Citr -- The Saturday Edge

Easter / Vaisakhi / Passover Special, plus new releases and local concert previews galore

Interview with Jay Knutson founder member of Spirit of the West, plus new releases etc. Last half hour pre-empted for an outside broadcast

New releases inspired by the latest issue of English folk magazine fRoots. Plus Celtic music for St. Patrick's Day / Weekend. And the brand new CD by Sharon Shannon

Some of my favourite songs from the past 32 years of The Saturday Edge on CiTR - and a lot of "spruiking". Big thanks to the volunteers for answering the phones, and to the listeners for making them ring! I hope we raised enough money ... More to come online, I hope. Please donate to www.citr.ca/donate and mention The Saturday Edge if you do!

Back in the saddle again at CiTR! Features on Festival du Bois, Christine Tassan et les Imposteures, Lydia Hol, and some searing political commentary from Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Billy Bragg, Martyn Joseph, Eliza Gilkyson and more. Also plenty of refugees. We are all immigrants and we need all the compassion we can get.

Guest Host Paul Norton from CiTR's Code Blue show (Saturdays 3pm - 5pm) plays his own brand of folk music today, heavy on previews of upcoming concerts, but with other interesting goodies as well.

Guest Host Paul Norton from CiTR's Code Blue show (Saturdays 3pm - 5pm) plays his own brand of folk music today, heavy on previews of upcoming concerts, but with other interesting goodies as well.

Music by Syrian immigrants, Italians philosophizing about us all being immigrants, songs for Mardi Gras / Pancake Tuesday, features on Old Man Luedecke, Gonzalo Bergara & Leah Zeger, and Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (including a World Exclusive first broadcast of a track from their 5th CD which comes out next week!) Plus some new releases from Laura Cortese, Imar, Eliza Carthy, and more!

Late start due to snow and lack of ploughs. Late finish due to next DJ unable to get a bus in the snow. Featured lots of music for Black History Month, plus features on Cajun Country Revival, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Gonzalo Bergara, and the new CD by Eliza Carthy & the Wayward Band

Songs about walls, oil, war, ... and hope. New releases from Putumayo, a great new CD by young Celtic quintet Imar from Isle of Man, Scotland, Ireland and England, features on Banda Magda, Jesse Lege & Joel Savoy, Anna & Elizabeth, and a preview of this evening's Leonard Cohen Tribute concert at The Rogue

Songs about walls, oil, war, ... and hope. New releases from Putumayo, a great new CD by young Celtic quintet Imar from Isle of Man, Scotland, Ireland and England, features on Banda Magda, Jesse Lege & Joel Savoy, Anna & Elizabeth, and a preview of this evening's Leonard Cohen Tribute concert at The Rogue

Democracy comes to the USA, plus some new music from the British Isles, and more!

This week's show featured some music recently acquired by Vancouver writer Tony Montague at the WOMEX Conference in Galicia, plus Al Stewart's monumental Nostradamus and associated prophecies of doom and sadness at the end of Obama's Presidency and the beginning of Drumpf's (is this the end of all things? Or just the end of all things decent?)

This week's show featured lots of concert previews for the Rogue Folk winter season in Vancouver (www.roguefolk.bc.ca) plus a lament for the passing of psychedelic gypsy surfing' fiddler Willie Royal (Willie & Lobo) and some new releases which got "shelved" during the more seasonal shows of the past couple of weeks.

My special show for New Year's Eve, featuring some of my favourite songs and albums of 2016 and a few New Year's songs too.

It's not often I get a chance to broadcast on Christmas Eve, so this was a special Christmas edition of The Edge On Folk, starting with a few Spanish / Latin American track, then getting a bit Cajun, a bit Bluesy, and mostly Christmas themes - plus a little bit of Hanukkah for "balance"!

New Releases, the latest samplers from fRoots magazine, some Cool Yule gypsy jazz, and plenty of uplifting tunes and songs to warm a winter's day when all of Canada is colder than Mars!

Preempted for Special Programming at 10am. All-Canadian show for SOCAN week.

Steve Edge is off in Toronto this week, receiving the Unsung Hero Award from the Canadian Folk Music Awards people. Guest host Paul Norton, perhaps better known for his work on CiTR's Code Blue show, brings you lots of new releases, deep catalogue tracks and generally inspired (we hope) selections.

Steve Edge is off in Toronto this week, receiving the Unsung Hero Award from the Canadian Folk Music Awards people. Guest host Paul Norton, perhaps better known for his work on CiTR's Code Blue show, brings you lots of new releases, deep catalogue tracks and generally inspired (we hope) selections.