Host Kelley Jo Burke brings you the voices, stories and songs of Saskatchewan's artists. SoundXchange is Saskatchewan's stage for the arts.

Kelley Jo Burke

Spoken word, SoundXchange Host

I'm Kelley Jo Burke and I'm the spoken word producer as well as hosting CBC Saskatchewan's SoundXchange, which has for the past five years, featured the best in Saskatchewan made words and music. 2012 will be our last year on the air, and we are no longer accepting writing submission or request to record live events.

 

Host bio:

Kelley Jo Burke is an award-winning playwright and poet, a director, storyteller, documentarian, and broadcaster. She directs and produces for stage and radio, and is the host of SoundXchange, CBC Saskatchewan's radio performance hour.

Her plays and poetry have been produced and published in Canada, and around the world, including her one woman show, Ducks on the Moon, which continues to tour Canada, and  her stage play, Charming and Rose: True Love, which has been staged over thirty times in Canada, the U.S., and Europe and was short-listed for the Dora and Chalmers Award for best new play in 1994, and her most recent radio play "Big Ocean", which was heard in 7 countries in 2000. Her documentaries for CBC Radio's IDEAS include "Chorus of Angels", "Mothers of Miscarriage" and "The Word for World is Imagination; The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

Bonnie Austring-Winter

Variety Music

Hi, I'm Bonnie Austring-Winter. I produce the Variety Music programs heard periodically on SoundXchange.

My goal is to bring you the best of folk, jazz, country, rock and alternative music being performed live here in Saskatchewan.

Each year my recording engineer, Chris Haynes, and I travel extensively to attend music festivals across Saskatchewan. We record in small clubs, concert halls, churches, and restaurants, anywhere where musicians perform live.

Occasionally, as a change of pace, I'll even present to you in-house studio productions featuring local song writers and musicians.

Bio

Bonnie Austring-Winter was born in Hamilton, Ontario and studied Fine Arts and Broadcasting in British Columbia.

She has worked with the Saskatchewan Government in cultural affairs, and since the early '80's has been a producer for CBC Radio Performance, contributing both to regional and network programs.

Bonnie specializes in recording 'variety' performers in jazz, folk, pop, rock and any style that doesn't fall into the 'classical' musical genre.

Bonnie is particularly interested in live events and recording musicians who write and perform original material.

Shauna Powers

Classical and New Music

Hi I'm Shauna Powers. I'm the classical music producer for SoundXchange.

I feature some of the best 'classical' performers in the province. I also have a keen interest in both world music and new music, and it's my goal to showcase performers and composers in those areas, too.

Whatever style of music I'm presenting, I work closely with recording engineer Chris Haynes . He sets up the microphones and makes sure all the performers sound their best.

My programs are mostly music-based, but I enjoy including interviews and documentaries, too. Sometimes Kelley Jo Burke and I collaborate on programs that are a mixture of music and spoken word.

While SoundXchange mostly presents well-known Saskatchewan musicians and ensembles, we're always looking for new talent and new music.

Bio

Since arriving in Regina in 2001, Shauna Powers has been challenging expectations. She is Saskatchewan's first classical producer to broadcast world music on SoundXchange. She also has a strong commitment to presenting contemporary music by Saskatchewan composers, and has paired classical performers with musicians from other genres, to great effect.

Shauna is also a creator. Arranging radio sound collages that combine music, sound effects and text is one of her great pleasures.

Every month Shauna appears on CBC Radio One's The Afternoon Edition to shed light on some of the mysteries of classical music in an entertaining and engaging way.
Shauna's life at CBC began in Vancouver. Over four years, she was an associate producer for RadioSonic, Richardson's Roundup, the CBC Radio Orchestra and Westcoast Performance.

Shauna brings vitality and detail to everything she approaches.

Chris Haynes

Recording Engineer, CBC Saskatchewan

Chris was born and raised in Saskatchewan. He has always been interested in music, having studied classical piano from a young age and later having become interested in electronic music, sound design and recording during high school.

This led him to pursue a degree in music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated with honors, with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Production and Engineering.

Today, he enjoys the variety and the challenges his work with the CBC offers him. He records both of the provinces' symphony orchestras and does in-studio recording sessions of dramas, classical music and pop music. He can also be found recording music at just about every major music festival in the province.