Thank God It's Free Range!

Slow Spirit's excellent new album That's The Gods Talking is out today and Natalie and Eric from the group joined me to discuss making the record and made a pair of selections to showcase the album.

Romi Mayes is set to release her latest album Small Victories at the West End on July 26th and she joins me on the show to discuss making it before the show.

It's Folk Fest! I'll be out at Birds' Hill catching the artists I spotlighted on last week's show but I've recorded a pair of interviews with more artists who will be playing the festival on Saturday July 13th - Saddle Lake Cree Nation's Tia Wood and New Orelans-based duo The Lostines.

Featuring rebroadcasts of a pair of Festival Express interviews with Eno Williams from Ibibio Sound Machine and Anthony Pirog of The Messthetics, both of whom are playing the Winnipeg Folk Festival next Friday night.

In conjunction with Fondation Dialogue Foundation, UMFM is pleased to air the 2024 "Tout pour la musique" concert.

Tout pour la musique (TPLM) is a celebration of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day which takes place within the Canadian Francophonie. Produced by Productions Rivard and broadcast on the Web and on the radio, this show invites all Canadians to unite and demonstrate their pride and solidarity with the Francophonie.

To mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, I've got a ton of great new music from Indigenous artists including the radio debut of a new Indian City track.

Plus I'm joined by U of M Masters student in the Desaultels Faculty of Music, Taylor Burns, who is participating in the (Art) Song Lab on campus next week and drops by the station to explain what it's all about. Then Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog, a married duo who have a lot of musical projects discuss their latest Janel & Anthony album, New Moon in the Evil Age, which comes out on Cuneiform next week and finally, Michele ii of Boniface talks about next week's show at the WAG / Quamajuq rooftop and working on new music.

Featuring interviews from Drew from Witch Hazel, who are set to release their EP Casa Rosso at The Handsome Daughter tonight, with singer-songwriter Shannon Lay and with former Winnipegger Beatox, who returns to town to play the Winnipeg Jazz Festival.

Kelly Hughes discusses launching The Valiant Theatre, and the fundraising event happening at the West End Cultural Centre on June 14th.

Just new tunes