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Thursday April 19th, 2018 with Joe Reilly
Interviews with Little Miss Higgins, The Commotions, and Megative

On Today's show we kick things off with Jolene Higgins.. .better known as Little Miss Higgins. She has just released her sixth album My Home, My Heart and will be appearing at Irene's on Monday, April 23. We chat about creating new music in an old time music tradition and sassy double entrendre songs. We also talk about being on the road with her partner as her musical accompanist and with their 3 year old son in tow. http://www.littlemisshiggins.com/ http://irenespub.ca/event/little-miss-higgins Then Brian Asselin who plays sax and leads Ottawa's big soul music project The Commotions checks in to tell us about his group and how they make fresh new music tied to the brassy sounds of Motown. You can see the group live at Babylon on Friday, March 20 and at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on the big stage on June 29. https://www.thecommotionsband.com/home https://ottawajazzfestival.com/artists/the-commotions/ http://www.babylonclub.ca/ Finally we talk to Tim Fletcher - who was with Montreal's Stills - about a new musical project that draws on reggae and ska roots filtered through the electro vibe of a Massive Attack. It's an engaging new project called Megative and we can expect a new album sometime this summer or early fall and the band will hit the road at that time. Hopefully with an Ottawa date then. For now you can enjoy a few tracks from the group online. https://lastgang.com/artists/megative/ https://www.facebook.com/megativesound/ Get out and see some live music this week.