CiTR -- The Saturday Edge

Music by Syrian immigrants, Italians philosophizing about us all being immigrants, songs for Mardi Gras / Pancake Tuesday, features on Old Man Luedecke, Gonzalo Bergara & Leah Zeger, and Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (including a World Exclusive first broadcast of a track from their 5th CD which comes out next week!) Plus some new releases from Laura Cortese, Imar, Eliza Carthy, and more!

Late start due to snow and lack of ploughs. Late finish due to next DJ unable to get a bus in the snow. Featured lots of music for Black History Month, plus features on Cajun Country Revival, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Gonzalo Bergara, and the new CD by Eliza Carthy & the Wayward Band

Songs about walls, oil, war, ... and hope. New releases from Putumayo, a great new CD by young Celtic quintet Imar from Isle of Man, Scotland, Ireland and England, features on Banda Magda, Jesse Lege & Joel Savoy, Anna & Elizabeth, and a preview of this evening's Leonard Cohen Tribute concert at The Rogue

Democracy comes to the USA, plus some new music from the British Isles, and more!

This week's show featured some music recently acquired by Vancouver writer Tony Montague at the WOMEX Conference in Galicia, plus Al Stewart's monumental Nostradamus and associated prophecies of doom and sadness at the end of Obama's Presidency and the beginning of Drumpf's (is this the end of all things? Or just the end of all things decent?)

This week's show featured lots of concert previews for the Rogue Folk winter season in Vancouver ( www.roguefolk.bc.ca ) plus a lament for the passing of psychedelic gypsy surfing' fiddler Willie Royal (Willie & Lobo) and some new releases which got "shelved" during the more seasonal shows of the past couple of weeks.

My special show for New Year's Eve, featuring some of my favourite songs and albums of 2016 and a few New Year's songs too.

It's not often I get a chance to broadcast on Christmas Eve, so this was a special Christmas edition of The Edge On Folk, starting with a few Spanish / Latin American track, then getting a bit Cajun, a bit Bluesy, and mostly Christmas themes - plus a little bit of Hanukkah for "balance"!

New Releases, the latest samplers from fRoots magazine, some Cool Yule gypsy jazz, and plenty of uplifting tunes and songs to warm a winter's day when all of Canada is colder than Mars!

Preempted for Special Programming at 10am. All-Canadian show for SOCAN week.

Steve Edge is off in Toronto this week, receiving the Unsung Hero Award from the Canadian Folk Music Awards people. Guest host Paul Norton, perhaps better known for his work on CiTR's Code Blue show, brings you lots of new releases, deep catalogue tracks and generally inspired (we hope) selections.

Features on Louisiana zydeco sextet The Revelers, Foghorn Stringband - great old time quartet from Portland and Gaspe, plus new releases and old faves.

This week's show featured a tribute to Leonard Cohen, new releases by Kobo Town, Rory Block, David Bromberg, Sarah Jarosz, Wake The Dead, Cassie & Maggie, Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater, Rosie MacKenzie, Kate Rusby and Vancouver's Chicken-Like Birds, and Gabriel Dubreuil. There's also a fundraiser next week for Vancouver's St. James Hall, featuring Jim Byrnes & Paul Pigat and friends paying tribute...

Features on Sweet Alibi & Jadea Kelly, Wendy MacIsaac, Ten Strings & A Goat Skin, Remembrance Day, plus lots of new releases

This week's show featured the latest Putumayo CD - African Rumba, music from Mali's wonderful Rokia Traore (coming to Vancouver next weekend), and a major focus on the Nominees for the 2016 Canadian Folk Music Awards (December 2-3, in Toronto). I also spiced things up with some tasty Halloween "treats".

Tribute to Calypso Rose (Lifetime Achievement Award at this weekend's WOMEX conference in Santiago de Compostela), New releases by Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania), Swedish trio Irmelin, troubadours Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons, celebration of 800 years of parliamentary democracy (Sweet Liberties), Nova Scotia sisters Cassie & Maggie, California Celtic combo Wake The Dead, and more. Plus mini-featu...

Features on Jez Lowe, and Fred Eaglesmith, plus memories from Cape Breton's Celtic Colours festival, and a tribute to Shooglenifty fiddler Angus Grant, who died this week. So sad.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Farewell to Buckwheat, plus features on Barrule, Guy Davis, Jez Lowe, Bumper Jacksons - and loads of new releases!

Includes debut of Stephen Fearing's commentary on the US election: Blowhard nation; mini-features on Connie Kaldor and Manx Celtic trio Barrule; some Belgian and Swiss music; a live track from Tri Continental's Rogue concert last weekend, and some new releases. And more.

Included two sets by Canadian Blues / Roots trio Tri Continental (Madagascar Slim, Bill Bourne & Lester Quitzau) - and a phone interview with the three guys calling in from a ferry terminal on Vancouver Island.

New Releases acquired at Tonder and Edmonton Festivals. Previews of Bluebird North #100, Craig Cardiff's concert next Thursday

Includes a report on last weekend's Tonder Festival in Denmark, a live studio set from Linda McRae, and more. Linda and I are both to be inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame at tomorrow night's concert at The Rogue in Vancouver www.roguefolk.bc.ca

Guest Host Paul Norton previews the fall concert scene, spotlights the Putumayo label, celebrates Cesaria Evora's birthday, debuts some tracks from Colvin & Earle, traces the career of Amy Helm and generally runs amuck, as much as a senior citizen DJ can, anyway. Check it out.

A sample of samplers from Canada's venerable Stony Plain Records. Plus a tribute to the late Penny Lang. Jim Burnett guest hosts.