Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Today, Pete Morey fills in for Rich. Here are the stories we're talking about today.  

FEATURES:

Rear-View Mirror: Rich Terfry reaches into his record collection and takes a closer look at Jimi Hendrix and "Hey Joe". Hendrix was one in a list of amazing musicians who was passed over by infamous music man Dick Rowe. Listen to the entire story here.

THE BACKGROUND CHECK: We are celebrating a surprising bit of news that David Bowie has put out a new album in 2013. Here are 10 things you may not know about David Bowie.

Elisapie is a successful singer-songwriter, recording artist, documentary filmmaker and activist who comes from Salluit, Nunavik, in Northern Quebec. She is nominated for a Juno award this year in the “Breakthrough Artist of the Year” category. 

This week on A Propos, she joins host Jim Corcoran to speak about her most recent CD Travelling Love.Together, in this friendly and honest conversation, they also talk about being from the North, the different facets of her music and her upcoming projects.

Hear Hear this unique interview with Elisapie, on A Propos.

Are you Cape Breton’s next great musical act? Searchlight is a new contest from CBC Radio One’s Mainstreet Cape Breton – your chance to show off your musical chops and be named the best new act on Cape Breton Island. Then it's off to the nationals for a chance to win $20,000 in gear from Yamaha Canada Music, a video session at CBC Music, and more! 

Musicians: sign up online at CBCMusic.ca/searchlight and upload one of your (or your band’s!) songs and you’ll be in the running against other musical talent from your area. You have until February 14th to throw your hat in the ring. Click here for contest and entry details.

Listeners: pull out your judges’ caps, because the winners are decided by public vote. Starting February 18th, check back here at the website to listen to all of the bands in your region – and to vote daily for your favourite!

Tune in to Mainstreet Cape Breton on CBC Radio One for the latest Searchlight news and updates... and get ready to support the great musical talent in your community!

Make sure your finest green garments are back from the cleaner, stock up on Gatorade and get ready - St. Patrick's Day is this Sunday!

Whether you're Irish or not, St. Patty's Day is one of the biggest drinking days of the year. Thousands of folks will be out sipping on green beer and Guiness this Sunday, searching for the gold at the end of their own personal rainbow. 

So, what are your plans? How will you celebrate?

And what are your favourite rowdy Canadian indie drinking songs? 

(Also, while we're all having fun, please remember, drink responsibly. It's good luck!)

Sloan fans are going to be very happy with our latest My Playlist. It features Sloan bassist, major songwriter and essentially the guy who keeps it all together — Chris Murphy.

Following a loosely woven theme of "Canadian bands he loves," Murphy punctuates his choices with some great stories, including one where he was required to kiss the ring of the lead singer for a famous Canadian '70s rock band (I kid you not). Another has his father driving through a raging storm to attend a Joni Mitchell concert (Mitchell being the only anomaly to the band theme).

It makes sense that Murphy loves bands. The story of Sloan itself begins near the salty harbour of Halifax in the early '90s, which was literally exploding with musical possibilities. Kids still loved punk, and grunge was about to hit hard. Naturally, like any good Halifax boy, Chris Murphy found some friends and formed a band. Twenty years later, that band is still together with all the original members.

Murphy is more than a little proud of that, and admits that it takes a fair bit of effort and energy to keep things going, the vagaries of the music business — and life — being what they are. So he comes by his love and understanding of bands from a unique vantage point.

Not surprisingly, Murphy has a particular fondness for bands that have some history behind them: the Guess Who, April Wine and Rush. But bands that didn't survive 20 years are also on his list, including fellow Haligonians Jellyfish Babies and Thrush Hermit, and Montreal's the Nils and Local Rabbits.

If you're interested in learning more about what makes Murphy tick musically, his My Playlist show offers real insight.

http://music.cbc.ca/play/Inside-the-Music/My-Playlist-with-Sloans-Chris-MurphyListen to Inside the Music by clicking the play button and via Radio on Sunday 3 p.m. (3:30 NT) and Radio One on Sunday at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT).

Chris Murphy's playlist

1. "8:15," the Guess Who
2. "Car on a Hill," Joni Mitchell
3. "I Like to Rock," April Wine
4. "Subdivisions," Rush
5. "It Doesn't Really Matter," Platinum Blonde
6. "Fountains," the Nils
7. "Messiah," Jellyfish Babies
8. "All Dressed Up," Thrush Hermit
9. "Play On," Local Rabbits

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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day, the In Concert quiz challenges you to name the three Nutcracker dances tapped out below by sensational Irish dancer Fred Nguyen.

Each is a famous dance from Tchaikovsky's ballet, and to make it a little easier, I've added some ghost musical fragments as well.

Think you know the dances? Send an e-mail to inconcert@cbc.ca with your answers. Be sure to include your name and mailing address. Prizes will be awarded!

Dance number one:

Dance number two:

Dance number three:

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Meet Bénédicte Lauzière, Canada's next violin superstar. Lauzière is one of CBC Music's Next! artists for 2013. Next! presents eight rising Canadian stars in classical music, recorded for broadcast on CBC Radio 2's In Concert. Below you can learn about Lauzière, watch her perform and watch CBC Music's interview with her.

Lauzière took up the violin at age five, eventually studying with Helmut Lipsky at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal from 2001 to 2009. In 2012 she completed her bachelor of music under the tutelage of Jonathan Crow at McGill University, where she was awarded the Lloyd–Carr Harris scholarship. She has since relocated to New York, presently studying with Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School with the support of the C.V. Starr Scholarship and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Lauzière has performed many of the major violin concerti, including those of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Korngold, with orchestras such as the McGill Sinfonietta, l'Orchestre Symphonique du Québec and the Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra. She has received numerous prizes in her career, among them the Michael Measures Prize (Canada Council, inaugural winner), the silver medal at the Stulberg International String Competition (2010), the Peter Mendell Award (2010) and thrice first prize at the Canadian Music Competition (2006, 2007 and 2008).

Watch an excerpt from CBC Music's exclusive studio session with Lauzière, recorded at Studio 12 in Montreal on Feb. 24, 2013.

We wanted to know more about Lauzière, so we spoke with her. Watch CBC Music's interview video and you'll learn about Lauzière's favourite composers, what she does to get ready for a performance, why she's fearless and how many cats she owns.

Check out Lauzière's artist page here. Watch her complete studio session here.

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On Radio 2 Weekend Morning, Molly Johnson eases you into your weekend with some great Canadian songs and stories about musicians and the people of Canada, from coast to coast to coast.

Here are some of the features and stories we're looking at this weekend.

Saturday March 16

Check out some of the Canadian musicians who have their own stamps.

We Got the Funk

Rufus and Chaka Khan "Tell Me Something Good."

Sunday March 17

Stream Dido's new album Girl Who Got Away until March 26.

St Patrick's Day is today. Here's a recipe for Irish Stew.

Sunday Soul Selection

Marvin Gaye "Mercy Mercy Me."

We'd love to hear your comments about these features. Or let us know what funk, soul or kids songs you'd like to hear on the show by leaving your comments below.

Where do you go to get advice? Your mum? Your brother, your sister? Maybe your therapist or your best friend?

Have you ever received good advice in a song? Songwriters offer a wealth of good advice in their lyrics. Tom Waits, for instance, has a song called "Time" in which he advises the listener that it’s time to let go, to open up and love somebody before time runs out. Pretty good advice, wouldn’t you say?

Then of course, who can forget that famous advice song by Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler?" You got to know when to hold ‘em/Know when to fold ‘em/Know when to walk away/Know when to run. And so on. That song is just bursting with good advice.

The band Stars puts a sweet, soaring melody behind their bit of musical advice in a song called "Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It." I don't know about you, but that seems like some pretty, ahem, sound advice. 

Here are a few more famous songs you can learn a lesson or two from:

1. Michael Jackson's "Beat It"

2. Neil Young's "Look Out For My Love"

3. Cat Stevens' "Father & Son"

4. Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"

5. Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" 

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE "ADVICE SONGS?"

6th Street in Austin,Texas is the chaotic epicentre for the SXSW Music Festival. Every day during the festival, bands, companies, and general weirdos fight for the tiniest slice of your attention so you'll hopefully listen to their music, buy their product or just admire their style. Some do it with their fashion, while others just demand to be noticed.  

Here are the folks from 6th Street and beyond who not only made us look twice but had us remember their effort with a photo. 

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Here's your disc of the week for March 17, 2013. Each week CBC Radio 2's In Concert looks at new classical music releases and selects one recording that you'll want to know about. 

Artist:Duo Concertante: Nancy Dahn, violin, and Timothy Steeves, piano.

Repertoire: Ludwig van Beethoven: complete violin sonatas.

Label:Marquis Classics.

Violinist Dahn and pianist Steeves share a home and, more often than not, the practice studio. Dahn, from Lunenberg, N.S., and Steeves, who grew up in Saskatoon, met when they both joined the faculty at Memorial University in the mid-1990s.

Partners in life and music for 15 years, they're one of this country's leading chamber ensembles, perhaps best known for their passionate interest in contemporary music. Duo Concertante won a 2010 Juno Award for their recording of a work they commissioned from one of Canada's most admired contemporary composers, R. Murray Schafer. In fact two of their five previous albums have focused exclusively on new Canadian repertoire, and later this spring they'll premiere new works by Winnipeg's Vincent Ho and Vancouver's Jocelyn Morlock.

So, their latest release comes as a bit of a surprise. It's a two-CD set devoted to the complete cycle of 10 sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven.

Not so fast, says Dahn. "We actually took our name, Duo Concertante, from the inscription over Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, which was the very first piece we played together. The inscription reads "in stile molto concertante," with the implication being that the performers are two equal and dynamic voices, sometimes together and sometimes opposing each other, and that's what we thought we wanted to become as a duo.

"This cycle of Beethoven sonatas has become incredibly important in terms of who we are as performers. We play a Beethoven sonata with almost every concert we give. There is a perfect Beethoven sonata for every program because there's such a huge range within the set."

It's obvious that Dahn and Steeves have lived with these sonatas for years; the performances are thoughtful, nuanced and still refreshingly alive.

Says Steeves: "There are all kinds of wonderful recordings of these Beethoven sonatas by ad hoc combinations of great violinists and pianists, but not many by musicians who play together almost every day. We hope the permanence and constancy of these Beethoven sonatas in our daily lives and the great joy that they bring to us are tangible in these recordings."

Mission accomplished.

Listen Beethoven: Sonata in A Major, Op. 30, No. 1
I. Allegro, II. Adagio molto espressivo, III. Allegretto con variazioni


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From hitting the waves in Costa Rica to visiting a graveyard to contemplate our one-way trip through life, this week's new videos run the gamut both thematically and geographically – although several tackle urban alienation, and at least one will make you very happy you're not a bug.

Matt Mays, “Indio”
After a long Canadian winter, a surfing trip to Costa Rica would be mighty nice, don’t you think? You’ll get one in this latest video from Matt Mays, who surfs, rides ATVs and basks in the Latin American sun – even though he’s singing about California – before playing a late night gig.

Dragonette, “Run Run Run”
Best known for her vocals on the ubiquitous pop hit “Hello,” Dragonette singer Martina Sorbara moves through the world forward as everyone else moves in reverse – and looks like she might be having a hard time of it – in this new video, which perfectly captures the glitz, glam, loneliness and isolation of big city streets.

Deadmau5, "Telemiscommunications" (ft. Imogen Heap)
But Dragonette isn’t the only one with a corner on urban alienation. Twenty different animators put their decidedly unique spins on deadmau5’s "Telemiscommunications," which captures the distracted disarray of an urban cell phone call.

White Ash Falls and Portage and Main, “Downtown”
Members of White Ash Falls and Portage and Main join forces for this sweet ‘n’ twangy performance video, which features acoustic guitar, piano and plenty of fireside warm harmonies as they sing, ironically, about going downtown.

Honheehonhee, “Rooftop Archipeligos”
Try to say their name three times fast and you might just hurt yourself, but there’s no harm in watching Honheehonhee’s new Claymation clip, which features an old fella watching the city celebrate the holidays from his rooftop, and all by his lonesome. But who says you can’t have a solo dance party?

D-Sisive, “When We Die We Die Together”
You’d better enjoy life while you’re young is a key message in Toronto rapper D-Sisive’s “When We Die We Die Together,” which has friends gathered in a bar singing along. But from human skulls to a graveyard scene, we also get a few more morbid reminders that it can go by in a blink.

Swollen Members, “Almost Famous”
West Coast hip-hop outfit Swollen Members have been churning out more than their share of videos in advance of their new release - and in this latest, Mad Child and Prevail work as line cooks and dish pigs as they perform pitch-black rhymes about everything from decapitation to the Death Star.

Grounders, “Grand Prize Drawl”
Jaw-dropping footage from the BBC’s Life series takes on a new role as a video for the highly atmospheric music of “Grand Prize Drawl” from Toronto indie pop act Grounders. But while the music soars, more than a few critters meet an untimely end. Just thank your lucky stars you’re not a praying mantis.

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Much of the talk over the last few days has been about the election of Pope Francis I. Regardless of your spiritual (or non-spiritual) bent, it certainly is fascinating to watch the process unfold, as a very elite group of men elect their next leader. Barack Obama might be the most powerful man on earth according to some, but in addition to becoming the spiritual leader for some 1.1 billion Catholics worldwide, Pope Francis just became CEO of perhaps the world's largest corporation.

The whole thing left me wondering what the musical accompaniment is to all this pomp and circumstance. After all, American presidents have inaugural balls, there is a wealth of music for the coronation of kings and queens. Surely there must be a "papal playlist"?

I did some digging, and the only thing that I came up with is the piece of music the Cardinals sing as they head into the Papal Conclave. It's a piece of Gregorian Chant called Veni Creator Spiritus - Come Creator Spirit - and this piece gets used in a variety of contexts in both the Catholic and Anglican churches.

Here are the Cardinals themselves getting the piece started.

Then the organ and congregation join, and then the choir of the Sistine Chapel breaks into beautiful harmony (I tried to find out the name of the piece - or the setting - they were singing, but couldn't find it anywhere. If you know, please comment!)

And if this just gives you an appetite for more, the online version of Time Magazine published this playlist of music, considered fitting for the occasion.

Let's hope that Pope Francis I, as well as each one of us, gets visited by a spirit of hope, love and creativity, to help us deal with the times ahead.

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Each day, Radio 2 Morning starts your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Now, you can follow along at home. Here are the stories we're talking about today.

Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl does the keynote speech at SXSW in Texas this past week.

Put Your Hand In The Hand. Tom Power and the gang singing on the street in Halifax during the E.C.M.A's.

Check out the show Radio 2 Top 20, your votes count!

Here's some good news for coffee and tea drinkers this morning.

Be your own hero. The Legend of Zelda has been modified.

Come hang out with us on facebook. Lots of fun videos, stories and it's a great place for us to hear from you.

We'd love to hear your comments on any of these stories. Leave 'em below.

The SXSW Festival prides itself on being at the leading edge of culture. Famously, apps like Twitter and Foursquare made their big splash at the SXSW Interactive conference, and artists like the White Stripes, Katy Perry, Foster the People, Feist, Bon Iver and more have launched whole careers at the dingy dive bars on Red River Street during SXSW Music. Not to mention all of the celebrity sightings, like Bill Murray slinging drinks or Kanye West's many surprise appearances.

During SXSW, Austin is a beehive of incredible happenings, so saying that you were there as cultural history was being made can carry some serious social clout. But just because you weren't able to attend this year doesn't mean you can't still impress your friends and have them believe that you were down south for all of the action.

Study these few lines below and you, too, can sound like a SXSW 2013 expert at your next social gathering.

Music

When asked: "So who were the breakout bands this year?"
You say: "Willy Moon, Haim, Twenty One Pilots (this year's Fun.), and Montreal's Half Moon Run. HMR just inked a deal to open for Mumford & Sons across Europe and I got to see them in a tiny bar called Red 7. Don't think I'll ever see them in a place that small again."

When asked: "I heard Prince played a secret show, did you go?"
You say: "I don't have a Samsung Galaxy phone, so I thought my chances of getting in were pretty slim. Instead I opted to catch Justin Timberlake's secret show for 800 people. JT had a 16-piece band, played guitar and keys, and Questlove DJed beforehand — what a night!"

When asked: "So where did you hang out? I hear 6th Street is pretty cool."
You say: "6th is lame! East Austin is where it is at, it's full of little dive bars like The White Horse and Cheer Up Charlie's. Plus, there are food carts everywhere over on that side."  

Interactive

When asked: "OK, anyone can name bands. If you really went to SXSW, what are the next big trends in tech?"
You say: "Reusable rockets. We may not use them in our daily lives, but Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and Space X talked about it extensively in his keynote. He even made a video to prove his point."

When asked: "Did you catch Deadmau5 being interviewed onstage by Richie Hawtin?"
You say: "Nah, I blew that off to check out Bruce Sterling. He's a science fiction writer who famously does a rant at the end of every SXSW Interactive that sums up that year's conference. A couple of years ago he predicted that 'blogging' will be a thing of the past by 2017 and this year he called for the death of the personal computer!" 

When asked: "I hear SXSW had a pretty cool schedule app this year, did you use it?"
You say: "No, it kept crashing. The hardcore attendees stopped using it and switched to Sched.org— it had all the listings for showcases and unofficial parties."

Film

When asked: "Did you see any celebrities down there?"
You say: "Grumpy Cat."

When asked: "Seriously, did you see any real celebrities?"
You say: "Jim Carrey, Portlandia's Fred Armisen and Tony Danza. Tony was there with Joseph Gordon-Levitt to premiere their new movie, Don Jon."

When asked: "I heard some guy asked a sort of awkward question at a comedy panel with Marc Maron, was that you?"
You say: "No, that was Chris Kelly." 

Musicians of all genres are creating artist pages on CBC Music. Below we highlight five classical/contemporary ensembles that have done so, and you can learn even more about them by clicking their names to view their artist pages.

Esprit Orchestra

Founded in: 1983 (Toronto).
Directed by: Alex Pauk.
Specializes in: contemporary Canadian repertoire for full orchestra.
Also records: film music.
Random fact: hosts the New Wave Composer Festival, a platform for emerging composers to exchange ideas, meet the public and form contacts with each other.

Ecstasy
"Ecstasy" (Chan Ka Nin).

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir

Founded in: 1979 (Toronto).
Directed by: Jeanne Lamon (orchestra), Ivars Taurins (choir).
Specializes in: baroque repertoire for orchestra and/or choir.
Juno awards won: nine.
Random fact: presents over 50 concerts a year in Toronto. 

music
Messiah: "And He Shall Purify" (G.F. Handel).

Chor Leoni

Founded in: 1992 by the late Diane Loomer (Vancouver).
Genre: men's choral.
Recordings: 10 released with Cypress Choral Music.
Awards won at 51st Concorso Internazionale di Canto Corale "Seghizzi" (Italy): 12.
Random fact: active in various musical outreach programs in the Vancouver area.

rise

"We Rise Again" (Leon Dubinsky).

King's College Chapel Choir

Directed by: Paul Halley (since 2007).
Membership: 24 singers.
Modelled after: chapel choirs of Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Annual concerts include:A King's Christmas, at All Saints Cathedral, Halifax, N.S.
Random fact: the choir will be performing Bach's St. John Passion in Halifax and Lunenburg, N.S., in late March.  

Chapel
"Lullaby my Jesus" (Peter Warlock).

Symphony Nova Scotia

Founded in: 1983 (preceded by the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra).
Only fully professional orchestra in: Atlantic Canada.
Musicians in 1983: 13.
Musicians in 2013: 37.
Specialties: classical, pop, Celtic, various (known for their versatility).
Random fact: recently finished two CBC productions: Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs (with soprano Andrea Ludwig), and a song cycle collaboration with Christos Hatzis and Sarah Slean. 

SNSPyrrichean Dances: "Love Among the Ruins" (Christos Hatzis).

A CBC Music artist page is a musician's online portal to Canada’s vast and diverse musical community. It is a multifaceted tool for self-promotion that musicians, no matter what their genre, can use to showcase their valuable contributions to Canada's cultural landscape.

Are you a musician? Create your own artist page.

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We know March break is a lot of fun, but the staff at CBC Music want to make it, like, 100 times more fun.

So we created the CBC Music Activity Book, designed to help keep you busy through those long road trips and plane rides throughout March. Whether it's helping Feist find her favourite metals, helping Carly Rae find her phone or matching Neil Young to his facial hair, there are hours of fun to be had here.

Below you'll find each page, which you can view and print, or you can download the entire book here as a PDF. 

Wait, there's more! We'll continue to update our activity book throughout March break, so there will be more fun to be had with your favourite Canadian musicians, designed by CBC Music's Samantha Smith and Heather Collett.

Word puzzles!

Connect the dots!

Mazes!

Beard puzzles!

Check back next week for more puzzles and March Break musical fun!

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It's a common enough story — a man and woman fool around behind a cover of deception. And although they are careful, their tryst results in a child. This is the story Sharon Preston-Folta claims as her heritage, saying she's the daughter of Louis Armstrong, commonly believed to be childless. The evidence of her lineage came to light through a batch of letters she sold at auction in 2012, as this New York Times story explains.

According to a short book written by Preston-Folta, it was the mid-'50s when Armstrong began his alleged affair with her mother, Lucille "Sweets" Preston. When Preston found out that she was pregnant, she contacted Armstrong to tell him the news. The book details that Armstrong was overjoyed. He called the little baby "little Satchmo." He even wrote letters to Preston, telling her how much he loved her and how he wished he could leave his wife (also named Lucille) and become her husband.

Their affair continued for around 10 years. Armstrong had his office pay bills for Preston and their daughter. He bought them a house, and Preston-Folta says he even socked away money to pay for a college education for the child. The affair ended in 1967 in an argument in a hotel room — a moment Preston-Folta says she remembers to this day. 

Wisps of Armstrong's daughter's secret snuck out from time to time, but Armstrong's wife swore by affidavit that Armstrong had no children. He left nothing in his will to Preston-Folta. 

If you research Armstrong's life at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, it's doubtful that you'll find any reference to Preston-Folta or her mother. It's a story that is all too often true: a child never knows his or her whole story; all they know is whether or not they are loved.

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It's Fashion Week in Toronto and Vancouver, and while we don't know exactly what that means (new toques?), we recognize well-dressed musicians when we see them. This country is full of them.

Some artists have become so synonymous with an article of clothing that even the clothing becomes famous. Think Maestro Fresh Wes's black tuxedo, Loverboy's red leather pants or Corey Hart's sunglasses.

Check out the gallery above for Canada's greatest musical fashions.

Who do you think are the best dressed Canadian musicians? Who has the best fashion sense? Who has the worst? Who always looks great?

 Post your answers to the blog or tweet us up @cbcradio3.

LISTEN

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