Extra Large Canadian Music Becomes Lighter Than Air

 

New Canadian Music Multiplying Immoderately

 

Essential New Canadian Music Every Friday

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 19 April 2024 with Phil Nimmons Tribute, Lizz Wright, Dan Pitt and Julian Taylor.

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

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* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Merillion Skies

illustration by Anthony Machuca

 * Jed & The Valentine ~ Awake ~ Awake ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Imagine If ~ Devil's Child ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Nicky MacKenzie ~ Morals ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Caribou ~ Honey ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Kari Van Der Kloot ~ Tiny Threads ~ Window ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Joel Plaskett ~ The New Joys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Wesleys ~ A Lot To Lose ~ The Wesleys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Gathering Sparks ~ Feathers And Wings ~ All That's Real ~ @ Emmanuel United Church Guelph - Sunday 21 April

5:40 Phil To The Brim

* The Nimmons Tribute/ Phil Nimmons  (June 3, 1923 – April 5, 2024) ~ Arf / Interview with Sean Nimmons - Paterson / Generational / Night Night Smiley feat. Heather Bambrick ~ Generational 

6:10 The Spring Galaxies

Lizz Wright feat. Angelique Kidjo ~ Sparrow ~ Shadow ~ NEW RELEASE  @ Koerner Hall 27 April 

illustration by Kim Dorland 

Bruno Berle ~ Acorda E Vem ~ No Reino Dos Afetos ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Elliott Brood ~ Bluebird Wine ~ Country ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Julian Taylor ~ Weighing Down ~ Pathways ~ PRE-RELEASE 

Lindsey Stirling feat. Royal & The Serpent ~ Inner Gold ~ Duality ~ PRE-RELEASE 14 June

6:30 Citizens Of The Stars 

* Old Man Luedecke ~ Dreadful Wind And Rain ~ PRE-RELEASE May 24 @ Greenbank Folk Club Saturday 

* Boreal ~ Warm Hands ~ @ Acoustic Harvest Saturday

* Sherry Kean feat. Sherry Huffman & David Baxter ~ Diamonds And Pearls ~ People Talk (1987)

* David Gavan Baxter (November 5 1954 - November 9 2023 ) ~ Thank You Girl ~ Day And Age 

ODIE ~ Utopia ~ PRE-RELEASE

Omagh Community Youth Choir ~ Bob Dylan & U2's Love Rescue Me ~ Playing For Change 

Star Swirled Galaxies Of New Canadian Music

 

Happy 75th Birthday to Ron Gaskin

 Happy 75th birthday card artifact launched today to premier impresario Ron Gaskin, b. 1949, by John Oswald towards last scenes and all incoming asteroids.

Ron Gaskin presented live music under the monikers Rough Idea Presents, What Next, and Next Wave, where his ear and intuition had a HUGE impact. His musical daring will resonate for years to come in the musicians and audiences who knew him. His stock in trade was experimental, creative, free and improvised music, but he wasn't limited by genre or definition. He was, first and foremost, a social convener, forging musical relationships that crossed genres and spanned borders, pairing people in masterful configurations that only he might imagine. As a radio host, programmer and producer his dulcet tones shared his vast musical knowledge and cool aesthetic to campus, community and pirate airwaves at multiple frequencies on the radio band, including CKLN (Toronto), CFRU (Guelph), Trent Radio (Peterborough) and Pirate 90 (Toronto Islands), with his shows AMFM, Huge Radio and Gaskin Calling. Ron approached everything with resolute principle, unconditional love, and a DIY ethic. In his early years he devoted his creative mojo to a number of endeavours, unrelated to the constant musical thread he followed throughout his life. Among them, he established an addiction support and outreach unit (The Trailer House) and an alternative asynchronous learning academy (The Free School) in Toronto, he ran a goat farm in Nova Scotia, and started Sangsara Natural Foods in Peterborough. Ron was a cherished friend to many. He embraced serendipity, celebrating the patterns and parallels in the everyday. He infused everything he did with style and precision. He was an impresario, an agent provocateur, and a good trouble maker. He was a poem texter and a master gift giver. Ron found treasure in the smallest things and the strangest sounds. He saw the invisible and heard the inaudible. He was funny, stubborn and mischievous. Always generous, with a twinkle in his eye. His faith in music, art and community never wavered. Ron was deeply connected to the community of Ward's Island (Toronto Islands), where he lived on and off after Cal's birth in 1993. He was the fire-keeper at many celebrations and supported Island artists, craftspeople and friends in countless ways. He produced music events there, at the St. Andrew by-the-lake Anglican Church, bringing performers from across the harbour and around the world to revel in the glorious acoustics of that sacred space. 

Published by The Globe and Mail from Aug. 28 to Sep. 1, 2020.

2020

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