February 28th, 2013 → 7:54 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
This week, we hand the reins over to our sister show, Atlantic Airwaves, for a very special live broadcast from the 2013 East Coast Music Awards weekend in Halifax. Host Stephanie Domet will count down the Top Ten East Coast…
January 29th, 2013 → 3:46 am @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
This Saturday we sample more poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from the dynamic and ever-changing literary scene in Newfoundland and Labrador.In the second of two shows recorded at the 2013 Sparks Literary Festival in St. John’s, we hear from Joan Sullivan,…
January 22nd, 2013 → 12:33 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
This week’s show features scenes from a Newfoundland outport during the war years, poetry about old hockey players, a glimpse of a Greek vacation gone wrong, and much more. We’ll hear it all as guest host Jamie Fitzpatrick presents the first of two…
June 12th, 2012 → 2:42 am @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
It’s been seven years since Jenny Gear released her debut album, Jenny Gear and the Whiskey Kittens. Now she’s finally back in the studio, working on a new recording with producer Bill Brennan and her longtime collaborator, Sandy Morris. That CD…
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June 4th, 2012 → 2:46 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
Forty years on, Denis Parker is still confessin’ the blues. Since landing on these shores in the early seventies, he’s been one of the bedrock artists of the Newfoundland and Labrador blues scene. Denis has had his ups and…
May 29th, 2012 → 12:47 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
And I’ve not completely growninto the woman that I’m supposed to be.But hell I’m a lot closer than I was last February. That’s the closing line from the debut album by Joanna Barker. It’s not meant as a status update…
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May 21st, 2012 → 4:48 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
Music fans first came to know him as the guy with the dreadlocks from the Codroy Valley. Now he’s one of the hottest young voices in Newfoundland and Labrador music. This Saturday’s show (May 26) features Sherman Downey and…
May 15th, 2012 → 3:11 am @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
Though he emerged just a couple of years ago, Matthew Byrne ranks as one of Newfoundland’s finest folk singers. But you won’t hear him doing many of the tried and true favourites. Rather than treat everyone to yet another rendition of Lukey’s…
May 8th, 2012 → 6:04 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
The soul man from Norris Arm is back. This Saturday (May 12), Chris Kirby joins me in the Performance Hour studio to play songs from his brand new album, Wonderizer. It’s his third solo CD, and it continues the evolution…
April 24th, 2012 → 12:49 pm @ Jamie Fitzpatrick
Pamela Morgan is back in the game. After nearly three decades devoted to folk and traditional music, Pamela stepped away for the last few years. We haven’t heard much from her since the summer of 2008, when she led a…
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