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Saturday January 31st, 2026 with Pat Moore
Today's show offers a taste of what's going on around the local area - Get your calendars out!
Good afternoon (or morning/evening if that is when you are listening...)
Today I bring you a taste of what's going on around the local area, so take note and get your calendars marked, and your tickets in hand! Long live 'live music'. (doesn't it look funny when two different sounding words are spelled exactly the same... oh well.
I've thrown in a few familiar classics too. ps. Almost completely Canadian today - except for Johnny Cash.
| Cryin’ Heart Blues Kate Greenland - Longing and Dreaming 
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| I Hope You Have Learned Maple Hill - Back to You
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| Large Bachelor Toasted Westerns - Out to Lunch
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| Every Tuesday at Le Hibou in Wakefield Que, catch Kate and Rob and guest with their Folk Collusion 7pm
First Wednesday of every month is Bluegrass Wednesdays at Red Bird. Feb 4th features a concert with Maple Hill, followed by a jam. Show starts at 7:30. Toasted Westerns are at Motel Chelsea on March 13, 8pm. |
| We’re Here for Love Melwood Cutlery - A Complete Display of Tackle
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| There’s a Dark Cloud Hangin Over Me Pat Moore & The Vinyl Frontier - Take it to Heart
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| The Pushing and the Pace Luther Wright - Man of Your Dreams
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| Patron Saint Kate Greenland - Longing and Dreaming
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| Melwood Cutlery is on at Red Bird on Feb 6, 7pm
Pat Moore & the Vinyl Frontier (Pat Moore, Pat McLaughlin, Kenny Kanwisher, Michael Ball, Bob Bangs) on at Red Bird on Feb 15, 8pm Wakefield does Wakefield is on Feb 7. Local musicians gather to collaborate and celebrate each others and local songsmiths in a night of joyous revelry. Black Sheep Inn. 8pm Kate Greenland and "Hey We're a Country Band" (yet unnamed) are playing the Black Sheep in on March 7. Kate Greenland (The Folk Collusion, The Monroe Sisters) joins Stuart Rutherford (The Dusty Drifters, The Telegrams), Brent Weatherall (The Dusty Drifters, Hacks & Buggies), Nathan Smith (The Barrel Boys, Vinta), Matt Aston (The Telegrams, Drifting Bird), and Chris Breitner (Drunken Piano, Drifting Bird) for an exciting musical union. |
| Reach out Vanier Playboys - Vanier Playboys
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| Desperado Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
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| Cowboys and Rodeos Quartette - Quartette
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| That Lucky Old Sun Asleep at the Wheel - Western Standard Time
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| Navajo Rug Ian Tyson - Cowboyography
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| Vanier Playboys put on their annual Mardi Gras show, this year at The Rainbow, Feb 28. Come dance, and eat red beans and rice! |
| Grandma’s Song Crooked Creek - Crooked Creek
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| What Will Become of Me Concession 23 - Walter and Alice
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| Making the Music We Love Melwood Cutlery - Campfire
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12:35 PM, January 31st, 2026