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What we've got for you this weekend
Tonight’s entry in the CBC Summer Series includes a documentary by Curtis Rumbolt about the men called “the Fish” … the Newfoundlanders who travelled to New York to build many of Manhattan’s iconic skyscrapers. The Summer Series airs at 8:30 p.m. NT, 8 in most of Labrador, on CBC Television. Later, a story from Burgeo about men who travel away from home to earn an income. Here’s a sneak peek at Curtis’s documentary:
Weekend A.M.
Radio 1: Saturday and Sunday morning, 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. NT
This week, host Angela Antle has been collecting guilty pleasures the songs that people love to sing/shout along to in the car with the windows down. Check out the WAM site here!
Performance Hour
Radio 1: 5:35 p.m. NT
This week’s episode of the Performance Hour has a folky theme, with a full hour tipping off next week’s Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival in St. John’s.
Deep Roots
Radio 2: Saturday at 6:30 p.m. NT, Sunday at 5:30 p.m. NT
Tom Power hosts the only national radio program currently emanating from St. John’s, with a broad menu of roots, traditional and folk-oriented music … with a Tom topspin. It’s a wicked show. Keep track of Tom and Deep Roots right here.
Land & Sea
CBC Television: Sunday at 12:30 p.m. NT
This week is an encore presentation of how the seniors’ club on Fogo Island has been keeping local history alive. Check out the Land & Sea page here.
Tune in Sundays at 12:30 p.m. (NT) 12:00 p.m. (AT) on CBC Television
*Musicraft *
Radio 1: Sunday at 4:35 p.m. NT
Francesca Swann’s guest this week is Anita Best, with a preview of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival at Bannerman Park in St. John’s. Visit the Musicraft page here.
Tags: Curtis Rumbolt, Deep Roots, Land & Sea, Musicraft, Performance Hour, Weekend A.M.
Project Restoration, and other weekend highlights
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador’s Summer Series has a show tonight that’s key to the heart of many of our communities: how to preserve the buildings that help define who we are. Angela Antle hosts Project Restoration, airing at 8:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, and at 8 in most of Labrador.
Watch the video above to get a sense of what to expect.
Meanwhile … There’s plenty else to catch this weekend on CBC. Here are some highlights:
Saturday and Sunday, 6 a.m. to 9:30 NT
Angela brings WAM listeners plenty every weekend. Here’s the head’s up sent to members of the Galoot of a Culture group on Facebook. (Want to join? Please do!)
*This weekend *on WAM, we’ll go “To There and Back” through the magic of radio: with the fourth annual Fogo Island Punt Race and Fogo Island poet Roy Dwyer. Chefs from the George House Heritage B&B will share the kitchen secrets of DILDO, we’ll roisin our bow for the first annual “Feile Seamus Creagh” celebrating trad music, Storyteller Dale Jarvis will chat up the huge Canadian Storytelling Conference happening in St. John’s next week, Iceberg Alley authors Stephen Bruneau and Kevin Redmond will share their Ice hunting adventures with us and we’ll talk to a British reality TV company looking for a polite Newfoundland family with strong values to take on two spoiled British teens (shudder).
Saturday on Radio 2 at 10:30 a.m. NT, Saturday on Radio 1 at 5:35 p.m. NT
This week: Hear more of the Sparks literary festival, featuring some of Newfoundland and Labrador’s finest writers.
Sunday at 12:30 p.m. NT
This week, a repeat episode of Politics of the Pelt, an in-depth look at the ever-controversial seal hunt.
Sunday at 4:35 NT (4:05 in most of Labrador)
This week: Last weekend James Hurley was back in St. John’s to perform at the jazz festival, but last summer he returned from the New England Conservatory in Boston to perform a solo piano recital for the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival at the Kirk in St. John’s. An alumni of this festival, James enjoys exploring a wide range of musical styles and we’ll hear his distinctive interpretation of Bach and Rachmaninoff.
