Welcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting edge of Contemporary tunes. Join us here on CBC music for a round-up of the stories of the day, some videos of music (or maybe just videos interesting to music fans) and a place to speak your voice.
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Today Wednesday 6th March on Shift we continue to ask the question; What music do Canadians have to tell us who we are when we need it most?
We are looking for a piece of music that pump us up when times are tough and makes us shine with national pride when things are going our way.
We had lots of great suggestions yesterday some of which you'll hear today, such as...
Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Rail-road Trilogy"
We'll play more of your suggestions as the week progresses, so please keep them coming.
In other news:
If you've got nothing else to do this afternoon, what about taking Roman Architecture at Yale?
Plus we remember the wealth of talent that was The Band
You can contact us at Shift with your ideas, questions or anything else by sending us a message on our Facebook page. Through email, you can reach show producers Alison Howard alison.howard@cbc.ca, Alex Redekop alex.redekop@cbc.ca or Pete Morey peter.morey@cbc.ca