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Episode 6
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The performance in this episode gives you a small but profound taste of a side project we’ve been working towards for a couple years now. A tribute to Canada’s most iconic poet, The Al Purdy Songbook was conceived in tandem with the hit documentary Al Purdy Was Here. A stellar array of artists have come together, most of whom are alums of The Basement Revue, to create an album of original music and spoken word inspired by the life and work of Purdy.
In this episode novelist Joseph Boyden teams up with the otherworldly Tanya Tagaq, taking on one of Al’s last major poems, “Say The Names.” The uncanny incantation tailspins into the middle of the cultural crossroads of the issue of Reconciliation that Canada finds itself in at this very moment.
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