Bandwidth
with Amanda Putz

• *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(!)

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.

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:

 

 

 

 

 

Throughout August I'll be airing encore presentations of interviews from the past season.

This week:

• Folk duo Morlove and Toronto troubadour Hayden in conversation.
• A 90 Second Egg from Thunder Bay's folkster Andrew Laviolette.
• A new tune from Sudbury's answer to Metric: The Explanation!

Throughout August I'll be airing encore presentations of interviews from the past season.

This week:

• Justin Hines on his new album How We Fly and his Vehicle of Change Tour.
• Young Running on running away from Northern Ontario and finding home in Toronto.
• A gorgeous session from Ottawa pop band Fevers. Click here to stream it.
• A new tune from Waterloo band The Royal Streets.

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.

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.

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.

This month Amanda Rheaume sat down with me to chat about how her incredible family inspired her latest record.