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Nigel Roberts

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Your host Nigel Roberts is talking about the music industry with the people who help it thrive. Staccato Talks is a podcast about musicians and the state of the music industry today. Here’s how it started: At a guitar concert in Halifax, I met a chemistry Prof who was an amateur classical guitarist, much like I am. To improve my musicianship, he suggested that I try and join the Dalhousie University Guitar Ensemble and to my surprise – I got accepted. Playing and performing alongside these y ...
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Amapiano is a style of house music that emerged in South Africa in 2012. Amapiano is a hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterized by synths, airy pads and wide percussive basslines. It is distinguished by high-pitched piano melodies, Kwaito basslines, low tempo 90s South African house rhythms and percussions from another local subgen…
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Canadian Conductor Tania Miller guides us through a fascinating journey into the art of conducting. She discusses what’s it like for a conductor starting off when there’s no place to hide and learn what you’re doing except in front of an audience and if an orchestra can be a monster for a young conductor.Tania explains why she’s so passionate about…
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Mike Cline, Owner and Matt Andrade, Head of Promotions at Vinyl Envy in Victoria, BC share their thoughts about what are the real reasons behind the current revival in vinyl records.The guys explain why vinyl should never have gone away in the first place and how it was DJ’s who kept it alive in the nineties…by spinning vinyl.They describe why “it’…
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Let’s find out why by following the rabbit hole down into the influence of early blues singers like Mildred Bailey and Robert Johnson with singer-songwriter and recording artist - Vic Horvath. Perhaps the owner of Vinyl Envy put it best when he said: “Once somebody’s kind of into the blues, they’re there, like they may not come out for awhile.”In t…
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Singer-songwriter and recording artist Elder Sister Plum talks about how she realized as a teen-ager that while none of the traditional career paths made any sense to her – but music always did.What do you do if you’re a musician and you make a mistake during a song onstage? What does it mean to be a professional musician? And what’s it like for a …
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Alexander Dunn, Head of the Guitar Program at the University of Victoria talks explains “how good teaching has now been spread around the world, so now, we can hear high-level players from all corners of the globe” – and: “how it’s not unusual to see an eleven – year old from Shanghai or a twelve – year old from Eastern Europe playing at - or beyon…
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Skye Allen - MC and vocalist with soul and hip-hop band The Spliff Personalities shares what she’s gained from writing songs by herself to what that brings working collaboratively on song-writing with the group – “it’s an interplay now between me and everyone else.”Drawing from her extensive knowledge of hip hop and “the breath of intelligence behi…
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