Todd's Café

For Episode 15: We have arrived at showcasing the ACTUAL EVENT! In Part 1 (of 2), you'll hear Todd & Katy observing the sights and sounds around our tent on King St. on June 9th; some what-have-you in there, and we chat with Banjo-ist James Ball, UW Improv's Darel Dean stops by and we meet Fred from Royal City Ukelele Ensemble. Did we mention Katy's dog-counting fascination? Enjoy!

Members of the band Hugo Alley join Todd to talk about performing at Summer Lights on Saturday (that's TOMORROW). Ps: We also go into detail about creating music collaboratively and maintaining band relationships... it gets really musical and nerdy. TOTALLY EXCELLENT, DUDE! :P

What?! We have an Improv troupe?! Yes! It's the UW Improv, located in UW. Not only that, but they'll be at Summer Lights in a couple of days performing in groups larger and smaller around the event and on a stage. Darel Dean stopped by to let Todd & Katy know how they feel about filling out 5 hours, and what you can expect from them at SLF! You should listen!

For Episode 12: Kylie Fladby & Charlene Le Duc join Katy and Todd to give us the lowdown on everything going on this weekend at Summer Lights, including our setup on King St. to record the show ON THE DAY. The day is Saturday, June 9th, 8pm-1am. We also talk about things that went into the festival you might not even realize, toss out some maaad props and talk about SLF reaching year 5!

JP Magic was a delightful entertainer to have on the show, magic is certainly one of his facets, but he's prone to giving any audience a full entertainment experience; complete with comedy, stunts and interactivity! He also shared his story of struggle and teaching himself skills that have helped along the way. Enjoy!

Aside from being a superb and wonderful folk act, the members of Onion Honey, are as sweet as they are savoury. I guess, I may not be doing the pun right. Hey, I don't get payed to write these! Join me as I chat with Esther and Dave about their roots, their folk, and their upcoming performance at Summer Lights! #sharethelove - Todd

What's the pitch for Social Art? It's in the name! Social Art's Lisa Braun has opened her door for many of our SLF interviews, and in this episode she chats with us about what they do. Also we chat with instructor Steph Dylke who you'll be able to see instructing painters (this could be you!) at Summer Lights 2018, at the Garment Street Hub (King St., Francis-College) in Downtown Kitchener.

Paige Warner is performing at the Accommod8u Hub Stage/Bob Blue stage as a part of June 9th's Summer Lights extravaganza. We talk about that, but also about releasing her debut EP "Revealed", as well as looking here & forward in her career, and being a female artist. Forgive the MP3's compression of her wonderful performance. There will be a HQ Soundcloud stream/download made available soon!

If you haven't noticed it, I love talking with other podcasts, on my podcast, it's like, META. There Was A Sale, is a media review podcast hosted by Kayla and Matt, they brought cookies (aww!) and we chatted about their show, some gripes with the overwhelming and never-ending surge of superhero films, mainly my gripes... and we even attempt to TWAS a Stanley Kubrick classic, collaboratively. - Todd

Michael Francis will be here and there during June 9th's Summer Lights in downtown Kitchener (SummerLights.ca). He sat down with Todd Donald & Katy Warren to chat about his unique and Guiness World Record breaking-style of performance, as well as his background, and more. This episode also features a small segment, with Charlene Le Duc chatting to our record location's host, Lisa Braun!