Citr -- The Saturday Edge

Some of my favourite songs / albums of 2015, plus a segment on Wassailing, hunting The Wren, and other Boxing Day pursuits

Christmas Music from all over the place - except your local Mall !!

This week 's topics included: Andy M Stewart's health, Eliza Carthy's MBE, the impending sale of Vancouver's iconic Railway Club, Alex Cuba's Grammy nomination, some Rogue previews, and new releases from fRoots magazine, The Wainwright Sisters, Celtic Colours Live 2015 CD, Van Django's Cool Yule gypsy jazz Xmas CD, and Irish supergroup The Rambling Boys

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the release of Rubber Soul - one of the principal game-changer albums of the twentieth century. It's also the 35th anniversary of John Lennon's murder next week. What a sad and beautiful world we live in.Also featured music by Sarah Jane Scouten, T. Nile and Dana Sipos - who all play Rogue gigs next week.Added in some new releases by The Wainwright Sisters and Dave Rawlings Machine.

New releases by Les Ambassadeurs, Kandia Kouyate, Toto la Momposina, WOMEX 2015, The Rheingans Sisters, Sarah Hayes. Previews of The Acoustic Guitar Project (December 3rd at The Rogue), Sarah Jane Scouten (December 8th), Dana Sipos & T. Nile (December 11th), and some more Sandy Denny nostalgia

Featured some music brought back from WOMEX in Budapest by Vancouver writer Tony Montague, some new releases, some old favourites (I've just finished reading the new Sandy Denny biography - I Always Kept A Unicorn, so snuck in some old Fairport) and features on Linda McRae and other upcoming Rogues. Finished up with some more music from the recent Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton.

Includes a tribute to Allen Toussaint, who passed away this week. Tracks 24-30 were all written by him. Such good tunes and lyrics - and what a groove!! Also featured music from Caravan, the new CD by Jocelyn Pettit, Squamish fiddle prodigy who launches that CD this evening.

This week's show featured selections from the latest disc supplied with fRoots magazine, the esteemed English folk music publication that informs the content of most of my show - and has done ever since I started the show in 1985! I also previewed some of the artists coming to The Rogue in the next few weeks, including Buckman Coe, Linda McRae, Cannery Row, T. Nile, Sarah Jane Scouten, Dana Sipos, and Thad Beckman. I squeezed in some Remembrance Day songs, and some music acquired at the recent Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton. Also aired some music from the new (3 days old) CD by local fiddler Jocelyn Pettit, who launches that CD next weekend at The Rogue.

A small tribute to Leon Bibb, a feature on Great Big Sea's Sean McCann, and heaps of scary songs

Music from Celtic Colours 2015, a feature on Dar Williams, and one on Red Moon Road. Troubled by the new iTunes / OS mismatch and a dodgy CD / writer or drive. And the phone won't work for me this week. I need to lie down....

Some favourites - old and new - from the playlist I chose for the drives around Cape Breton at the Celtic Colours Festival last week.

Arthur Berman and the Lovely Andrea were filling in for Steve Edge. Lots of new music including a feature set on the Joy of Living - A Tribute to Ewan McColl.

Arthur Berman and the Lovely Andrea were filling in for Steve Edge. Lots of new music including a feature set on the Joy of Living - A Tribute to Ewan McColl.

Late Start. Slept through alarm. Baad Steve! Featured tributes to Beatles and Stones, and Kevin Burke, Irish fiddle maestro

This is supposed to be a SOCAN playsheet. It was one when I entered most of the details at the station, but now I don't see the SOCAN info fields.Anyhow, the show featured a lot of my favourite Canadian performers as well as mini features on Don Ross and Jon Gomm, Kevin Burke, and Mavis Staples (at the end)