R3 Weekend: Music brings you back to life
Welcome to R3 Weekend the 14th April 2012. As always leave your comment on the blog and follow along with the show on TUMBLR today where you'll find a feast of fun stuff for your ears and...
View ArticleIn Concert quiz: London Calling
Aldeburgh is a picturesque seaside town in Suffolk, England with a musical history: in 1948, the composer Benjamin Britten founded the Aldeburgh Festival along with tenor Peter Pears and librettist...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM - Interesting Interviews!
This is the first time I've had a guest on a weekend RADIOGRAHAM, and apparently I don't know how to do it! I forgot to book the big studio, so Raina Douris and I are crammed into a very small booth. I...
View ArticleOne Way to Gesture
Much has been said about Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan’s commanding stage presence. Her voice is described as both pure and hot with complete control. Control that comes with the occasional and...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM - Musical Memories!
There's a very moving video making the rounds of social media, of an elderly man in a nursing home who comes alive when listening to music from his era. It's actually a clip from a new documentary that...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: Raises a toast to the people who tried to raise the Titanic
Hey welcome to R3 Weekend this Sunday the 15th April. Sometime during last night 100 years ago the Titanic struck an iceberg and the unsinkable did the unthinkable and sank. Today the world looks back...
View ArticleStill Black, Still Proud, a musical tribute to James Brown
Still Black, Still Proud is the brainchild of James Brown’s most famous band leader, Pee Wee Ellis. The idea behind the project is to trace the roots of funk from Africa to Brown, and how Brown, in...
View ArticlePatrick Watson "Adventures in Your Own Backyard" [Featured Album]
With the release of Adventures in Your Own Backyard slated for Tuesday, singer-songwriter, Patrick Watson and his band will mark their fourth album since 2003, and you get a sneak preview right here on...
View ArticleMonday Music Meld: Looking for "articles of clothing" song suggestions!
Confusing, that graphic. It is indeed a Monday Music Meld, yet the graphic says otherwise. Let me explain, if I can. Each Monday on The Craig Norris Hour I play songs that listeners have requested to...
View ArticleThe Master's House: House concerts then and now
The best new hall in town is your place. Shift opens the door on the newest idea that has been around forever: The house concert. What if instead of spending a week's salary for a seat three miles from...
View ArticleMexican metalheads Rodrigo y Gabriela now playing with an orchestra
If you want to see some virtuosic guitar playing and haven’t yet heard of Rodrigo y Gabriela, you must see them in action. Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, both from Mexico, met while playing in...
View ArticleLed Zeppelin and Beatles mash-up gets radio play
It’s not often that a mash-up gets radio play, but that’s just what is happening with a new creation called “Whole Lotta Helter Skelter.” You can pretty much guess who and what is getting mixed here,...
View ArticleThe Miles Files - Miles Davis's first teacher
Miles Davis was one of the most influential jazz legends of all time. But he was just a man. The Miles Files are all about Davis, the man. It’s a series created for CBC Radio 2’s Tonic, and CBC Music’s...
View ArticleBrett Polegato sings a song of enchantment
On Feb. 19, Toronto’s Aldeburgh Connection celebrated its 30th anniversary with a gala concert at Koerner Hall. Artistic directors Bruce Ubukata and Stephen Ralls invited a stellar lineup of Canadian...
View ArticleArtist of the month: Jan Lisiecki releases Deutsche Grammophon debut
Jan Lisiecki, the 17-year-old pianist from Calgary, is CBC Music’s classical artist of the month for April. His debut album on the Deutsche Grammophon label was released today. It features Lisiecki...
View ArticleCamouflage Nights return with a gritty new dance track
After making waves a few years ago and then receding back into the dusk, Camouflage Nights finally reveal their long awaited self-titled LP. The lead track "(It Could Be) Love" is a jamming, gritty...
View ArticleCoachella downtime: How artists will spend their week off
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival wrapped up three days of performances from some of the biggest acts in music like Radiohead, the Black Keys and Snoop Dogg. For the first time in the...
View ArticleRendez-Vous: Élage Diouf and Johnny Reid
This episode of the Rendez-Vous radio-web series brings together two artists from completely different backgrounds: world music artist Élage Diouf and country music singer-songwriter Johnny Reid....
View ArticleGordon Lightfoot: Your questions for the Canadian icon
[<a href="http://storify.com/CBCMusic/gordon-lightfoot-takes-your-questions" target="_blank">View the story "Gordon...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Sports Rock Playlist: Your Requests!
When CBC Sports approached us last week and asked us to put together the Ultimate Canadian Sports Rock Playlist to coincide with the NHL Playoffs, I was fully into it. Then this weekend happened....
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