Regina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Series
By Regina Folk Festival
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Podcast Description
The Regina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Series is a set of glimpses, snippets and teasers to get you acquainted with the performers of this year’s fantastic lineup that spans immense aesthetic and geographical space and coming to a glorious culmination August 5 – 7 this summer in Regina’s beautiful downtown Victoria Park. This podcast series is hosted by our podcast king, Ben Valiaho and sponsored by Regina’s community radio station CJTR.
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Clean2011 Regina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Number 1 | To get us all excited about this weekend, Ben Valiaho has put together a special podcast that highlights music from the headliners alongside snippets of what the RFF staff and the CJTR programmers are most excited about experiencing! Thanks go to CJTR for sponsoring this preview podcast series and to Ben for putting it all together! | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRegina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Number Final | To get us all excited about this weekend, Ben Valiaho has put together a special podcast that highlights music from the headliners alongside snippets of what the RFF staff and the CJTR programmers are most excited about experiencing! Thanks go to CJTR for sponsoring this preview podcast series and to Ben for putting it all together! | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRegina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Number Four | In the fourth and final podcast in the Regina Folk Festival Preview Series, our lovely host, Ben Valiaho – brought to us with the support of Regina’s community radio station 91.3fm CJTR – introduces us to four more artists from the 2010 festival. Ghostkeeper starts us off with a lovely twang-filled story about falling in love with Spring Fever. This group out of Calgary AB is influenced by their childhood growing up in Northern Alberta. Their unique sound is inspired by the admiration they have of the ability to convey rich stories through songs. Be sure to catch them Friday night, August 6th on the Mainstage and in various workshops during the weekend. Another Canadian band sure to get you swaying with a smile on your face is up second. Ontario’s Ohbijou embodies the Canadian style of collective recording – enlisting the help of many musical friends with cellos, mandolins, violins and more. Sharing music, time and living quarters, this 7-piece band gives us New Years. Ohbijou is currently touring for their sophmore album, Beacons released in 2009. Hear their sweet melodies early on in the festival, Friday night, August 6th. Leeroy Stagger is up third in this preview. From BC, Stagger is a one-man force embodying the singer/songwriter troubadour genre. His whole world changed when he found sobriety halfway into the last decade of his musical career. This new perspective informs his new album Everything is Real. Ben plays the track Stormy of this album. Find Stagger on the stage Sunday night, August 8th. Last up, a big name in the musical scene is Calexic. Out of Arizona and named for a town on the Mexico/California border, the band is a cultural fusion of music, joining 50s jazz, gypsy, surf and Romanian sounds among others. Bringing 20 years of musicianship to the stage, hear Calexico’s Southern, dusty sounds Saturday night, August 7th. Enjoy their track Victor Jara’s Hands off their 2008 album Carried to Dust. | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRegina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Number Three | For our third installment of the Regina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Series, hosted by our brilliant Ben Valiaho and proudly sponsored by Regina’s community radio station, CJTR 91.3 FM, we’ll experience a short and sweet trip around the world. Calling upon traditional Colombian folk sound and mixed with punk and rock sensibilities, we first cross paths with wonders of the Latin American community, Aterciopelados’ track Florecita. Heading east, we’ll meet up with sweet sounds from Honduras-based Aurelio Martinez in a lovely blend of acoustic Caribbean coast, Central American sounds. A little closer to home, we venture into Quebec to meet up with a lively crew of multitalented artists from Yves Lambert et le Bébert Orchestra, each based in diverse musical backgrounds of pop, classical, jazz and rock, and brought together to build upon and practice Quebecois roots in Get Up Charlie. The last place Ben leads us to is Alberta-come-Paris! Hot Club Edmonton is an Albertan gypsy jazz mélange inspired by several trips to study in Paris and they give you Blanche. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRegina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Number Two | Ben Valiaho is back to offer a few hints of the spectacular talent the Regina Folk Festival will be offering for its 41st year this summer, August 6 - 8. Up first on this preview podcast is local songstress Little Miss Higgins. Hear her vintage blues sound in The Dirty Old Tractor Song. Sharing the Mainstage Sunday night with Buffy Sainte-Marie, Little Miss Higgins will be a delight to see. Next Ben plays Cala Cala from Brazilian Dj Dolores in an intriguing mix of traditional sounds out of NW Brazil and electronic rock and dubstep. Coming around to electronic mixing from graphic design and sound design for movies and film, Dolores is a multifaceted and internationally recognized artist that will get us dancing Friday night! Coming back around to Canadian sound with chansonnier, Caracol and her track, L’amour est un tricheur (translates as Love is a Cheater). Her newest album, produced by DJ Champion, is a reggae dub sound inspired by her French Canadian roots. Caracol brightens the RFF Mainstage Saturday night. On the daytime stages is Saskatchewan native, Alexis Normand. We hear her beautiful clear voice in Quelques petites merveilles. It is no small marvel to be a witness to Alexis’ lovely performance. That’s it for this snippet of RFF 2010. Check the RFF website (www.reginafolkfestival.com) often for updates and to snatch up the last remaining early bird tickets. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Regina Folk Festival Preview Podcast Number One | Sponsored by Regina's community radio CJTR, produced by Ben Valiaho, this is the first of a series of preview podcasts gearing up for the 2010 Regina Folk Festival. Ben introduces us to 4 of this year's artists while also directing us to the RFF website for information on the festival and tickets. First off Ben plays a new track from pro-community hip hop ensemble Arrested Development who are touring for their newest album, released in 2009, Strong. Next we hear from Mr. Something Something. Playing on this year’s free daytime stages, this is a radically eco-friendly afro-beat & jazz group headed by childhood friends that often play by bicycle power. LA-native Emily Wells is up third with one of her symphonic hip hop rhapsodies. Mixing Vivaldi-inspired strings with fresh hip-hop beats while live-looping, Wells is a self-producing creative mastermind. She will be a real treat to see this summer. Last, but not least, Ben plays a new song from Polaris Prize winning (and nominated again!) Patrick Watson. This organic electronica is brought to you by four classical jazz musicians. Stay tuned for the next slice of the RFF Preview Podcast series from Ben Valiaho. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 6 Episodes |
