Watch this epic interview with Cobblestone Jazz's Mathew Jonson
Wagon Repair co-founder and Cobblestone Jazz member, Mathew Jonson joins Valentin Stip, Benoit & Sergio and Wolf + Lamb at this weekend's Piknic Electronik // MUTEK party in Montreal's Jean-Drapeau...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Purity Ring, Destroyer, Young Galaxy, more!
The Copyright Board of Canada now expects you to pay for music at weddings and parades – CBC Sarah Harmer, Shad, the Rural Alberta Advantage, and Alex Cuba announce a show in Toronto, July 14, at Fort...
View ArticleRoy Forbes, aka Bim, in the Saturday Night Blues studio
Roy Forbes emerged on the West Coast folk scene in 1971, and has been an understated gentleman of music ever since. Originally, he was called Bim – a childhood nickname. A voracious songwriter with a...
View ArticleThe Q Interview: Emeli Sandé
Embedded Video The UK singer/songwriter is the next big thing across the pond, opening gigs for Coldplay, a Brit Awards Critic's Choice, and more. Emeli joins Jian in Studio Q to talk about her new...
View ArticleFresh Friday with Wintersleep, Snailhouse, The Real McKenzies, and more
Hellooooo! It's Dave Shumka back for another Fresh Friday! It's the day when we play all the new songs added to Radio 3's rotation this week. Omigosh! Omigosh! Omigosh! There are so many new songs...
View ArticleHot this week: Chamber classics, keyboard capers and singers in competition
Here’s your classical Hot Ticket for the week of June 4, brought to you by CBC Radio 2’s In Concert. Hot Ticket #1: Mozart and more in Winnipeg Who: The Winnipeg Chamber Players with guest...
View ArticleMusic fit for a queen: The monarchs and their musick men
Royal weddings, funerals, coronations and events like this weekend’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations are all dependent on a little pomp and circumstance to elevate them above the ordinary. That’s why King...
View ArticleBen Heppner: Answer to Who Am I? challenge
"Who am I?" is a new challenge for the astute readers of CBC Music. Earlier this week we asked you to guess the identity of a mystery personality based on an audio sample and a handful of clues. As...
View ArticleBlues primer: Three chords, Chuck Berry and James Brown
No one can say for certain exactly when the modern blues form originated. Let the musicologists and barstool prophets hash it out. We’re not concerned here with highbrow discourse on the chronology of...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: The Re-Name, Name Game, Name Change Game
Hey welcome to R3 Weekend this Saturday the 2nd of June 2012. Last week R3 Weekend asked for your help picking a new name for the Weekday edition of the show.(It would be wildly inaccurate to call the...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM Saturdays It Up
Like my Grandfather always said, you can't spell Saturday without rday. Which if you say it really quickly and add the word Graham to the end kind of sounds like RADIOGRAHAM. So now you know why I have...
View ArticleStart your Saturday night with ‘2 Sweet Days Ago,' Fire Flower Revue
Every week, Bandwidth host Meg Wilcox gives her pick for a great, upbeat track by an Ontario artist to kick-start your weekend. Fire Flower Revue is a Peterborough-based remix and production outfit....
View ArticleIn Concert quiz: Tour de France
The In Concert quiz crosses the Pyrenees from Spain to France this week, retracing the footsteps of Belle and Sebastian. (Not this Belle and Sebastian - this one.) France is our destination in honour...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM Bids A Fond Farewell To The Weekend
All good things must come to an end. I learned that from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and today I've learned it again. Today is RADIOGRAHAM's last Sunday for the whole summer! Okay, that's not...
View ArticleRita Chiarelli tours concert documentary Music From the Big House
Music from the Big House is a film that chronicles a landmark concert held at the Louisiana State Prison, known more commonly as Angola. The concert was the brainchild of Canadian blues icon Rita...
View Article2012 Great Canadian Blues Award
For 21 years, Saturday Night Blues has been honouring Canadian artists for their life-long contribution to the blues. At the time it was created, the Great Canadian Blues Award was the only official...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: (What's the Story) Peter Morey? and Louise Burns
Welcome to R3 Weekend this Sunday the 3rd of June 2012, Today is my last day on R3 Weekend for quite sometime. I'm off to host weekday afternoons on R3 for the summer. I have a new name for the show:...
View ArticleDiamond Jubilee concert primer
Londoners will gather outside Buckingham Palace tonight for the BBC’s Diamond Jubilee concert. The lineup features music stars from the 60-year span of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. In the style of Party at...
View ArticleThe Miles Files: Paris loves Miles Davis, vice versa
By Christmas of 1948 Charlie Parker’s devils were too much for Miles Davis to handle. While Parker got high on heroin, drank, grinned and ate huge meals in front of Davis, Davis finally had enough. It...
View ArticleYukon Blonde reign on this air guitar parade!
AIR GUITAR PL Your air guitar song playlist, including two from Yukon Blonde! But no Pride Tiger?! No Black Mountain?! No Pack A.D.?! Forgive my incredulity. It's not that the list of songs you helped...
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