The Guest List
Thursday May 8th, 2025 with Joe Reilly
Interviews with Claudia Balladelli of Axé WorldFest, singer-songwriter Nambi and Brent Walker of rock group Kingfisher

The Guest List is sponsored by Spaceman Music, located at 388 Gladstone Avenue, just west of Bank. Visit Spaceman for all of your music making needs and don't forget they have a great repair shop and offer music lessons. Check out Spaceman online at: https://www.spacemanmusic.com/ NOTE: THE ON DEMAND VERSION OF THE GUEST LIST FEATURES ABOUT 12 ADDITIONAL MINUTES OF INTERVIEWS WITH OUR GUESTS TODAY. THE INTERVIEWS HAD TO BE EDITED TO FIT THE 60 MINUTE BROADCAST TIMESLOT FOR THE GUEST LIST. We open the show today in conversation with Claudia Balladelli who is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Axé WorldFest. She tells us about how the organization was founded and its community-oriented mandate. We also have a great conversation about the Empowering Women in the Music Industry event which she is running Thursday through Sunday at the National Arts Centre and other locations in Ottawa. Claudia tells us about the music showcases running at the NAC and the various panels being hosted around town. For more information about the Empowering Women events use these links: https://www.axeworldfest.com/ewmi25 https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/38449 For more information about Axé WorldFest, use this link: https://www.axeworldfest.com/ Next, we talk to Ottawa artist Nambi, who is appearing as part of one of the artist showcases at Empowering Women in the Music Industry on Friday night (May 9) at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage. Nambi brings us up to speed on how she's been busy recording new music and preparing to welcome her fourth child into the world. We talk about her latest singles and about how she's planning to release a lot of new music in 2025. She also tells us about how she's looking forward to performing as part of this exciting showcase on Friday night. For more information about Nambi use these links: https://www.instagram.com/nambimusic/ https://nambimusic.bandcamp.com/music To wrap up the show, we check in with Brent Walker of the Ottawa rock band Kingfisher. The group is releasing its first full-length album this week, and playing a release concert at the 27 Club on Saturday (May 10th.) We talk to Brent about the use of different vocalists in this group and their guitar sound. We also explore the themes in songs All Pain No Gain and Stunt. For tickets to see Kingfisher at the 27 Club on Saturday, use this link: https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/kingfisher-majors-among-legends-the-27-club-tickets/13730354?pl=spectrasonic For more information and music from Kingfisher: https://officialkingfisher.bandcamp.com/album/all-pain-no-gain Thanks for listening to the Guest List today. Get out and see some live music if you can, suport independent artists in any way that you can and take care out there.