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Barry Keane is a drummer/percussionist and toured with Gordon Lightfoot for over 47 years. He was born in Philadelphia, PA and currently lives in Unionville, Ontario, Canada.

Barry is a former record executive and has been a studio musician for the past 55 years. His recording studio credits include such artists as Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray, Shania Twain, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Carole King, Dan Hill, Ian Thomas, Roger Whittaker, April Wine, Ian Tyson, and THP Orchestra to name a few.

Barry has played at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, The Ryman Auditorium, and Massey Hall, as well as at The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Newport Folk Festival and Mariposa.

Barry has appeared on hundreds of TV shows including Saturday Night Live, The Jimmy Fallon Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Midnight Special, Entertainment Tonight and was the house band drummer on The Ronnie Prophet Show, Grand Old Country and The Tommy Hunter Show where he backed country greats such as Dolly Parton, George Jones, Hank Williams Jr. and legends Brenda Lee, Merle Travis and Floyd Cramer. He has co-hosted several sports radio shows with Roger Lajoie on the Fan 590.

Rick Haynes is a bass player, born in Toronto and currently living in Mississauga, Ontario.

Music has always been a big part of Rick’s life. Some of his earliest recollections are of being seated beside his mom, an accomplished classical pianist, on a piano bench, listening while she played.

Rick started his career playing in iconic Toronto R&B bands like The Imperials and The Majestics. In 1968, he changed musical paths and began recording and touring with Gordon Lightfoot. Rick has played on most of Gordon’s albums, starting with “Sunday Concert” and including “Sundown” and “Summertime Dream” and is the bass player on many of Lightfoot’s hits including “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Carefree Highway”, “Beautiful” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. Rick was also the co-producer of Gordon’s “Harmony” album.

Rick has performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, The Ryman Auditorium, Hollywood Bowl, Massey Hall, and at The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Newport and Mariposa Folk Festivals, while continuously touring with Gordon all over North America, Europe, and Australia.

He has appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Midnight Special, The Jimmy Fallon Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Johnny Cash Show, The Katie Couric Show, and The David Frost Show to name a few.

In 2012, Rick accompanied Gordon Lightfoot at his induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame produced by Phil Ramone.

Rick recorded and toured with Gordon Lightfoot for over 55 years.

Mike Heffernan was born in Kitchener, Ontario and raised in Montreal and the Toronto area. He currently lives in the Toronto area.

Musical Background: Mike played guitar in bands until age 18 but was always intrigued by the piano and the Hammond organ. His father was a professional piano player, so Mike picked up a lot of technique and theory just by watching and listening. As a keyboard player he went on to perform and record with a number of Canadian artists.

History with Gordon Lightfoot: Mike was called in for a session in early November 1980 to record the theme song for a movie Gord had just acted in: “Harry Tracy Desperado.” The session evolved into an audition and Mike was officially hired on December 23, 1980. His first show with the band was at the Mill Run Theatre in Chicago in January ’81 and the first album he appeared on was Shadows. Mike played in Gord’s band for forty-one years.

Highlights With Gord: Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, Massey Hall in Toronto.

Bill Bell is a guitarist, musical director, and producer, born in Oakville, Ontario, and currently living in Toronto.

Music has been a lifelong passion for Bill. He began playing guitar at 9 yrs old and over the years has developed a deep appreciation for tone, songwriting, and live performance.

Over the course of his career, Bill has worked with a wide range of internationally recognized artists. He spent more than a decade as musical director and guitarist for Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, touring extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America while performing on major television programs and world stages.

Bill has also performed and recorded with many notable Canadian artists, including Tom Cochrane and Andy Kim, and is known as a versatile and enthusiastic collaborator both on stage and in the studio.

Bill’s guitar style is rooted in clarity, feel, and respect for the song, making him well suited to performing and preserving the character of Gordon Lightfoot’s music.

Bill now performs as guitarist with The Lightfoot Band, where he is dedicated to honoring the integrity, spirit, and timeless quality of Gordon Lightfoot’s songs.

Andy Mauck is from Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. He started playing guitar when he was about 14 – Andy attributes his interest in learning to play the guitar to when he first heard the songs of Gordon Lightfoot. He learned by playing and singing along with his records and music became a passion in his life that has carried on to this day.

After high school Andy worked a variety of jobs, including scuba instructor and bartender. His career later turned in a more formal direction when he became a Project Engineer for a large fire truck manufacturer, designing, coordinating and constructing the custom-ordered trucks. Andy left that job to start his own business, designing and manufacturing unique, high-end mini buses used in the entertainment industry. His customers included Alan Jackson, Quincy Jones, George Foreman, Disney, and other high-profile clients. Andy enjoyed more success creating designs used in the luxury auto industry.

Andy retired to the US Virgin Islands and later to Punta Gorda Florida. In recent years, after playing music for fun for decades, he began playing bar gigs – always showcasing Lightfoot tunes.

Andy met Gord and the band in 1976, and in the following years got to know them well. “My idols became my friends, and now I am beyond honored to join them in keeping Gord’s songs alive on stage”.

Running time: 38 minutes.

Date:25 October 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s1.e8.GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – WARMER & WETTER As the climate changes, how will the Great Lakes watershed be transformed? Will it still sustain its great diversity of flora and fauna?

The effects on climate generated by human activity have scientifically changed the world and the way we live in it. The Great Lakes basin ice formation is undergoing changes.

Sapna Sharma, Associate Professor, Biology, of York University in Toronto files a data report. Former NHL player and coach, Gene Ubriaco, recalls the colder winters of his youth in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, as they prepared him for a career in the professional leagues. Sound and visual artist, Paul Walde, Visual Arts Professor at University of Victoria, B.C., has chronicled the patterns of climate change in this century, through art and performance. Music by soulful folk singer Jeremie Albino, a protest song from 1962 and Malvina Reynolds, legendary Stompin’ Tom Connors, and Bruce Cockburn.

s1.e8. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music & Art Credits

Painting: ‘James St. Rink’ by Gene Ubriaco

Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Diamonds
Album – Precious Diamonds
Artist/Composer – Adrian Sutherland

Title – Wildfire
Album – Hard Time
Artist/Composer – Jeremie Albino

Title – Sequence
Album – Requiem For A Glacier
Artist – The Requiem Volunteer Orchestra and Chorus
Composer – Paul Walde

Title – 6th Symphony Pastoral
Composer – Beethoven

Title – What Have They Done To The Rain
Album – Malvina Reynolds… Sings The Truth
Artist/Composer – Malvina Reynolds

Title – The Hockey Song
Album – Stompin’ Tom and the Hockey Song
Artist/Composer – Stompin’ Tom Connors

Title – La Manouche
Album – Gypsy Guitars
Artist/Composer – Angelo Debarre

Title – The Skater’s Waltz
Artist – Nino DiPasquo
Composer – Émile Waldteufel

Title – Nightmare
Album – The Complete Clyde McCoy on Columbia: Sugar Blues
Artist – Clyde McCoy Orchestra
Composer – Gordon Jenkins/Leni Reed Riley

Title – Free To Funk
Album – Soul Jazz Records: Future Bass
Artist/Composer – Sub Version

Title – The Performative Nature of the Urban Landscape No.1
Album – The Performative Nature of the Urban Landscape No.1
Artist/Composer – Paul Walde

Title – 1st Movement Northern Symphony
Album – Northern Symphony Live Aeolian Hall
Artist – Northern Symphony
Composer – Paul Walde

Title – 5th Movement Northern Symphony
Album – Northern Symphony Live Aeolian Hall
Artist – Northern Symphony
Composer – Paul Walde

Title – Tract
Album – Requiem For A Glacier
Artist – The Requiem Volunteer Orchestra and Chorus
Composer – Paul Walde

Title – Experimental Music Unit
Album – Land Sea Sky
Artist – Paul Walde
Composer – Paul Walde

Title – Glacial Stereo Track
Album – Glacial
Artist – Paul Walde
Composer – Paul Walde

Title – To Keep The World We Know
Album – O Sun O Moon
Artist – Bruce Cockburn ft. Susan Aglukark

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:25 October 2026 .

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER is powered by the support of Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

CANADIAN BLUESMEN TONY D. & DAVID GOGO

Tony D – Everybody Wants To Get To Heaven

Tony D – Ride Til I Die

Tony D – Hot Little Momma

Tony D – Wild About You

Tony D – Trouble In Paradise

Tony D – Sugar Coated Love

Tony D – You Don’t See The Blues Like Me

Tony D – Not A Day Goes By

Tony D – Wonderfull Site

David Gogo – West Coast

David Gogo – Deep End

David Gogo – Bullet Proof Vest

David Gogo – This Time

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER with dj Danny Mott

The blues tradition began in North America, coming out of the very soul of the earth. Blood, sweat and tears enriched the fertile ground that formed the roots that fed the soul of the people. It exuded itself through the music, we are the blues.

Having grown up on the borderline of the USA, and picking up that great late night blues radio, coming clear from Detroit and Chicago, we grew up accustomed to blues power. It was coming from everywhere. It makes for a vast reservoir of musical knowledge and experience to draw from.

Livewire Blues Power plays classic recordings from the all-time blues greats, as well as blues from around the world rooted in the tradition, and Livewire Blues Power also introduces the music of the Soo’s blues artists to blues fans everywhere.

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE BLUES, YA GOTTA HOLE IN YER SOUL”

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott

“Some get stoned. Some get strange. Sooner or later it all gets real. Walk on.”

Date:23 October 2026 .

Money matters, as a noun and as a verb. Money matters a lot as a matter of fact. We know it’s important, but at what cost? The discussion is about dealing with money and living a full life, simultaneously. Is it about amassing wealth at all costs? Is it about spending time doing all the things money lets you? Where is the balance that money matters leave room for life? There are a lot of factors to consider. The ladies invite Financial Planner, Jodi Nastor, to help solve the equation.

Date:22 October 2026 .

Randy Russon and Brad Coccimiglio co-host The Hockey North Show. They recap the week of hockey action in Ontario and elsewhere. With in-depth coverage of the Ontario Hockey League and the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League.

Kevin Cain follows with The Hockey Scratch Podcast.

In this issue: News on the Sault Indians of the Michigan Amateur Association being shut down for the season. The OHL review includes the East v West disparity and what teams are the early surprises of the league? More on Cornwall for expansion and giving some love to goaltenders around the O.

Date:21 October 2026 .

Kimberly Love is the CEO of Viking Queens and a radio host on Crushing 40, Impact Radio USA. She speaks to coaches, experts, and celebrities daily to inspire listeners to change their lives. When she’s not on the radio, she’s writing books, spending time with her daughter, or dancing in the kitchen.

Kimberly Love is the author of three books to date.

You Taste Like Whiskey and Sunshine -Her passion is in thrillers and she is working on her next novel which will be part one of eight in a crime thriller series. Before being published, she was a ghostwriter for ten years, writing close to 100 books for clients and thousands of articles. What she loves are dinosaurs and vampires and what she hates most of all is walking down into a dark basement. Let’s face it. Kimberly wouldn’t last five minutes in one of her books.

Divine Vengeance – Some angels have a different mission.”I’m going to tell you a story; the story of my death. Not just my death but also my rebirth.”When Talia died in a car accident in the small town of Sault Ste. Marie, no one ever expected to see her again, especially her daughter Persephone. But Talia’s life was not meant to end there. Persephone is the chosen one to lead the future generations out of the darkness and her life needs to be protected at all cost.As the world falls into darkness and demons descend on the residents of the small town, Talia is resurrected as an Archangel to return to the world and fight the evil and protect her daughter.The end of the world is upon the small town and the battle between good and evil is in Talia’s hands. Can she save her daughter and her friends from the extermination of the human race?

Bare: Love, Sex, and Finding Your Soulmate – Kimberly tells her own story of heartache and healing and what it meant for her to love herself first in a world that rushes into relationships. It’s time to win at love instead of complaining about the dating culture.

How do kissing and sex fall into a long-lasting relationship? Can a healthy relationship be established after an abusive one? Is it possible to spot red flags before getting into a relationship? There is a plan to heal, a plan to find healthy love, and to kiss your way to true love.

She candidly talks about how to have long-lasting love that includes bearing your soul, dancing in the kitchen, and having sex like you’re still on your honeymoon. Each chapter comes with a matching playlist so you can join in on the LOVE vibe. BARE will have you seeking out all the desires in your life.

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Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

Date:20 October 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s1.e7.GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – COPPER, IRON, STEEL & GLASS The geology of the Great Lakes is the source of North American industrial strength, but how can these resources be used to sustain economy – and ecology?

For generations, the exploitation of the natural resources provided by the Great Lakes basin has fed a robust system founded on capitalism. Chief Dean Sayers of Batchewana First Nations, relates the Indigenous tradition on copper. Author/historian Barbara Floyd on the glass industry of Toledo, Ohio. Bryan Davies of Tagona Press publishing house, with a lesson on iron and steel on the Great Lakes. Photography Arts professor at Hope College, Steve Nelson, on shooting post-industrial subjects. Music from Sarah Harmer, the Shannon Moan Trio and from Reuben and the Dark.

s1.e7. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music & Art Credits

Photo Credit – Adriano

Title – Big Five Water
Artist / Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – This River
Album – Black Dog
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Escarpment Blues
Album – I’m A Mountain
Artist/Composer – Sarah Harmer

Title – Spirit of Misshepezhieu
Album – Gitche Gumee – Songs From the Lake
Artist/Composer – Don Charbonneau

Title – Gitchi Gami
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Tall Glass of Poison
Album – Suspendered
Artist – The Wild Turkeys
Composer – Sheldon Jaaskelainen

Title – Tract
Album – Requiem For A Glacier
Artist/Composer – Paul Walde

Title – 350 Years Ago
Album – A Musical Tribute to Sault Ste. Marie
Artist/Composer – Stephanie Sabatine

Title – Oh July
Album – Oh July
Artist – Shannon Moan Trio
Composer – Shannon Moan

Title – Huron Shores
Album – Watershed
Artist – Grey Earth
Composer – Gary H.

Title – As Falls Niagara
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance
Album – Parallel Dreams
Artist/Composer – Loreena McKennitt

Title – Black Water
Album – Funeral Sky
Artist/Composer – Reuben & The Dark

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:18 October 2026 .

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER is powered by the support of Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

JAMES ANTHONY & BERNARD ALLISON

James Anthony – Things That Go Bump In The Night

James Anthony – Waitin’ On You

James Anthony – Doin’ Days

James Anthony – There Is Nothing I Can Do

James Anthony – Killbilly

James Anthony – Twilight Blues

James Anthony – Don’t Look Down

Bernard Allison – Home Goin’

Bernard Allison – Walkin’

Bernard Allison – When I’m Lonely

Bernard Allison – Rocket 88

Bernard Allison – Tell Me Why

Bernard Allison – You Gave Me The Blues

Bernard Allison – Baby Chile

The blues tradition began in North America, coming out of the very soul of the earth. Blood, sweat and tears enriched the fertile ground that formed the roots that fed the soul of the people. It exuded itself through the music, we are the blues.

Having grown up on the borderline of the USA, and picking up that great late night blues radio, coming clear from Detroit and Chicago, we grew up accustomed to blues power. It was coming from everywhere. It makes for a vast reservoir of musical knowledge and experience to draw from.

Livewire Blues Power plays classic recordings from the all-time blues greats, as well as blues from around the world rooted in the tradition, and Livewire Blues Power also introduces the music of the Soo’s blues artists to blues fans everywhere.

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE BLUES, YA GOTTA HOLE IN YER SOUL”

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott (with Jimmie Vaughan)

“Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.”

Date:16 October 2026 .

Randy Russon and Brad Coccimiglio co-host The Hockey North Show. They recap the week in hockey in Ontario and elsewhere.

This edition features reports on the regular season starts of the Soo Greyhounds and Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League. Also, is the Ontario Hockey League considering expansion? And an update on the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, with focus on the Sault Thunderbirds and the Soo Eagles.

Date:14 October 2026 .

Expect the unexpected as characters navigate shifting ground in this collection of stories set mostly in Northern Ontario. A man sets out to ignore the instructions on his car’s GPS–which sounds just like his wife–and ends up in another dimension. A young woman recalls her unusual childhood as new details are revealed. The receptionist at a zero-star motel encounters a series of unanticipated events that change the course of her life. In prose ranging from sharp realism to dream-like speculation to zany mischief, Shift explores the often bewildering ways our lives play out.

Purchase your copy locally at:

Feeding Your Soul Café

Sault Ste. Marie Museum

The Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre

Art Gallery of Algoma

Stone’s Office Supplies

Timberland General Store – Goulais River

The Totem Pole – Sault Ste. Marie (in the Trading Post complex)

Date:13 October 2026 .