Georgian Bay Roots

28/03/2025

08/03/2025

Hello folks. Jim Cuddy here. Due to our troubles with our neighbours in The States, I was inspired to write a little song. It’s called “We Used to Be the ...

05/02/2025

Hi - I only listened to this 5 times yesterday... Sounds fabulous!!! Thanks Matt

TOUR DATES: http://mattandersen.ca/tourALBUM PRE-SAVE: https://orcd.co/a3monwoWritten by Matt Andersen & Steve DawsonFilmed by Tom Terrell at Hard Scrabble S...

21/01/2025

With our show off the air, Kailey Jane Hawkins has found time to record one of her own songs - in her own unique way. This has been one of my favorites since I heard it on Canada Day. Thanks Kailey - it truly is a Happy Little Song

10/01/2025

Reposted from Colin Linden. Colin plays on a track. I’m on my third listen - it is growing on me. It is definitely well made!

We're thrilled that the new album from Ringo Starr is out today. Look Up is produced by T Bone, who also wrote or co-wrote 9 of the album's 11 songs. It's Ringo's first country album in more than 50 years and his first full-length album since 2019. https://strm.to/LookUp

31/12/2024

Well friends -- it's been a blast! This is it -- the last episode of Georgian Bay Roots Radio! Join hosts Kailey, Lloyd, Kelly, Tom and our founding host Jon Farmer as we take turns saying "so long for now" and spin one last song each to sail off into the sunset to.

We've had so much fun curating these shows for you over the last 8 years. Thank you SO much to the Georgian Bay Folk Society for this wonderful opportunity to make these shows and for keeping us on the air, thank you to Steve Ritchie at CFOS for making us sound good on the radio, and thank you to each of you for tuning in week after week and for all your support and kind words. Take care of yourselves and each other, support local and live music, and we'll see you at Summerfolk!!!

Featuring music by The Clumsy Lovers, Murray McLauchlan, Bram Morrison, Iris DeMent, Beverly Glenn Copeland, Scott Cook, and Stan Rogers!

Photo by Good Noise https://www.goodnoise.ca/

Well friends -- it's been a blast! This is it -- the last episode of Georgian Bay Roots Radio! Join hosts Kailey, Lloyd, Kelly, Tom and our founding host Jon Farmer as we take turns saying "so long fo

29/12/2024

Yo!!! You can't listen to the last episode of Georgian Bay Roots unless you listen to Kelly's last Merry Christmas GBR show first. Well ... actually you could, it will be available here shortly, but while you're waiting for the sunset episode of our now gone show, you might just as well listen to this first ....

We're a weekly radio show based in Owen Sound, Ontario and presented by the Georgian Bay Folk Society. Hosts Kailey, Lloyd, Kelly, and Tom share the music that's made in and played in Grey and Bruce c

13/12/2024

Post updated to include Soundcloud Link!

Greetings Georgian Bay Roots Radio Listeners!

This weeks episode of Georgian Bay Roots is hosted by Lloyd Lemon and airs on 560 CFOS on Sunday December 15, 2024 at 4 (unless there’s a hockey game in which case we’re on after the hockey game). For those of you not living in the Owen Sound area, or who no longer use old school radios - you can listen to the show live via www.560cfos dot ca

This episode, #426, is sponsored by The Georgian Bay Folk Society. Tickets for Summerfolk 50 are now available from the Georgian Bay Folk Society via www.summerfolk.org.

In this episode Lloyd bids farewell to this adventure of being a volunteer radio host with a set list to recognize artists from Summerfolk past and future (Summerfolk 50) and to also have a nod to the holiday season. Artists featured include: Hot Soup; Oliver Schroer & The Stewed Tomatoes; Ivan Strunin, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings; Lennie Gallant; Matt Andersen; Rick Fines; The Skydiggers; Catherine MacLellan; Danny Michel; Trout Fishing in America; and Brian Wilson.

The following link will take you to the podcast saved on Soundcloud to listen to now.

https://soundcloud.com/user-180452208/gbrr-426-dec-15-24-lemon-full?si=17996f13b07543a2b03bdf6931a9c6b1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The podcast episode is also available through Apple podcasts and via Summerfolk.org/radio.

Thanks to everyone for their support over the last year. I have enjoyed this greatly. There are two more episodes - with Kelly Babcock and Kailey Jane Hawkins on Dec 22 and Dec 29, respectively.

Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival 2025 Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival 50th edition!


Lennie Gallant Matt Andersen Rick Fines Skydiggers
Catherine MacLellan Danny Michel Trout Fishing in America - ofFISHal page Brian Wilson

09/12/2024

Tom's last show!

Leaning heavily into "the music made and played by your neighbours right here in GreyBruce". Tune in to hear, in order of appearance: Sons of Ishmael, Louis Rankin, Chegahno, Hallucination feat. Chip

06/12/2024

For the last 4 years, I've been lucky enough to host an hour of local radio every month. This Sunday at 4 (unless there's an Attack game, in which case it'll air afterwards) on AM 560 CFOS, my last episode of Georgian Bay Roots will go out over the airwaves.
Tune in every Sunday this month as Kelly Babcock, Kailey Jane Hawkins , Lloyd Allan Lemon and I take a turn at the controls steering this ship into the sunset. It has fallen on us to be the ones to bid the adieus and, out of deference to everyone who's worked on GBR (Jon Farmer, Tim Harrison, Lauren Jewell, Dylan McMullin and more), we're making the most of the occasion.
For my part, I'm leaning heavily into "the music made and played by your neighbours right here in GreyBruce". Tune in on Sunday to hear, in order of appearance: Sons of Ishmael, Louis Rankin, Chegahno, Hallucination feat. Chippewa Travellers & Reverse, Beverly Glenn Copeland (Song for Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland), BA Johnston, Rich Laviolette, The Sadies, JD Crosstown, Eugene Smith, String Driven Thing, Bill Monahan, Kuips and Andy Elliott and David Chevalier's Lakewater!

Glenn's career retrospective album 'Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland' is out now via Transgressive Records. Buy/stream here: https://ffm.to...

30/11/2024

Updated to include SoundCloud link.

Greetings Georgian Bay Roots Radio Listeners!

This weeks episode of Georgian Bay Roots is hosted by Lloyd Lemon and airs on 560 CFOS on Sunday December 1, 2024 at 4:00 (Unless there’s a hocky game). For those of you not living in the Owen Sound area, or who no longer use old school radios - you can listen to the show live via www.560cfos dot ca

This episode, #424, is sponsored by The Georgian Bay Folk Society.

In this episode Lloyd presents the interview recorded with Terra Lightfoot at the Sharing Circle during Summerfolk 49 on Saturday morning, August 17, 2024. The interview is accompanied by music discussed by Terra (I finally get a chance to play some David Wilcox (one of Terra’s early influences)).

Terra talks about some of her musical roots, her latest CD - Healing Power, her relationships with mentors like Colin Linden and Daniel Lanois, playing on tour with Blue Rodeo, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings and some of the artists she has co-written with -including Matt Anderson, Colin Linden, Colin James, and Tyler Chester.

Terra also graced us with two acoustic performances of new songs: A Good Sign and and Could’ve Stayed Lost that she has already recorded and are planned to be released in February. We had some technical challenges with the field recording, but you can hear Terra’s talent, passion and spirit shine through (even if it does not duplicate the amazing experience of sitting beside her while she sang and played). The quality is just good enough to whet the appetite for her new release.

For those of you, who can't listen via CFOS on Sunday, here is the link to the podcast on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/user-180452208/georgian-bay-roots-episode-424-december-1-2024?si=085d6082f94e42dc9c3002492f89ae0b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The podcast episode is also available through Apple podcasts and via Summerfolk.org/radio.


Terra Lightfoot David Wilcox Music Sam Weber

27/11/2024

Here it is folks, Kelly's last show. Well, except for the next one he does which will be his real "last" show, but that's a Christmas/Holiday show and he'll be making sure that's festive and bright. So this is his last show but he did it before the December show so he could sort of make sure he got a last show in before doing the other one. You know Kelly, right? Never do things the easy way. Anyway, give a listen, some of his favourites are in here, not all of them obviously because that would take hours, days, even weeks to get through. The guy just loves him so many musicians and songs.

Kelly's Last show ... before the last show Kelly does in December, but that's a Christmas Show so this is Kelly's real last show, it's just not ... you know .... last.

19/11/2024

As the Good Lovelies say in their track "I See Gold":

There's a change comin'
Everything's gonna be alright...

There *is* a change coming: friends, after 8 years on the airwaves, at the end of this calendar year Georgian Bay Roots Radio is switching off and heading into the sunset. Join host Kailey Jane Hawkins as she reflects on her 7 years as one of the hosts of this merry little show, and spins some favourites from local legends and Summerfolk alumni alike.

Featuring tracks by Joel Plaskett, Suzie Vinnick, Jon Brooks, Stephen Hardy Palmer, Drew Mcivor, Marv Perry, Bill Monahan, Fred Penner, Matt Andersen, Steve Poltz, Danny Michel, Bill Dickson, The JD Edwards Band, and the Good Lovelies!

As the Good Lovelies say in their track "I See Gold": There's a change comin' Everything's gonna be alright... There *is* a change coming: friends, after 8 years on the airwaves, at the end of this

12/11/2024

https://soundcloud.com/user-180452208/georgian-bay-roots-421-november-10-2024-with-tom
Tune in to discover Bass is Base, The Maximum Definitive, Blue Rodeo and the Cowboy Junkies' ties to Grey County, to hear new singles from JD Crosstown and Kuips, to catch up with acts in and around town (The Skydiggers, The Sadies, John Muirhead, Goddo, Victoria Yeh, JORU & Jarvis Church) and to take stock of the fact that Drew McIvor's perennial open mic at the Bruce will be wrapping up for good on Nov. 20th; get your resos now!

Tune in to discover Bass is Base, The Maximum Definitive, Blue Rodeo and the Cowboy Junkies' ties to Grey County, to hear new singles from JD Crosstown and Kuips, to catch up with acts in and around t