The Guest List
Thursday May 5th, 2016 with Joe Reilly
Great interviews with Michael Franti, Sweet Alibi, The Wet Secrets and Peregrine Falls

A Guest List fav, Michael Franti, returns with a new album coming in June and an appearance at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on July 2. We talk to the king of positive about his evolution from an angry young songwriter to a more positive place, his health and how music can make the world a better place. You get a world radio premiere of a couple of songs from the new album. https://www.michaelfranti.com/ Sweet Alibi is at Irene's on Friday night (May 6) bringing to Ottawa the rootsy-pop sounds of the group's new album Walking In the Dark. We talk to Michelle who plays guitar and banjo and adds to the wonderful vocal harmonies of this group. We talk about how the group found its great hamonies and the powerful themes in some of their songs. http://sweetalibi.com/#home-tour The Wet Secrets play a brand of grooving pop music and hail from Edmonton. We talk to Lyle about the metaphorical use of hammers in their song, the 70s influences on the group's pop and Lyle's love of wordplay in his songwriting. The 6-piece group plays Saturday, May 7 at Zaphod Beeblebrox. http://www.thewetsecrets.com/ Finally catch up with Kenton Loewen who plays drums with the duo Peregrine Falls as they prepare to play at Zaphod Beeblebrox tonight - May 5. This is a really strong musical duo that mixes influences from Ornette Coleman to maybe the Bad Brains... it's a visceral, rockin' mix of post rock that can also get very quiet and instrospective. An awesome mix. http://peregrinefalls.com/releases A truly fun show with a lot of great chat and solid music. All about getting you out to see some live music this week!!