For the month of February, to mark Black History Month, TGIFR will be including special programming hosted by retired Senator Don Oliver, courtesy of fellow campus/community radio station 99.3 County FM (Prince Edward County, ON) as part of the broadcast. This episode features guest Hon. Mayann Francis, the 31st Lieutenant Governer of Nova Scotia.

Plus an interview with soul singer Kendra Morris about her new album Nine Lives.

For the month of February, to mark Black History Month, TGIFR will be including special programming hosted by retired Senator Don Oliver, courtesy of fellow campus/community radio station 99.3 County FM (Prince Edward County, ON) as part of the broadcast. This episode features guest Tiffany Callender, co-founder and CEO of the Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE).

For the month of February, to mark Black History Month, TGIFR will be including special programming hosted by retired Senator Don Oliver, courtesy of fellow campus/community radio station 99.3 County FM (Prince Edward County, ON) as part of the broadcast. This episode features guest Portia White, aunt to Oliver and great-aunt to George Elliott Clarke. Although the celebrated contralto performed in concert halls around the world, she was refused accommodation in a hotel in her home province of Nova Scotia.

And in the second half of the show, I speak to Daniel Monkman of Zoon about his new project OMBIIGIZI.

For the month of February, to mark Black History Month, TGIFR will be including special programming hosted by retired Senator Don Oliver, courtesy of fellow campus/community radio station 99.3 County FM (Prince Edward County, ON) as part of the broadcast. This episode features guest George Elliott Clarke.
Plus, I'm joined by Ultra Mega's JD Ormond to discuss the new album Panis Angelicus.

No talks, just tunes tonight.

Also, here's the link to the fundraiser comp I mention on the show.

Greg Spero discussed the forthcoming Ropeadope release, The Chicago Experiment which finds the label returning to an interesting idea that began two decades ago in Philadelphia and which finds Spero collaborating with longtime friend (and no stranger to TGIFR audiences) Makaya McCraven.

The (almost) annual JTTP/Time To Play feature with jef chippewa checking in from Berlin

On the show tonight I talk to UK jazz artist Theon Cross about his latest album, Intra-I, a well as the path that led him to this record.