CiTR -- The Saturday Edge

This week is SOCAN reporting week. Can't believe they only monitor us twice a year! They really should monitor Campus and Community Radio FIRST, and commercial radio twice a year, IMHO! :-) So loads of Canadians featured today. Even more than I usually play. There were also mini-features on Paul Simon, Kathy Kallick, Tony McManus, and Pharis & Jason Romero - who all play in Vancouver this week. Pl...

A big Cinco de Mayo celebration, plus previews of Laura Smith, Hornby Blues, and a bunch of new releases including Loreena McKennitt, Birds of Chicago, Dobet Gnahore, Fatoumata Diawara, Lake Street Dive, Leftover Salmon, Calexico, Ben & Anita, David Francey, Van Django, Samantha Martin, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Ndidi O, Tom Russell, and The James Hunter Six.

A tribute to Sandy Denny, who died 40 years ago this week. New sounds from Ben & Anita (Cape Breton), Fortunate Ones (Nfld), The Fugitives (BC), Genticorum (PQ), Pharis & Jason (BC), and a look at the finale of the Rogue's April In Paris gypsy jazz celebration

Brand new music from Congolese singer Bumba Massa, Vancouver gypsy jazz combo Van Django, American songwriter Tom Russell, and Canadian songwriter David Francey, Ontario blues diva Samantha Martin, and many more. Plus features on BC fiddler Kierah Raymond, and a preview of the 12th annual Vancouver festival of gypsy jazz - April In Paris.

From Africa to Cuba to Paris to the Mississippi to the prairies to the great white north to the UK and Ireland on the wings of a few duos and other wonderful rootsy combos.

New music from Africa, previews of April In Paris gypsy jazz, Pharis & Jason Romero's CD launch, some tasty blues, a couple of glorious songs from - and for - the late Sandy Denny. Then some whirling fiddles and pipes and banjos to wrap things up!

New releases, Easter songs, goodbye to Victoria's old blue bridge - and so much more!

New songs for Spring, including daffodils, and a Festival du Bois feature, and lots of new releases too.

St. Patrick's Day feature with some of my all time favourite Irish bands and singers, plus a farewell to legendary uilleann piper Liam O'Flynn, who passed away this week. I featured music from the latest fRoots magazine and sampler CD, and also bade adieu to Stephen Hawking.

Lots of new releases gleaned from the pages of fRoots magazine from the U.K. Plus mini features on Lila Downs, Chris Smither, Annie Lou, Carlos del Junco, and Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - all performing in town this week.

New releases from Lunasa, Altan, Barbare Dane, The Fretless, Raine Hamilton, Tracy Grammer, I'm With Her, plus an anti-45 song from Steve Poltz, a brief interview and three songs from Tom Russell. And a phone chat with former CiTR DJ Heather Kitching about the launch of her website www.rootsmusic.ca

Looking back at last weekend's Folk Alliance conference in Kansas City, with music from the latest FA compilation CD and lots of songs by some of my favourites and new discoveries from the event. Plus a few selections to round out Black History Month, a few Welsh songs for St. David's Day (March 1st), and some new music from Irish trad band Altan, who play two shows tomorrow night at St. James Hal...

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