Hello Everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of The Craig Norris Hour Listener Co-host Initiative. I’m Ro Cemm and I’m pleased to say that I’ve managed to tie in my trip to Toronto with a visit to Radio 3!
Those of you who recognise me from the blog will know that I am involved in various musical activities back in the UK - including writing a column called Oh! Canada, which acts as a platform for Canadian Music in the UK. Over the last few years I have also helped with bringing Canadian bands over to the UK for shows, helping CIMA (Canadian Independent Music Association) with their “Canadian Blast” projects. In the coming months we have shows with Brasstronaut, Basia Bulat, Zeus, Tokyo Police Club, Timber Timbre amongst others.
All this has given me the opportunity to discover some fantastic new music and meet some great people too-making it hard to choose the tracks for today's show. I have to admit to cheating a little - throwing in some collaborations and covers along the way to try and include everyone I wanted to hear. Which leads us to a blog question....
If you could choose any Canadian band to play a cover of any Canadian song, what artist/song combination would you choose?