Happy International Dance Day! I trust that our awesome Canadian musicians got you dancing this morning! Here is who we celebrated with:

Role Mach, Holy Shades of Night, Holy Shades of Night;
Role Mach, Holy Shades of Night, Hobgoblin Blues;
Beef Donut, Famous For Quality, You Like Awake;
Blind Horses, Blind Horses, Chinese Tortilla;
Cult Babies, Cult Babies, All Confused;
Woolworm, Woolworm, Heathen Too;
Skinny Kids, Skinny Kids, Sandalwood and Peppermint;
Failing, The Apple in the Pig's Mouth, Eating Salt;
Twin Library, Historical Tumblers, Kick It Apart;
She's, She's, Don't Wanna Go To Work;
Grown Ups, Grown Ups, Walmart;
Sprïng, Celebrations, Paradise;
Shearing Pinx, Infinite Siblings III, Swamp Backlash Blues;
Look Away, Lashburn, Locked and Crooked;
Lie, Master, Overtime-Seams;
Blank Cinema, Eras, High Pressure Days;
Sugarfoot, local recording, Smile;
Sugarfoot, local recording. Georgia;
Sugarfoot, local recording, These Boots Are Made for Walking;
Jerrold Dubyk Quintet, Inviteishens, What Do You Want From Me?;
Mike Allen Quartet with Hugh Fraser, Panorama, Sing Out;
Casper Hollands, Seven Pieces, Lost In Thought;
The Boxcar Gloryholes, In the West No Means Yes, The Bearded Lady from the Grimshaw County Fair;
Ben Arsenault, Grand Forks, Worn Out Tires;
Strange Planes, Makeshift Spaceship, Track #3 [I think it's titled All My Friends are Dead];
Top Men, Top Men, Drop the Hammer;

Wonderful background accompaniment provided by Michael Stuart Keith Blackley Quartet from the Determination LP! You just can't beat Canadian Jazz Vinyl in my opinion.

Check out Sugarfoot on Reverbnation!

… and Congratulations to the Promotions Department of CJSR - and all of the fabulous people involved with the station that put and keep us on the air - for winning the John Poole Award for Promotions of the Arts! Long Live Community Radio!!

The joys of sharing Canadian music with you, awesome listeners, is truly great stuff. Thanks for tuning in - here is who we sampled today:

Gord Downie [with] The Sadies, Conquering the Sun, I'm Free Disarray Me;
Slates, Taiga, New Factory;
Sean Cronin, Very Good?, & Beat Each Day;
Star City Lights, Star City Lights, Cue the Static;
Fountain, Fountain, New Age Prices;
Sean Cronin, Very Good!, Reprise;
Amy VanKeeken, Live Right, Best Part of Going Away;
The Skinny, Presents the Skinny Pill, Keep Turning Blue;
Miss Quincy and the Showdowns, Roadside Recovery, Rush Hour Traffic with a Hangover;
Caity Fisher, The Final Frontier, Gamblin Woman Rock;
Wilfred N and the Grown Men, Wilfred N and the Grown Men, Nobody Has to Know;
Audrey Ochoa Quartet, Trombone & Other Delights, Snap Crackle Flop;
Greg De Denus, Solo Piano Live at Gallery 345, In Walked Bud;
Michael Feuerstack & Associates, Soda & Ice, When I Pay You Back Someday [with Leif Vollebekk on vocals];
Cosy Father, Loser Birds, Burn My Bones;
Just a Season, Just a Season, Sundowner;
Mark Alexander McIntyre, Grapes (One Kind Favor), Life of Bad Luck;
Keiffer McLean, Drama in the Attic, Jive Turkey;
Eccodek, Singing in Tongues, Village In Me;
Sugarfoot, Sugarfoot, Muddy Water;
Jasmine Netsena, Take You With Me, Lie To Myself;
Model Clocks, Mabel, Dizzy;
Prehistoric, Walking Backwards On An Escalator, Microphone Murder;

Keeping the background entertaining was Mark Hasselbach Perspective and their wonderful 1982 vinyl titled Solar Winds.

Don't forget David Barsamian is coming to Edmonton thanks to CJSR. Check him out at the Stanley A Milner Library this Friday the 25th of April from 7 to 8:30 - live music at 6:30 compliments of Casper Hollands - admission by donation.

Wow! The wonders of Canadian musicians and their offerings will never fail to surprise and delight me! Here is what we listened to today:

The Binz, How to Freak Out Responsibly About the Rise of the Robots, What Can You Do For Me?;
Dope Soda, Carbonation, Strangers;
Like a Motorcycle, Stay Single, Slipping Away;
The Frank Horvat Band, I Can See You, Sun and Rain;
Jon Comyn, In the Dark on 99 (All the Time All the Time), Drift;
Sirr, Plus, The God Delusion;
Los Calaveros, Emergency Poncho, Heavy Bones;
Language Arts, Wonderkind, What If It Were To Be Reworked?;
NQ Arbuckle, The Future Happens Anyway, Sleepy Wife;
Kandle, In Flames, Protector;
Each Other, Being Elastic, Your Ceiling is My Floor;
Amy VanKeeken, So Long, Fire For You;
Quinsin Nachoff, Horizons Ensemble, A River Remembers Rain;
Grady Kelneck, Take My Hand, There's No Time for Crying;
The Bitterweed Draw, Heart of the Old West, Train Rollin;
Wilfred N the Grown Men, Wilfred N the Grown Men, Playing in the Mud;
Del Barber, Prairieography, Living With a Long Way To Go;
The Perpetrators, Stick 'Em Up, Who's It Gonna Be?;
Tim Hus, Western Star, Marietta Miner;
Jake Ian, It Don't Really Matter Anymore, A Song for a Rose;
Van Funk, 13, Condor;
Raoul and the Big Time, Hollywood Blvd, High Roller;
Marlaena Moore, Beginner, Not Yet Titled;
Jaclyn Gee, Autonomous, Watch Me Do It;
Mike Boyd, Note the Sarcasm, This Ain't Funny;
Postnamers, Postnamers, Last Summer I Moved Venus;

Background waves provided by Ron Paley, from his Boxton LP - a great piece of Canadian vinyl dedicated to the City of Winnipeg.

Don't forget to support live music - in your neighbourhood, in your city, in your country! It's the ripple effect! And special mention & congratulations to Amy VanKeeken for winning Edmonton Music Award for best jazz recording! Check out Twang n Thangs on CJSR every Monday from 1 to 3 in the afternoon for another of Amy's contributions to the CJSR airwaves.

Let the Sun shine through - Let the music ring out! What a show - many thanks, as I said earlier on the show, to all the Canadian musicians who keep our shelves stocked with great Canadian tuneage! Here is what we heard today:

Kill City Kids, Put the Kids to Bed, The Ballad;
Wax Atlantic, Wax Atlantic, Cheers;
Mallard, Value System, When Nothing Comes;
Kappa Chow, Kappa Chow, Love On Me;
Sex with Strangers, You Know Something We Don't?, Space Wolf;
Ketamines, 11:11 EP, Right About Now;
Poppy Seed and the Love Explosion, Beyond the Seventh Sun, The Comet;
Pizzarrhea!, Laser Bacon Eye Surgery, Un Bear A Bull?;
MonkeyJunk, All Frequencies, You Make A Mess;
Psychic Pollution, Spatium Tympanium, Fractus Gigantes;
The Perpetrators, Stick 'Em Up, Sweetgrass;
Romi Mayes, Lucky Tonight, Don't Mess With Me;
Van Funk, 13, Hold and Swing;
The Perpetrators, Stick 'Em Up, Spend More Money;
Bill Coon Quartet, Scudder's Groove, Village Idiot;
The Heavyweights Brass Band, Brasstronomical, I Think I'm Going Crazy;
Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble, Bassment 2007 Saskatoon, The Yanks Are Coming;
Jerry Leger, Early Riser, Cashing In;
Jody Weger, On Land & Living, Cranes and Planes;
L'il Andy, While the Engines Burn, And The Rains Came Down (September 9th, 1917);
Jim Byrnes, St. Louis Times, Somebody Lied;
Whoop, Szo, Whale Songs (featuring Amaruq Throat Singers);
Ill Tone, The Sacrifice, The Summit Is a Myth;

Kid Bastien's Happy Pals filled in all the blanks in the background with their awesome vinyl from 1986 titled Sunny South Records 104. Thanks for listening!

No Joking!! CJSR is the best damn radio on the air!

Here is who we listened to today:

The Usual Suspects, home recording, Mother Earth;
Friends of Foes, Chronophobic, Light Sleepers Heavy Dreamers;
Black Pistol Fire, Black Pistol Fire, Trigger on my Fire;
The Frolics, Sippin' Lemonade, Go-Go Dancer;
Hot Super Hot, Hot Super Hot, Restless Traveller;
Wet Denim, Wet Denim, Truth Bombs;
Choir and Marching Band, Life Found on Superhot Body Only One Light Year Away, She Cut Her Hair;
Patrick Seager, Alien, Different City;
Jay Malinowski & the Deadcoast, Martel, Donzoro Blues (Aprils Fool);
Matt Newton, Within Reach, Ends;
David Blake, Next Year People, Not Your Lanai;
Pete Mills, Sweet Shadow, Momentum;
Spirit Woman Singers, Beating Strong - Heart of the City Festival [Compilation], Esquao Winter Song;
Corin Raymond & the Sundowners, Paper Nickels, Little Bird;
Phono D'Enfant, The Wild Rose That Is, Lovers in the Wind;
The Fretless, The Fretless, Lulu;
Middle Sister, Middle Sister, The Old Man;
Jenny Mayhem, Jenny Mayhem, When You're Older;
Taiwan, PIXXX4 (Disc 3) [Compilation], In My House;
Van Funk, 13, Toxic Love Blues;
The Misery Mountain Boys, Little Smoky, Deep River Blues;
Kevin Maimann, Death Perception, Zombie Man;
Death Point, Sinister, Entitled to Nothing;
Samandriel, Awakening, Holy Load;
Kevin Roy, Taller Than the Trees, Salvation on the Shore;

Oh the beautiful strains of Biddles Presents: From Now On ... Canadian Jazz musicians Johnny Scott, Geoffrey Lapp, Camil Belisle, Ron Seguin, Janis Steprans. This is who accompanied us today in the background. This is some wonderful vinyl that arrived at the station in 1986.

Thanks for listening. Have a happy Fool's Day! Keep Smiling!!