All shows which are special, maybe even indescribable.
My guest today is Cassandra LeBlanc, the Executive Director of the Fredericton Community Kitchens, a local non-profit organization that has been serving necessary meals for free to the public in need for decades.
My guests today are Nadia Francavilla and Norm Adams, two of the organizers and performers of the upcoming annual edition of the Contemporary Music Festival. The theme for 2024 for is “Echoes”, and they reflect on what the pieces chosen challenge them to do, how they highlight the composers working today, and the thrill of live performance.
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My guest to day is Melanie Langille, the President and CEO of NB Lung. November is Lung Month, Lung Cancer Awareness Month and Radon Awareness Month.
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Hello there everyone. Welcome to Episode 63 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. I’d like to start off with a couple of things. As always, I have a great assortment of surprises and a whole lot of stuff that’s going get you
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Our guest today was Asha Bear, an Indigenous filmmaker and owner of Bear Beadwork here in New-Brunswick.
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My guest today is filmmaker Michael Clowater, who wrote and directed his first feature film Drive Back Home, which is the selection for the Opening Night Gala of the Silver Wave Film Festival.
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Our guest today was Arianna Martinez, a Fredericton filmmaker and one of the founder of Strike Pictures, a film company she runs with Gordon Mihan and Lance Blakney.
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My guest today is Eric Hill, a poetic and musician and staple of the local music community at Backstreet Records. He joins me to talk about his upcoming performance of the multi-media exhibition, The North Fades.
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My guest today is Tanzim Bint Abdul Majid, the President of the UNB Computer Science Association (CSA). She joins me to talk about the upcoming fun annual fundraiser the CSA is hosting: a 24-hour gaming marathon, part of the global Extra Life organization.
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My guests today are Josh Foster (President) and Logan Kennedy (Alumni Rep) from the UNB Woodsmen Team.
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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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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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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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Our guest today is Sandy Hunter, a local filmmaker, founder of Cazador Productions and partner in Cultivation Pictures.
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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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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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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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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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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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My guest today is Kate Weaver, the director of the upcoming Branch Out Productions presentation of Evil Dead: The Musical.
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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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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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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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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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