Weekend Arts Magazine
with Mack Furlong
Saturday May 26, 2012
WAM May 26-27 EVA Awards pt.2 - Jordan Benett and Phillippa Jones.
Chris speaks with award winners Jordan Bennett and Phillippa Jones.
Saturday May 26, 2012
WAM May 26-27 EVA Awards pt.1 - Mary Pratt
She says it's the only thing she's good at. Well, if you're as good at that one thing as Mary Pratt is, one thing may be just enough. Last night at the Excellence in Visual Arts Awards at the Rooms, the Society of Canadian Artists reinforced to Mary Pratt just how good they think she is. They recognized Pratt with an honourary life Membership into the SCA. Whether it's her cod fillets on tin foil, a poppyseed cake or a plastic container of peaches.... She transforms simple domestic objects into a piece of work that can only be described as A Mary Pratt. Last night, Margaret Walsh best, of the Society of Canadian Artists presented Mary Pratt with her award.
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Friday May 25, 2012
WAM May 26-27 Liner notes - Duane Andrews and Dwayne Cote
The sound is unmistakeable - The gypsy jazz guitar stylings of Duane Andrews. Pair that with the Cape Breton fiddle and you've got a sound all its own. The two Duanes, Dwayne Cote and Duane Andrews, released their first collaboration together in 2010. Now the Duanes meet again on their latest CD, The Empress.
Categories: Liner Notes, episodes
Thursday May 24, 2012
WAM May 19-20 Bud Davidge
Saturday May 19, 2012
WAM May 19-20 Fishing for the Future Festival
Filmmaker Ruth Lawrence and Memorial University professor Barbara Neis are organizing the Fishing for the Future Festival: An event which commemorates the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the cod fishery.
Friday May 18, 2012
WAM May 12-13 York Students
A group of grade 9 students from the York School in Toronto spent last week in St. John’s creating a documentary about Newfoundland culture and how it is shaped by our history … and vice versa.
It’s all a part of the schools ICE program - the Integrated Canadian Experience. The whole idea of ICE is for students to have an authentic experience with the people and the country.
While here, the young people spoke to artists and teachers and politicians and Dave the musician… and to me.
Toby Sparwasser-Siroka, Julie Jenkins, Hannah Kahn, Gillian Kiessling and Ben Feldman are the students. They joined me in the studio along with Sean Mitchell, director of Student Life at York, and began by asking Sean to better describe ICE for us.
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Thursday May 17, 2012
WAM May 19-20 Liner Notes Matthew Hare
For the last few years Matthew Hare has shared the musical stage playing in the local group,’ The Rents”. Now Matthew has changed that musical stage to a solo setup. Just him and his guitar performing his emotional acoustic alternative origional music.
And now with the release of his debut solo CD,” This Time Last Year”, Matthew is finding that fan’s who give it a listen can relate to his musical message.
Recently Matthew sat down with Mack Furlong to talk about his new direction.
Categories: Liner Notes, episodes
Wednesday May 16, 2012
May 19-20 on the Weekend Arts Magazine
On the Weekend Arts Magazine with host Chris O’Neill-Yates: Ruth Lawrence is organizing a film festival to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the cod collapse and they’re calling for entries; The Niagara Youth Orchestra is in St. John’s for a musical exchange with the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Orchestra; Newfoundland music icon Bud Davidge just received an honourary doctorate at Grenfell, Memorial Campus. He will be by to talk about his life and his music. Pasadena writer, Nellie Strowbridge, will take us inside her latest book, Maiden from the Sea, the story of a 17th century French girl whose relationship with a Beothuk Indian leads to potentially tragic consequences; The Atlantic Book Awards are in St. John’s this week and we will have the local winners. On Liner Notes, Matthew Hare will chat about his new CD, This Time Last Year. Weekend AM comes your way from 6:00-9:30 Saturday and Sunday on CBC Radio One.
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Sunday May 13, 2012
WAM May 12- 13 David Chafe
The federal budget brought down by the Conservative government in Ottawa has resulted in more cutbacks to CBC’s funding and the dominoes have been falling across the country.
A couple of those dominoes flipped here in Newfoundland and Labrador. CBC has announced the decommissioning of both our inhouse recording facility, Studio F, and the mobile unit, used for remote recordings at concerts and festivals across the province.
Many groups are also upset by this turn of events, and arts organizations have come together to issue statements about their concerns.
David Chafe is the chair of MusicNL and he joins me in the studio this morning.
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Friday May 11, 2012
WAM May 12-13 Tara Manuel
The burg of Corner Brook shivers in fear … of the Tentacle’s Claw! Deep beneath the surface of Bonne Bay lurks the creature so fearsome, so blood thirsty, so devious, that a movie must be made about it.
Enter Tara Manuel and her band of enthusiastic monsters and victims to film a script about the mortal danger in which Corner Brook quakes.
Tara and her husband Michael Rigler had a dream … or maybe a nightmare! … to produce a B-movie, no-budget, creature feature, schlock horror show in Corner Brook. Be careful what you wish for! I spoke with Tara a couple years ago about her fascination with b-movies. You may recall Shadowy Souls, a puppet show she took around the province, so this week I rang her up in Corner Brook and began by asking her how low-budget is this new no-budget film.



