16 December 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 16 Dec 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

From the Media NB Industry Summit, 7 Nov 2014, the New Media, Animation & Gaming panel: Moderator Gene Fowler; panelists Curtis Carey, Dave Rigley and Jay Marks.

Canadian Poet Patrick Woodcock: "Ferhang" (in Kurdish and English)

09 December 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 9 Dec 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

From the Media NB Industry Summit, 7 Nov 2014, the Francophone Film/TV & Multimedia Production panel: Moderator Jean-Marc Goguen; Panelists René Savoie and Frank Savoie.

02 December 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 2 Dec 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Women in Film and Television panel from the Media NB Industry Summit, 7 Nov 2014: Andrea Levesque moderator with panellists Sarah Campbell, Elaune Shannon, and Britany Sparrow.

25 November 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 25 Nov 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Judy Benson: Two poems

Commercial Production/Branded Content, a.k.a. "Entrepreneur-Filmmakers" panel from the Media NB Industry Summit, 7 Nov 2014: Greg Hemmings moderator with panellists Michel Guitard, Danny Crain, Jean-Marc Goguen, Chris Goguen, and Ian Miller.

18 November 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 18 Nov 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Live interview with Wendy Forrest and Biff Mitchell, artists, about the Significant Digits exhibition to open at Government House, on 20 Nov 2014, 5-7 pm.

11 November 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 11 Nov 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

REMEMBRANCE DAY 2014 Episode!

Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance

1 Intro/Military Medley. Laurence Cottle. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 4:47

2 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major (Edward Elgar) / Lines from "For the Fallen" (Lawrence Binyon) / On the Idle Hill of Summer (A.E. Housman). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 5:10

3 In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" (Thomas Hardy). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:33

4 Salut d'amour. Edward Elgar. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 3:45

5 The Autumn of the World (Herbert Read). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:54

6 Mars, the Bringer of War (from The Planets) (Gustav Holst) / Attack (Siegfried Sassoon) / The General (Siegfried Sassoon) / The Dead (III) (from 1914) (Rupert Booke). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 6:38

7 For the Fallen (Lawrence Binyon). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 1:53

8 In Memoriam (Easter 1915) (Edward Thomas). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:18

9 The Dead (IV) (from 1914) (Rupert Brooke). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 1:08

10 Returning, We Hear the Larks (Isaac Rosenberg). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 1:07

11 Everyone Sang (Siegfried Sassoon). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:36

12 Chanson de matin. Edward Elgar. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 3:34

13 On the Dead in Gallipoli (John Masefield). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:16

14 Elegy (Edward Elgar) / Before Action (W.N. Hodgson) / The Soldier (V) (from 1914) (Rupert Brooke). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 4:23

15 Futility (Wilfred Owen). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:51

16 In Flanders Fields (John McRae). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 0:53

17 Chanson de nuit. Edward Elgar. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 4:10

18 The Hand that Signed the Paper (Dylan Thomas). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 1:02

19 Summer Night on the River (Frederick Delius) / To a Conscript of 1940 (Herbert Read) / Watching Post (C. Day Lewis). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 5:54

20 Naming of Parts (Henry Reed). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 2:05

21 All Day It Has Rained ... (Alun Lewis). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 2:01

22 Dawn (from Peter Grimes) (Benjamin Britten) / Song of the Dying Gunner (Charles Causley) / For Johnny (John Pudney). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 3:34

23 Venus, the Bringer of Peace (from The Planets) (Gustav Holst) / Midnight May 7th, 1945 (Patric Dickinson) / Will It Be So Again? (C. Day Lewis). Various Composers. Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Sir Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra. 8:40

03 November 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 4 Nov 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Live interviews with Fredericton Bruce LeGrow, and with actor/director Kayla-Renée Ossachuk. Both have films in this year's Silver Wave Film Festival, 6-9 November 2014, here in Fredericton.

28 October 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 28 Oct 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Tony Merzetti, Eric Megarity, Kate Rogers, & Greg Hemmings: Launch of the Silver Wave Film Festival 2014 Programme.

Utah Phillips: poems "Stupid's Pledge", "Sedition", "General, Your Tank", and "I Love My Flag".

Hugh Hazelton: "the Imperial Birthday Party"

Jeanette Lynes: "A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway"

Rusti Lehay: "Primal Moves"

Susan Helwig: "Hungarian Cafe", and "Your name, another word for stone"

Jocelyne Verret: "Memramcook"

Found photo du jour



Found 7:53 am, 28 Oct 2014, in the driveway of 362 Dundonald Street, Fredericton, NB.

21 October 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 21 Oct 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Alan Sears: "Measuring what Matters: Taking Citizenship Seriously as an Outcome of Education," Faculty of Education, UNB.

07 October 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 7 Oct 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Today's episode features the 2014 W. Stewart MacNutt Lecture at UNB Fredericton – "New Brunswick: Cradle of Confederation" presented by Ged Martin, Professor Emeritus (Canadian Studies), University of Edinburgh.

23 September 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 23 Sept 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Hillary Peach w/ Alex Varty & Andreas Kahre: "Suitcase Local"

Billy Bragg: "Walk Away Renee"

ahdri zhina mandiela: "Canefields"

Aural Heather: "Princess Nut"

09 September 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 9 Sept 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Tuesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

**NEW TIME**

Judi Benson: "Adrift" and other poems

Vincent Tinguely: poems from I Am Burdened With a Past: poetry recordings 1986-2006 (in a bootleg style)

Max Middle: "(excerpt from) A Creation Song"

Kristy McKay: "Canadian Hoochie Mamas"

Hugh McMillan: "Surprise Attacks" and other poems

Monty Python: "Bookshop"

27 August 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 27 Aug 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Penn Kemp: "When the Heart Parts", A Sound Opera.

25 August 2014

1,200 blog posts

Wow! I've done 1,200 blog posts here, and is isn't the only place I post posts ...

13 August 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 13 Aug 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

"Pome Poem" bpNichol

"Two Kinds" Steven Ross Smith

"Monks of the Holy Throat" Verbomotorhead

"Fat Summer" Verbomotorhead

"Opening Chant" bill bissett

"Lullaby for Kurt Schwitters" Nobuo Kubota & Mark Sutherland

"Big Sky Alberta" Sheri-D Wilson w/ Russell Broom

"Sin Tax" Penn Kemp

"Wish (for bp)" Jerry Shikitani

"Vive le (for Henrie Chopin)" Paul Dutton

"Hiding" Paul Dutton

"Whiskey Breath (glosa)" Katerina Fretwell

23 July 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 23 July 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

a Highland Radio prequel episode, all Scottish writers

Ian Stephen: "Corrievreckan"

Hamish MacDonald: "An Ode to Commemorate the Opening of the Robbie Burns World Federations First Summer Language School"

Liz Niven: "Wick" and other poems

Douglas Lipton: "The Yellow Jersey" and other poems

Mary Smith: "Water God" and other poems

16 July 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 16 July 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Christopher Stewart: "Beat the Drum"

Stephen DiLauro "The Bear and the Boogerberry Man"
Paulo da Costa: "Aqua Libera"

Swifty Lazarus: "History is Dead (Read My Lips)"
Steph bernston: "Barreling Madly"

Clive Holden: "Grain Train"

Fluffy Pagan Echoes: "Sound Poem"

04 June 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 4 June 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Michael Lally: "Going Home Again"

Clive Holden: "eighteen thousand dead in gordon head"

Stephen Dilauro: "Benjamin Franklin and the Florasaurus"

Steph Berntson: "Barreling Madley"

Paulo da costa: "The Fool"

Bif Naked: "Canadians"

28 May 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 28 May 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Stephen Dilauro: "Homer and the Giant Sea Worm"

Mary Elizabeth Grace: "Madda Madda Rose"

Paulo da Costa: "Roses, Lilacs and Chrysanthemums"

Geode Music & Poetry: "Howl", and "Invisible Wings II"

Hilary Peach: "Whipsnake 1" & "Whipsnake 2"

Mary Elizabeth Grace: "Bootlegging Apples on the Road to Redemption"

07 May 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 7 May 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Sekou Sundiata: "longstoryshort"

Victor Tomiczek: "Picket Line"

Paul Dutton: "Jassstory (for Tim Posgate)", « Vive le (for Henrie Chopin)"

Sekou Sundiata: "droppin' revolution"

Andrea Thompson: "(R)evolution"

Debbie Young: Revolution

Jean-Marc Massie: « Mutations »

Stephane Despatie: « Engoulevents »

Rhoda Bulter: "Shetland Trees", "Boanie Picters", "Da Essy Kert", "Fragrance", "A Phoney Yarn", and "Faimily Favourites"

Hilary Peach: ""The Ratsnake"

30 April 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 30 April 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Guy Vanderhaeghe: Trudeau Lecture @ UNB, 2010-02-16.

27 April 2014

Found photo du jour

Found at 4:10 pm, Sunday, 27 April 2014, face up becide the curb outside 358 Dundonald Street, Fredericton, NB. Had spotted it the day before while biking.

09 April 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 9 April 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Michael Lally: "Going Home Again"

Ted Russell: "Geese"

Kelly Russell: "The Smokehouse on the Kyle"

Patricia Smith: "Spinning Till You Get Dizzy"

Michael Warr: "Manchild"

Cin Salach & Sheila Donahue: "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Ian Ferrier & Brio Trio: "Exploding Head man"

Catherine Kidd: "Scales of a Orange"

Fluffy Pagan Echoes: "Sound Poems"

Tanya Evanson: "Kan ve bal", "Notes Upon Leaving the Country"

02 April 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 2 April 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Featuring the title story from the MP3 Audio CD of Susan Rendell's collection In the Chambers of the Sea (Rattling Books) read by Anita Best.

Steven Galloway reading an excerpt from his novel The Cellist of Sarajevo (Vintage Canada). Recorded by Joe Blades in Memorial Hall, UNB Fredericton, on 21 Jan 2010.

19 March 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans nominated for "Best Live Show" Barry Award

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm.
Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

My Ashes, Paper, & Beans has been nominated for CHSR's "Best Live Show" Barry Award (2014). Neat!

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On a related note ...

Visit http://www.chsrfm.ca/ for listeners' choice awards.

Barry Awards presentation to be held on 19 April 2014. Location TBA.

12 March 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 12 March 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, Wednesday, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Catherine Hunter (Winnipeg): "Rush Hour"

Richard Hell: Excerpt from Chapters 1 & 2 of the novel Go Now

Hilary Peach Gabriola Island): "Oh My dear"

Fortner Anderson (Montreal) + tape/head: "he sings"

Christopher Stewart (Chicago): "Beat the Drum"

05 March 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 5 mars 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Ted Russell (Newfoundland): "Stealin' the Holes"

Maggie Estep (NYC): "I'm an Emotional Idiot"

Maggie Estep & The Splitters: "Skid Row Wine" (written by Jack Kerouac)

Leonard Cohen (LA): "Democracy" (spoken)

bill bissett (Toronto): "dayze n nites by the glak river"

Katerina Fretwell: poems from Shaking Hands with the Night

utah phillips and ani difranco: "holding on"

19 February 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 19 Feb 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Drew Taylor: The Magic Glasses by Cynthia Sharpe & Drew Taylor (featuring song "Oh Story Teller" by Nick Bristowe, performed by Nicole Scoffield & Victor Smith).

Utah Phillips & ani difranco: "Bridges"
Ian Stephen (Isle of Lewis): Lost Girl"

Hilary Peach: "You Are Camping",

Beverly Matherne: « Je vas vendre non chasse-neige / Sellin' My Snow Blowin' Machine"

29 January 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 29 January 2014

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Victor Tomiczek: "Picket Line"

Fortner Anderson + tape/head: "he sings"

Zach de la rocha: "Land and Liberty"

Catherine Kidd + Jack Beetz: "Global warming"

Hamish MacDonald: "An Ode to Commerate the Opening of the Robbie Burns Federation's First Summer Language school"

Liz Niven: "Wick & Other Poems"

Max Middle: "A Text for One Voice"

Jean Smith: "Don't Shoot Till You See the Whites of Their Eyes"

Victor Tomiczek: "Picket Line"