In this episode Jim chats to Derry singer/songwriter Declan McLaughlin about his fascinating career, growing up in Derry during the war, and the relationship between music and working class politics on his new album Path of Most Resistance.
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Path Of Most Resistance

CFRU 1987 album Just West of Something Big
Step In Time by This Ill File

-Step In Time by This Ill File

CFRU 1987 album Just West of Something Big
Facelift by Belinda Wu

-Facelift by Belinda Wu

This week we talk with Steph Yates, a Guelph-based screen-printer, videographer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist about the relationships between music and art. How has the dialogue between the two disciplines developed over time, in various places, and in her practice in particular? Yates discusses the aesthetic and conceptual choices in her music and art, grapples with issues of identity and gender, and talks about what it’s like being a female lead in the music scene. 

“I think for me the secret ingredient is the thing that you can’t know until it happens, the thing you can’t catch, the mistake you didn’t know you were waiting for until it arrives. It’s just sort of the way things fall and then you see it. Maybe you think of it as fate or chance but you can’t direct it.”

Jarmusch, Jim, “My Golden Rules,” MovieMaker, January 22, 2004.


Feminism and Aesthetics: Steph Yates on Music and Art (The Secret Ingredient - 03/06/15)

Now in its 14th year, the Guelph Lecture presents a keynote by Okanagan knowledge-keeper Jeanette Armstrong, music by Midnight Shine from northern Ontario, and a literary presentation by Ann Hui, food reporter at the Globe and Mail. An evening of conversation about our relationship with the land, about the place of Chinese restaurants in small communities across Canada, and the power of music to celebrate our struggles and beauty.

The 2017 Guelph Lecture took place on January 20, 2017 at the River Run Centre in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Contents Part 1
Emcee: Melanie Goodchild, educator and researcher in Indigenous social innovation; Welcome: Franco Vaccarino, President and Vice Chancellor, University of Guelph; Ann Hui: Globe and Mail’s National Food Reporter and author of the Globe series Chop Suey Nation

The Guelph Lecture: On Being Canadian 2017 - Part 1

Now in its 14th year, the Guelph Lecture presents a keynote by Okanagan knowledge-keeper Jeanette Armstrong, music by Midnight Shine from northern Ontario, and a literary presentation by Ann Hui, food reporter at the Globe and Mail. An evening of conversation about our relationship with the land, about the place of Chinese restaurants in small communities across Canada, and the power of music to celebrate our struggles and beauty.

The 2017 Guelph Lecture took place on January 20, 2017 at the River Run Centre in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Contents Part 2
Introduction by Melanie Goodchild
Presentation by Jeannette Armstrong, professor, storyteller, and protector of Indigenous culture, and a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Philosophy at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).

The Guelph Lecture: On Being Canadian 2017 - Part 2

Hymna republiky ŠKID

Live from the Guelph Jazz Festival 2019, a solo performance on vielle à roue (hurdy gurdy/zanfoña/Drehleier etc).

Completely improvised, there are no electronic effects used at all, just the amplified instrument.  Please excuse the noisy archival-quality recording.

Live at the Guelph Jazz Festival 2019

The second episode of Four33 explores George Lipsitz’s notion of accompaniment as laid out in his recent book, Insubordinate Spaces: Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice. In his address to students and staff at the University of Guelph, Dr. Lipsitz shines a light on community art projects that model improvisatory practices' impact on equity struggles. He argues that institutions need to take a supportive rather than dominant stance in partnership with these movements. George Lipsitz is an American Studies scholar and professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more episodes visit: artseverywhere.ca/projects/four33-improv-podcast/

Four33 – What Work Do You Want the Work to Do?

ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society. It creates open spaces for dialogue about the value that the arts bring to all aspects of our communities and societies. Visit us at https://artseverywhere.ca/

Four33 – What Work Do You Want the Work to Do?

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