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Thank God It"s Free Range!

Thank God It"s Free Range! Join host (and UMFM Program Director) Michael Elves as he starts the weekend off with a rundown on upcoming shows; interviews with local, national and international artists; and all sorts of good music. Here on 101.5 UMFM, the weekend starts now!

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April 21, 2023

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2023/04/21

Live session and interview with Miesha and the Spanks who stopped by the station while in town on the tour for their new record, Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi and aconversation with the organizer and performers at Keep Shining: 10 Year Memorial of Alex “Dee” Danyliuk (happening at the Pyramid on Saturday April 22nd).

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April 14, 2023

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2023/04/14

Joined by singer-songwriter Andrina Turenne who is set to release her album Bold As Logs at the West End Cultural Centre on Saturday April 29th.

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April 7, 2023

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2023/04/07

Mise En Scene’s Stef Blondal Johnson discusses their forthcoming EP Reality Bites and their new collaborative beer (of the same name) with Torque.

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March 31, 2023

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2023/03/31

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March 24, 2023

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2023/03/24

Featuring interviews with Suz Raudaschl of Victoria band Bridal Party who play the Good Will on Monday March 27th and with Calgarian Clea Anaïs who opens for Reuben &The Dark at the Park Theatre on March 30th.

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Tribute to Gail Comfort

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2023/03/17

Sometimes things just seem to fall into place. Earlier this week Ilost afriend and UMFM lost agreat programmer when Gail Comfort passed away. Iwas already planning to re-air an interview Idid on Turning Pages with singer-songwriter Tara MacLean about her memoir Song of the Sparrow and include aselection from the accompanying album Sparrow. Gail would have loved the stories MacLean shares about songwriting, touring and Lilith Fair among other things. Ialso had an

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March 10, 2023

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2023/03/10

Tonight on the show Italk to comedian and Canada Reads host Ali Hassan in advance of his Does This Taste Funny? tour stop at the West End Cultural Centre on March 15th, and then with Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing about her phenomenal album, Arctic, released last month on Sony Classical.

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March 3, 2023

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2023/03/03

Andy Shauf brings his latest album, Norm, to town on March 17th. Ispoke to him about making the record and his storytelling method.

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February 24, 2023

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2023/02/24

Black Future Night.Tonight Iwas supposed to be featuring another Black artform with aspecial guest but we’ve had to postpone that interview and instead Ipresent an entire show featuring recent music from Black artists.

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February 17, 2023

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2023/02/17

The last of my Black History Month conversations with guests conversant in adifferent historically black artform is with Rumbidzai Siyawamwaya. She’s one of UMFM’s newest programmers and the host of The Pan-Africanist (Thursdays at 4pm) and she joins me to talk about Amapiano, one of the many styles of music she shares on hershow. Plus I’m joined by local artist Taylor Janzen who is set to release her new album ILive In Patterns on March 3rd with aspecial show at The

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February 10, 2023

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2023/02/10

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January 27, 2023

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2023/01/27

In town for Winterruption WPG, East Coast trio Motherhood stopped by the station for alive session and interview featuring selections from their latest record, Winded. Next Friday is the local tribute to Joe Strummer &The Clash at the Park Theatre and organizer (and Guns of Wolseley member) Ian Lodewycks talks about bringing the show back after aCovid-absense and the importance of Strummer to the punk community.

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WINTERRUPTION 2023

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2023/01/20

Interviews with Co-Artistic Director of WinterruptionWPG, Jorge Requena Ramos discussing planning the festival with afocus on his “home turf” at the West End Cultural Centre and with UK/Canadian artist Mauvey (who plays The Handsome Daughter on Sunday, January 29th) who discusses the connection between his present in music and his past in baseketball.

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January 13, 2023

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2023/01/13

My annual chat with the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s jef chippewa about the JTTP/Time To Play composition competition and featuring the winning composition(s).

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December 23, 2022

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2022/12/23

Spotlighting some of my favourite tracks of 2022* (and 1973) in advance of my 18th annual countdown show on NYE starting at 4pm where Jared McKetiak and Iwill reveal our Top 20 Songs &Albums.

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December 16, 2022

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2022/12/16

A recap of some of my favourite jazz titles of 2022 and an interview with one of the artists on that list — Finnish guitarist Olli Hirvonen, whose Kielo is agem.

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December 9, 2022

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2022/12/09

Interviews with Smoky Tiger about the Winnipegasus Solstice Festival, and with free jazz pianist Satoko Fujii on the occasion of her 100th (!!!) album release, Hyaku, One Hundred Dreams (out today on Libra)

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December 2, 2022

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2022/12/02

Replaying my conversation with Jason Schneider about his biography of Art Bergmann, The Longest Suicide, and an interview with jazz singer Josephine Beavers about her music and her work on the PBS documentary The Musician’s Green Book: An Enduring Legacy.

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November 25, 2022

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2022/11/25

Christine Fellows latest record, Stuff We All Get, is out today and she joins me on the show to talk about its creation.

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November 11, 2022

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2022/11/11

Lots of upcoming shows to discuss. Next week Cali act Low Hum come to town and Ispoke to Collin Desha about the album Nonfiction and more. On Friday November 18th, local act Bicycle Face release their album Bicycle Space and Ispoke to the duo about making what was initially planned to be anEP.

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