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Acheulean Age

Take a walk along an ancient road deep into the wilderness, where folkways lead with Outsider ambition. Tune in for an eclectic mix of country, folk, blues, and more from deep history to the far future, all woven in from an Outsider perspective celebrating the weird, the witchy, and the wonderful of folk music. Bring your favourite rock, a pair of sturdy boots, and an open mind on this adventure. Sponsored by the Calgary Underground Film Festival

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 25, 2025

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2025/10/26

In this country the animalshave the faces of animals. Their eyes flash once in car headlights and are gone. Their deaths are not elegant. They have the faces of no-one. from "the animals in that country" by margaret atwood The dog park near my home, which forms the focus of my outings with my own canine, has fully done away with green grass. Yellow dry stalks of dead and dying tall grass wave in the

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 18, 2025

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2025/10/19

FUNDING DRIVE SPECTACULAR!Syf is joined by Wynter (of Practical Lace) and friend of the show Bird to chat all things funding drive, internet archives, public domain gems, and how YOU, dear listener, can support CJSW 90.9FM!!! call (403)220-5000 before 6pm October 24th and PLAY! CONNECT! DISCOVER!Playlist: Jaiden Riley - Chickens In The Trailer ParkJennie Harluk - SugarcoatGrateful Dead - Friend Of The DevilAbing - Da LangtaoshaBoyd Raeburn, featuring Ginnie Powell, Alec Wilder - Trouble Is A ManYma

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 11, 2025

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2025/10/12

"o leafy yellowness you create for mea world that was and now is poised above time i do not need to puzzle out ETERNITY as i walk this arboreal street on the edge of a town." -from "October" by patrick kavanagh it is autumn & i feel the momentum towards winter pushing me forward it is autumn & a cold wind tightens my chest it is autumn & i sweat among dying leaves wondering how i am both overheating and underdressed it is autumn & i have not mourned summer yet it is autumn & many gifts have been

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 4, 2025

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2025/10/05

BOY HOWDY WHAT A SHOW!!!! lots of folk, country, jazz, and the darker side of life, woven through with humour, weird delights, and the warmth of storytelling! Plus, TWO interviews! First up to bat, Wayne and Abbey of Express Entertainers join Syf to chat about their upcoming show Northern Nights (https://www.expressentertainers.ca/ ) coming to Calgary October 8 - 19 at the Royal Canadian Legion 275! Next, local singer-songwriter Jaiden Riley (https://www.stagehand.app/artists/2911) joins Syf to

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 27, 2025

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2025/09/28

& thee Old Wives Summer continues! Sure, the mornings are crisper and chillier, but these days, they do sweat themselves by! Among the yellow leaves and dead-dry stalks of tall grass, what treasures, what tales, what travellers might we find?Root yourself in the land. We are guests here. Say thank you to your hosts. Tidy up after yourself. Rest, as long as you need. Find comfort in the rocks, twigs, beeswings, and other delightful things. Ordinary, yet extraordinary, too. "1. SET CONFLICT

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 20, 2025

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2025/09/21

"All overgrown by cunning moss,All interspersed with weed..." Oh Emily Dickinson, I sure do hope your spirit out there is enjoying today's show - were you the last of your kind? Perhaps you felt that way. I do, sometimes, too.But we are not thylacines, we are not treasures of the swamp. We are people of feeling. Love, hurt, envy, joy. Isn't it all beautiful? And to see every colour, to feel every feeling, pleasant or not, there is a richness and a hesitant enjoyment to relish, in the enjoyment of

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 13, 2025

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2025/09/14

Hey! Hey!That’s what the Blues singers say. Singing minor melodies They laugh, Hey! Hey! from "Blues Fantasy" by Langston Hughes, 1926 maybe it's a song six centuries old. maybe it's a poem only ninety-nine years young. maybe it's the croaking of a bird whose species has been crowing that same call for seventeen million years. perhaps the wurlitzer organ-made calls of birds which never existed. maybe it's a song caught on yesterday's breeze, sung sweetly, freshly now, in this present moment. or

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 6, 2025

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2025/09/07

nor is it valid to discriminate against “business documents and school-books”; all these phenomena are important. One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be “literalists of the imagination” from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore Poetry is everywhere, ya just gotta learn how to read the stanzas of crinkled plastic wrap caught in a raspberry bush, in the car horn symphony of

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Acheulean Age - Podcast August 30, 2025

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2025/08/31

Playlist: LITTLE JOHN - LEVEL THE VIBESLITTLE JOHN - TRUE CONFESSIONSUGAR MINOTT - A TRUECORNELL CAMPBELL - BOXING AROUNDBARRY BROWN - THEM A FIGHTDANNY MANGAROO - THOUSAND THINGSLUCIANO - JAH NEVER FAIL ILUCIANO - KEEP THE MUSIC ALIVELUKIE D - ONLY LOVE CAN HELPADMIRAL TIBBET - I DOULDNT BELIEVE ITADMIAL TIBBET - RIGHTOUSNESSBITTY MCLEAN - BABY TONIFHTBITTY MCLEAN - MAKING IT WITH YOUBITTY MCLEAN - IAM THE ONE WHO LOVES YOUJACK RADIC - ASSEPT MY APOLOGYJACK RADIC - MOVING AWAYJACK RADICS -

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Acheulean Age - Episode August 16, 2025

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2025/08/17

Not to be a Dismal Debbie, but I have been noticing the signs and symbols of summer's decline and autumn's corresponding rise. I don't mind, I quite like the fall (I'm a sweater girlie through & through, so I lose confidence in my sense of self when I cannot wear cozy layers without sweating like a pig in a fast food drive thru). There's a real beauty and delicious safe grief, almost, when the leaves turn, the long grass yellows, the birds head south. We haven't quite hit that part of the seasons'

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Acheulean Age - Episode August 9, 2025

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2025/08/10

MAKE HORSES SCARY AGAIN! They are truly terrifying and I say this as someone who loves horses. They are terrifying, inbetween-y beasts that are not of this earth and yet are truly chthonic in every sense of the word, from soil to underworld. Anyways, if you see a pretty pony on the beach, do not get on it and try to ride it - that's a kelpie, and you're asking for a drowning. Learn all about how to survive the fell beasts of Scottish folklore and beyond, plus a whole lot more, in this latest

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Acheulean Age - Episode August 2, 2025

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2025/08/03

"Choose your sacrifice well." - a wise druid ov thee order ov thee low end theory once said to me.Happy Lammas, Loaf Mass, Lughnasadh, Harvest Festival, and all hail thee Wicker Man we've raised above our wee village, buried in the supposedly tranquil rolling hills of Anywhere, Hibernia. On today's programme, we let the sonic wavelengths and musical rituals lead us deep into the ancient past, so far that we appear in a future only just beginning to be imagined to be dreamt in sleeping minds most

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Acheulean Age - Episode July 26, 2025

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2025/07/27

Live @ Calgary Folk Fest 2025!

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Acheulean Age - Episode July 19, 2025

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2025/07/20

Whelp, coyotes are still in the neighbourhood looking to snack on my wee dog, so I've taken to carrying a big bell with me when I take him for walks - a handmade, tempered bell from northern India, made by local shepherds who use the bells to keep track of their sheep; each bell is a unique tone due to its nature of being handmade and hammered. Truly experienced sheepherders can even tell which sheep is nearby or in distress from that unique sound of the ringing bell! So far, it's been pretty good

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Acheulean Age - Episode July 5, 2025

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2025/07/06

IT'S SUMMERTIME, DARLINGS!Syf is joined by Local Legend Jennie Harluk for a delightful chat about music, music making, and her upcoming shows at Stampede and the iconic King Eddy venue! Plus, lots of good ol vibey tracks from all over the globe, with fresh country, old blues, ethereal folk, and so much more. Sundrenched, sweaty, and blissed out - perfect for cloud watching, river wading, and petting your dog in the garden while lilacs share their sweet scent with the sky.Playlist: Baldwin Family

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Acheulean Age - Episode June 28, 2025

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2025/06/29

Show fill from Molly, host of Free Verse! Enjoy :)Playlist: Phyllis Sinclair - My Fishing HoleTobacco City - AutumnMariel Buckley - Vending MachinesMolly Lewis - Lounge LizardNick Shoulders - Empty Yodel,No. 0Emily Rose and the Rounders - At the BottomThe Strumbellas - DogRachella Wred - Fruity FingersSpencer Krug - One at a TimeLoose Fur - You Were WrongWater From Your Eyes - When You're AroundMeadowsweet - Yellow FlowerJohn Wort Hannam - Damn It GwenivereMya Byrne - Please Call Me DarlingHannah

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Acheulean Age - Episode June 21, 2025

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2025/06/22

Whenever it rains, I like to imagine that I'm a retired sea captain, staring out my window at my old love the sea and storm, the Tempest, she calls for me, and my heart like the waves beneath the moon, responds.Music to dry out to, for sipping tea, and thinking of the ocean's depths! Plus, Cassia Hardy literally comes in from the cold (and the rain) to play a live set and chat. Enjoy!!! -SyfPlaylist: Albro Gaul - Suburban Sounds (Crickets and Temperature; Crickets Chirp at Slow Speed)Femi Kuti -

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Acheulean Age - Episode June 14, 2025

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2025/06/15

I think every poet, musician, listener, dreamer, farmer, hiker, and folklorist has some kind of a relationship with the moon. This is true of humble community radio disc jockeys, too, and I am no exception. The moon's been really so wonderful lately - last full moon of the spring was Wednesday, so we're arcing through phases towards summer now! Bask in some moon music this afternoon, plus other cosmic musings and meanderings, alongside a hearty helping of local fare, new country, old folk, and

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Acheulean Age - Episode June 7, 2025

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2025/06/08

This Is Just To Say That (After William Carlos Williams):I have played the records that were in the hope chest and which you were probably saving for tomorrow night Forgive me they were delightful so sweet and so pretty enjoy a smattering of country, folk, poetry, jazz, blues, and even classical & New Age selections to accompany your gardening today, be it of the soil or of the soul!Playlist: Rube & Rake - Spirit WrestlerGordon Lightfoot - Wild StrawberriesCassie Anne MacDonald & Maggie Jane

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Acheulean Age - Episode May 31, 2025

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2025/06/01

Sean Smith, of Aardnor Minis, joins Syf to chat about AARDCON, a TTRPG convention happening next week (June 7) at the Renfrew Community Association - listen in as they chat all things local community, tabletop, miniatures, and fantasy!Plus, a fantastic, groovy genre-spanning mix wandering all over the earth and history. Music sure to soothe the wildest beast's heart - speaking of which, Syf saw a different coyote the other night, who seemed more scared of her and her dog than they were of the

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