Orbital Sighting of Points Of Light / Noah Zacharin this Friday

 

Spinning Wheeler With Duncan Hopkins On This Friday's Orbit

 

Canadian Music In High Rotation This Friday

 

Roots Music Canada 5th Anniversary at the Tranzac

 

So Long Seven played the penultimate set of the night with a highly concentrated dosage of instrumental vitality.

Splendid music, family vibes and five candles burning bright for Roots Music Canada's celebration of the varieties of song and community.

Liv and Braden of Tragedy Ann warming up pre-show on Gordon Lightfoot's "Did She Mention My Name?" with MC / Host David Newland. Roots Music Canada's original inception was on Lightfoot's birthday.

Show runner Beverly Kreller made sure everyone was well caked-up. Seen here in joy mode with Howard Druckman and Roots Music Canada editrix.

A recent recipient of his Canadian citizenship, magnetic singer Kunlé brought the audience into the performance with some singalongs.

Roots brothers David Newland and Andy Frank, who actually founded Roots Music Canada fourteen years ago, are moved to express gratitude for the preservation of their vision of an enduring musical community.

Who was a good boy? Caru resisted the urge to sing along. Mum Linda Turu was very proud.

Lynn Harrison shared some of her edifying lyricism with a solo performance midway through the show.

Duo Tragedy Ann's professional toolkit includes a highly melodic crosscut saw.

Old timey bluegrass was played with incredible finesse by Onion Honey.

Simple songs resonant with joy and beauty were delivered by Tannis Slimmon and Lewis Melville.

Amongst the many awesome songsters in the audience were Isabel Fryszberg and Zoe Ackah, meeting up for the first time. Celebrity sightings also included Ori Dagan, David Woodhead, Howard Gladstone, Laura Fernandez, Emma Jane and Mark Ripp.

Folk artist and accomplished painter Shawna Caspi took in the evening's entertainment and managed to get some lovely shots of the performances. Below is her capture of The Memberz' closing set of reinvigorating reggae.

Playlist for 2 June Archive Show of Corby's Orbit from 10 June 2022

 

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

5-7 p.m. Fridays online HERE https://www.iheart.com/liv
e/radio-regent-8119/

and Tuesdays at 10pm & Wednesdays at midnight on https://www.bluesandrootsradio.com/

Podcast Available At: https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/podcast-for-corbys-orbit-show-of-10-june-2022/

( Brought to you by High Maritimes, Merry Prairies, and Arctic Antics )

Canadian Artists Asterisk*d in RED

5:00 Infra-African

* Jenny Berkel ~ Love Is A Stone ~ Here On A Wire ~ @ Dakota Tavern Friday 24 June with Abigail Lapell for Dual CD Launch

* Shiri Zorn & Joel Muscatello ~ Witch Touch ~ Into Another Land NEW RELEASE - OUT TODAY

* Barbra Lica ~ Girls Like Me ~ NEW RELEASE

Nduduzo Makhathini ~ Mama ~ In The Spirit Of Ntu ~ Bluenote Africa NEW RELEASE

Lever Brothers Gay Flamingoes Steel Pan Orchestra ~ Egbi Mi O ~ Black Man's Cry

5: 25 Songdays Are Better Than Others

Kyshona Armstrong ~ Out Loud ~ Out Loud NEW RELEASE

* Maureen Trainor ~ Adrift ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jordan Klassen ~ Milk And Honey ~ Glossolalia NEW RELEASE

Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco ~ Bridges ~ The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

* Nelson Little ~ High Road ~ NEW RELEASE

Rico Nasty ~ Intrusive NEW RELEASE

Monophonics ~ Sage Motel ~ Sage Motel NEW RELEASE

6:00 Radzilla vs. King Songs

<<<<<< illustration by Jenya Datsko

* ZIONONMYMIND ~ Blazing Fire NEW RELEASE ~ @ BSMT 254 Thursday 16 June for launch of SIGNS

Emilie Sandé ~ Summer ~ Let's Say For Instance NEW RELEASE

* Jocelyn Gould ~ Serendipity ~ Golden Hour NEW RELEASE

* Busty & The Bass feat. Jordan Brown ~ Memories About You ~ Karneval EP NEW RELEASE

Yami Bolo ~ Tell Me ~ New Era Reggae 

Kelly Joe Phelps (October 5, 1959 – May 31, 2022) ~ Good Night Irene 

6:30 Massive Clearance 

Beth Orton ~ Weather Alive ~ Weather Alive NEW RELEASE

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ~ The Times They Are A-Changing ~ Dirt Does Dylan NEW RELEASE

* E3 By Alex Lakusta ~ Trick Shot ~ Transmit Slow NEW RELEASE

* Omega Mighty ~ Drip Dreamin'  

* Christine Weir ~ Moonflower ~ NEW RELEASE

Charlie Musselwhite ~ Stingaree ~ Mississippi Son (Alligator) NEW RELEASE

* The Redhill Valleys ~ Travel Well ~ Travel Well EP NEW RELEASE

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Music Coming Today From Sovereign Canadian Airspace

 

Celebrating 5 Years Online - Incidental Reportage Upon The Historic, Current and Projected Trajectory of Roots Music Canada

Resolute roots reportage has been the mandate for the Roots Music Canada website since its re-inception in April of 2018.

We will finally get a chance to celebrate, the best way we know how - with MUSIC!

This Sunday Toronto's Tranzac club, itself an outstanding long-term faciltator of Canadian Roots music, will host MOOSEFEST

Yes, there WILL be folk - and blues, and balladry, and barrelhouse, reggae, jazz ragas, bluegrass newgrass and tallgrass sets, spread over the course of four hours, starting at 7 p.m.

As a long-term contributor, I was asked for a sentence or two describing my RMC experience.

Here is my sentence (or two, as it turned out.)

It was all because Levon wasn’t feeling too well, so Colin came down to sound check At Massey Hall, and then the two of them got to talking, so Lucinda’s sound check got sort of delayed, so then during the show, David Newland got so impatient with Lucinda’s growly comportment that he put up a post complaining about Lucinda’s big book of lyrics being at center stage and yadda yadda, and Corby got ticked and wrote back something typically steely about how the TSO all had big books onstage, and that was so unprofessional and then when Steve Bell came to Hugh’s Room, Newland introduced him onstage, and Corby decided to take the edge off his comment by meeting up with Newland, whom he neither knew nor appreciated fully, and after that encounter Emma Jane told Corby that nobody wanted to write a review of Steve Bell because of his unstylishly ballsy Christian attitude, so Corby, who was deep into church at the time, did some typing and sent it along to Roots Music Canada, and Meghan toned down the steeliness so that when Steve Bell read it, he really liked it a lot and got his whole church to go online and like it too, and Roots Music Canada found out that their server had a peak “like” capacity of two hundred so Corby got to write more after that, about The Wheat Pool breaking up and Jerry Leger at a backyard party, and at that point, Newland got a new job, and his partner, Andy Frank, got sick, and then Gordy The Moose went underground strictly from hunger, so Corby just kept on writing on his blog, which apparently nobody read except Heather, who kept typing back, until one day in Ottawa the apparent became obvious, that RMC would be once again required to swerve upstream in pursuit of the sources and forces that affect roots culture in Canada, giving Heather the opportunity to revive Gordy and send Corby to Wimpy’s to have a burger with Suzie Vinnick and David James, who were just about to start shaking the love around themselves anyways, for an opening story posted five years ago this week, so that soon articles, news, pictures, links and general root-a-baggage were again being spread across the land in a timely and accurate manner, musing lovingly on the muscular recordings of dishy harmony trios, fiddle provocateurs, dubwise guerillas and blues grumblers, relaying reportage on activism and club life, and then, as opportunities for new missions began abounding at festivals and hootenannies, drawing in rootical investigative journalists like Bev and Elizabeth and Leonard and Ian and Jan and Flo, who all went mental into that good night, brandishing phones and cameras to take in the acoustic particulars of the many concert and campfire events that have traditionally carried the secret chord along, including blearily recalled weekends at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, Folk Music Ontario, Mariposas, powwows, Hillsides and kitchen parties, and a magical moosery tour of Folk Alliance in Montreal that brought Gordy into intimate proximity with…but let’s save that story for another post, and just for now wish many more candles to a gutsy little online publication that has kept a light on for all of us here in the musical struggle and illuminated our pathway through the ongoing thundersnow.

Congratulations Heather, and well done.