On May 31, I’m opening the last Rockin’ The Cradle at the Tranzac Club in Toronto featuring Jenny Omnichord, and to complete the circle of life, the Leonids will play again, this time with the full band.

Finally,  Join us for a live recording of For the Sake of the Song celebrating 100 episodes on Friday June 5, 2009 at 7pm EDT at the Rye Cafe in Midland, Ontario.   My guests for the evening will be Marlon Gibbons, Jennifer Ives and Ken Allen.  We will be recording one or two live episodes of For the Sake of the Song followed by musical performances by each of us.  We will also be streaming the event live over ustream.  Stay tuned to ductapeguy.net for more details.  There is no cover charge for this event, but we will be accepting donations for Stellula Music in the Schools.

John Meadows of the On the Log podcast and I presented a session at Podcamp London entitled:  Free is Good about free and open source audio production and podcasting tools.  Here are the audio and the slides of that session.  (Click on the slide to advance)

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Download pdf of the presentation.

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I’ll let my sister explain it from her blog.

I’m just a regular music loving mama who loves being a parent, but misses going to and playing live music, so I decided to organize rock shows for parents that kids can come to and enjoy. These are all age shows that are appropriate for babes in arms, toddlers, children, teenagers, parents, grandparents, etc. etc. The only people who shouldn’t come are those who dislike children (there will be a lot of children in attendance)!

This month’s concert is on February 22 from 1-3 pm at the Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue) features Bry Webb from the Constantines and a group called Positive Thinking Seminar (at least I think they are a band ). The event is pay as you can and families are encouraged to come out. Apparently the Tranzac also serves a yummy Sunday brunch at that time.

I’ll be booting over there right after Podcamp Toronto wraps up and spending some time with my family listening to some great music.

For the past several month, Bryan Murdaugh has been presenting a monthly online virtual house concert on Ustream.tv. This month’s concert is Tomorrow, November 19, 2008 at 8pm EST. You can find it at http://www.ustream.tv/murdaugh. I will be doing an opening set for Bryan beginning at a little after 7:35pm EST at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ductapeguy-live.

Edit: You can view the concert here now. I had a couple of technical difficulties with my camera but I enjoyed being in the supporting spot for my friend Bryan, and he truly rawked the ustream

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Here are my Podcamp Boston Pictures for your viewing enjoyment. I had a blast at Podcamp Boston 3, met some great people, and had some wonderful conversations. I even got to record a For the Sake of the Song with Jody Gnat while she was streaming live to her ustream audience.

Kudos to the entire PCB3 team for hosting a fantastic event.

In this special podcast I play the trailer for Amazing Journey, the Story of The Who, (May 9, North Simcoe Recreation Centre with a performance by the Wholigans). Paul Northcott gives an overview of the events festival. I play a trailer for Song Sung Blue, a documentary about a couple who have a Neil Diamond and Reba McIntire Tribute act (Sunday, May 11, 2008 at the Inn at Bay Moorings followed with perfomances by the Great Lake Swimmers and the Metis Fiddler Quartet). .  I close the podcast with the trailer for All Hat which can be seen on May 12, 2008 at the Inn at Bay Moorings followed with a perfomance by theLive Performance of The United Steel Workers of Montreal.

Information and tickets for the festival can be found at http://twistedpines.com.

UPDATE: May 2.  It turns out it was an overzealous indexing bot but there was no significant impact to the site.  I’ve turned all the podcast episodes back on and everything should be working properly.  Sorry for the one day break in the availability of my podcast.

2) Mike the Birdman Dodd of This Week in Geek has organized a campaign to help his friend, classmate and podcasting partner, Pierce Derks. In short: Pierce is an American Citizen applying for Canadian Residency and the process is stalled. This is putting his education at Niagara College in jeopardy unless he can come up with about $10000 for International student tuition fees. You can find out more at http://www.savepierce.org.

3) Congratulations to Dave Fleet ( http://davefleet.com ) for completing the Boston Marathon, and for using his marathon run to raise $2315 for cancer research.

That’s all for me today

Take some time tomorrow to send some feedback to a podcast and continue the conversation.

Sean McGaughey
http://ductapeguy.net

P.S.  My K7 number is  206-337-0611 .

My current episode of For the Sake of the Song with Kyle Heimann from Popple is Episode 50.   I was feeling a little down that it will be some time before I reach my 100th episode, then I started doing soime math.  I currently have  6 more shows ‘in the can’ to be released between now and the end of June.  With podcast extras, and other special episodes I have 65 produced shows on my For the Sake of the Song site.  I also produced 25 audio podcasts for my Lenten multimedia project, 40 Days of Catholic Media on my Catholic Canadian site. We produced 14 episodes of the Podcamp Toronto Podcast this winter.  My recording of my brother in law, Drew Beatty’s podcast novel, White Trash Land has 23 sections.    Since October 2006, I have hosted about 20 episodes of the Librivox Community Podcast.  I have also completed 89 sections of public domain books and poetry for Librivox.   There are probably a couple special one-off projects with groups like Twisted pines that I’m overlooking as well.

Just a sec while I do the math here.

65 plus 25– carry the one,  add 14 plus 23, then 20 more add 89 equals…

236 audio programs that I have produced in the last 18 months or so.

(give or take a few)

Well none of my projects is currently near the century mark, I do believe I’m amassing a fair body of work.

Enough of blowing my own horn.  I now return you to the regularly scheduled conversations with some wonderful songwriters.

About 18 months ago, we made the difficult decision to close the Mundy’s Bay Folk Society after 17 years due to rising expenses and declining attendance at our monthly live music performances.

I was quite excited when a new organization in our town sprung up to present live music. Twisted Pines Music and Art produced a 5 day festival of music, movies and visual arts last Victoria Day weekend at a variety of locations in Midland and Penetanguishene. I helped out stage managing one of the stages, and recording as many interviews as I could for my podcast. It’s not often that so many songwriters are in one place in my hometown.

Over the past year Twisted Pines has been quite active in producing a variety of events in my area: concerts, movies, author readings at local libraries, performances in local schools and regular after school workshops at the Penetanguishene library.

This May 9-19, they are presenting Twisted Pines Music in Movies featuring nightly screenings of music themed movies and documentaries, followed by Q and A sessions with filmakers and musicians involved in the movies and performances by some amazing bands. Festival Performers will also be doing presentations at a number of local schools during the weeks of the Festival. I’ll be there recording interviews, helping out where I can, and enjoying the general vibe of the festival.

Over the past year I have produced nearly a dozen programs in conjuction with Twisted Pines Music and Art. Check out the following:

I am declaring the 7th, 17th and 27th of each month as K7 days. On a K7 day take 7 minutes to leave voice feedback for some of your favorite podcasts.

In my feedback I may mention that it’s K7 day and ask the recipients to pass it on. It can be a kind of chain of good will, … and it will reset the counter for the recipient’s voicemail number.

If your like me, you’ve been meaning to respond to a few shows at any given time. On the K17th of March, try to reach out to other podcasters.

P.S. my K7 feedback number is 206-337-0611.

Remember that K7 numbers are in the Seattle area code so normal long distance charges may apply. I use SkypeOut, so I have almost unlimited North American calling.

Update:  I set up a K7 Day group on facebook.  Join the group and remember to add to the conversation by leaving a message for a podcaster on the K17th.

I have released 40 Episodes of For the Sake of the Song thus far and have about 9 ready to go in the upcoming weeks.

On the weekend of October 28, I was feeling sorry for myself that I wasn’t at Podcamp Boston 2 so I called several of my friends who were at Podcamp Boston and released about 4 Podcamp Boston Special Reports.

These reports evolved into a regular podcast for Podcamp Toronto with Connie Crosby. We have currently produced 6 Episodes of the Podcamp Toronto Podcast leading up to the event on February 23 and 24.

I produced a Podcamp Toronto audio promo to use on your podcast here.

2007 Also saw the release of my recording of my brother-in-law, Drew Beatty’s novel, White Trash Land, on Podiobooks.com . It has done fairly well for Andrew there.

I’ve continued to record audiobooks with Librivox.org and I continue to be a semi-regular host for the Librivox Community Podcast. Here is a list of the 15 podcasts I hosted for Librivox in 2007.

In November I was asked to give a presentation on listening to and creating podcasts at the Penetanguishene Public Library. Here are my slides and notes.

I Have My Own Internet Radio Show … And You Can Too

Sean McGaughey

• Musician and Teacher

• CD: For the Sake of the Song

• Podcast: For the Sake of the Song– Conversations with Song http://ductapeguy.net

• Volunteer reader of Audio Books for http://librivox.com

• Organizer and Blogger for Podcamp Toronto http://podcamptoronto.wordpress.com

What is a Podcast?

• From: http://podcasts.culture.ca

• A podcast is an audio or video media file that is made available on the Internet; it is much like a radio show or a video that you can listen to or watch on demand, either on your computer or — if you transfer it — on a portable media player.

• Equipped with a microphone and recording software, just about anyone can make a podcast.

Examples of Podcasts

Dancing With Elephants http://dancingwithelephants.libsyn.com/

Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd http://doctorfloyd.com

Librivox Free Audio Books http://librivox.org

For the Sake of the Song http://ductapeguy.net

Russ TV http://russmusic.net

How to Listen or Watch

On a computer

Loaded on to an Mp3 player, Ipod, phone, psp

Use Itunes, Juice, Winamp or other programs to download podcasts

Where to Find Podcasts

Canadian Podcast Directory http://canadapodcasts.ca

Culture Canada Podcasts http://podcasts.culture.ca

Podcast Alley http://podcastalley.com

Podcast Pickle http://podcastpickle.com

My Dreams

When I was 11 I had 2 dreams

To make my own record.

To have my own radio show.

I make them both in my own home with my computer.

… and you can too!

What you need

Making an Audio Podcast

A microphone: $1 from the dollar store, $10 from the computer store to lots of $$$

A computer

Free Software

Audacity is a good audio editing program and it’s Free!

http://audacity.sourceforge.net.

A place to put it.

http://archive.org

http://wordpress.com

Making a Video Podcast

A digital camera. They all take movies these days.

A computer

Free Software

Windows Movie Maker is free on all windows computers.

A place to put it.

http://youtube.com

Now Let’s Try it Out

Let’s break into groups and make an audio commercial for the Penetang Public Library.

Library Podcasting Presentation Slides

This Week, I thought I would do an End of year Round-up of For the Sake of the Song and replay some of the great music I’ve featured this year. It was tricky picking just 12 or 13 songs. Since March, I have recorded 45+ episodes of For the Sake of the Song. If each song had 3 or 4 songs, thats over 120 songs to choose from. This is episode 37, so you can see from above that I already have a number of shows ready for 2008. Upcoming guests include John Lunman, Peter Judd , The Undesirables, Trout Fishing in America, Mark Blevis, Manitoba Hal, Pork Belly Futures and Chris Yale.

I have also continued to be a regular contributor to the Librivox Community Podcast and have started a podcast for Podcamp Toronto. In 2007, I produced about 60 podcast episodes, and I’m not sure how many chapters and poems for Librivox.
Where I’ve Been

Podcamp Toronto 2008

PAB 2008

Podcamp Toronto Blog

Upcoming in 2008

Podcamp Toronto 2008

PAB 2008

Songs in this Episode

1. Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey) Alyssa Wright accompanied me on the spur of the moment and made me sound sooo good. Thanks.
2. Daffodils in the Rain ( © Olivia Duck)
3. I am an Island (© Aaron Howes)
4. Duct Tape Song (©1999 S. McGaughey) with Wendell Ferguson on lead guitar
5. Gonna Struggle (© Bryan Murdaugh)
6. Sunshine and Roses ( © Greg Hobbs)
7. Goodbye City ( © Scott Cooper )
8. Don’t Kill (© Hammel on Trial)
9. Mama Taught Me How To Pray © Nancy Dutra
10. Harvest Time ( © paul court and Don Bray)
11. Two Bit Suit © John Wort Hannam
12. When Hensley’s Had Enough ( © Steve Caston)
13. Angels (© 2007 Sean McGaughey).

Add this podcast to your favorite podcatcher at http://feeds.feedburner.com/For_The_Sake_Of_The_Song

Today, Culture Canada launched podcasts.culture.ca to showcase Canadian culture in podcast form. My friends Hugh McGuire and Chris Goringe from Librivox were active behind the scenes setting this up. I’m not sure that it differs substantially in content from the amazing Canadian Podcast Directory at canadapodcasts.ca, but it is really neat to see my podcast and my picture featured on an official Government of Canada website.

That seals it. For the Sake of the Song is officially a Canadian Cultural Experience. Sort of like Tim Hortons and Beaver Tails I guess.

Edit: The folks at the Canadian Cultural Podcast Directory sent me a nifty badge to add to my site. WooHoo double affirmations that I am cultural.

I noticed on my friend Jennifer’s website that people are still finding it hard to navigate my Past Podcasts Page. I hope that this handy table makes it easier for all of my new listeners to find and catch up on my past episodes.
PAST EPISODES

You can find links to all past episodes below. Click on the episode number for shownotes, the guest’s name for their website, the blue triangle to listen on this page, or download to download the episode.

UPCOMING GUESTS

The following guests will be appearing on upcoming episodes of For the Sake of the Song, in no particular order. Feel free to email me at ductapeguy (at) hotmail (dot) com for suggestions of guests I should interview in the future.

As always, this list is subject to change based on my whims and the quirks of wordpress sending them out early.

1. November 20 Bob Ardern
2. November 30 Bob Snider
3. December 10    Bri-Anne Swan
4. December 20 Bryan Murdaugh
5. January 10 Peter Judd
6. January 20 John Lunman
7. January 30 The Undesirables: Corin Raymond and Sean Cotton
8. Mark Blevis
9. Manitoba Hal Brolund
10. Trout Fishing in America???

This year at Mariposa I was both volunteer and performer. I helped organize the Open Stage and was part of two workshops on the Folkplay stage entitled: My Favorite Children’s Song. On Saturday the sound system was giving us all kinds of trouble, so we walked in front of the stage and performed an acoustic workshop. On Sunday, the sound system was cooperating and we had one of those magical workshops where four individual performers walked on to the stage, but a band walked off. I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Steve Caston, David Zub, and my friend, Patti Ellis. Musical magic was in the air. We were all playing and providing harmonies on each other’s songs and I think it was as much fun for the musicians as it was for the audience. They also gave us a lovely orange Mariposa Folkplay Performers T-shirt.

My other Mariposa T-shirt says CREW, and I got it for working the Open Stage. My good friend, Jennifer Ives was coordinating this stage and worked along with Ken and Arlene Allen and Olivia Duck. We had a great time and some of the music on the Open Stage rivaled that of the Official performances. Standout performances for me on the open stage included: Olivia Duck, Steve Caston, Pat Clark, The Good Tangerines, and Tom Kremer and Friends.

I also noticed a sadder side of the Open Stage. It was set up in 20 minute sets from 11- 4:30 on both Saturday and Sunday. In order to perform, you just needed to come to the Open Stage and sign up after 10 am on either day. We filled all the slots by 12:30 on each day. Once we were full there was a steady stream of disappointed people coming up to us to ask if there was any more room. Most people were quite polite, but for some there was an undercurrent of desparation and entitlement, that they must play at the open stage. Several people tried sweet talk or pleading, one tried to bribe us (didn’t work), and one young man asked who he should kill to take their spot. I told him that last time somebody tried that the corpse played anyway. There was also an unpleasant incident with someone who was determined to subvert the Open Stage into his own personal showcase stage (don’t ask). I’ve got to a stage as a performer that although I still feel the urge to share my music, if an open stage is full I can sometimes pass on performing for the night. It was a little sad to see the desparation of people to say “I performed at Mariposa”. Perhaps I see things this way because I have had the good fortune to be asked to play at this fine festival about 4 times since it returned to Orillia. But even when we are at other festivals as audience, I no longer feel compelled to sign up for the Open Stages. If the opportunity arises and I’m not listening to one of the other stages, I’m still happy to perform, but I don’t feel the compulsion to “be on the stage” that I witnessed at Mariposa.

The following weekend at the Canturbury Folk Festival in Ingersoll was magical. The whole town of Ingersoll pulls together to put on three days of FREE music and crafts in a beautiful downtown park next to a creek. The site is small enough that our daughter spent the whole weekend on the playground within eysight, while we sat and listened to the show. They had a great lineup of performers from all over Canada and the UK, but with a strong contingent of local performers. Congratulations to Ted Comiskey Artistic Director, and everybody who made the Canturbury Folk Festival such a magical weekend. We will definitely put it on our calendar for next year. I particularly enjoyed the mainstage sets by Tanglefoot, Wendell Ferguson, Ian Thomas, and Laura Vinson. In fact I have a Laura Vinson story to tell you.

As an 11 year old living in Ryley, Alberta, I would look out my window across the prairies, while listening to my Radio Shack Crystal Radio which I built from a kit, and dream of one day having a record or maybe my own radio show.
My parents bought me two presents for my 12th birthday: A Hohner classical guitar (which I still use in my Grade 2 classroom), and tickets to see Laura Vinson and Red Wing at the Holden Theatre (this would be about 1979). I was very excited by her performance, and after the show my mother and I spoke briefly with her. She was very encouraging, and I couldn’t wait to get home to practice my guitar. Alas, I tried to teach myself over the years and was not successful.
Then the guitar made the rounds through my brother, my mother and my sister, before returning to me around the time of my 25th birthday. My present to myself that year was guitar lessons. Over the years I have performed as a folk musician and children’s performer, first with covers and eventually writing enough original material to record a CD in my basement in 2003. About 1-1/2 years ago I started recording public-domain audio books for librivox.org, which led to producing my current podcasts (on demand Internet audio shows). I am just amazed that now at 39, I have both the record and the radio show, and I recorded them in my own basement! I was thrilled this weekend to sit down with Laura Vinson to record an upcoming episode of For the Sake of the Song.
Be sure to listen throughout August for Twisted August. These will be shows that I recorded at the Twisted Pines Music and Art Festival in Midland on the Victoria Day Weekend.
Release Date:

August 2: A double-header show with interviews with Paul Northcott and Deb Brown of the Twisted Pines Music and Art Festival l, and Nancy Dutra, a fine singer-songwriter from Toronto.
August 9: 6 time CCMA Guitar Player of the Year, jokester and all-round nice guy Wendell Ferguson
August 16: Political punk-folk provocateur Hamell on Trial
August 23: Magoo: Perennial favorite festival host, children’s entertainer and songwriter.

Other Upcoming Shows

July 25: Greg Hobbs
August 30: Luther Wright
September 6: Dan Frechette

Interviews recorded but not yet scheduled: Laura Vinson, Corin Raymond, Mark Blevis, Bob Ardern, David Bradstreet, The Good Tangerines, Peter Judd, Olivia Duck.

This should bring me into November. I’m trying to have shows scheduled up to Christmas by the time school starts in September.

I hope your enjoying the show so far. Feel free to send in requests for potential guests.

Six String Nation

July 1, 2007 © Sean McGaughey

 

C Am F G

Jowi dreamed of a way to tell our stories

C Am F G

from the humblest moments to a nation’s greatest glories

F F C C/B AM

From sea to sea to sea he crossed our land

F G C G7

Searching for fragments of our past.

 

George recalls arriving on our shores a refugee

dreaming of a future filled with opportunity,

Fifty years along he took the wood from near and far

Fashioning our nation’s guitar.

 

 

F G C C7

We are citizens of the six-string nation

F G C C7

Its song unites us across the generations

F F G

From the scoundrels to the saints

C C/B Am

we all belong

F G G7

Oh Canada, this is our song

G C

Oh Canada.

 

From the dance floor at Handhills Lake, to the seats of Massey Hall

St Boniface Museum, the Forum in Montreal

The Parliament Building, the lighthouse at Cape Grace

It’s part of your heritage. This is Canada.

 

Henderson, Macdondald, Lucy Maud Montgomery

John Ware, Nancy Green, Trudeau, Wayne Gretzky

Lawren Harris, Joe Lebobe, Jack London, and the Rocket

This special Canada Day episode of For the Sake of the Song consists of me playing the Six String Nation Guitar, my interview with Jowi Taylor, and the debut recording of my new song Six String Nation. Happy Canada Day. (Whew it’s 11:22 pm- I just got this out under the wire).

Songs:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

The Duct Tape Song (©1999 S. McGaughey)

Six String Nation (©2007 S. McGaughey)

Help us wish Derek K. Miller a Happy Birthday

Over IM this morning with Sean McGaughey he pointed out the recently Derek Miller of The Penmachine Podcast has a birthday fast approching! He has also received some news that isn’t so Happy. You can read about it on his blog, he has been amazingly open and honest, but I feel this is not the time or place to get into that in great detail. Anyways in light of all that we want to put togeher a bunch of Happy Birthday and Well Wishes for Derek. We need two things, first is some audio. Say whatever you want, from as simple as “Happy Birthday” or more personal if you choose. Mark Blevis has steped up to take on the task of editing it all together, so send your audio to (markblevis@gmail.com) markblevis (at) gmail (dot) com. We would like to keep it short so try and keep comments to 5-10 seconds each. The other thing we need is to get the word out. Twitter it, Blog it, whatever you can do to help. We would like it to be a surprise but it’s not the end of the world if it gets out and we get more response! Check back to this post for update on how it’s going or if there is any new information!

Pop it on Clipmarks and Digg it on Digg

There is now a K7 Voicemail number  206-666-4788!

18. Tod Maffin’s informal presentation of From Idea to Air in his hotel room.

17. Chatting with the Scarborough Dude over the fence after he got banned from the bar.

16. Julian stating a “universal truth” about podcasting then jumping on Tod Maffin’s bed.

15. Connie Crosby liveblogging the talks.

14. Meeting Nico, Terry Fallis, and John (Oops) Mark and Maureen from Baba’s Beach.

13. The Canadian Podcast buffet.

12. Todd Maffin may be the tech guru of Canada through his radio columns but when his Macbook crapped out 10 minutes before his presentation, he called Derek Miller in Victoria Burnaby to talk him through fixing it.

11. 86 books donated to Kingston Central School.

10. Jack Ward calling Hugh McGuire a communist during his presentation Audio Drama: It Just Might Save Your Life

9. Bill Deys’ chatroom

8. Todd Maffin on Youtube playing the cowbell with Uncle Seth.

7. Chris Penn donating a second H4 for Sunday’s draw.

6. Listening to the James Wittingham’s remote coverage on reginaradio.com.

5. My very tall 7 year old daughter running right under Mark’s legs. Man he’s tall.

4. Amaya and Charlotte laying their heads on Todd Maffin’s chest while he sat on the floor at the back of the room.

3. The spontaneous $291 raised by everyone when Bruce Murray’s camera was lost, and Chris Penn’s wonderful idea to donate the money to the school library when the camera was found.

2. Being the musical guest on Bill Deys 100th Deys cast.

1. Your podcast is not a #$#!!!!# toaster.

P.S. Since Nico won the second zoom H4 on Sunday, I’m going to start a Get Nico to Start a Podcast group on Facebook. Please join me.

My hearty thanks and congratulations go to all the presenters and especially to Bob, Mark, Cat and Andrea without whom PAB would not have happened. See you next year.

Some of the standout presentations for me were: How Podcasting Will Save the World by

Hugh McGuire, Five Low-cost or No-cost Treats For Your Sound by Bruce Murray, Audio Drama: It Just Might Save Your Life by Jack Ward and the notorious Broken Toasters, William Shatner and Podcast Burnout by Neil Gorman. I also got to attend the informal presentation of From Idea to Air: Making Radio Stories That Don’t Suck in Tod Maffin’s hotel room.

I had some great conversations with John and Maureen from Baba’s Beach, Tommy Vallier, Jay and Amaya from Uncle Seth, Terry Fallis, William Spaetzel, Nico, Barry from Barrie, Scarborough Dude, Vergel Evans, and I think I convinced Danielle Rossi to start up his long delayed podcast. I wowed everyone with the beryl desktop on Ubuntu on my laptop. I also recorded the 100th episode of the deyscast with Bill Deys. Congratulations Bill.

While I was at the conference, my wife and daughter hung out by the pool and shopped their way through downtown Kingston. A good time was had by all. I’m already counting the days until the next podcamp or PAB. Thanks everyone for a great weekend.

1. Why are you coming to PAB?
2. A little homework now: Which PAB registrants would you like to meet? Why?
3. Who is your “dream interview” for your podcast? Why?
4. Who would you like to interview at podcamp Podcasters Across Borders?
5. What is your, “Can’t miss it” session at podcamp Podcasters Across Borders?
6. What is your favorite podcast?
7. What is your favorite web resource?
8. Who is your favorite podsafe musician? (eg. Sean McGaughey).
9. Ginger or Maryanne?
10. Bob, Mark, or Tod?

Edit: I goofed. I recycled- revised this from a meme I wrote for Toronto Podcamp and I didn’t take out all the Podcamp references. Sorry.

Here’s a brief rundown.

June 15: Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life: Rotary Waterfront Part, Penetanguishene: 10:30 pm

June 16: North Simcoe Children’s Festival: Penetanguishene Museum 10:30-2:30 On stage at 12:30

June 16 and 17: Volunteering and podcasting at the Minesing Unplugged Festival.

June 23 and 24: Attending the Podcasters Across Borders convention in Kingston, Ontario.

July 4: Ontario Early Years Centre Fifth Anniversary Picnic: Join us for a family celebration at the Park to celebrate 5 years! We will have fun activities for families, snack, craft, circle time and story time. Sign up and join in the fun! 10:00-1:00 COUCHICHING PARK, ORILLIA

July 6: Ontario Early Years Centre Fifth Anniversary Picnic: Little Lake Park, Midland:  11am-1pm

July 7: Mariposa Folk Festival: Open Stage Volunteer– Children’s Music Workshop 11 am

July 8: Mariposa Folk Festival: Open Stage Volunteer– Children’s Music Workshop 3 pm

Dudley George was killed by a police sniper in a botched OPP raid on the peaceful protest.

11 years later a provincial inquiry has finally published its results. Here is a brief summary from a CBC report.

Ipperwash inquiry spreads blame for George’s death

“The government of former Ontario premier Mike Harris, Ottawa and the OPP all bear responsibility for events that led to the 1995 death of Dudley George, the head of the Ipperwash inquiry said Thursday.”

At the time of the Ipperwash protest, I wrote “Borrowed Land” to summarize my feelings on the issue. I recorded it on my CD. Have a listen.

You can find Daily Breakfast #300 – Stream Me Up, Scotty here.

See you there.

week, I am the featured artist on the Buffalo Live! Music Podcast with Doc Wu. He interviewed me about my performance and my music. A good portion of our discussion concerned Librivox. He certainly puts in a good word for me and Librivox on the podcast (not to mention playing a whole whack of my music ) .

Listen here.

For a surprise Christmas gift, I recorded the novel White Trash Land by my brother-in-law, Andrew Beatty. Andrew wrote the book a couple years ago and you can read the whole thing on his blog.

The recording of White Trash Land will soon be available as a podcast novel on podiobooks.com. .
Think of it as an old-fashioned radio serial with the internet. Stay tuned for announcements of how to listen to the podcast novel chapter by chapter.

Listen below for the official

White Trash Land trailer #1

and

White Trash Land trailer #2

Feel free to download these trailers for use on your podcast.

More details about the Saturday Night Music and Schmooze: http://podcamptoronto.pbwiki.com/SaturdayNightEvent.

The Gig is on Saturday February 24 at about 9pm. There is no cover charge that night, so come on down if you are in the Toronto area. As most of the audience are podcasters, I’m sure there will be many recordings of the concert.

This could be an opportunity to expose my music to a whole new audience.

Although I’ve long said that all my music here is podcast safe, I set up a new account with the Podsafe Music Network. After only one week, my Duct Tape song was played on the Living with Mungo Podcast.

My new Librivox Community Podcast is now up. I Co-hosted this with Kristin from Librivox. Download the MP3 file here

Hosts Sean (ductapeguy) and Kristin (Kri)

Librivox theme

Duet- I Do Not Love The — A mash up of ductapeguy and Kri’s first
recordings for Librivox

Opening Comments (Kri)

Librivox Promo: Katyleah and her brothers.

Interview about Librilinks with Hugh, Kri and Sean

How Do I Love Thee? — ductapeguy

The Public Domain EP

Meaning Isn’t Based On The Importance Of Being, But On The Relationships
In Between].

Two Loves by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Esther and Mike Lockwood

Promo of Favorite Chapters Collection– Earthcalling

Promo– Hugh, Sean and Kri: Feb. 24 and 25, 2007

Weekly Statistics — TBOL3

Closing Comments- Kri

Closing Credits– Ductapeguy

I forgot to mention that like all the other cool kids, I have a page
on myspace at: http://www.myspace.com/seanmcgaughey

In the last 1-1/2 years, I have been very busy with a new workplace, a
new home, listening to a million podcasts, booking acts for a folk club,
recording public domain audio-books for Librivox.org, spending time with
my wife and daughter, and rediscovering my faith.

In an attempt to rediscover this blog, I will start to answer the
question: So what have you been up to?

Funny you should ask.

1. On the music front, my entire CD and several newer songs are available
   on my EZFOLK.COM site. http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/600/
2. Last December 26, one of my songs, Homeless  Babe was included on a list of 128 CC licensed Christmas Songs on Some Rights Reserved, the blog of Uwe Hermann, a German Debian developer. The article was featured on boingboing!   This led to over 1500 downloads throughout the year. The song is
   currently the #1 all-time downloaded Christmas song on Ezfolk.com.
3. I still maintain my classroom webpage, but at a different school. Mr. McGaughey’s Grade 2 class  http://par.scdsb.on.ca/classes/mcgaughey
4. I have been recording chapters of public domain audiobooks for Librivox.org. Over 2500 people from around the world are volunteering to try torecord ALL PUBLIC DOMAIN WRITINGS and release them as free
   audiobooks. My (somewhat out of date) page on librivox is http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DuctapeGuy
   . Some of my contributions to librivox include: Host of Librivox Community Podcast

   Episode  5: October 12, 2006

   Episode 6: October 19, 2006

   Short Poetry

   I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

   “Danse Russe” by William Carlos Williams,Weekly Poetry August 14, 2006

   Collaborative Books

   Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell

   Chapter 18 – Going for the Doctor

   Chapter 19 – Only Ignorance

   The Junior Classics [vol 1] – by William Patten: Fairy and Wonder Tales

   Boots and the Princess- done

   The Bear And the Fox – done

   Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

   10 – The Old House – 00:19:31

   20000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne

   Chapter 08. “Mobilis in Mobili” – Done August 14, 2006

   Chapter 09. The Tantrums of Ned Land – Done August 15, 2006

   Chapter 10. The Man of the Waters – Done August 16, 2006

5. Mundy’s Bay Folk Society: http://mundysbay.ca  For 17 years, the Mundy’s Bay Folk Society has provided live Music in the community of Midland, Ontario. I book the bands and take care of the web page for them. (Please come out to see the wonderful Toronto roots-country songwriter Greg Hobbs on November 24, 2006.

It’s time for supper. I will continue with this thread another day.

Check out my music at  

13 Burke St.


Penetanguishene


ON, L9M 1C1


705-549-2150


Fax:(705) 549-7542


Take HWY-93 into Penetanguishene.

HWY-93 becomes Main Street in Penetanguishene. You will go down the hill, straight through downtown and to the waterfront.

Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto BECK BLVD.


Turn RIGHT onto BURKE ST.


The museum is a beautiful old white building surrounded by a picket fence. There are parking lots on both sides of Burke Street.