Georgian Bay Roots

It's all Summerfolk all the time in this week's episode of Georgian Bay Roots Radio! Join host Kailey Jane Hawkins as spins tracks from artists playing at this year's festival! Featuring tracks by Loreena McKennitt, Scott Cook, Redfox, Mimi O'Bonsawin, Matt Andersen, Digging Roots, Shane Pendergast, Mia Kelly, Julian Taylor and Serena Ryder!

Fooling around on April Fool's weekend, time traveling back to Summerfolk 1988 to check in with Parsons Green, which of course leads us straight to Bryan Leckie and the Krueger Band. From there we fast forward to the future and the summer with new cuts from Summerfolk 2021 alum Caleigh Cardinal and Electric Eclectics alums U.S. Girls and Hackedepiccioto (Heartwood, April 15th be there!).

The hour is rounded out by keeping it hyper local spinning a brand new Andy Elliott moment, a salute to B.A. Johnston, singing along with Urban Waters (Hail Guadalupe!), putting on our sailing shoes with Jayden Grahlman, getting down with The AB3 and, saving the best for last: an extra special 3 pack of tunes from Meafordite Bill Monahan's Greatest Hits 1977-2022 collection.

This week on Georgian Bay Roots, our host, Kelly Babcock, looks back at the acts he has had the pleasure to introduce as an MC on Summerfolk stages. It's an eclectic mix, no surprise there, just like the mix of music you'd expect at Summerfolk itself. There's familiar names and there's folks that don't get as much air time here at Georgian Bay Roots, but there's nothing on the show this week that doesn't deserve a spin so grab this podcast and see if you don't find something familiar and something new that you like.

This week's show features music from Owen Sound's Al Walker, from British guitarist Davy Graham, Pentangle, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Marianne Girard, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Sierra Hull, Molly Tuttle and Rob Green.

We've got a whole slew of great music on this week's show -- new music sent into the show's email inbox, old favourites from Summerfolks of the past, tracks from local friends, and tracks from artists playing at this year's Mariposa Folk Festival! Get all caught up on what's happening right here on this week's episode of Georgian Bay Roots Radio! Featuring tracks by Feist, David Hawkins, The Pairs, William Prince, Dizzy and Fay, Matt Andersen, Steve Poltz, the JD Edwards Band, Jayden Grahlman, Larry Jensen, Andy Elliott, Adrian Sutherland and Justin Rutledge!

As a belated celebration of Black History month the show howls to life with a deep dive into the music of a big musician with local ties: Eugene Smith. Tune in to hear a deep cut from the '64 CHUM charts with Jay & the Majestics, a scorcher from Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks in '65 (the year Eugene joined the band), one from his '81 album Warmin' Up, with the Warm Up Band, on Pickering Ontario's Warm Up Records (inner sleeve printed at Bennett Press, Collingwood), a jam of Eugene's that found its way onto an episode of Miami Vice starring Phil Collins and, to wrap up the segment on Eugene and this celebration of Black History month, a Black power anthem from the hardest working man in show business himself, featuring Eugene's dad on bass!

The rest of the show is comprised of a nod to two exemplary humans, one of which who lives in Grey County, that will be receiving honorary degrees from UofT, a digression into a little Southern Ontario queer history centered around a woman named Sara Ellen Dunlop and transmuted through the music of All We Can Give and Mamaquilla II, before wrapping up with a look ahead to Mariposa 2023 (Rufus Wainwright!) and Hackedepicciotto at the upcoming Electric Eclectics takeover of Heartwood in April.

Listen and enjoy!

Georgian Bay Roots #332 February 26 2023 (with Kelly) by Georgian Bay Roots

This week's show is dedicated to love songs. The playlist includes: Case of You, Joni Mitchell; We Make Love, David Sereda; Dave Gunning and JP Cormier, Kate 'O The Gowrie; Isabel Fryszberg and the Uncommons, Distance; Nanci Griffith, Love At The Five And DIme; Steve Goodman and Jethro Burns, The Dutchman; The Bombadils, Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming; Kate Wolf, Green Eyes; Valdy, Renaissance.

It's all about feeling the love this week on Georgian Bay Roots Radio! This week's show has songs about romantic love, that feeling of new love, love between friends and more. You can catch it all here. Featuring music by Valdy, The Good Lovelies, Dave Hawkins, Coco Love Alcorn, Drew McIvor, Eric Nagler, Donovan Woods, Sharon Lois and Bram, Christine Lavin, The Barra MacNeils, John Prine, Joel Plaskett, Jayden Grahlman and a brand new track from William Prince!

This time it's roughly divided into three hefty slabs of sound; new to newish earworms from local, and playing locally, acts, a very special song from the movie Cult Hero and two indulgent tangents from said Cult Hero song before rounding out the show with a few tracks from DEEP in the vaults.

In the new earworms section: Doug Paisley, Ansley Simpson, Charlie Glasspool & Sarah McInnis, The Sadies and a DJ Shub remix of Aysanabee. Under Cult Hero you'll find the cast of said movie singing The Ascension Song, followed by the Sherri Jackson Band and Martin Tielli (from the soundtrack to Psycho Pike!). In the final segment, Elmore James, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Manitas de Plata, one from a Winnipeg outfit called Sugar & Spice (featuring a young Brian Miessner!), before wrapping it up all up with a track from Ruby Waters.