The Guest List
Thursday August 27th, 2015 with Joe Reilly
Interviews with Derek Olive, Samantha Everts about Marvest at City Folk, and Steve Poltz

Derek Olive is cycling across large parts of Canada and playing acoustic concerts on The Blue Dot Music Cycling Tour - it's part of the Blue Dot movement designed to raise awareness of the environment and issues around protecting the environment. He will be appearing on Parliament Hill at 5:30 next Wednesday, Sept. 2. From there he will go to the West End Well at 969 Wellington Street West to perform with Chris White and some other guests. http://www.derekolive.com/ http://bluedot.ca/about Samantha Everts is part of the team producing the City Folk Festival, which runs from Sept. 16-20 this year. She is managing a special initiative called Marvest this year - it will feature some 60 local artists/groups performing in 13 venues up and down the Glebe. Samantha joins us today to explain what's happening as part of the inaugural edition of Marvest. http://cityfolkfestival.com/ http://cityfolkfestival.com/marvest/ Singer-songwriter Steve Poltz is appearing as part of City Folk on Saturday, September 19th. He is also in the area tomorrow night (Friday, August 28th) performing up at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield. We lose our connection to Steve at the start of the interview but eventually catch up with him and he shares things like his philosophy for success in the music biz - play lots of gigs! http://poltz.com/ Get out and see some live music this week!