Interview: UNB Woodsmen (Woodmen’s Competition)
My guests today are Josh Foster (President) and Logan Kennedy (Alumni Rep) from the UNB Woodsmen Team.
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Category Archives: Specialty
All shows which are special, maybe even indescribable.
Interview: Samaqani Cocahq (Songs from Finding Wolastoq Voice)
My guest today is Samaqani Cocahq, a storyteller who shares and expresses her Indigenous life through music, words and performance. She joins me to discuss an upcoming TNB presentation of Songs from Finding Wolastoq Voice, an upcoming performance alongside Sisters of the Drum and Dawson Sacobie.
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Interview: Black Box Theatre presents “A Number”
My guests today are Scott Shannon (“Salter”), Ilkey Silk (Director) and Ian Curran (Promotions Director), all part of the Theatre St. Thomas presentation of Caryl Churchill’s A Number.
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Testing For Echo – Episode 62 – A couple of my opinions. Do you agree? – Orig. Air Date October 26, 2024
Hi again folks. I trust all is well. Welcome to Testing For Echo Episode 62 on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. If I was to be asked what my favourite era of Pink Floyd was, I would say the late 1980’s and 1990’s. In my opinion
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Interview: Sandy Hunter (Filmmaker)
Our guest today is Sandy Hunter, a local filmmaker, founder of Cazador Productions and partner in Cultivation Pictures.
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Design Our Next CHSR T-Shirt!
Do you have a knack for design or a creative idea you’re itching to share? CHSR 97.9 FM needs a fresh, standout t-shirt, and we want you to help bring it to life! We’re excited to open up this opportunity to our community of listeners, artists, and fans. Whether you’re an experienced designer or someone
Interview: Theatre UNB presents “Detective Partner Hero Villain”
My guests today are Sammy Cormier (Director), Armin Panjwani (Detective Baani Baker), and Ell Gignac (Partner Diane) from the Theatre UNB production of Detective Partner Hero Villain.
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Interview: Janie Moyen (New Majority)
My guest today is Janie Moyen, the Bilingual National Organizer for New Majority, a non-partisan group seeking to encourage younger voters to get to the polls.
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Testing For Echo – Episode 61 – Bet There Are a Couple You Don’t Know? – Orig. Air Date October 12, 2024
Hi again folks. I trust all is well with you. Welcome to Testing For Echo Episode 61 on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. I’m going to bet that there is going to be a couple of tracks today that you have never ever heard before. There’s
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Interview: Andrew MacLean (Backyard History)
My guest today is Andrew MacLean, author, historian and storyteller, who has written series of books, newspaper columns and podcasts about bits of forgotten lore about the Maritimes, all under the title of Backyard History.
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Interview: Dr. Trevor Hanson (UNB Mobility Day)
My guest today is Dr. Trevor Hanson, a Professor of Civil Engineering, Coordinator of the UNB Transportation Group, and a founder of the Community Transportation Research Lab (CTRL) at UNB.
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Interview: Kate Weaver (Evil Dead: The Musical)
My guest today is Kate Weaver, the director of the upcoming Branch Out Productions presentation of Evil Dead: The Musical.
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Testing For Echo – Episode 60 – Milestones? Sure! Keep Them Coming! – Orig. Air Date September 28, 2024
Hello there folks. Welcome to Testing For Echo Episode 60 on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. Today I’ve decided to browse through the music archives and focus on a few that I’ve played before and love, but haven’t played recently. So let’s get to it.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Terry Graff (Avian Cyborgs)
My guest today is Terry Graff, a mixed-media artist who combines whatever he can get a hold of into complex, multi-layered, challenging artwork. He joins me to talk about an exhibition of his work, filling one gallery with works from his Avian Cyborgs series and the other gallery with a combination of different series, including his Covid Terror Series. Terry joins me to talk about his long history of art-making from combining found objects and found ideas, and his constant inspiration.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Don Hannah, Natasha MacLellan (“Greetings”)
My guests today are Don Hannah (playwright & author) and Natasha MacLellan (Artistic Director of TNB). They join me to talk about Greetings
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The Lunchbox Interview: Jared Carney (Demonic Brilliance Film Festival)
My guest today is Jared Carney, founder of the Demonic Brilliance Film Festival. This local festival celebrates the creepy, the odd, the horror movies and shorts. Jared joins me to talk about the appeal of horror movies, the origin and shape of the festival, and some of the featured films coming to screams near you.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Fawn Parker (Poet Laureate)
My guest is Fawn Parker, newly-minted Poet Laureate of the city of Fredericton. Fawn joins me to talk about their process for writing, the novels they have written (and the new one just released), and their job as the Poet Laureate.
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Influentia/SNAKES ARE COOL [Notable Acts] (The Lunchbox Interview)
My guests today are Erin Russell and Jake Martin, two of the primary folks featured in the main stage productions of this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival.
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Notable Acts 2024 part 2 (The Lunchbox Interview)
My guests today are all participants in this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Alex McAllister (playwright: “Gargoyles”, “Animate Objects”; director: “Predormital”; actor), Cassandra Bullett (actor: Soda Noir), Mimi Martin (actor: Soda Noir).
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Notable Acts 2024 (The Lunchbox Interview)
My guests today are all participants in this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Olivia Onalundala (High School Playwright: “Little Rock”); Merrit Johnson (director: “Little Rock”, “Burden of Proof”); and Madeline Savoie (playwright: “Splinter, Winter, Bloom”; director: “Animate Objects”).
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Richard Hornsby: NB Summer Music Festival (The Lunchbox Interview)
My guest today was Richard Hornsby. He is (among many things) the Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival.
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Connor Fox (The Lunchbox Interview)
My guest today is Connor Fox, a talented local guitarist who plays lead guitar with Fredericton legends The Hypochondriacs. He joins me in studio to talk about his first solo release, Music Room, and about his life growing up with a guitar in his hand.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Ysabelle Vautour & Cass Maz (Artists in Residence)
My guests today are Ysabelle Vautour and Cass Maz, two of the artists in residence in the Barracks Casemates this summer.
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The Lunchbox Interview: A Sea of Gold and Burgundy
My guests today are Aaron Berger, Nathanial Goold and CD Onofrio, who are collectively known as A Sea of Gold and Burgundy. They join me to talk about the origins of the band of three harmonic, lyric-writing friends, how their music is made and what its like to return to the group after a hiatus of over a decade.
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The Lunchbox Interview: “Romeo & Juliet” (Bard In The Barracks)
My guests today are all involved in one of this year’s Bard in the Barracks Shakespearean productions: Len Falkenstein (Grand Poobah of Theatre In Fredericton), Mary Walker (“Juliet”) and Alex Fullerton (“Romeo”). They joined me to talk about staging such an iconic play, and the fun of bringing these characters just over the edge.
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