Citr -- The Saturday Edge

Non-stop "spruiking" amid a selection of new releases, old favourites, and a local concert guide. My show has been on CiTR since June 1985, and it has meant a lot to me all along. Maybe you've enjoyed listening too. The Fundrive is on until March 8th, and donations are accepted up to and including March 15th. I hope you will make a donation to Saturday Edge on www.citr.ca/donate Thanks a million!!

This show was recorded in Montreal at the Folk Alliance International, and featured a lot of performers appearing there as well as a few of those coming to Vancouver in the next few weeks. Thanks to Madeline and Tanner for picking up the file and slotting it in while I was away having a ball in the Eastern snow!

This show was recorded in Montreal at the Folk Alliance International, and featured a lot of performers appearing there as well as a few of those coming to Vancouver in the next few weeks. Thanks to Madeline and Tanner for picking up the file and slotting it in while I was away having a ball in the Eastern snow!

Focus on participants at the second annual Driven Bow Fiddle Festival, plus a look ahead to Festival du Bois, and St. Patrick's Day, and new releases by Harry Manx & Steve Marriner, and Bassekou Kouyate

Tribute to Zimbabwean singer Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi; New CD from Bassekou Kouyate; Groundhog Day / St. Brigid's / Candlemas; and lots of Driven Bows

Robbie Burns and Canada Sizzles with Songwriters & Fiddlers!

A "theme" of songs about Space and the Sea crept in to today's show, alongside features on upcoming concerts in Vancouver and a general appreciation of some of the most creative contemporary roots music

New releases abound! Also a field recording from Rarotonga (well, the church was in a field!) and more peripatetic musical adventures

We hit the ground running in 2019 with an appealing conglomeration of recent releases, concert previews and deep catalog selections. Guest host is Code Blue's Paul Norton (Saturdays from 3 to 5pm).

Selections from 55 of my favourite albums of the year. Again, pre-recorded so I could still bring you the show whilst relaxing on the beach in Rarotonga! I would recommend every single one of these albums; something for everyone I reckon. (Quoth he, ever so humbly!)

Pre-recorded Christmas Special as I was en route to Rarotonga when the show was being broadcast. Featured many of my favourite seasonal selections, some new ones from Blind Raccoon records, and Paul Norton's latest compilation (Sun-Drenched Christmas), plus the annual ritual with The Pogues / Monty Python / Steeleye Span segue to Loreena McKennitt's God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

New music from Salif Keita, Sweden's Sver, Portland's Foghorns, The Afro Celts, The Outside Track, Old Man Luedecke, Rachel Newton, Talisk, Old Blind Dogs, Shooglenifty, Rosanne Cash - and heaps more besides. Plus a hint of seasonal fare at the end.

New music from Salif Keita, Sweden's Sver, Portland's Foghorns, The Afro Celts, The Outside Track, Old Man Luedecke, Rachel Newton, Talisk, Old Blind Dogs, Shooglenifty, Rosanne Cash - and heaps more besides. Plus a hint of seasonal fare at the end.

A gypsy jazz / Van Django Cool Yule version of THAT song, plus new releases from Afro Celts, Shooglenifty, The Outside Track, Bryan Ferry, Paris Combo, Salif Keita, and French guitarist Bireli Lagrene. Plus Portland's Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, and a look at the new Downtown Eastside version of A Christmas Carol - Bah Humbug! (Great show. Go see it!!)

Lots of musicians and singers who are only with us now on record, including Alec Finn (De Dannan), Roy Bailey, Sandy Denny, and a tribute from Kevin Burke to Johnny Cunningham. New music from Scotland, Ethiopia, Denmark, Quebec, and BC and Alberta too.

Lots of unrelated stuff this week, but a few "threads" emerged and we paid tribute to Roy Bailey, who passed away this week.

New releases from The Fab Four, from Quebec, from Scandinavia, from Alberta and B.C. and elsewhere. Plus hot stuff, cool stuff, and thought-provoking stuff from all over the map - and from down the years too.

Remembrance Day feature, plus a phone interview with Edmonton-based songwriter Martin Kerr, and new releases including Solo - the collaboration between Le Vent Du Nord & De Temps Antan from Quebec

This week's show was loosely subtitled "Where Does The Truth Lie?" Some may say it lies in gardens, most say politicians lie all the time. So, to change the subject, I played lots of old favourites and new releases as well!

Some songs for Halloween, some new releases, some topical songs, and a bit of a guide to what's on around town