The Cosmic Sounds Of Summer Come Crashing Out Of Orbit This Friday

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 28 August 2026 with Hayden Ryann

 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 Strategic Static, Tragic Tactics & Drastic Dramatics )

5:00 Love Bubbles

 * Aaron Wood ~ First Light ~ NEW RELEASE  

* Libby Ember ~ Pool Life ~ NEW RELEASE

* Julie Doiron & Rick White ~ The Question ~ Together ~ NEW RELEASE

* Olivia Penalva ~ Getting Out Of Dodge ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Hair Control ~ Seeing In The Dark ~ Electric Pleasure ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jade Turner ~ Marion 

* Jean-Michel Blais ~ Carnivalito ~ Mirador ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jade Monet ~ Too Hot To Behave ~ NEW RELEASE

* Gene Champagne ~ Gimme Ammunition ~ NEW RELEASE

Mae Muller ~ Wheels Come Off ~ NEW RELEASE

* Mind Bath feat. Beverly-Glenn Copeland ~ Dear Friend Queer Friend ~ NEW RELEASE

5:45 Lovin' And Hayden

* Hayden Ryann ~ Mindless Words / Interview / Walk Through Fire / Burnin' Rubber ~ NEW RELEASE 

6:10 Somewhere Higher

 Babygirl ~ Dancing With Her ~ Stay Here Where It's Warm(er) ~ NEW RELEASE

illustration by Philippe Druillet

* Secondhand Dreamcar ~ Take Your Mind Off It Baby ~ Get Ready ~ PRE RELEASE

* Amanda Tosoff feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow and Allison Au ~ Sonnet 49 ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jon Raven ~ Love Hurricane ~ NEW RELEASE

Remi Wolf ~ Bottle ~ NEW RELEASE

* Angine De Poitrine (deadmau5 Remix) ~ Fabienk ~ NEW RELEASE

L'Rain ~ Elmyra ~ fata morgana ~ NEW RELEASE

Annabelle Dinda ~ The Hand ~ NEW RELEASE

* Emma Worley ~ Weekend Baby ~ NEW RELEASE

6:45 Eagle When She Flies 

* Strat Andriotis ~ Can't Help Myself ~ The Wolf Sleeps Alone ~ NEW RELEASE

Dolly Parton (January 19, 1946 – August 25, 2026) ~ Seven Bridges Road ~ Little Sparrow

* Lenore (Teehan) b: December 5, 1956 d: August 12, 2026 ~ My God ~ Another Life 

Hayden Ryann Burning Up The Charts With Walk Through Fire

 

Canadian Radio Aura Borealis Illuminating This Friday

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

Rachel Hickey, Emily Schultz, Leah Holtom

Head Honcho and Folk Wrangler Phil Vonesh

Moonfruits

Liv Cazzola

Liv & Anita Cazzola - The Lifers

Jaron Freeman-Fox and Anh Phung

Sally Shaar

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

* Terra Lightfoot feat, Bill Priddle ~ Red ~ Home Front ~ NEW RELEASE 

illustration by Dean Ellis 

* Birdbelly feat. Joey Landreth ~ Black Horses ~ PRE-RELEASE October 17

* Murmurosi ~ Yak Pryikhav ~ NEW RELEASE

* Ouri feat. Charlotte Day Wilson ~ Behave! ~  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

* Gladhanding ~ Slow Cook Cold Shoulder ~ Gladhanding ~ 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

6:45 Entrance And Exist  

* Kathleen Edwards ~ Billionaire ~ Billionaire ~ NEW RELEASE

* Daughters Of Donbas feat. Marichka ~ Foreign Land ~ NEW RELEASE @ 

Rameses B ~ If A Tree Falls ~ NEW RELEASE

Musical Anomalies

 

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.

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.

      photo by David Hynes

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.

More Musical Expanses Open Up Friday

 

Saddle Light Up Into Corby's Orbit Today At 5

  

Carn / Davidson's All Canadian Jazz In Orbit Friday

 

Music And Memories From Tim Harrison This Friday

 

Extraterrestrial & Extraordinary. Music From Other Spaces.

 

Canadian Musical Amusements And Delights This Friday

 

Corby's Orbit Playlist For Show Of 7 August 2026

 original illustration by C.R. Thompson 1935

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 Underlooked Overcurrents and Instanding Outerviews)

5:00 Future Is Now

* Henry Lees ~ Into Your Orbit ~ NEW RELEASE

* Danny Marks ~ Blues Of The Future ~ Back To The Blues ~  NEW RELEASE

Kelela ~ Point Blank~ Point Blank ~  NEW RELEASE

* Tenille Townes feat. I'm With Her ~ Grey Like Emmylou ~  NEW RELEASE

Ibibio Sound Machine ~ Concept Of Love ~ Chopping Mountain ~  NEW RELEASE

* Dee Hernandez ~ Used ~  NEW RELEASE

* Big Little Lions ~ They Say It Builds Character ~  NEW RELEASE

* Softklub ~ You Will ~ Give Me More EP ~  NEW RELEASE

* FUSES ~ Garden Of Ashes ~ Sawdust In The Transmission ~  NEW RELEASE

 * LOV ~ Maci Nimitow ~ Iskwêw ~  NEW RELEASE

5:45 Rejuvenated Nomenclature  

* Mimi O'Bonsawin ~ Homegrown ~ Evoke ~ PRE-RELEASE

Illustration: Romare Bearden Carolina Sunset , 1984

* Jesse Reyez x Boi 1Da ~ I Dare You (Tasty) ~ NEW RELEASE

* Keith Mullins ~ Renegades ~ NEW RELEASE

* Charlotte Cardin ~ Take Me Back ~ NEW RELEASE 

* FAUXKNOW ~ We Can Pretend ~ Tactics

* Tyler Ellis ~ Late In The Evening ~ Hardwarestore ~ NEW RELEASE

* Bella White ~ Stuff ~ A Sign In The Weather ~ NEW RELEASE

6:05 RZee Horizons

* R Zee Jackson ~ Rootsman / Interview / Reptilians / Rasta Loving ~ Black Coffee And Dub ~ NEW RELEASE

6:20 Celestial Calliopes

* Laura Anglade ~ The Music That Makes Me Dance ~ NEW RELEASE

* The Barr Brothers ~ Burn Card ~ Alta Falls ~ NEW RELEASE

* Wintersleep ~ My Mind Always ~ Wishing Moon ~ NEW RELEASE

* Willem James Cowan ~ Back To The City ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jennifer Foster ~ Feel What I Feel ~ Powerline ~ NEW RELEASE

6:40 Jaunty Matters

* Kunlé ~ So Dear ~ Kunlé - The Journey ~ NEW RELEASE @ Small World Center Thursday 25 June

* Irish Millie ~ Allison ~ NEW RELEASE

* Tamara Weber ~ Let's Face It ~ Time, Wind & Fire ~ NEW RELEASE  

* Josh Warren ~ Gratitude ~ The Path ~ NEW RELEASE

* Broken Social Scene ~ Relief ~ Remember The Humans ~ NEW RELEASE