CBC Radio Orchestra and conductor Alain Trudel mark the end of 70 years of broadcasts in this farewell performance.
Jazz pianist and composer, Bill Brennan, brings a circle of musical friends together at the Petro Canada Hall in St. John's to launch his second piano CD called Solo Piano II. Those friends are Sandy Morris, Heather Kao and Mark Peddle - joined for a special guest appearance by Bill's dad, Frank Brennan.
Canada Live marked a first, as it takes the show inside the walls of Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's, with two local singer/songwriters: Craig Young - a boy from Burgeo, Newfoundland, who brings the worlds of Nashville and Newfoundland together within the confines of his country songs and finger-picking wizardry, and Anne Devine - one of St. John's most versatile musicians, who's recruited frequently by the pastoral care programme at the Penitentiary to play for inmates and staff within the prison walls.
This summer at the Writers at Woody Point Festival, the Newfoundland seminal trad/rock band, Figgy Duff, was celebrated. Led by founding member Pamela Morgan, this legendary group reunited for a 25th anniversary concert at the Woody Point Heritage Theatre in Bonne Bay, Newfoundland - the former Orange Lodge - where the building itself celebrated its 100th anniversary. Band alumni Kelly Russell, Dave Panting, Phil Dinn, Frank Maher and George Morgan were joined by an all star guest list, including Daniel Payne, Sylvia Tyson, Ron Hynes and Ellen Power.
Folk-jazz singer Lullaby Baxter and the Lily String Quartet in an eccentric portrait of Kansas City matrimony.