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In the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall on Sunday 26 Nov at 2.00pm we present another concert from the Yarragon Studio season, featuring the Kirsanova-Lewis Duo of Violin and Piano in a captivating and compelling program titled, ‘Ode to Minimalism’.

A musical journey into less familiar territory of 20th and 21st century music, and another concert recorded exclusively for 3BBR FM… proudly supporting local fine music.

Sofija Kirsanova – violin
Georgina Lewis – piano

Program:
Ann Southam – Soundstill, for solo piano
Nadia Boulanger – Improvisation
John Adams – Road Movies
Peteris Vasks – Sonata estiva (Summer sonata) for solo violin
Platon Buravicky – Engela skatiens (Angel’s sight)

Missed the broadcast? Listen back via our radio-on-demand service.

Listen back these superb performances from this year’s Festival in the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall, Sunday afternoons from 2.00pm – 4:00pm.

Concert 4: Sunday 5 November, 2.00pm
Luke Severn, cello and Elyane Laussade, piano –
Program: Works for Cello and Piano by Chopin, Bartok and Piazzola
Including the Bach Solo Cello Suite No. 1, plus Solo Piano works by Chopin and Mompou

Concert 3: Sunday 29 October, 2.00pm
Kristen Leich, mezzo and Elyane Laussade, piano –
Program: Arias by Handel, Mozart & Rossini
12 Variations for Piano by Mozart
Liebestraum and Rigoletto variations by Liszt
Elgar Sea Pictures
Cabaret Songs by William Bolcom

Concert 2: Sunday 22 October, 2.00pm
Duo Cellos, Luke Severn and Timothy Hennessey –
Program: Sonatas for 2 Cellos by Vivaldi & Barriere, Duet by Kummer and Phoenix Story  by Elena Kats-Chernin.

Concert 1: Sunday 15 October, 2.00pm
The Seraphim Trio –
Program: Piano Trios by Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann, and the ‘Archduke’ Trio by Beethoven.

Look for the audio player on the 3BBR-FM Concert Hall program page.

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 some 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 play live to air

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

Meg Dougherty

José Meyer, Garry Havrillay and Paul Strickland

Sage Anderson performing live to air

Meg Dougherty plays live to air

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.