The Bridge
with Bob Steele

He is a multiple Juno Award winner.The writer of songs that make other great songwriters stop and listen.People like Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Diana Krall, K.D. Lang, Rod Stewart and Sarah McLaughlan have all covered his songs.So the opportunity to hear Ron Sexsmith, one of Canada's great songwriters...and not a band performer in his own right, perform in Windsor in a very intimate setting is one not to be missed.
Ron Sexsmith appears Friday night at the Loop.
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If you'd like to be the first to hear some new symphonic music.....music never heard before....then you won't want to miss a concert happening this Friday at Assumption University Chapel. John Morris Russell is the Music director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. He joins me in the studio.

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Windsor has a rich musical history...so rich that much of it went on display in the exhibit "100 years of music" at Windsor's community museum.It celebrates music making in Windsor from the cross border pollination of musical styles between Windsor and Detroit to the heyday of supper clubs like the Top Hat, The Elmwood Casino and the Metropole.And then on through the club days when live bands played five and six nights a week at almost every bar and tavern.No one has documented that musical history on film until now.Svetlana Tolic Oppen and her husband J.D. Oppen are producing the documentary 4 on the Floor.
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Jane Austen's Emma is a classic.Published in 1815 it, like other books by Jane Austen, deals with the concerns and difficulties of gentile women living in 19th century England.
Emma, the title character, believes that she is a pretty good matchmaker.
Everything is rosy until Emma sets up her latest client with a Mr. Elton.
But, in the unpredictable machinations of love, Mr. Elton falls in love with Emma and not his intended.Emma is being staged by the University of Windsor Players.
It opened last weekend and it has another run this weekend.
We sent our theatre reviewer Mark LeFebvre to see it.
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We all value our friendships and most of us make friends throughout our lives. But for people with disabilities, it can be a lot harder to maintain friendships, especially as adults. That's one of the findings in a report released today by Anne Snowdon. She's a professor at the Odette School of Business. She joins me in the studio. Also joining us by phone is Kevin McShan, a 23 year Windsorite with cerebral palsy.
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If you've been wondering what the latest is on the Family Aquatics Centre for downtown Windsor, you can find out for yourself tonight at City Hall.Don Sadler, the project manager for the centre, is making a presentation to the Family Aquatics Steering Committee at 5 tonight.
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Back in 2009 Canadian Jazz pianist Ron Davis performed with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and the result was so exciting that music director John Morris Russell decided then and there that they had to work together again.Here we are three years later and Ron Davis is back with his trio to perform SymphRonica tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon at the Chrysler Theatre.Now, Ron Davis joins me in the studio to talk about SymphRonica.

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When you make a donation to breast cancer research you expect your money to go to breast cancer research....but how much of it actually does.
And when you buy products that show the pink ribbon supporting that research you probably think that company is doing it's part to fight breast cancer as well.
But, according to the documentary Pink Ribbons Inc. you could be wrong in that thinking.
Pink ribbons inc is being screened tomorrow night at the Capitol theatre presented by the WQindsor International Film Festival.The producer of Pink Ribbins Inc. Ravinda Din joins me on the line.
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