Steve Pratt has a Radio 3 site outlining the changes coming to CBC Radio 3 but the important part is that it will go on. Live recordings will be less, the budget will be lower and there may be staff reductions (they won’t know until May) but the important part is that Radio 3 will…
Jenn Grant and Final Fantasy on Canada Live
CBC Radio 2’s Canada Live podcast this week features east-coast singer songwriter Jenn Grant and Toronto’s favorite violin rocker Final Fantasy both of whom are touring new albums. You can find an interview with Jenn about her new album Echoes over at Herohill. Owen “Final Fantasy” Pallett has two EPs released late last year Spectrum,…
Daniel Lanois on the Canada Live Podcast
CBC Radio 2’s Canada Live Podcast this week features one of Canada’s best known (internationally) musical talents. Daniel Lanois has worked, over the years, with such talents as Bob Dylan, U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Robbie Robertson and Ron Sexsmith. This week’s podcast features Lanois on his own, showing off his talents as…
Via CBC: Live Caribou and Chad VanGaalen podcasts
Caribou, the winner of the 2008 Polaris Music Prize is this week’s featured artist on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions with reworks of some of his award winning tunes – you’ll never hear these songs done this way anywhere else. You can grab a copy of it at http://www.cbc.ca/radio3/podcasts/sessions/CBCR3Sessions_2009-01-14.mp3. Also, if you missed it, yesterday’s…
Vote: What Should Obama Hear?
Via CanCult: CBC Radio 2 has posted it’s 100 finalists in the 49 Songs from North of the 49th Parallel competition. The songs are divided between Jazz, Classical, French and Modern (everything from the Band and Neil Young to Sam Roberts and the Weakerthans). Everyone can vote one per day in each section until 8…
49 Songs North of 49
CBC Radio 2 is having a competition. The idea is to come up with 49 songs from north of the 49th parallel to present as a welcome gift to incoming US president Barrack Obama. This is your official heads up: you have a week to consider which song you think best represents and defines our…
For When You Need Xmas Music, but Don’t Want to own Xmas CDs
Relatives coming over? Short on holiday tunes? CBC Radio 2 has your back – if you can run music from your computer, Radio 2 has a whole whack of Christmas concerts you can pop on. Choirs and orchestras and more erm..’contemporary’ music, regardless there is a bunch. Have a listen at http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/12/23/christmas_concertson.html.
So Far So Good
At the moment I’m laughing at all the people who said, and are still saying that the New Radio 2 is “just like commercial radio” or “just like commercial easy listening” – the people who are saying that are just as ignorant as the people who think that all classical music is Beethoven. Although Friends…
The New 2
Due to circumstances beyond my control I wasn’t able to listen to much of it today, but the new CBC Radio 2 is on the air and I’m looking forward to hearing people’s impressions. If you’d like to keep up with what they are doing (and you don’t already know) the CBC Radio 2 blog…
CBC to Launch 4 New Web Streams
According to Inside the CBC, Radio 2 will be launching four new radio streams when it relaunches on September 2. “CBC Jazz: CBC Jazz will feature a “deep playlist” featuring jazz music and musicians from across the decades. You’ll hear an emphasis on Canadian performers and compositions (Michael Bublé, Diana Krall) but also favourites like…