City Park Radio

City Park Radio is local diverse and accessible community radio. We pride ourselves on our respect for all members of our community no matter their race, gender or credo. We expect your posts and comments to show the same courtesy. City Park Radio reserves the right to delete posts.

City Park Radio broadcasts a diverse range of locally and nationally produced programs, both music and spoken word, in hi-fi stereo. City Park Radio’s broadcasters believe in providing real music variety, so listeners can enjoy a vast catalogue of known and unknown tracks, from Country to Dance, Hip-Hop to Classical, Jazz to Alternative, Rock to Folk, Blues to Ethnic, and much more.

For much of its history, Australia’s bush music belonged to an oral and folkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as Banjo Paterson’s Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s. The distinctive themes and origins of Australia’s “bush music” or “bush band music” can be traced to the songs sung by the convicts who were sent to Australia during the early period of the British colonisation, beginning in 1788. Early Australian ballads sing of the harsh ways of life of the epoch and of such people and events as bushrangers, swagmen, drovers, stockmen and shearers. Convict and bushranger verses often railed against government tyranny.

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