Dawn Yates

I’ve loved music all my life and the company, community and sustenance its given me. I grew up learning how to harmonise by singing Abba into a hairbrush; hearing my parents hum along to Dolly Parton and Karen Carpenter on the weekends and then in my teenage years cranking Nirvana and Tori Amos behind my slammed door.

I learnt how to play and write music and started to go out to gigs. I met some more adventurous music types at Uni who introduced me to truly alternative and transformative music including an intro to RTRFM. Fast forward to now and I can’t imagine a world without the station. It’s a portal into the wonderful, unknown, diverse tapestry of sonic possibilities from every corner of the globe and I love being part of this beautiful community shared between the listeners, presenters and so many volunteers.