Bandwidth
with Amanda Putz
Friday September 27, 2013
FOLK! David Francey, Basia Bulat, April Verch
- My feature interview is with quadruple Canadian Folk Music Award nominee for 2013, DAVID FRANCEY. His new album So Say We All touches on a year where he experienced the heights of joy and the depths of grief (in his eloquent words) and we discuss how music and painting helped to pull him out of his depression.
- BASIA BULAT is finally back with her unique brand of folk: soaring vocals and hard-to-pronounce instruments. I have Basia in a "heated" discussion with CBC Ottawa's Alan Neal about the theme of fire on her new album Tall Tall Shadow.
- A Bandwidth Sprinterview with fiddling folk lady APRIL VERCH. What can April cook well? So well it's award-winning? Listen to find out!
- The playlist also includes KALLE MATTSON and GUY SMITH.
Friday September 20, 2013
Polaris Music Prize Show: METZ, Metric, & more!
- *NEW!* Out with the 90 Second Egg, in with the Bandwidth SPRINTerview! The inaugural fast-chat is with Polaris Prize short-lister Zaki Ibrahim! (She was really great!)
- Alan Neal of All In a Day spoke with two Ontario short-listers on the day they found out: A Tribe Called Red and METZ.
- Plus tunes from Metric, Whitehorse, Tony Dekker, and requests for The Wooden Sky and Go Long(!)
Friday September 13, 2013
House of Paint, Jadea Kelly, Zoo Legacy, Eternia
Saturday, September 14th:
- House of Paint happens under the Dunbar Bridge in Ottawa. Click here for more info.
- Jadea Kelly on her new album Clover.
- Music from three of the nominees from this coming Tuesday's Niagara Music Awards: A Book for Wanderers, Jane Baker, and Mary Lou Minor.
- Plus TWO 90 Second Eggs from Eternia and Zoo Legacy.
- And tunes from Dany Laj and Florquestra.
Thursday August 29, 2013
Donovan Woods, Ohbijou, Kobo Town, Leif Vollebekk
Saturday, August 31st:
Click here to view Ohbijou's sweetly touching good-bye video to fans. I'll have a final fry-up of a 90 Second Egg with Casey Mecija.
Sarnia sensational singer-songwriter and Toronto inhabitant Donovan Woods stops by for a chat on how his degree in drama combined with self-proclaimed "middle-of-the-road looks" lead to a life in music.
Kobo Town proves calypso is alive and can be born in the most unlikely of places: like Ottawa! CBC Toronto's Garvia Bailey speaks to the band this week.
An encore play of my interview with Leif Vollebekk on his new album North Americana. Check out the cover: ![]()
Wednesday August 21, 2013
August 24: Bandwidth's Greatest Hits!
Throughout August I'll be airing encore presentations of interviews from the past season.
This week:
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Folk duo Morlove and Toronto troubadour Hayden in conversation.
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A 90 Second Egg from Thunder Bay's folkster Andrew Laviolette.
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A new tune from Sudbury's answer to Metric: The Explanation!
Wednesday August 14, 2013
August 17: Bandwidth's Greatest Hits!
Throughout August I'll be airing encore presentations of interviews from the past season.
This week:
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Justin Hines on his new album How We Fly and his Vehicle of Change Tour.
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Young Running on running away from Northern Ontario and finding home in Toronto.
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A gorgeous session from Ottawa pop band Fevers. Click here to stream it.
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A new tune from Waterloo band The Royal Streets.
Wednesday August 7, 2013
August 10: Bandwidth's Greatest Hits!
Ottawa blues band Firebelly in conversation.
This week's rapid-fire Q & A features sweet, plaintive-folk roots singer-songwriter Jadea Kelly.
Michael Feuerstack writes the kinds of lyrics that venture dangerously close to poetic territory. The man formerly known as Snailhouse is a little coy about inspiration, but he's very open about everything else. I'll chat with Michael after 5:40.
Plus music from Sunday Wilde, Amity Beach, Melanie Brulee, and Julian Taylor Band.
Thursday August 1, 2013
August 3: Bandwidth's Greatest Hits!
Throughout August I'll be airing encore presentations of interviews from the past season.
This week:
- Caribbean Carnival aka Caribana with Joan Pierre, as interviewed by CBC Toronto's Mariel Borelli.
- Hannah Georgas and Danielle Duval in conversation
- 90 Second Eggs with Devin Cuddy and The Strumbellas
- Music from David Rudder and Drew McIvor.
Friday July 26, 2013
July 27th: Gone with the Lind!
Take interviews from Lindi Ortega and Erik Lind, some tunes from Lyndon's Frozen Lake, Lindy Vopnfjord, The Weather Station (Tamara Lindeman) and Fern Lindzon, and you've got the latest Bandwidth episode, 'Gone with the Lind!'
Plus I'll throw in a tune each from The Reason and The Bruitals just to keep it breezy.
It's a (mostly) encore presentation of Bandwidth: Gone With the Lind tomorrow at 5:05 pm on CBC Radio One.
Monday July 22, 2013
Amanda Rheaume's family album
This month Amanda Rheaume sat down with me to chat about how her incredible family inspired her latest record.


