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WAM May 26-27 EVA Awards pt.2 - Jordan Benett and Phillippa Jones.

2012-05-26T13:01:27Z

Chris speaks with award winners Jordan Bennett and Phillippa Jones.

WAM May 26-27 EVA Awards pt.1 - Mary Pratt

2012-05-26T12:59:41Z

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.

WAM May 26-27 Liner notes - Duane Andrews and Dwayne Cote

2012-05-25T18:16:48Z

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.

WAM May 19-20 Bud Davidge

2012-05-24T14:44:18Z

A legend of Newfoundland music is recognized with an honourary doctorate at Memorial University's Grenfell campus. Bud Davidge stops by to talk about his life, his music and the loss of his muscial partner.

WAM May 19-20 Fishing for the Future Festival

2012-05-19T12:57:00Z

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.

WAM May 12-13 York Students

2012-05-18T10:37:33Z

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.

WAM May 19-20 Liner Notes Matthew Hare

2012-05-17T15:32:53Z

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.

May 19-20 on the Weekend Arts Magazine

2012-05-16T17:45:44Z

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.

WAM May 12- 13 David Chafe

2012-05-13T12:05:50Z

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.

WAM May 12-13 Tara Manuel

2012-05-11T17:57:39Z

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.

WAM May12-13 Jim Dorie

2012-05-11T15:58:47Z

You’ve heard all the buzz about local singer songwriter John Cossar who waited until later in life to begin their respective musical careers. A lifetime’s worth of experiences began pouring out in their songs.

Now John, from Burgeo, and Jim, from New Glasgow, are on an Atlantic provinces tour that brings them to Newfoundland next week for fourteen shows across the island portion of the province.

John you will know from his Liner Notes appearance here on the Weekend Arts Magazine and other local programmes, his story about making sense of his life through his songwriting.

Jim you will now meet, through the magic of a telephone interview. I spoke with Jim earlier this week from his home.

WAM May 12-13 Liner Notes Long Distance Runners

2012-05-11T12:44:36Z

Fresh off their CD launch party at the Rock House Friday past the Long Distance Runners are gearing up for a few short tours and a very busy summer making,’Tracks”.

The Long Distance Runners spent a little more time that usual in the studio making sure that there newest release,”Tracks” was exactly what they wanted. Taking on the task of performing all the musical parts that they possibly could so that their live performances are a tru reflection of their music, the guys approached recording with a new tact.

May 12-13 on Weekend Arts Magazine

2012-05-09T16:15:30Z

The Atlantic Book Festival and Awards are coming to St. John’s, you’ll hear what that means for authors and publishers. Corner Brook is threatened by The Tentacle’s Claw, a no-budget creature feature filmed in Shock-o-Vision. MusicNL has coalesced some of the concern surrounding the announced cutbacks to CBC Arts programming in the province; they’ll be holding a press conference next week, but David Chafe will be on the show to talk about their worries this weekend. The Long Distance Runners with their new recording Tracks will be on Liner Notes.

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WAM May 5-6 Deanne Foley

2012-05-06T10:05:43Z

Deanne Foley has won awards for all her short films Trombone Trouble, This Boy, and The Magnificent Molly McBride. What more encouragement could one receive to move on to their first feature?

Beat Down is that feature and Deanne has, predictably, won awards with it.

Beat Down premiered at last October’s St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, and I asked Deanne, now that the real work has begun, what she’s up to.

WAM May 5-6 Bobbi French

2012-05-06T10:04:16Z

She gave up her medical practice; she sold her SUV; she put her Martha Stewart house on the market; and then packed up a few belongings into a couple of suitcases and followed her heart - she moved to France.

That’s the very short capsule summary of Bobbi French as she makes her dream come true.

Bobbi was in St. John’s this week launching her book Finding Me in France. I spoke with her in our studios.