Citr -- The Saturday Edge

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.

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 to the legacy of Chuck Berry and Chess Records. That will be a lot of fun!

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".

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-features on Rokia Traore (Mali), Roy Forbes (BC), and James Keelaghan (MB) - who are coming to town in the next few days.

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!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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

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.