The Kingston Curator

Join Lauren and Mary as they jump into coverage of the upcoming Skeleton Park Arts Festival, featuring interviews with Boris Baker of local indie-rock band Kasador in advance of their festival performance, and with SPAF Artistic Director Greg Tilson for more about the fast-approaching event.

Plus, it’s Pride Weekend, and Kingston’s Queen of Wheat, drag performer Rowena Whey, joins us in advance of this weekend’s Pride Drag Brunch. Mary chats with Tyler electrifying nostalgia of the Dwayne Gretzky band on their upcoming show at McKinnon Brothers Brewery.

Later, we keep the Spring Reverb accomplishement going, featuring a retrospective interview with performer Vikki Minor, on the course of her mini-Ontario tour.

You can tune into every Friday at 3pm to hear the Kingston Curator live, only on 101.9fm CFRC!

Our theme music is “Mathematics Monument and The Guide to Making Friends” by Julia Lynn Sepúlveda, found here: https://soundcloud.com/julialb/mathematics-monument-and-the-guide-to-making-friends

This week we’re coming to you with a multitude of wonderful conversations across a stretch of creative disciplines. With Spring Reverb having come and gone, Lauren shares a post-show interview with Greg MacPherson from Saturday afternoon at Musiikki Cafe, and Mary chats with Nick Lennox of The Wilderness about their headlining show and upcoming music.

Stay tuned after that for Mary’s live music calendar and interview with Rhéni Tauchid, co-director and curator of the Tri-Art Gallery, about their ongoing exhibition, Flourish.

Later, Lauren brings us two interviews for upcoming events: one featuring Artistic Director Tricia Knowles of the Calliope Collective about performance art piece HYDRA: The Spirit of Water, and another with co-hosts of the Screening Room’s 24-Hour Trash Cinema Telethon, Dan Simpson (of Eyebrow Cinema on YouTube) and Jordan Richards (Screening Room Projectionist). All that, plus your headlines and live music calendar on CFRC’s The Kingston Curator, every Friday!

Our theme music is “Mathematics Monument and The Guide to Making Friends” by Julia Lynn Sepúlveda, found here: https://soundcloud.com/julialb/mathematics-monument-and-the-guide-to-making-friends

Spring Reverb kicks off this weekend in downtown Kingston, and Lauren & Mary are here to bring you the latest- featuring interviews with alt-rock group Monach, Kelsey McNulty of dream-pop project Good Fortune, and our first returning guest, Tom Savage of the Savage Family Band and Dead Root Revival.

Plus, two new events will be hitting Kingston in the coming week – the Festival of Live Digital Art, and the Art of Community: Tett Tuesday Exhibition. Join Lauren for conversations with co-curator of FOLDA Michael Wheeler, and curators of the Art of Community, Sasha Jiminez French and Alice Melo, for the sco0p on what to look forward to. As always stay tuned for headlines and your live music calendar, and tune into CFRC 101.9fm Fridays at 3pm to catch us on the air!

Our theme music is “Mathematics Monument and The Guide to Making Friends” by Julia Lynn Sepúlveda, found here: https://soundcloud.com/julialb/mathematics-monument-and-the-guide-to-making-friends

This week we’ve got a wide selection of local arts content and conversations coming your way! Lauren sits down with Spring Reverb performers Greg MacPherson, and Nick and Karl of The Wilderness. Plus, check out conversations with the lead artist of “Sounding Board”, Heather Poechman, and the creator of the new musical The Lancanshire Lass, Leslie Arden. Mary visits Art After Dark participating artist Joanne Gervais, interviews Kingston’s godfather of funk Kakaow, and brings you your local live music calendar. All that and more on this episode of The Kingston Curator!

Our theme music is “Mathematics Monument and the Guide to Making Friends” by Julia Lynn Sepúlveda, found here: https://soundcloud.com/julialb/mathematics-monument-and-the-guide-to-making-friends

Gord Sinclair of the Tragically Hip joins Lauren to talk about his new album and upcoming solo gig at Spring Reverb 2023. Also on CFRC, Lisa Leskien at the Tett shares her current creative insight, and the Juno-nominated Miss Emily talks about her May 19th gig at the Isabel, featuring a live performance. Plus, Mary chats with local musician Tom Savage about an unfortunate theft, but shares some highlights to look forward to, among your local music calendar and the latest headlines.

Our theme music is “Mathematics Monument and The Guide to Making Friends” by Julia Lynn Sepúlveda, found here: https://soundcloud.com/julialb/mathematics-monument-and-the-guide-to-making-friends

This episode is an Aqua Nova special, including interviews with each member of the Aqua Nova Collective; musician Sadaf Amini, dancer Kay Kenny, artistic director Don Maynard, and filmographer Josh Lyon. Aqua Nova will be an hour long performance of music, dance, and large-scale video projections, in the foyer of the Isabel Bader Centre on the evenings of September 10 and 11th. The team gets into how this project got started, the details of each of their roles, and more.

Be sure to check out Aqua Nova for free at the Isabel on September 10-11 from 7:30-9:30.

check out their website here.

In this episode, Chris sits down with local artists Ben Darrah, Mark Laundry, and Mark Birksted at the Window Art Gallery to talk about their current exhibition Unity Road Four. This is their second exhibition as a group, along with their fourth member Ann Clarke. They get into sharing studio space, each of their respective works, how they chose what they would present in their second exhibition as a team, and more.

Be sure to check out Unity Road Four at the Window Art Gallery until August 30th!

This week, Chris sits down with drag artists Tyffanie Morgan, Hillary Yaas, and Selena Vyle to talk all things drag, including the local Kingston scene, some drag hot takes, advice for baby queens just getting started, and more.

In this episode, host Chris Lawrie caps off the series of interviews with the 2022 local artists-in-residence at The Kingston Grand Theatre with Zoë Sweet and Sophia Fabiilli. Along with their teammate Sarah Kitz, they worked throughout their residency to produce a one woman show. They talk about their favourite experiences as artists-in-residence, the inspiration behind their show, how they came together as a team, and more.

In this episode Chris sits down with Sadie McFadden, the lead singer of local indie rock band Hinterwood. She has lots to share fresh off of their East Coast tour and the CFRC Centennial Concert!