CiTR -- The Saturday Edge

Some tasty new music from around the globe, featuring concert previews like Bruce Cockburn (Nov 9, Chan), Songbird North (Nov 12, Roundhouse), Orquesta Akokan (Nov 16, Chan), Birds of Chicago (Nov 16, Shadbolt Centre), and Tim O'Brien Band (Nov 22, Rogue Folk at St. James.) Plus a few songs of Remembrance and lots of Canadiana and feisty fiddles and concertinas too.

Thank goddess we get an extra hour's sleep tonight as this could be the busiest week of 2019 for concerts of Folk and Roots music in Vancouver! So heaps of concert previews as well as new CDs by Kevin Burke, and Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward. Plus Rogue performers of the very recent past and the near future.

Some sngs on a Halloween theme, plus new releases, and a few concert previews for shows around town this week.

A look back at Celtic Colours - with some stunning new releases acquired there - and to the fight against oppression and fascism from the 1880s to the present day. Congrats to a few BBC Folk Award winners this week, and concert previews as well.

Pre-recorded show to be aired while I was away at the Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton. Featured music from many of the artists appearing there, plus concert previews and new releases, and a tribute to Cream drummer Ginger Baker who passed away last weekend.

Looking ahead to next week's Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton, plus previews of concerts here by Mari Boine (Norway), Skerryvore (Scotland), Jontavious Willis (USA), and The Small Glories (Winnipeg). New releases by Lakou Mizik (Haiti), Kacy & Clayton (SK), and Manamba Kante (Mali) as well.

R.I.P. Robert Hunter - Grateful Dead lyricist. New music by Argentine Bluegrass--ish combo Che Apalache, as well as Eilen Jewell, Alex Cuba, Show of Hands, and Natalie MacMaster. Previews of shows by NYC bluesman Jontavious Willis, Quebec gypsy jazz sextet Les Imposteures, and Americana songwriter-general Tom Russell. Tip of the hat to IBMA winners Missy Raines and Michael Cleveland.

R.I.P. "Uncle" John Cohen. Plus concert previews (Rosanne Cash, Tannahill Weavers. Martin Kerr, Les Imposteures, Mari Boine, Skerryvore etc.), a few protest songs, and a couple of new releases.

Tried to cram in as much music as possible to distract me from thinking about a week of medical appointments and difficult meetings. Memories of the Tonder Festival in Denmark are still fresh in my mind so lots more music from their 45th anniversary, and some concert previews, but no special "theme" this week.

A bunch of new releases and new (to me) older ones. Most of them inspired by recent festivals in Edmonton (Alberta) and Tonder (Denmark)

A wide variety of styles and artists to [hopefully] soothe the savage EDGERS until Steve returns !!!

One of the hosts of CiTR's Code Blue show (Saturdays 3pm - 5pm) steps in and plays his brand of folk and world music. Defying terrible odds and triumphing over many technical disasters, the plucky DJ delivered the goods! Next week's host is Jim Burnett, also from Code Blue!

Two great festivals: Edmonton last week, Denmark's Tonder next week. In between I was back in the saddle for a look both ways - and a tip of the hat to Woodstock, 50 Years On.

My birthday special, with lots of favourites and some highlights from the Mission Folk Festival last weekend, Vancouver Folk Fest the week before, and recent - as well as future - concerts

Music from Mission Folk Festival performers, a look back at last week's VFMF, and some new releases and concert previews.

Live from The Vancouver Folk Music Festival in Jericho Beach Park. Music by festival performers and advancing the Mission Folk Festival next weekend and more coming shows and festivals around BC. Plus a liberal sprinkling of songs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Lots of music from fRoots sampler CDs that have inspired me to keep refreshing this show with exotic new sounds from all around the world since 1985! Sadly it looks like the esteemed UK mag is no more. Oh no! I'll just have to manage somehow, I guess. Still, I've got plenty of music to choose from and to carry their legacy forward here on CiTR. Including today's features on Scandinavian String All...

Tributes to Orchestra Baobab sax legend Issa Cissokho, Congolese singer Mose Fan Fan, Senegalese Kora player Solo Cissoko, and Breton singer Yann-Fanch Kemener. Plus previews of festivals and concerts and new releases from Lakou Mizik, Tinariwen, and more. Could also be farewell to fRoots magazine, which would be really tragic!

Lots of Canadian music this week, plus a look back at the last two weeks when I was travelling around Alaska and Yukon Territory - the land of the midnight sun

Sumnmer is upon uis, and we do a survey of our favourite music festivals in southern BC - The Vancouver Folk Music Festival, The Vancouver International Jazz Festival, The Mission Folk Festival, The Fort Langley JazzFest, The Vancouver Island Musicfest and more!

New music from Rhiannon Giddens, Eliza Carthy, Kelly Hunt and many more. Plus upcoming concert highlights, festival news, and a nod to National Indigenous Peoples Day next week.

Another sad week for Roots Music fans as we lost Dr. John The Night Tripper (New Orleans), Leon Redbone (born in Cyprus, raised in London, spent over a decade in Toronto before moving to "The Excited Snakes"). Plus festival and concert previews and such.

Rosebuds in June, Tiananmen Square commemoration and much more

African koras in Scandinavia, new music from Turkey, Senegal, Louisiana, Nova Scotia, Northumbria, and more plus features on T. Nile (Galiano Island) and Searson (Ottawa Valley), and plenty of nostalgia to wrap it up

New music and concert and festival previews. I dished out lots of information and I think there are some really fabulous tunes and songs here! Pretty amazing considering I'd had about 1 hour's sleep.