CiTR -- The Saturday Edge

Featuring excerpts from an interview with Richard Thompson conducted by Steve Winick (Library of Congress) at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City - interspersed with some of the music they discussed. Also brand new music from Altan (Donegal) and I'm With Her (Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, and Sara Watkins) and some old favourites and Kansas City songs.

African music, Latin music, Estonian love songs, sad and deep blues, BC Fiddle Festival celebration, the only JUNO award that fits

Peripatetic musical sojourns with stops in West and South Africa, Louisiana, Denmark, Estonia, Quebec, Ireland, PEI, Scotland, and finishing up on the left coast with performers from next weekend's Driven Bow - B.C.'s inaugural fiddle festival at the Rogue. Ending up with a song marking the 60th anniversary of the Munich Air Crash, a pivotal moment in sporting history when 8 members of Manchester...

Two more musical giants left us this week: South African trumpeter and activist Hugh Masekela and American blues singer Terry Evans. Lots of great songwriters and a Burns Day feature leading into some scintillating celtic music to close out the show

From Pedal Steel and Talking Drums to Hot Picks and Cool Reels: tasty Latin music, sultry Africana, sliding blues from the Elmore James legacy, sumptuous lyricism, hot pickers, and powerful fiddles and pipes and cellos and harps and banjos. It's all here, folks!

Songs and tunes from artists coming to town in the next few weeks, some new releases, some old favourites, a couple of songs for folks struggling with floods and winter storms, and much more!

To welcome the new year with Twelfth Day & Ploughs

Some of my favourite songs from 2017 from across the whole spectrum of music I play on this show every week. Finished up with a couple of New Year songs. Happy New Year everyone!

Seasonal music you won't hear in the malls - or anywhere else for that matter!

Paul Norton from CiTR's Code Blue show (Saturdays 3pm) drops by to spin his own mix of folk, world and acoustic music for your listening and dancing pleasure. DJ Stevo will be back next week, no doubt weighed down with Mexican music accumulated while on his journey south of Der Donald's Wall.

Vancouver music journalist Tony Montague brought in a stack of CDs from the recent WOMEX world music expo in Poland. I also featured some seasonal music from Galicia and Shetland and Vancouver, and marked December 6th with Evelyn Parry's amazing spoken word song.

This week's show went from Mali to Canada with a few detours, some favourable winds, and the occasional carousel or perambulation song the way. There was a very nasty power surge which shut everything down for a few minutes half way through, but I managed to salvage things. It happened again at the beginning of the next show on CiTR, but I knew how to fix it this time! Great for pumping the old Ad...

Music by a few of the winners of last weekend's Canadian Folk Music Awards, and music by artists performing that the evening's Fundraiser & Silent Auction for The Rogue

Lots of new music again, from across Canada and beyond! A bit of a focus on Zimbabwe as well (early in the show).

Featuring several Remembrance Day songs, a few songs to mark 100 years since the Russian Revolution, some music from the recent WOMEX conference in Poland (thanks to Tony Montague), and advancing some CD release shows etc.

New music from Denmark, Oh Susanna, Wailin' Jennys, Twin Bandit, etc. plus a feature on legendary songwriter Tom Paxton (Rogue on Nov 9th) and a look ahead to The Texas Troubadours (Chan Centre, Nov 8th)

A tribute to Rock & Roll pioneer Fats Domino, with songs by him, and covers of his songs. Plus new releases galore: Jim Byrnes, Harry Manx, Robert Plant, Oh Susanna, Little Miss Higgins, Abigail Washburn & Bela Fleck, Railroad Earth, Jim Page, etc. A preview of next week's Cape Breton Kitchen party with Beolach, and a liberal sprinkling of "zombie dust" - a Halloween feature with a difference!

This planet is too beautiful and wondrous for us to allow it to be destroyed by murderers and stupid politicians. Music expresses these thoughts better than I Can, so that's what I played today. Also reflections on last week's Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton, and previews of concerts by Russell deCarle and Twin Bandit. New releases from fRoots magazine (fRoots 66), Orchestra Baobab (single)...

Artist Feature - Little Miss Higgins and Russell deCarle - coming to the Rogue Folk Club soon. Plus other artists coming to the Rogue, new artists just discovered at the FAR-West conference, more new music and classic folk music.

R.I.P. Tom Petty (Mudcrutch), new music galore, previews of local shows by The Gloaming and Texas Troubadours at The Chan, Wicked Grin (John Hammond . Steve Dawson at Kay Meek), Petunia (Rickshaw), and Rogue shows with Rick Scott & Nico Rhodes, Little Miss Higgins, Russell deCarle, Beolach, and a look back in honour of Trio Da Kali and Calum Graham who played the last couple of nights.

Featured new CDs by Jim Byrnes, Little Miss Higgins, Dori Freeman, Leveret, Steve Martin, Joan Osborne, Molly Tuttle, Usher's Island, Martin Simpson and much more. Plus focused on upcoming concerts by Trio Da Kali, Don Ross, Cassie & Maggie, Calum Graham, Petunia & The Vipers & more!

Viva Mexico! Viva Haiti! Live set from B.C.'s Early Spirit (Jay Knutson & Gabriel Dubreuil), new CDs by Joan Osborne (covering Dylan), and B.C.'s Rick Scott and Nico Rhodes. Plus more new stuff too

Hot Off The Pressing Plants and / or Ethernet and previews of Amy Helm (Sep 17 at Wise), Laurie Lewis (Sep 18 at St. James) etc.

Lots of stormy songs today, plus a tribute to Walter Becker (Steely Dan) who died this week They were one of my favourite bands in the 1970s. Also focused on upcoming Rogue shows (Maria Muldaur, The Bills, Laurie Lewis, Garnet Rogers) and did a ticket giveaway for Amy Hem's show next Sunday at the Wise Music Hall.

Music from many of the performers coming to town to perform at St. James Hall this Fall - and much more!