2MCE-FM always offers a wide choice of programs, including folk, which is often called "the music of the people". In fact, folk music programs have been a vital part of 2MCE-FM since the station first went to air in 1976.
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Folk music is one example of the many diverse musical styles to find a happy home on the community radio airwaves. Specialist music programs are often rare, but 2MCE-FM has presenters sharing five hours of folk programs each and every week.
On 2MCE-FM you can hear traditional and contemporary folk music from around the world, the very latest acoustic and roots new releases, blues, ballads, classic 1970s folk rock, jug bands, singer-songwriters, choirs, fiddle orchestras and, of course, all the best Australian artists.
One of our presenters, Bruce Cameron, has the longest running folk program in Australia still with its original presenter. Come All Ye has notched up around 2000 programs and is still going strong each Sunday afternoon at noon.
Bathurst Folk Club has a team of presenters, Terry Fatseas, Paul Kelly and Jock and Anne Roxborough, sharing One Of The Folk, providing a wide range of different folk styles on Saturday afternoon between midday and 2pm.
Roger Hargraves presents The Connection at 7pm on Sunday, usually with a focus on Celtic folk music, but often wandering far and wide in search of folk music diversity. Folk music is very much a part of the varying sounds available.
Retro Top 40 airs every second Saturday between 4pm and 6pm and concentrates on hits of this week from the 60s, 70s and 80s periods.
For coming weeks, the program, presented by Tim Williams, will have a feature piece reflecting some unusual musical facts, commencing this week with a great tale about a “special” piano used in hundreds of pop songs.
The piano has featured on tracks by The Beatles and Elton John, just to name two, The Beatles moving out of their Abbey Road studios so they could include the piano on one of their albums. Find what was so special about this particular piano.
Free Association is on Mondays at 8pm with Martin Hayes. The two hour program mostly covers the field of contemporary jazz, and its sources over the last 60 or so years. Additionally, it looks from time to time at contemporary modern music, electronica, rockabilly, some rock and occasionally sound manipulation.
Most of the music comes from Martin’s own collection, which he describes as growing bigger by the day. Free Association is for those who like their music with a bit of a twist, shaken but not stirred.
