CBC Maritimes

From church choirs to jazz and hardcore, you'll soon hear it on a Truro station (as long as the musician is local and performing live)

All the buzz about the latest reissue of Beatles albums illustrates how easy it is for established, global acts - alive or dead - to hog the airwaves and make it hard for local musicians to get any airplay. But some dedicated music lovers in Truro have just opened up a frequency on the radio dial for local musicians to perform live.

The CRTC has approved an application by The Truro Live Performing Arts Association to operate what it calls "a low-power, English-language FM developmental community radio station". It'll broadcast 126 hours of local music every week from 6 in the morning until to midnight.  We spoke with Melanie Grant, Executive Director of the TLPAA.


If your backyard has been invaded by a noisy gang in blue lately, you're not alone.
Bluejays are everywhere, demanding that you keep that feeder filled. Biologist Bob Bancroft has been keeping an eye on the bluejays - and all the other birds and critters getting ready for the cold weather to come. He told us what's he's seen lately around his home in Pomquet, Nova Scotia and answered questions about Wildlife of the Maritimes (he also told us about his first cougar-sighting !).