Jeffery Straker’s cold road: ‘There’s a semi coming straight at us’
Jeffery Straker is a pop-pianist from Saskatchewan who has logged a lot of miles on the province’s highways. As he’s learned on his travels, there are plenty of regional single-lane highways that leave...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: What is the best first sentence you've ever read?
Hey, it is Sunday Feb 5th 2012. Welcome to R3 Weekend. Pete Morey reporting for duty. As always leave your comment on the blog and follow along with the show on TUMBLR Today (carrying on the literary...
View ArticleBlack History Month: Is Conscious Rap (whatever it is) still alive?
As an indisputably black musical invention, rap music holds an honoured place amongst the myriad of other historically black music forms including jazz, blues, and rock ’n’ roll. Most notable is the...
View ArticleQ&A: Leni Stern jazz guitarist, on new Malian collaboration
Leni Stern is an eclectic, adventurous guitarist, having played in rock bands, and worked with her own acclaimed jazz-based trio with drummer Paul Motian and guitarist Bill Frisell, among many other...
View ArticleWhy I Love Hip-Hop: Del F. Cowie
Get to know our talented hip-hop squad here at CBC Music. This is contributor Del F. Cowie on why he loves hip-hop. To me, hip-hop is more than just beats and rhymes. At its best, it is a culture that...
View ArticleFrench horn players: Quebec City wants you
The Orchestre symphonique de Québec is holding auditions in March for the position of principal horn. Here are two horn solos that take my breath way. Perhaps they’ll be part of the audition. The...
View ArticleWinnipeg teacher inspires children to reach new heights
“I love what I do for various reasons,” relates Marcelline Moody, a long-time performer, composer, arranger and teacher in Winnipeg. “Mostly because I believe that the classical arts provide beauty and...
View ArticleTCNH: New Releases from Maylee Todd, Rococode, Long Weekends, Emma-Lee, &...
It's Tuesday, and that means one thing: New Release Day. Well, it means more than one thing, I guess. I mean, it could be your birthday. You could have a dentist appointment today. Maybe you're...
View ArticleSistema New Brunswick - teaching kids the joy of music
"I have seen the future of music in Venezuela and [it] is a resurrection" - Sir Simon Rattle. El Sistema is a music program that began in Venezuela, but the concept has gradually moved outside of Latin...
View ArticleLive Blog: CBC covers the Juno nominations live!
1,2,3,4 -- how many Juno nominations will Feist get this year? How about Dan Mangan -- will he be singing Oh Fortune a little bit louder after the nominations are announced in Toronto Tuesday morning?...
View ArticleWagner's Götterdämmerung, Live from the Met
Saturday Afternoon at the Opera takes over the Radio 2 schedule from 12 noon through 6:00 (1:00-7:00 AT, 1:30-7:30 NT) as the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, reaches its cataclysmic...
View ArticleClassical Music A to Z: Sarabande on CBC video
Classical Music A to Z aims to demystify the extensive, confusing and foreign terminology of classical music one letter at a time. S is for sarabande — a dance for the senses and the soul. The...
View ArticleCan the Grammys go gangsta?
When the 2012 Grammy nominees were announced in November, most in-the-know music fans agreed that the Academy seriously snubbed Kanye West’s acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by leaving it...
View ArticleLISTEN: Doug Paisley "Broken in Two" BAHAMAS PICK
listen The Album of the Week is Bahamas' Barchords. Bahamas is Afie Jurvanen and here's his pick for a song you should be listening to right now, Doug Paisley's "Broken in Two": "Doug and I used to...
View ArticleTCNH: The Joel Plaskett Emergency "Rock & Roll in Record Time" - Introducing...
Hump Day, yes. Water Cooler Wednesday, yes. But that's not all! "Rock & Roll in Record Time" with The Joel Plaskett Emergency continues! The JPE are working away on their new album, Scrappy...
View ArticleBadBadNotGood celebrate J Dilla’s musical legacy
Across the world this week, people are paying tribute to late hip-hop producer J Dilla, who died on February 10, 2006, and whose date of birth was February 7, 1974. In Toronto, many tribute events have...
View ArticleOn record: Slum Village Fantastic Vol. 2
J Dilla (born James Yancey) — who died at the age of 32 from lupus complications on Feb. 10, 2006 — was one of the most celebrated and influential hip-hop producers of all time. Out of all his prolific...
View ArticleThe Grammys: Divaliciousness of Diana Ross acknowledged at last
Remember the 2006 film Dreamgirls? Then you probably already know the story. Diana Ross is prototype for the R&B diva. Full Stop. Before Beyoncé, there was Miss Ross. Act like you know. Ross’...
View ArticleLISTEN: Army Girls "The Power"
listen It takes serious cajones to be a two piece band - a stage looks pretty empty when there's only two people on it, and one of them is stuck behind a drum kit. But Toronto's Army Girls, like all...
View ArticleToday on The Shumka Chunk: Live Love and the Top 5 Gigs in the Country
Hey everybody! It's Dave Shumka filling in for Grant Lawrence. Well, it's Friday and the weekend is so close I can taste it. I'm gonna eat so many pancakes! Usually Fridays are all about live music,...
View Article
