History Hit Parade with Steve Davis and Keith Conlon as part of South Australia's History Festival 2026

433 – History Hit Parade

Episode 433 is a live recording of History Hit Parade, the South Australia’s History Festival show in which Steve Davis and Keith Conlon perform ten original songs about South Australian life, history, and community at the Mercury Cinema. There are episodes of The Adelaide Show, and then there are events. This is one of the latter. Recorded live at the Mercury Cinema as part of South Australia’s History Festival 2026, History Hit Parade brings together broadcaster and journalist Keith Conlon and host Steve Davis for a ninety-minute show that weaves original songwriting with storytelling, historical context, and the kind of warm, unhurried conversation that feels like sitting in a room full of people who actually know where you live. Ten songs. Ten slices of South Australian life. All of them written with pen and paper by Steve, given musical life through his AI-assisted “virtual session band,” and offered here as

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