Corby's Orbit
Listening in All the High Places illustration by John Kricfalusi
Monday, August 24, 2026
Sunday, August 23, 2026
The Toronto Folk Festival: Creating Family Out Of Music
The Toronto Folk Festival: creating family out of music in T.O.'s legacy Land of Folk, Toronto Island, yesterday, the day before and again TODAY. Much gratitude for the attitude shown by Philly Vonesh and his merry band of volunteers, and congratulations on presenting a sometimes rainy, but undampened, cavalcade of talent and joie-de-vivre. Exceptional performances Saturday included The Lifers, @Moonfruits, Housewife, Mike T. Kerr, Abigail Lapell, Jaron Freeman-Fox & Anh Phung, Emily Gilbart, Sally Shaar, Rachel Hickey, Emily Schultz & Leah Holtom. PLUS celebrity sighting of CKLN's David Barnard and Famz.
The Lifers
Moonfruits
Liv & Anita Cazzola - The Lifers
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Playlist for Corby's Orbit Show of 21 August 2026 with Tim Posgate
Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby
* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED
The Mixcloud Podcast Link is RIGHT HERE
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( Brought to you by Merry Go Sounds, Tilt A Worlds, and Bumper Guitars )
5:00 Now's Your Chant
* Tyra Jutai ~ Right Now ~ A Dream Come True ~ NEW RELEASE
* Art D'Ecco ~ Outcast ~ NEW RELEASE
* Bella Cole ~ Drive ~ NEW RELEASE
* Jack Lavoie ~ Miss U.S.A. ~ NEW RELEASE
* Jerry Leger feat. Suzan Kocher ~ It's So Strange ~ Waves Of Desire ~ NEW RELEASE
* Don MacDonald feat. Allison Girvan ~ Invisible ~ Short Stories ~ NEW RELEASE September 5th
* Birdbelly feat. Joey Landreth ~ Black Horses ~ PRE-RELEASE October 17
* Murmurosi ~ Yak Pryikhav ~ NEW RELEASE
* Jory Nash ~ Oh Little One ~ The Light Still Shines On The Main ~ PRE-RELEASE October 24
5:45 Banjophonics
* Tim Posgate ~ Interview - MondoBanjo on Wolfe Island 11-13 September / World Now (So Long Seven) / The Wheels Won't Go (Hannah Shira Naiman) / Rix Rum Punch (The Oddfellows Orchestra) / Roube Toure (The Os Project) ~
6:10 Archivals And Departures
* Mark Thackway feat. Andrew Collins ~ Twisted ~ Twisted EP ~ NEW RELEASE
* Carly Rae Jepsen ~ More ~ Emotion 10th Anniversary Re-Release ~ NEW RELEASE
* Damn Coyote Chris ~ Bethy's Gift ~ Departures ~ NEW RELEASE
* David James Allen ~ Platform # 12 (Old Friends) ~ Jubilation Potpourri ~ NEW RELEASE
* KC Armstrong ~ When You're Gone ~ NEW RELEASE
* David Occhipinti ~ Ice Dance ~ Camera Lucida ~ PRE-RELEASE September 12
* Mark Ledlin ~ Wish I Was ~ NEW RELEASE
* Petebo ~ All Roads Lead To Home ~ NEW RELEASE
Jacob Collier ~ Keep Your Eye On Summer ~ NEW RELEASE
* Paul Pigat ~ Down In Mexico ~ Cousin Harley Plays The Blues Volume 1 ~ NEW RELEASE
* Kathleen Edwards ~ Billionaire ~ Billionaire ~ NEW RELEASE
* Daughters Of Donbas feat. Marichka ~ Foreign Land ~ NEW RELEASE @
Rameses B ~ If A Tree Falls ~ NEW RELEASE
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Banjophonics
My guest this Friday is Tim Posgate, with updated info for this year's edition of MondoBanjo, a cornucopia of frail & pluck, coming to Wolfe Island in September.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Irish Millie and Gustavo In Picton
Irish Millie is nineteen and she comes from Peterborough and that's all she has to say about that as she settles down into a sunset show at Waring House, the popular Picton inn. She is quiet about her awards and nominations and her 2026 selection as the North2North Breakthrough Artist, which led to her representing Canada at Lilla By Festivalen in Sweden. Although there is a jazz festival incursion going on downtown, the showroom by the roundabout is full of roots fiddle aficionados and fans of the internationally burgeoning artist who is on the verge of a new degree of fame with an album of new original tunes due at the end of August.
She has set up her floor pedal array, and adjusted it with the tip of her bow, and tuned her fiddle quietly as her accompanist for the evening, the accomplished Brazilian guitarist and singer Gustavo Fofão, has set up the P.A speaker tower and gone over a few complicated passages on his guitar. She mentions that she has played in Picton before, but always with her Dad on guitar. As the performance begins, her solo fiddle infiltrates the dining room din with a playful rococo curvature.
Eyes and ears are drawn to her spotlit form and caught in the flares of her peach-and-rhubarb aura, embellished by a flowery summer dress and some simple gold earrings. As the acute momentum of the music takes hold, the heel of her right black boot stomps down on a device that generates a catalyzing dancehall thump, to which the room will be pulsing for the rest of the evening.
Gustavo offers surging flourishes of rhythm as Millie calls out key changes, racing through medleys of jigs and reels "some of which I don't even know the names of", touching down on a Leahy tune and an original ballad, all with virtuosic expertise. She spangles the proceedings with toe taps on another electronic box that brings a tambourine backbeat into occasional play, and she generously provides plenty of room for Gustavo's heartfelt vocals on his own repertoire, to which she contributes an enthusiastically empathetic harmony blend.
Through the intense muscular effort and elbow grease, and the natural creative synchronicity of the two artists, the performance level remains high throughout three sets of emotionally immediate love songs, breakneck instrumentals, and even a sea shanty from Gustavo.Their energy contributes a levitating effect to the already inspirational twilight dazzle of mid-August, but only a few waitresses actually capitulate to the rhythm, dancing a few steps as they cross the room with their trays.
Her new album is to be called Can You See Me? Gustavo is featured on one song called Joel's Tune, the only instrumental song on the record. It's out right now on Bandcamp if you want to hear it, and it will be released on all streaming platforms on August 27th. In terms of future plans, people can find Irish Millie's shows and schedule on her website at www.irishmillie.ca
In addition to that she will be heading back to school for her third year at the University of Toronto in September. She is studying Music Industry and Technology.
As Irish Millie morphs on into the next level of her musical calling, she will only become more widely appreciated and take on bigger venues and career opportunities. I'm already wishing I had danced.
Sunday, August 16, 2026
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