Keep Walking

I See

In Your Mind (We Are Gone)

We Don't Stop

I Like To Yell

Northern Lights

Karnivores

PB & J

Dungeons And Chains

Planet Rain

Lost Love (Instrumental Demo)

Song ab out the Newfie Bullet, a train that Ran from St. Johns to Port aux Basques. 

The Newfie Bullet

Here on Routes & Branches & Beyond we continue with our series of "Summer on the Range."  Though, to be honest, there has been a nip in the air this past week, which portends that the end of another summer is imminent and we will soon be careening into autumn (my favourite season - well, one of my three favourite seasons).  I'm hoping that the cooler weather gives a message to my tomatoes and peppers to speed up and ripen while there is still some time to set their fruits and possible reproduce (so that I can tear those sweet and spicy fruits from their stems and imprison thm in jars for winter eating - it sounds a tad cruel when I put it like that, doesn't it?).  

Today we have precision Irish dual violins, Scottish bedlam, Newfoundland random jigs, Cape Breton twisty tunes, West Coast old-time odes to spiritual heroes, Quebecois fonctionnaire shanties, hybrid grand-yet-simple jigs, and the odd subliminal Buddhist koan.  All from musicians such as The Kane Sisters, The Dardanelles, Old Blind Dogs, Eric McDonald, Karine Polwart, Brenda Stubbert, Fish & Bird, Harry Manx, Bette & Wallet, Fásta, and Bill Heffernan.  Get a jacket and join me.

Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 381 2025 08 28

Poison of God (Instrumental Demo)

In this month's Author Talk, I chat with local filmmaker and first-time author Debbie McGee about her powerful memoir of love and loss, Cautiously Pessimistic -- as well as about why she was initially reluctant to admit that she was writing a memoir. As always, we talk about the writing life as well as the reading life, including the dangers of listening to audiobooks while doing home renovations.

Shelf Esteem 62: Author Talk with Debbie McGee

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -Tune in on October 10th for a special episode of FolkU radio, where we listen to an episode of another talk show, Chatter That Matters, by Tony Chapman. This episode features a conversation with Zita Cobb about the story arch of her home in Newfoundland, Fogo Island. This is a discussion about tourism, circular economies, community, and rurality. Introduction by Manda Aufochs-Gillespie.

 

Folk U Radio is taking old school viral every Friday at 1 p.m. and Mondays at 3 p.m./Wednesday at 6 a.m. @CKTZ89.5FM or livestreamed at cortesradio.ca. Find repeats anytime at www.folku.ca/podcasts. 

Oct102025_FogoIsland_ChatterThatMatters_EditedFolkUEpisode

Deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember(Dorq Remix)

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New tracks tagged #Newfoundland