Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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Alex Cuba & Ron Austin | Clip from CBC Radio Daybreak North | 01 July 2016 | CBC |
Kym Gouchie | Butterflies and Ravens | online only | https://soundcloud.com/kymgouchie |
Trent Severn | Love and Maple Syrup | single | Independent Label Council Japan |
01 July Canada Day Musings with Host Colleen Sharpe. ART BEAT celebrates Canada Day with thoughts on long summer days. Hear Smithers based musician Alex Cuba and Ron Austin/(T'sek'ot), an artist and hereditary chief living in nearby Moricetown talk about performing a verse from Cuba's song Directo in Wit'suwet'in, an Athabaskan language spoken by First Nations in northwest British Columbia. Plus, a short essay by Fred Schutz that asks "Where are all the barefoot boys of summer?" and a delicious cover of Gordon Lightfoot's Love and Maple Syrup by Trent Severn.