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Collette Savard is a singer-songwriter with two CDs out, Zen Boyfriend and Most Improved Cheerleader.  She performs as a duo with her producer, multi-instrumentalist, John Zytaruk. They came to my school last week courtesy of Stellula Music as part of their Music in the Schools Week.  At the end of the week, Collette, John and I sat down for a long discussion touching on songwriting, arranging, passing the music on to the younger generation, copyright and more. Enjoy.

Songs:

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

Used to Be Girl  (© Collette Savard)

Maybe Tonight (© Collette Savard)

Links:

Collette Savard on MySpace

Collette Savard – official website

John Zytaruk’s Homepage

John Zytaruk on MySpace

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I’m playing a few Irish tunes at our parish St. Patrick’s Day social tonight.  This afternoon I thought I would practic… er perform the set live on ustream.  Enjoy

 For the Sake of the Song with Jill Jambor [22:54m]: Play in Popup | Download (2671)

Jill Jambor is a young singer-songwriter in Central Ontario who released her first album, ‘to give you an idea’ last year.  I spoke with her when we shared a bill at a Strawberry Festival this summer.

Songs:

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

Mood for Love (© Jill Jambor)

Those Shoes   (© Jill Jambor)

Links:

Jill Jambor webpage

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 For the Sake of the Song with Paul Quarrington [50:02m]: Play in Popup | Download (3504)

January 21, 2010: Today the great Canadian author, musician and raconteur, Paul Quarrington passed away at the age of 56 after a long battle with lung cancer.  Paul has long been  one of my favorite novelists, and he was a mighty fine songwriter as well.  I was honored to interview him for my podcast a couple of year ago. I first released this show on April 8, 2008.

Safe Journey Paul.  May you rest in peace.

For many years I have enjoyed the novels of Paul Quarrington. Paul is a Canadian author who has written novels, magazine articles, screenplays and songs for over 30 years. He has received the prestigious Governor General’s Literary award for English Fiction and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. In the early 80′s, he had a number 1 Canadian single with Martin Worthy as Quarrington-Worthy. He and Martin Worthy also toured for many years with Joe Hall and The Continental Drift. They are still together as the core of Pork Belly Futures, which also includes Chas Elliot, Stuart Laughton and Rebecca Campbell.

This episode of For the Sake of the Song is a bit unusual. In November, Pork Belly Futures played a benefit concert for the Twisted Pines Music Festival in Penetanguishene. Paul Quarrington and Claire Cameron also did public readings at the Midland and Penetanguishene public libraries. Their day was so tightly booked that I could not record a dedicated 1/2 hour interview with Paul. Instead, you will hear us at the library readings, performances by Pork Belly Futures at the concert that evening, and short interviews with Paul Quarrington, Martin Worthy and Chas Elliot.

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Songs:

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

A Reading from King Leary (1987) (© Paul Quarrington)

Gladstone Hotel (© Paul Quarrington)

Bon Vivant (© Paul Quarrington)

Gladstone Hotel (© Paul Quarrington)

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 For the Sake of the Song with Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers [46:41m]: Play in Popup | Download (3041)

Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers are individually known as the cream of Canada’s blues and rock performers.  A few years ago they got together and realized that they have incredible chemistry together as an acoustic duo. I spoke with Dawn and Paul during Stellula Music in the Schools week.

Dawn Tyler Watson Official Webpage

Dawn Tyler Watson on MySpace

Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers Duo Webpage

Paul Deslauriers Official Website

Paul Deslauriers on MySpace

Songs:

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

Hey, Hey, My, My ( ©Dawn Tyler Watson)

Try it Again  (©Paul Deslauriers)

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This story is too random and too cool to fully explain.  Go ahead, try to explain the story in this podcast to your 1990 self.  I bet you can’t do it.  It began for me on November 24 when I received this tweet from Adam Gratrix @transpondency of the Transpondency Podcast.

“RIAA’s Crafty King of Carrowocky http://bit.ly/7tgD4O mashup ft. @Sean_McGaughey http://bit.ly/7H9IL5 Librivox reading of Jabberwocky.”

Listen to the show to hear what happened next.

Links in this show:

Jabberwocky on Librivox.org

Mr. Fab: The Crafty King of Carrowocky

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I was blown away by the Great Wooden Trio at the Mariposa Folk Festival.  The Great Wooden Trio is actually has 4 members, an acoustic folk trio accompanied by a storyteller.  One of their two songwriters, Kevin Morse and I  talked about songwriting and passed around my  Ron Belanger crafted guitar in my favorite baseball dugout.

Great Wooden Trio blog:  thegreatwoodentrio.blogspot.com/

Great Wooden Trio on Myspace: www.myspace.com/greatwoodentrio

Songs:

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

Meadowlands (© Kevin Morse)

Spanking George (© Kevin Morse)

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