Multiple Modern & Original Music Video-gasms From Toronto's Tranzac Community

Pic: The Jessica Stuart Few - Same Girl

Here's a link to what went down last night at the

TRANZAC MUSIC VIDEO PARTY. 

Tranzac Music Video Party Playlist

Thanks to the Tranzac and especially to 

Sarah Greene and Collette Savard for collecting and curating so much & so many more music vids than I had ever imagined to exist from within the Tranzac community. Making our "music city" obvious, evident & available is of huge benefit to the city's spirit and legacy. Again, please, again! 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 9 March with Cathy Young

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

(Brought to you by Women Lessons, Girls of Wisdom & Lady Bards)

Guest: Cathy Young

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 
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5:00 Looping The Latitudes

Caetano Veloso ~ Eclipse Oculto ~ Prenda Minha  (1998 Live)

Chronixx ~ I Can ~ Chronology New Chronixx Video

* King Achilla Orru ~ Ajulinna ~ Songs From The Heart Of Africa 

* Wooden Horsemen ~ I Will Follow ~ Sentient  NEW DISK

5:20 Strings Like A Bee

* The Lonesome Ace Stringband ~ Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me ~ When The Sun Comes Up NEW DISK

Sheesham & Lotus & 'Son ~ Down In Your Pockets ~ Clear The Table

* Rant Maggie Rant ~ Hold The Candle ~ Latitude ~ @ Hugh's Room Live for St. Patrick's Day Saturday 17 March

 5:40  Oral Scopes

* Hard Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes ~ Spinach Song ~ Cursed @ Dakota Tavern 14 April  NEW DISK

* Jim Byrnes ~ Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows ~ Hot Summer Days 

* Willard Bond ~ With You ~ Jiggery Pokery  NEW DISK

* Suzie Vinnick ~ Lean Into the Light ~ Shake The Love Around  NEW DISK ~ CD Launch @ Hugh's Room Live 4 April

6:00 A Stitch Intimate

* David Leask ~ Caught In The Tide ~ Six In 6/8 NEW DISK ~ @ The Cameron House Mondays 6-8 p.m. and on Corby's Orbit Friday 16 March

* Big Little Lions ~ Unicorn ~ Alive And Well NEW DISK ~ @ Burdock Wednesday 28 March and on Corby's Orbit Friday 16 March

* Charlotte Day Wilson ~ Nothing New ~ Stone Woman NEW DISK

* Jordana Talsky ~ Ways ~ Neither Of Either NEW DISK

6:15 Cathode Rays 

* Cathy Young ~ Coming Home / Interview / Midnight Hour ~ Travel Stained (GRT 1973) ~ @ Lula Lounge Thursday 15 March for The Ides Of March doors @ 6:30

<<< Picture : Cathy Young at Radio Regent with our new videographer Reza

6:30 Orchid Straws

Lokua Kanza ~ Tika Ngai ~ Toyebi Te 

* Jane Bunnett & Maqueque ~ New Angel ~ Maqueque ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Saturday

James Blood Ulmer ~ Little Red House ~ Odyssey (Columbia 1996)

* Shirley Eikhard ~ Ridng On The 65 ~ Riding On The 65 (2008)

6:45 Ease Of Mind

* John McMurchy ~ Expat Cafe ~ The Art Of Breath ~ @ Gallery 345 Saturday + Toronto Music Listings

* Loretta Hagen ~ You'll Be Safe Here ~ Lucky Stars NEW DISK

* Ken Yates ~ The Best Part Of Leaving ~ Huntsville ~ @ Harbourfront Centre Saturday with Rose Cousins

Cathy Young Comes To The Orbit ~ Not To Bury The Past, But To Raise It Up

There will be an updraft of song-craft in the Orbit today as Cathy Young,

a 50 year veteran of making round-the-world music,

 joins us at 6:00 for musical treats, legends of Canada and to provide a preview for her forward-looking Ides of March show at Lula Lounge next week.

Use The Blue Antifreeze~ Cold Weather Bluesfest in the Beaches

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I spent Saturday evening in good warm company, searching T.O.'s eastern littoral regions for some blues-love and music to rise above the seasonal snowblowers and shivers. Stopping on corners and comparing notes with others of the same drift. "No blues here. We're watchin' the game." Dead ends and live wires and string grinders and lost cat rewards, on the second night of the third annual Beaches Cold Weather Blues Fest.

 Some of the delights: 


The Fraser Melvin Band at the Grover with an impeccable repertoire and secret weapon Raha The Bad Luck Woman on bass. 

Jenie Thai churned up a lather with her trio at The Gastro Pub, where Fest- monger Anthony of Castro's and his entourage settled in for a pit stop.




Meanwhile there was a full house
at Castro's where
Conor Gains was shaking everyone's money makers. 

And up in a dim and  lonely corner of "the Upper Beaches" Lotus Wight kicked off his snow boots and comforted an intimate crowd with banjo recreations of times long past at The Porch Light.
 Another night scattered and gone, but much balmier than it might have been minus the blues.

Playlist For Show Of 23 February

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

(Brought to you by Thawed Provoking, Defrost Mechanisms & Melt Amphetamines)

Guest: Harley Card

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 
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5:00 Blues Up In My Head

* BluesReel ~ Black Eyed Suzie ~ Riverfield NEW DISK

The Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling ~ Crazy Mixed Up Baby ~ The High Cost of Low Living NEW DISK

* CATL ~ Baby You All Wrong ~ NEW SINGLE @ Smiling Buddha tonight

* Kim Doolittle ~ A Friend In Need ~ Into The Blue ~ @ Free Times Cafe Saturday

5:20 Faithful Fortunate Freedom

* Ronley Teper & Her Lipliners ~ Freedom ~ The Game NEW DISK ~  CD Release @ The Baby G Saturday

* Lillian Allen ~ My Toronto / Poetic Gesture ~ Anxiety ~ @ Gardiner Museum for Yoko Ono: The Riverbed - Voice Pieces tonight

Lotus Wight ~ Blue Goose ~ Ode To the Banjo ~ @ The Porch Light for Cold Weather Blues Fest tonight and Saturday 10 p.m. for Cold Weather Blues Fest  in the Beaches 

* Tia McGraff ~ Faithful Ones ~ Nothin' To Lose ~ @ Moonshine Cafe Oakville 10 March

* Fortunate Ones ~ The Bliss ~ The Bliss ~ @ Massey Hall Saturday

5:40 Guitarmageddon

Black Umfolosi ~ Uthembeni ~ Xoxane Lixolelane ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Saturday

Paco Pena ~ Tango Mayor y Menor ~ Music Of Nino Ricardo

Stephane Malca feat. Waad ~ Jonon (2001 mix) ~ Arabesque vol, ll

Craig Dobbins ~ I Don't Want To Spoil the Party ~ Fingerpickin' On The Beatles (George Harrison born 25 February 1943)

6:00 Key Of Card 

* Harley Card ~ Ben's Sanctuary / Interview / Silver Birch (live)~ The Greatest Invention NEW DISK~ Sunset Ensemble @ Lula Lounge Thursday 1 March 

6:20 Astral Vanguards

Maria Kennedy Doyle  ~ Hola Luna /  The Most Beautiful People Are Broken ~ Sing (Mermaid 2012) ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Thursday 1 March

* Corey Gulkin ~ Hail The Creator ~ All The Things I'll Forget NEW DISK

* Christa Couture ~ Zookeeper ~ Long Time Leaving ~ @ Burdock Sunday 6 p.m.

6:40 Buzz Guzzler

Mocean Worker ~ Shake Ya Boogie / Tickle It / Ole Baby / TORONTO MUSIC LISTINGS

Earl Jean ~ Something Tells Me I'm Into Something Good ~ Run Mascara

* Ensign Broderick ~ Sound On Sound ~ Feast Of Panthers NEW DISK

Harley Card Solo Acoustic In Orbit Today

Prepping for his Lula Lounge SPEKTAK with

The Sunset Ensemble next Thursday,

Harley Card joins me at 6 today to cycle some fresh chordal

complexities and chat about his new release

The Greatest Invention.

On Radio Regent.

The T.O. Folk Community Convenes Winterfolk 16

With a perfect blend of urban convenience and country camaraderie, Winterfolk returned for its 16th successful go-round, this past weekend in Toronto.

 Harmonica convergence: Al Lerman, John Kerkhoven of Blues Reel and Harpin Norm Lucien on Friday night at Dora's.

Glen Hornblast's Nashville Bound constituency spread out like a skyline across Terri-O.s stage on Friday night (and brought down the local gendarmerie for a noise complaint). The club was closed for the duration of the festival, scuttling several shows and prompting some spontaneous re-jigging of the schedule.

Hurtin' Montreal honker of tonky-ness Bobby Dove (with a slide order of Burke Carroll) popped a string first song in, but recovered gloriously with the help of Glen Hornblast's guitar.

The Jerome Tucker Band brought intense levels of beat and bravado to a bluesy set to close off Friday night at the Black Swan

          Durham County Poets above
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Melanie Peterson, below, with bassman Peter Collins

Howard Druckman of Hotcha! introduces jazz aficionado
Ori Dagan during the highly variegated SPEAK Music showcase Saturday while Blues Reel's Patrick Hutchinson chills and works up a thirst for the next Guiness out in front of the very hospitable Dora Keogh pub.

Mponda Kalunga ~ Show Me Happiness

Kim Doolittle summons the sun with her healing powers.
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Lynn Harrison and Noah Zacharin performed a stunning set at Dora's mid-afternoon on Sunday.

Tony Quarrington: dap to the max.

 Old Yorkville chums, the genial Mike McKenna and the gregarious Danny Marks, gutted and renovated some blues and rock classics as a Sunday sunset galvanized the Don.