The Rebel Chorus

27/03/2026

A Looking Forward to the National edition tomorrow (28 March), featuring artists who’ll be at Exhibition Park next weekend: Windborne, Ruth Hazleton, Kate Burke, Mandy Connell, Bruce Watson Liz Frencham, Fred Smith and more .We’ll also look forward to Sunday’s rally at Garema Place, Refugees and Migrants Welcome Here, with some specially chosen songs.

The Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees is an annual event in Canberra where community, church, political and union groups from

05/03/2026

A Hard Times edition on Saturday (7 March) featuring the latest CD from the legendary Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World, and a bit of a retrospective of her career.

Listen to the full album: https://antircrds.io/3X9ifpF "Hard Times" by from the album 'Sad And Beautiful World', out nowOrder, stream & downloa...

24/02/2026

12/02/2026

Live in Canberra 26 edition of Rebel Chorus on Radio 2XX on Saturday (14 February) looking forward to Pete and Sue McMahon’s concert, Always Entertaining, at Smith’s Alternative on 28 February. We’ll talk to Pete and Sue about the Canberra local music scene in the 1970s and play some of their music.

We’ll also feature artists like Andy Irvine and Harry Manx who have already played in Canberra this year and others coming to the national capital in 26 like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Eric Bibb and Ralph McTell. And that’s not counting artists performing at the National Folk Festival in April. That can be another show.

Saturday February 28, 4pm - 6pm | Pete and Sue McMahon are a powerhouse of unpredictable entertainment! They will bring a show that encompasses 50 years of selected songs and poems. Only the brave should attend!Sue..

22/01/2026

A True and Bold edition on Saturday f(24 January) featuring songs from Dick Gaughan and from some of the mighty line up, in a True and Bold concert at the Celtic Connections festival in Edinburgh last Sunday: Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson, Tommy Sands, Karan Casey, Karine Polwart, Lisa O’Neill and Michael McGoldrick. We’ll also pay tribute to Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst who, sadly, died from pancreatic cancer on Tuesday.

Taken from the album "An Introduction to Dick Gaughan".🎧 Stream the album here → http://bit.ly/DickG_Spotify / http://bit.ly/DickG_Apple🎵 Listen to the ful...

16/01/2026

With Irish folk legend Andy Irvine coming to the Merry Muse Folk Club at the Canberra Irish Club on Sunday (www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1499488), Sunday morning’s Irish Voice on Radio 2XX will feature music from the man himself and excerpts from an interview with him at the 2011 National Folk Festival.

11/12/2025

Rebel Chorus on Radio 2XX tomorrow (13 December) will feature artists who performed in Canberra in 2025 including Neil Murray, Mick Thomas and the Roving Commission, Bush Gothic, Monsieur Camembert, Andrea Kirwen, Daoiri Farrell and many more. We will also pay tribute to Northern Territory folk music legend Ted Egan, who died last week aged 93 (www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/remembering-ted-egan-nt-musician-activist-bureaucrat/103438310).

24/11/2025

𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟐𝟗 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝗮𝗺

The next Rebel Chorus show will be broadcast on Community Radio 2XX-98.3fm at 10am on Saturday 29 November 2025. The special feature for this week's show is the 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 album of 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐫's performances during his 1964 tour of communist Czechoslovakia, recordings of Seeger live at the ABC Theatre in Prague. The first volume of Seeger recordings from this tour - recorded at the national Czech radio - was aired by the Rebel Chorus on 08nov25.

Huddie Ledbetter aka 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲 was a big influence for Seeger, and we'll have a short set displaying Lead Belly's great skill playing his big 12 string tex-mex guitar.

This week's playlist also includes tracks by The Jim Lay Band, A J Leonard, and Chloe & Jason Roweth.

Tune in to Community Radio 2XX-98.3fm in Canberra on Saturday 29 November 2025 at 10am for the latest edition of the Rebel Chorus radio show.

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Here's a political joke for you courtesy of the Rebel Chorus.
Interjector: “Wot ya gonna do ’bout ‘ousing, Bob?”
Prime Minister Menzies: “Well, we’re going to start by putting an “h” in front of it”.
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24/11/2025

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20/11/2025

Just over 50 years after the dismissal of the Whitlam Labour Government by the Governor-General on 11 November 1975, Rebel Chorus on Saturday 22 November will have a Maintain the Rage edition with Ballad of 1975 and other songs from 80s Sydney politico punk folk band Roaring Jack and songs from Shane Howard, who put on a concert at the Wesley Music Hall here in Canberra last weekend to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal and to help us all maintain the rage. We’ll also play a couple of tracks from Scottish singer Dick Gaughan who has been battling to get his own music back after much of it has been unavailable for years.

This is a video of Roaring Jack from around 20 years ago. Alistair now playing solo and based in his native Scotland after many years living in Australia. Ch...

09/10/2025

A Folk Jazz Double Bass Legend edition of Rebel Chorus on Saturday (11 October) paying tribute to English folk jazz double bass legend Danny Thompson who, sadly, passed away last month aged 86.

We’ll look at his years with Pentangle and his collaborations with the likes of Marianne Faithfull, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Norma Waterson, Linda Thompson and the Blind Boys of Alabama.

Set Of Six was a Granada production that showcased a band ""from the world of modern music"" live in front of a studio audience. Pentangle's performance on t...