Music

National Volunteer Week

This year’s National Volunteer Week (15-21 May) theme is ‘The Change Makers’. This perfectly captures the spirit of our incredible volunteers - from managing reception to creating podcasts, tending to our garden, and producing captivating radio, our volunteers are making a meaningful and lasting impact in our community every day. Volunteering at 3CR is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable skills, meet like-minded individuals, and make a positive difference in the world. Keen to be a ‘Change Maker’? Get in touch today.

May Day 2023

On Monday 1 May we'll bring you the usual rabble rousing and thought-provoking discussions on workers' rights and solidarity actions from 6am to 6pm. Tune in to hear all about the Stolen Wages campaign, indigenous solidarity, gender justice and solidarity, training and safety at work, creative communities, unemployment, underemployment, the gig economy, international solidarity and much more. Full details here

Friday 8:00pm to 9:00pm
May
Inspired by the music of Maestro Ilaiyaraaja and other Tamil/Indian composers, this program creates awareness about Tamil culture and society. We explore and share our joy in the multiple facets of Tamil popular, folk and classical music.
Subscribe to 3CR in 2023

Our station needs members to survive. By becoming a subscriber, you’re helping us to remain fiercely independent and free of commercials and corporate influence. Are you a paid up subscriber? It’s just $40 concession, $80 waged, $150 for a band or organisation and $300 solidarity for the year. Great value for 24/7 community-owned and community-controlled media! Please become a subscriber member today. Call the station on 03 94198377 during business hours, or sign up / renew online.

Thursday 3:00pm to 3:30pm
January
An eclectic mix of sometimes underrated and undiscovered music across all genres

Join 3CR from 9am – 4pm on Thursday 26 January for our annual Invasion Day broadcast.

26 January signifies the beginning of invasion, colonisation, and displacement, and the start of a powerful movement of First Nations resistance and protest that is ongoing to this day. 3CR's First Nations broadcast team will be bringing you Blak and deadly music, and the voices of grassroots activists across the continent. Discussing genocide, sovereignty, treaty, pay the rent, deaths in custody, truth and justice, and the lore of the land … 

Holiday office hours

There’ll be great Summer Programming content on air over the festive season, but our offices will be closed from midday Friday 23 December and re-open Tuesday 3 January. Throughout January 2023 we’ll be open with reduced hours and days. The station will be open 10am-4pm Tuesday to Friday, call us on 03 9419 8377 or connect with us online via our socials and website. We hope that all our listeners and supporters enjoy a break and we look forward to hearing from you in 2023!

3CR pop up shop THIS Saturday

Looking for a radical gift for that special someone?

Come along to our Pop Up Shop THIS Saturday 17 December from 9-12noon.

Books, t-shirts, scarves, tote bags and much much more.

3CR Community Radio
21 Smith Street, Fitzroy.
See you there!

3CR Radio Music Feast

Have you got your FREE ticket yet? Sunday 27 November at the Brunswick Ballroom - come join the radical radio community. ‘3CR Radio Music Feast’ is one of several events produced as part of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia’s partnership with Creative Victoria’s On The Road Again initiative, connecting Victorian community radio with the state’s live music scene. We've got a stellar line-up including Ajak Kwai, Kutcha Edwards, Lady Lash, the Black Jesus Experience, the Cherry Reds, Soju Gang, Marroushti, Uncle Robbie Thorpe and MC Shiralee Hood. Read more in our Media Release. FREE tickets here.

Saturday 1:30pm to 2:00pm
PX Whanau covers news and views from our queer Pasifika community including the arts and culture and the events that build and nourish our people.