Kim Wempe is a Halifax based singer-songwriter, who grew up in Saskatchewan. Â She won the 2010 East Coast Music Association Rising Star Award. She has just released her new album, Painting with Tides.
Ian Foster is a musician and writer living in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
He was a finalist for the International Songwriting Competition, 5-time MusicNL Award nominee, and ECMA (East Coast Music Award) nominee for “2008 Pop Recording of the Year.â€
I spoke with Ian and Kim on a warm August afternoon during the Atlantic Challenge in Midland, Ontario. Â Their performances were sponsored by Stellula Music in the Schools.
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Collette Savard is a singer-songwriter with two CDs out, Zen Boyfriend and Most Improved Cheerleader. She performs as a duo with her producer, multi-instrumentalist, John Zytaruk. They came to my school last week courtesy of Stellula Music as part of their Music in the Schools Week. At the end of the week, Collette, John and I sat down for a long discussion touching on songwriting, arranging, passing the music on to the younger generation, copyright and more. Enjoy.
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I’m playing a few Irish tunes at our parish St. Patrick’s Day social tonight. This afternoon I thought I would practic… er perform the set live on ustream. Enjoy
Jill Jambor is a young singer-songwriter in Central Ontario who released her first album, ‘to give you an idea’ last year. I spoke with her when we shared a bill at a Strawberry Festival this summer.
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January 21, 2010: Today the great Canadian author, musician and raconteur, Paul Quarrington passed away at the age of 56 after a long battle with lung cancer. Paul has long been one of my favorite novelists, and he was a mighty fine songwriter as well. I was honored to interview him for my podcast a couple of year ago. I first released this show on April 8, 2008.
Safe Journey Paul. May you rest in peace.
For many years I have enjoyed the novels of Paul Quarrington. Paul is a Canadian author who has written novels, magazine articles, screenplays and songs for over 30 years. He has received the prestigious Governor General’s Literary award for English Fiction and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. In the early 80’s, he had a number 1 Canadian single with Martin Worthy as Quarrington-Worthy. He and Martin Worthy also toured for many years with Joe Hall and The Continental Drift. They are still together as the core of Pork Belly Futures, which also includes Chas Elliot, Stuart Laughton and Rebecca Campbell.
This episode of For the Sake of the Song is a bit unusual. In November, Pork Belly Futures played a benefit concert for the Twisted Pines Music Festival in Penetanguishene. Paul Quarrington and Claire Cameron also did public readings at the Midland and Penetanguishene public libraries. Their day was so tightly booked that I could not record a dedicated 1/2 hour interview with Paul. Instead, you will hear us at the library readings, performances by Pork Belly Futures at the concert that evening, and short interviews with Paul Quarrington, Martin Worthy and Chas Elliot.
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For the Sake of the Song with Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers[ 46:41 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (6117)
Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers are individually known as the cream of Canada’s blues and rock performers. A few years ago they got together and realized that they have incredible chemistry together as an acoustic duo. I spoke with Dawn and Paul during Stellula Music in the Schools week.
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This story is too random and too cool to fully explain. Go ahead, try to explain the story in this podcast to your 1990 self. I bet you can’t do it. It began for me on November 24 when I received this tweet from Adam Gratrix @transpondency of the Transpondency Podcast.
