Pat Bamford spent most of her years raising her family and listening to her favourite Country music and Nostalgia.

In 1989, Pat joined radio station 3CCCFm as a Radio Presenter. Through the course of time, she won the hearts of many of her listeners ringing in for a chat and asking for their favourite request to be played.

Pat spent many voluntary hours in the background of 3CCCFm either on reception or panelling for the football and filling in for presenters that were unable to attend their show.

Pat is looking forward to being a part of CVCB!

Anne Conway has had a long and varied career in the Country Music industry. She has travelled through much of Australia performing and also toured New Zealand with an Australian Showcase.

 

Awards and accolades Anne has received include

• Spirit of Tamworth ‘Most Spectacular Career Progress ’
• Induction to the South Tamworth Bowling Club's Women in Country Wall of Fame
• Induction into Rocky Page's Hall of Fame in Barmera, South Australia
• South Australian Country Music Industry Award
• Induction into Tamworth Hands of Fame
• Twice finalist in Victorian Professional Country Music Awards – Female Vocal

Anne's repertoire is not restricted to country music, she plays a good cross section of popular music and can work with a resident band or is fully self contained with her custom made backing, guitar and sound system. She is finding herself particularly in demand for cultural festivals and the like where she proudly showcases Australian history and culture.

Anne records on the Birubi recording label and currently has three CD albums available.

Anne no longer maintains the frenetic pace she once did with her music but still enjoys performing and as well as professional engagements appears at many fund raisers assisting those in need in much the same way as she herself was assisted at a time in her life when she needed help.

Involvement with community radio

Anne has been involved in one way or another with community radio since 1983 when she first took to the airwaves with 3CCC in Harcourt.

Over many years she has presented programs of various genres and was an anchor breakfast show presenter for quite some time as well as working on funded indigenous projects.

Apart from 3CCC, Anne has also presented for 4AAA, Brisbane and ABC Regional Radio.

In 2007 Anne joined the then fledgling Central Victorian Community Broadcasters (known as Phoenix FM) and was a foundation committee member. Anne has presented Indigenous programs during both test transmissions to date as well as a breakfast time-slot.

Floreena grew up with the love of country music running through her veins - singing with her family around the campfire on the Murray River's edge on fishing trips and singing with her father playing the button accordion at the family home.

The love of her favourite music eventually led to her forming her own country music band in 1977 called the Tumbleweed Country Band. The Band toured extensively through Vic & NSW and reigned for 25 successful years. Floreena recorded 3 Country Music albums.

The Tumbleweed Band has since retired. Floreena has continued on singing as a guest artist with other bands and at special functions.

Throughout her musical career she ran many successful festivals and concerts, working constantly for the community and many charity organisations.

In 1997, Floreena joined Radio 3CCCFM Bendigo Vic where she became a Country Music Dj encouraging live music in the studio, interviews and playing favourite requests. Floreena also trained many future announcers between 2000 and 2004 - some still broacasting today, 2007.

Well I found out about Phoenix FM through a leaflet, I have forgotten where from. I am a newbie to radio broadcasting, and my first show was in the stations first test broadcast. I initially saw community broadcasting as an avenue to a career in mainstream radio, but I have found through my involvement, that I really believe in the ideals and community spirit behind community radio, and I don't want to leave!

It's a little uncommon for someone so young to be involved in community radio I've noticed (I'm turning 18 in October), but thats the other great thing about community radio, it's open to all ages! I present a program in the youth radio timeslot on Thursday (4:30-6pm), and I've filled in for other presenters at other times during the previous two test broadcasts. I am looking forward to many more years of involvement in community radio, because I believe it is a valuable asset to any community.

My show is called 'In real time'.

I'm an experimental musician and video artist from Maldon, involved with Undue Noise, Punctum, Drome and the band Planet Caravan with fellow presenter Justin Bull. As the name of the show implies I'm interested in sound that happens in real time, is original or experimental and preferably improvised.

Further information at http://antlion-simonhoward.blogspot.com/

My association with 3CCC-FM began in its infancy when I used to record a weekly program featuring Australian Country Music under the name of "Homespun Country" on my home reel-to-reel TEAC recorder. This was when the station first started its test broadcasts. In those days I was based in Geelong. Those humble beginnings eventually subsided as more sophisticated equipment was acquired by the station, so I began a regular series of programs on Geelong Community Radio 3YYR-FM which lasted for several years. I later moved to the all-country music format of the now defunct Country-FM in Geelong. Needless to say, I look forward to renewing my community radio interests with the NEW 3CCC-FM. I now have my own web site at www.coljay.com which includes samples of tracks from my albums, together with lots of other features - please drop by some time and leave a message on my blog.

Colin is a member of the Management Committee of CVCB for 2007-2008.

Born in Dundee Scotland
Presenting Scots' Corner for 25 years
Presenting all genres of Scottish music including –Traditional – Gaelic – Instrumental and Modern
Interviews – Local Scottish identities and visiting musicians
News and current affairs in Scotland

Geoff Morris is a bluegrass music devotee. He says he wakes up every morning with snatches of songs in his head!

Geoff grew up playing the piano, classical style, but "discovered" country and folk music when he went through University graduating in Law, Arts and Social Work.

He has been involved in mainly talk-back radio for many years and, for the past fourteen years, closely involved with broadcasting on local community radio.
"I have a passion for community radio, its principles and philosophy and for its accessibility to a wide range of individuals and community groups usually excluded on commercial radio," Geoff comments.

He has been broadcasting bluegrass music for several years in Central Victoria and, more recently, has taken up the challenge of internet presentation, doing two three-hour shows per week on worldwidebluegrass.com reaching listeners in Australia, America and around the world.

Geoff has now taken up a position as president of the newly created Central Victorian Community Broadcasters, a group dedicated to the rediscovery of genuine community based radio.

Name: Ian Pieper.
Born: 1950.
Position: Full-Time Dad.
Passtime: Learner Guitarist.
Passion: Blues Music.

Any additional information (about my life up until now) is just plain boring.

My involvement as a Presenter with community radio commenced in 1987 in Harcourt, and later Bendigo and Echuca. I have enjoyed the contact with the wider community in this particular way, mainly playing easy listening, and contemporary Christian music and seeking interviews with a variety of people. I have worked with a team of Presenters and currently with Ian Shelton. The opportunity to be a Central Victorian Community Broadcaster with Phoenix FM has been an added enjoyment.

I am interested in people of all ages, including coordinating a Playgroup, teaching Christian Religious Education at two state primary schools, a member of the Bendigo (state schools) Chaplaincy Committee and am also part of the Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care team at La Trobe University - Bendigo campus. As well I have involvement with a number of church and community groups.

I have lived in a variety of towns, mainly rural, in three states, including in the north west of South Australia at Coober Pedy. Married to Barry - an active 'retired' Anglican minister, a mother of three married adult children, and grandmother of three grandsons, keeps me alert and involved in a wide range of issues and interests.

Ian presents Sunday Morning Gospel on Sunday morning. Expect easy listening with a variety of music styles, including Contemporary Christian artists, Worship, Country Gospel and Traditional. In addition, there will be news and information from churches around the listening area.

Also on Sunday afternoon, he co-presents “Keeping in Tune” with Jenny Rainsford. As well as music, we have an interview or two and more news from local churches.

Ian has been presenting radio programs for Anglican Radio for about 9 years. He began with the former 3CCC in the McCrae Street studios. This has extended to occasionally operating the panel for presenters of the Bendigo Minister's Fellowship “Invitation to Life” program. Usually monthly and then occasionally fortnightly with Jenny Rainsford, he presented “By The Way”, a program of reflections, music, and news of the Church in Australian country towns at 5pm on Sunday night. For a long time our theme was Country Music and Gospel performer, Steve Grace's “Australian Country Towns”.

Ian is a life member of Central Victorian Community Broadcasters having supported the move for a return to real and accountable community radio since its beginnings. He believes that Community Radio should be diverse, accessible, welcoming – and accountable! He presented on Phoenix FM during the first test broadcast in January 2008 and their second in June 2008.

Image by Todd Baxter.

I compose and perform experimental music/sound art, sometimes with beats, and also work with video. In addition to composing under my own name, I am a member of fourcast, a quartet of artists (visual, dance and sound), who create installations during residencies; and am a member of punctum, an experimental theatre group, led by jude anderson, which recently performed shack at various venues in central victoria, including the castlemaine state festival and eaglehawk dahlia and arts festival.. With my wife fran, I also produce music from models of fungal growth and had an installation called fungus! recently at Allans Walk artist run space. I also curate concerts (under the banner undue noise) and exhibitions, and run an australian sound art label cajid media. (with fran). In my previous life i was a lecturer in microbiology at la trobe university. further information at http://cajid.com/jacques.

I have been involved in community radio station 3CCC-FM from 1982 until my resignation in 2007. During that period i presented film buffs preview - a weekly film program for about 3 years, before & after science - a science show with a touch of humour - for about 2.5 years (with fran soddell & dudley horque), and until recently, possible musics, australia's longest running experimental music radio program (1983-2007). In the first test broadcast on Phoenix FM I presented "Static Iterations" which featured Australian experimental music, and the all night "avant-graveyard". In the second test I presented "mix-up", a program concentrating on technolgy in the arts.

Platform One is a program that allows the youth of Central Victoria the opportunity to dabble in radio. They get the opportunity to promote their organisation, play some of their music and have some fun. Craig Whan is the host of Platform One and he has been involved in Youth Organisations for over 20 years.

He has been involved in Scouting, starting as a Cub Scout Leader in 1984 and working up to Victorian Branch Commissioner - Rovers a role he currently holds. He has also been involved in junior football and cricket clubs around Bendigo. Craig's involvement in Community Radio started in the early eighties when he presented a breakfast program for Plenty Valley FM in Melbourne's North East. There was a long break between stints whilst Craig and his family moved to Shepparton and then to Bendigo. Craig was trained as a Radio Announcer at Bob Taylor's Radio Announcers Academy in the early eighties. Craig looks forward to working with the Youth of Central Vicotria and their organisations to provide them with another avenue of promotion..

Bill presents a mens show called “Secret Mens Business”. It is a humorous show for the most part but also touches on serious matters like men ’s health.

Bill has not presented on air before but has spent many years in the wings of community radio assisting with setups etc.

He is often seen providing and operating the sound equipment at local community events and for his partner, Anne Conway.

Bill is a member of the Management Committee of CVCB for 2007-2008.