The Performance Hour
with Glen Tilley

On this weeks Performance Hour a studio session and feature interview with one of Newfoundland's great musical exports, jazz pianist and composer, Jeff Johnston.

Gypsy jazz maestro Duane Andrews joins country picker extraordinaire Craig Young as we explore the common ground of jazz, trad and country...and where else would you get the music of Django Reinhardt, Bill Monroe, Tony Rice and Rufus Guinchard all under one roof but here on The Performance Hour.

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From the archives The Performance Hour presents Ron Hynes at the LSPU Hall with Three Decades of Song. Ron is joined by Frank Fussari, Bass and Adrian Doyle, Peddle Steel Guitar for this concert gem from December 2001.

This week the 2014 East Coast Music Awards will be held in Charlottetown, PEI , and to help celebrate the event The Performance Hour will partner with our CBC Maritime sister program Atlantic Airwaves to present a live concert special titled "Heroes: Past and Present". We've invited some of Atlantic Canada's hottest acts to perform songs from their heroes, artists who have influenced or inspired them in their own musical careers. And the show features Rose Cousins, Amelia Curran, David Myles and the darlings of Sydney Mines, The Barra MacNeils. Co Hosted by Stephanie Domet.

This week on the Performance Hour a feature interview and studio session with Kat Mclevey a spectacular new talent who while still attending high school is getting rave reviews for her work as a singer songwriter and with the St. John's indie band "City On The Coast".

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this iconic, 1983, ground-breaking recording by Pat and Joe Byrne and Baxter Wareham, CBC Radio reunites the original trio for a special live concert recording at the LSPU Hall in St. John's. Guests include The Once, Matthew and Allan Byrne, Leeland Wareham and Lori Wareham-Mulroney. 

Who would have thought 30 years ago when three young Placentia baymen walked into Echo Recording Studios on the top of Longs Hill that the album they were about to record would stand as a seminal work in the Newfoundland canon influencing a generation of folk and traditional performers. It's a work that speaks to the heart of who we are and who we were. 

The material is as fresh today as it was three decades ago.

Many of these songs have become anthems in the Great Newfoundland Songbook performed by contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador entertainers on stages around the world or sung on stages around the bay or in kitchens or boats or where ever Newfoundlanders gather to share their undeniable bond.

 

               

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this iconic, 1983, ground-breaking recording by Pat and Joe Byrne and Baxter Wareham, CBC Radio reunites the original trio for a special live concert recording at the LSPU Hall in St. John's. Guests include The Once, Matthew and Allan Byrne, Leeland Wareham and Lori Wareham-Mulroney. 

Who would have thought 30 years ago when three young Placentia baymen walked into Echo Recording Studios on the top of Longs Hill that the album they were about to record would stand as a seminal work in the Newfoundland canon influencing a generation of folk and traditional performers. It's a work that speaks to the heart of who we are and who we were. 

The material is as fresh today as it was three decades ago.

Many of these songs have become anthems in the Great Newfoundland Songbook performed by contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador entertainers on stages around the world or sung on stages around the bay or in kitchens or boats or where ever Newfoundlanders gather to share their undeniable bond.