Best Canadiana Podcasts (2024)

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Pianist/composer Oscar Peterson:;"The Canadiana Suite"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is a tribute through music to Canada Day, today July 1,2024. The great Canadian born pianist/composer and Jazz Master Oscar Emmanual Peterson was born in Montreal on August 15,1925 and passed away at his home in Mississauga, Ontario on December 23,2007 after a long career and receiving just about every honor Canada could best…

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Episode 300: Preview of the 48th. Annual Newfoundland-Labrador Folk Festival (July 12-14) 1:24:35

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Preview of the 48th. Annual Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival with Artistic Director Mary Beth Waldrum, featuring music from Nico Paolo, William Prince, Dave Paddon, Karla Pilgrim, Duane Andrews, Maria Cherwick, Richard Neville, de Temps Antan, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and the Ennis Sisters. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18…

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Foreign Interference in Canadian Elections 30:10

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It is a “stain” on our electoral process, according to Marie Jose Hogue, Canada’s Commissioner of Inquiry into Foreign Interference. Hague’s report indicates there were attempts in the 2019 and 2021 elections, although it did not impact the overall outcome. While Justice Hogue said the outcome of the election was not impaired, it is troubling. Our …

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Episode 299: Music from the PEI Small Halls Festival Closing Concert Fit for Kings 47:21

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Selections of music from this year’s closing concert on the PEI Festival of Small Halls, held at the King’s Playhouse in Georgetown PEI. Featuring performances by Meaghan Blanchard of the Northern Lights Group, and Mary Francis and Michael Leahy, children of the Natalie MacMaster/Donnell Leahy Family. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18…

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Vibist/Marimbaist Bobby Hutcherson: "Waiting"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature spotlights the late and deeply missed vibraphonist/marimbaist Bobby Hutcherson. This group was led by Hutcherson after the breakup of the ground breaking Bobby Hutcherson/ Harold Land Quintet. Bobby continued his innovative ways and formed this band of mainly San Francisco based players. Their sound was more airy and floating…

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Suicide of a Goddess 15:21

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On July 1, 1902, the Pan-American Exposition's Goddess of Light statue was torn to the ground. The statue, which adorned the fair's tallest structure, had become a symbol of the Exposition. Now, it had been sold off. However, it would never make it to its new owner.By The Buffalo History Museum

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Episode 298: New Songs from Recent Releases from Atlantic CanadaEpisode 1:12:00

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New songs recently released from artists throughout Atlantic Canada, including: Richard Neville, The Once, Sherman Downey, Kelly Loder, Aaron Collis, Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier, Jimmy Rankin, Jessica Rhaye, the East Pointers and Tara MacLean. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18By Ron Moores with artists from all over Atlantic Canada.

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Charles Mingus: "Oh Yeah!"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is unique even in the varied discography of Charles Mingus. First of all Mingus plays only piano here and chants, sings and delivers verbal encouragement to the soloists. Also the band is built around the amazing talents of Roland Kirk (aka Rahsaan Roland Kirk) who plays his tenor saxophone, manzello (a type of soprano saxoph…

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Episode 297: Music from Venues in Atlantic Canada 1:17:28

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Featuring music from artists who have appeared at this year’s “ECMA’s” in Prince Edward Island, “Trails Tales and Tunes Festival” in Newfoundland and at the “Festival of Small Halls” in Prince Edward Island, including Jimmy Rankin, Morgan Toney, Tim Baker, The Bombadills, Rum Ragged, The Once, Shermanm Downey, David Francey, Richard Neville, Craig …

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Alto Saxophone Master Jackie McLean: "New Soil"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is an important album recorded in one of the golden years of Jazz: 1959 but rarely mentioned. This album marked the first issued album under a new Blue Note contract by alto saxophone giant, Jackie McLean. Jackie was starting a new phase in career and this album marks the first step and it's a big step. Jackie emerges here fr…

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Episode 296: Preview PEI Festival of Small Halls 1:24:22

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Preview of the PEI Mutual Festival of Small Halls - who’s playing and where they’re playing in towns and villages throughout Prince Edward Island with special guest Josh Ellis, Executive Director of the Festival. Artists from PEI, Atlantic Canada and abroad include “Maukin” (formerly 3 members of Ten Strings and a Goatskin”, Dave Gunning and son Ju…

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Drum Great Louis Hayes: "Louis Hayes"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is the recording debut of drummer Louis Hayes. It was recorded in April of 1960 for the Vee-Jay Records a short lived label owned by African-Americans that produced a number of essential albums. This date was Louis' first under his name and he was only 23. Hayes was born in Detroit on May 31,1937 and just celebrated his 87th …

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Episode 295: Encore Interview with Newfoundland-Labradorian singer –songwriter Craig Young. 1:11:05

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Interview with Newfoundland-Labradorian singer –songwriter Craig Young. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18By Ron Moores with Craig Young

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Miles Davis and The Second Great Quintet in Europe 1967.

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is a tribute to the 98th Birthday Anniversary of one of the most important and influential musicians in Jazz: Miles Dewey Davis who was born in Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926. He left us on September 28, 1991 at age 65. Tonight's Jazz Feature presents in concert in Belgium the "Second Great Quintet" at it's peak. The personn…

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Episode 294: Music and Stories from the recent ECMA’s Down East Style. 1:08:16

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Music from selected winners from this year’s East Coast Music Awards held recently in Charlottetown PEI including “Songwriter’s Circle” co-chairs Damnhait Doyle and Rose Cousins, Neon Dreams, Kayo, Émilie Landry, Kellie Loder, Morgan Toney, the East Pointers, Mary Beth Carty, Richard Wood, Rachel Davis and Darren McMullen, and Rum Ragged. https://w…

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Vibes master Milt Jackson: "Opus de Jazz"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is an indirect tribute to my late Mother, whose Birthday Anniversary is today: May 20. This album was one of her favorites. It is a classic by the great vibist and Modern Jazz pioneer, Milt Jackson. Jackson and his co-star here is flutist and tenor saxophonist Frank Wess. Wess of course is one of the great practitioners of Ja…

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Episode 293: Preview Trails, Tales and Tunes Festival 1:31:31

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Preview of the Trails, Tales and Tunes Festival in Norris Point, Gros Morne National Park, Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador. Features interview with Festival Program Chair Wayne Parsons (Anchor’s Aweigh), and a tour of the festival, including music from selected artists appearing at the festival (10 days - from May 17-26, 2024)…

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George Russell Sextet: "Ezz-Thetics"

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George Russell was one of the foremost composer/arrangers in Modern Jazz and always a forward thinker. He recorded under his own name in the mid-50's but didn't form an actual working band until 1960 when he put together his Sextet. He recorded for Decca and the independent label, Riverside Records and until he left the US for Europe in the mid-60'…

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Episode 292: Music from this year’s ECMA Winners 45:36

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Music from selected winners from this year’s East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown PEI including “NeonDreams”, Charlie A’Court, The East Pointers, Jason Benoit, Tim Baker, Julie Aubé, Morgan Toney, “Flying Pooka”, The Bombadils, Jenn Grant, and the Deriva Harvey Band. Includes a tribute to Bruce Guthro. 2 https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18…

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Charles Mingus: "Mingus Ah Um"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is a belated tribute to the Birthday of bassist/pianist/composer/iconoclast/ Charles Mingus. Mingus was born on Earth Day, April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona and died in Cuernavaca, Mexico on January 5, 1979 from ALS. This album on tonight's Jazz Feature is his first for Columbia Records and it literally brought Mingus out of…

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Change Canadiana 25:38

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Change, change, change. We all want change. Talk to any pollster in Canada and that is the pervading theme across the country. It’s strange because human nature doesn’t like change. Yet, Canadians are clamoring for it. But what kind of change do Canadians want? Concerning Canadian politics, our Unpublished Vote question this week asks: What kind of…

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Episode 291: Music from LAST year’s ECMA Winners 1:10:34

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Music from selected winners from LAST year’s East Coast Music Awards in Halifax Nova Scotia including David Myles, Allen Snow, The East Pointers, Mallory Johnson, Fortunate Ones, Morgan Toney, Lisa LeBlanc, Shannon and Tony Quinn, Dylan Menzie, Jing Zia, Adam Baldwin and Kellie Loder. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18…

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Duke Ellington: "The Far East Suite"

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Tonight's Jazz Feature honors the Birthday Anniversary of one of America's most important artists. Edward Kennedy Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 in Washington D.C.and he passed away in New York on May 24, 1974 at age 75 from cancer. Tonight The Jazz Show presents one of Ellington's latter day masterpieces, "The Far East Suite". It commemorate…

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Episode 290: Preview of the East Coast Music Awards (May 1-5, Charlottetown, PEI). 1:39:10

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Preview of the 2024 East Coast Music Awards, featuring music from nominees in selected categories, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Fans Choice of the Year, Singer-Songwriter of the Year and lots more. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18By Ron Moores with ECMA Executive Director Blanche Israel

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New from Knockabout Media: How I Wrote This w/ Pamela Hensley 51:34

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New from Knockabout Media: How I Wrote This w/ Pamela Hensley There’s mystery within the creative process and a story behind every story. In the new podcast How I Wrote This, host Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, poets, and short story writers to learn more about their lives and the events that…

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Episode 289: Live! At the Newfoundland Museum St. Patricks Day 2001 1:18:48

3M ago1:18:48

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In 2001, Dermot O’Reilly and Fergus O’Byrne (two founding members of the legendary band “Ryans’s Fancy”), along with Gerry Strong, well known flute and tin whistle player, and Colin Carrigan, one of the province’s finest fiddlers, recorded a live performance in the old Newfoundland Museum on Duckworth Street in St. John’s. It was broadcast on CBC r…

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Vibraphone Master Walt Dickerson: "Sense of Direction"

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Tomorrow is vibraphonist Walt Dickerson's Birthday Anniversary on April 16. Dickerson was born in Philadelphia on April 16. 1928 and passed away ay age 80 on May 15, 2008. He made his first album in March of 1961 and it is one of the finest debut recordings ever. He did 4 albums for Prestige/New Jazz that are all classics. He was recommended to the…

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Two Souls Lost: The Titanic and Buffalo 16:52

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112 years ago today, RMS Titanic disappeared into the icy depths of the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The disaster would take the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew, two of whom were Buffalo's own. This is their story.By The Buffalo History Museum

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Episode 288: Remembering Canadian Cousin Colleen Peterson. 1:02:59

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Remembering the career of a remarkably gifted singer-songwriter. Lakefield/Peterboro and Ottawa born and raised Colleen Peterson had a successful solo career and as a founding member of the outstanding Canadian quartette who called themselves simply “Quartette”. Music from Colleen and Qu artette and selections from an interview with host Ron Moores…

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Pianist/Composer: Chick Corea: "Three Quartets" with Michael Brecker.

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Tonight's Jazz Feature is a latter day classic and one of the finest outings by pianist/composer Chick Corea. It consists of three extended compositions hence the title "Three Quartets" The late Mr. Corea needs no introduction to the Jazz listening public of course but the band he has chosen for this date done in early 1981 is exceptional. On tenor…

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Episode 287: Conclusion of “Spotlight on Shirley Montague” – Encore Episode 121 Music from Labrador with Shirley Montague. 1:03:25

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Concluding episode of a two-part special “Spotlight on Shirley Montague” - Encore Episode 121: North-West River Labrador native and award winning musician Shirley Montague visits to talk about music and musicians from Labrador. Features music from Gerald Mitchell, Margaret Metcalfe, Harry Martin, Gregory Penashue, Dick Gardiner and Shirley Montague…

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Tonight's Jazz Feature: Eric Dolphy: "Outward Bound"

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This classic album is tonight's Jazz Feature recorded 64 years ago on April 1, 1960 at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio for Prestige/New Jazz Records. It was Eric's first album under his name and leadership. Dolphy, who was from Los Angeles had moved to New York and after working in L.A. for many years came to New York as a member of drummer Chico Hamilton…

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Canada’s Carbon Tax 26:57

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You would have to live under a rock in this country if you haven’t heard the clarion call, “Axe the tax!’ The federal government’s latest increase to the carbon tax is set to rise on April 1st. First introduced in 2019 at $20 a tonne, the latest increase will see it rise from $65 a tonne to $80 a tonne. Has it become Politicized? Conservative leade…

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Episode 286: Spotlight on Shirley Montague – Encore Episode 121 Music from Labrador with Shirley Montague. 1:02:10

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North-West River Labrador native and award winning musician Shirley Montague visits to talk about music and musicians from Labrador. https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18By Shirley Montague

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Master Drummer Roy Haynes: "Out of the Afternoon"

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The Jazz feature tonight is an album that this writer deems an essential Jazz album. "Out of the Afternoon" presents drum master Roy Haynes leading a very special quartet. Mr. Haynes just celebrated his 99th Birthday recently. Roy presents a young up and coming phenomena called Roland Kirk on tenor saxophone, manzello (an elongated alto saxophone) …

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