Just as Algernon Moncrieff
Deb Welch as Lady Bracknell
Isabel Stephens as Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Elyse Clyde as the governess Miss Prism
John Black as Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.
Matthew Vale as the butler Merriman
Michael Winterton as manservant Lane

Directed by Rob and Amy Robson
Recorded by Paul Strickland
Post-production for radio by Garry Havrillay

The Importance of Being Earnest

What’s going on here?

Preparing Studio 2

These guys appear to be taking Studio 2 apart!

Russ Hughes painting Studio 2

Finally we’re going to have the carpet replaced in Studio 2, and ahead of the day, a flash mob turned up to do some heavy lifting and cleaning. Russ seized the opportunity to give the wall a lick of paint, and we even found half a dozen lost pens that are sure to go into general revenue.

Thanks to Phil H, Susan B, Russ H, Tom McG, Wayne P, Richard R, Garry H, José & John M & Joseph B who all turned up to help take the studio apart.

Then…

Studio 2 Carpet replacement, Feb 2023

Studio 2 Carpet replacement, Feb 2023

Studio 2 Carpet replacement, Feb 2023

Studio 2 Carpet replacement, Feb 2023

Studio 2 Carpet replacement, Feb 2023

Et voila! All in one day.

The coda was to put fabric on the eastern wall…

Studio 2, Feb 2023

Studio 2, Feb 2023