The Guest List
Thursday June 19th, 2025 with Joe Reilly
Interviews with Violist Emily Kistemaker, Richard Underhill of Shuffle Demons and Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene

We open the show in conversation with violist, Emily Kistemaker. She is participating in the National Arts Centre Orchestra's Mentorship Program for the second year, and recently returned from touring in South Korea and Japan with the NACO. She tells us how amazing it was to be on this international tour with the Orchestra and what she learned from the experience. We also talk about how her Mom inspired her to pursue music and about the pieces she will be performing with the Orchestra tonight (Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and John Luther Adams's Become Desert) and next week (Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Debussy's Mer.) For more information and tickets to see the NACO performing The Rite of Spring and Become Desert tonight (June 19th), use this link: https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36122 And for information and tickets to next week's performances on June 25th and 26th, use this link: https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36123 And for more information about the NACO's Mentorship Program use this link: https://nac-cna.ca/en/stories/story/naco-mentorship-2025-cohort Then we play the second part of my interview with Richard Underhill of Shuffle Demons fame. We talk about the evolution of the lyrics in Shuffle Demons's songs and how they feature more socio-political commentary these days, as seen on the new album Are You Really Real. Shuffle Demons are performing at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday night, June 22 at 6:30 on the Mainstage in Confederation Park. It will be a blast! For more information about the Shuffle Demons performance at the Ottawa Jazz Festival use this link: https://program.ottawajazzfestival.com/item/13908-Shuffle-Demons And for more information about the Ottawa Jazz Festival use this link: https://ottawajazzfestival.com/ And here's a link to Shuffle Demons's website: https://www.shuffledemons.com/ To wrap up the show, we talk to Kevin Drew, founding member of the iconic Canadian group Broken Social Scene. The group is also appearing at the Ottawa Jazz Festival in a week on Thursday, June 26th. We talk to Kevin about the role of music in the current socio-political climate, about the evolving nature of this collective group and about a new tribute album celebrating the group's You Forgot It In People album. We also spin one of the songs from that album. For information about Broken Social Scene's performance at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on June 26th: https://program.ottawajazzfestival.com/item/13905-Broken-Social-Scene And for more information about Broken Social Scene visit the band's website: https://brokensocialscene.ca/ And here's where you can buy or listen to the new tribute album: https://brokensocialscene.bandcamp.com/album/anthems-a-celebration-of-broken-social-scenes-you-forgot-it-in-people Thanks for listening to the Guest List today. Get out and see some live music this week and support independent music in any way that you can. And don't forget that 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/