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Our Amrap team has created a playlist on AirIt featuring artists and releases shortlisted for the 11th Australian Music Prize (AMP). Order all ten releases for your music library or a program special today!

The Amrap Charts show the Top 10 tracks ordered for airplay by community broadcasters through Amrap’s AirIt music distribution service.  Amrap

Brought to you this year by a team of reporters from 4ZZZ, 4EB and Noosa FM, we present the very best of the 30th Woodford Folk Festival, with three hour-long specials available for local broadcast through the Community Radio Network.

The Amrap Charts show the Top 10 tracks ordered for airplay by community broadcasters through Amrap’s AirIt music distribution service.

The Amrap Charts show the Top 10 tracks ordered for airplay by community broadcasters through Amrap’s AirIt music distribution servi

Inside this issue: music compilations in community radio, meet the program maker, how to run effective board meetings, community media and digital storytelling + more.

A quick scan of his past interviewees is enough to convince anyone Stuart Coupe is something of a bona-fide Australian music legend – never mind a career also spent managing record labels and some of the household names in Australian music. While the Sydney-based Coupe finds himself at FBi to present Tune Up each Tuesday, on Saturdays he’s at 2SER for Dirt Music which covers the history of roots, country, Americana and blues. It is one of the more recent additions to the Community Radio Network schedule, increasing the audience of someone who has been talking and living the music biz for some decades.

As the Music Department Coordinator at 4ZZZ Brisbane, Chris Cobcroft typically lives his weekly community radio life buried amongst the CDs, download links, and limited edition vinyl that inundates his virtual and physical inboxes. Armed with reliable headphones to scour and process the new releases arriving from all over the globe, he exploits his exhaustive listening habit to plan and produce the New Releases Show every week, selecting and critiquing selections he and his contributors sense people need to hear.

The Amrap Charts show the Top 10 tracks ordered for airplay by community broadcasters through Amrap’s AirIt music distribution service.