The Guest List
Thursday January 17th, 2019 with Joe Reilly
Interviews with Kate Weekes, Shane Koyczan and Kid Koala - one of the best Guest Lists ever... LISTEN UP!!!

Wow Wow. What a great show today. Three very interesting acts making great art. We start off with Kate Weekes. Kate relocated to eastern Ontario (where she is originally from) after spending 10 years living in Whitehorse and spending lots of time in northern parts of the world. Her new album reflects a lot on traveling and transitions and features a wide musical palette, partly inspired by working with producer James Stephens. Kate will be releasing the new album ("Taken By Surprise") at Irene's in a matinee performance on Sunday, January 20th. http://www.kateweekes.com/index/ Then we check in with poet Shane Koyczan who is appearing in Ottawa at the First Baptist Church on Wednesday, January 30th. Shane is a fantastic wordsmith who takes powerful ideas and creates moving poetry often accompanied by music and visuals. His powerful piece "To This Day"has been viewed over 23 million times on YouTube and is an anthem for the anti-bullying movement. Shane talks to us about how his grandmother inspired him to start writing, how he developed his fabulous approach to delivering his words and how he has worked to accompany some of his poems with music and visuals. He also tells us what to expect when he performs live at the First Baptist Church on January 30th. He also said that he wants to work with Kid Koala so we got Kid Koala to listen to his piece Trolls and he was impressed. (So we look forward to hearing about their future collaboration .... fingers crossed!) https://www.shanekoyczan.com/home https://www.spectrasonic.com/event/1786023-shane-koyczan-ottawa/ Finally we talk to Eric San, a.k.a. Kid Koala, about his new musical project Music to Draw To: Io, which is the second in a series of ambient albums created by the great turntabilist. Eric shares with us how this project started and how he got to work with vocalist Trixie Whiteley on this album. This is a great series to check out if you're a fan of ambient music. Kid Koala will be in Ottawa to launch the new project on Wednesday, January 30th at Black Squirrel Books. WHAT these two great artists are in town on the same night....??? You will have to choose. Eric notes that this appearance at Black Squirrel Books will go on for some time that night so he thinks we should go see Shane and then drop in on his appearance at Black Squirrel. http://kidkoala.com/ https://www.bandsintown.com/e/100562029?app_id=js_kidkoala.com&came_from=242&utm_medium=web&utm_source=widget&utm_campaign=event&affil_code=js_kidkoala.com Get out and see some live music this week and be sure to actually purchase some music so artists can keep making great music and art for us to enjoy!!