The Lunchbox Interview: Notable Acts presents “A Canyon Contained”

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Every year, Notable Acts introduces us to different scenes, different places, different writers, different plays,, things that we don’t expect, things we never thought to expect, things we’ve seen before but done an entirely different way.

The mainstage performance for this year’s Notable Acts Theatre Festival is a new play called A Canyon Contained. I had the pleasure of talking with the playwright, Jena McLean, and the two actors performing in the play: Lara Lewis (“Jessica”) and Megan Murphy (“Regan”). We chatted about where this play came from, where it’s going, and the journey along the way.

The Notable Acts Theatre Festival runs from July 20-30. The mainstage production of A Canyon Contained runs nightly at 7:30pm at Theatre New Brunswick’s Open Space Theatre (55 Whiting Road). Tickets are available at the door.

More about A Canyon Contained (from the Notable Acts website):

The morning after an eventful high-school party, two distant sisters find themselves trapped together on the drive back home. On one side, Jessica is glad to leave her reality behind for the sake of a new cause and a chance to build a bridge. On the other side, Regan struggles to make sense of her night and uncover the agenda behind her sister’s new interest in connecting. As confessions, callouts and questions around consent come into play, the ride turns rocky and the political and personal intertwine.

Written by Jena McLean. Directed by Natasha MacLellan. Featuring Lara Lewis and Megan Murphy.

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Homemade Jams || 2022-07-19

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Track List:
1.) David Myles – Night After Night
2.) The Burning Hell – No Peace
3.) Kelly McMichael – Stepping Stone
4.) Good Dear Good – The Storm
5.) Chloè Breault – Ouest
6.) Paper Lions – Travelling
7.) Shoulder Season – Bleed Me Dry
8.) Too Bad Jim – All The Way To Mexico
9.) Christine Campbell – Exit Out
10.) OLD Blood – You’re A Ghost
11.) Stewart Legere – Sabotage
12.) Joyful Noise – Bertha
13.) Capital 6 – One The One
14.) Fractal Code – Dry Mouth Solution

The Lunchbox Interview: Katrina Slade

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My guest today is abstract painter Katrina Slade. whose virtual residency with the Fredericton Arts Alliance happened earlier this summer.

I caught up with her in her wonderful backyard garage studio, and we talked about her residency work creating very large paintings with a starting point of written words you may never see.

You can see more of Katrina’s work on her website, including some of the things she’s working on during her residencies.

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Homemade Jams || 2022-07-18

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Track List:
1.) Mike Trask & Keith Hallett – WHat It’s For
2.) Adam Mowery – Oldies 93
3.) The Lee Harvey Oswalds – Sugar Cubes
4.) Melonvine – Co-Dependent
5.) The Town Heroes – Queen
6.) Young Satan In Love – Beef It Up
7.) Braden Lam & Wolf Castle – Silence
8.) Erin Costelo – All In Your Head
9.) Stephen Lewis & The Big Band Of Fun – Leave The Lights On
10.) The Jimmy Swift Band – Now And Then
11.) Behrooz Mihankhah – Black Narcissus
12.) Ben Caplan – Drift Apart
13.) Les Chanterelles – Cheap Perfume
14.) Kylie Fox – Cradle Me

The Lunchbox Interview: Ramneet Kalra

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We often think of art as the process of taking something from the imagination and putting it out there for others to see. But some art takes in what the world gives us and highlights it into its own thing.

My guest today is photographer Ramneet Kalra, one of the artists involved in the artist-in-residency program of the Fredericton Arts Alliance for this summer.

Ramneet sees the theme of “Breaking Out” as more than only breaking free from prejudice and stereotyping. For him, it is the transition from the COVID-19 pandemic, a period of crisis, uncertainty and the unknown, to one of peace and prosperity.

During his residency, Ramneet worked to convey the moments during and after the pandemic through a photographic series. Photographs of empty spaces will illustrate times of confinement, while those with people will display freedom and triumph.

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RFYL Episode – PeaceEP220

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks
We’ve returned from wherever it is we go between these weekly episodes to bring you some more music that’s about to release, some older tracks, and ultimately some sort of story. I’m sure if you read into it, you could peace together something absolutely amazing. Just put the story in my inbox, I’ll definitely get to it. Yeah. Tomorrow.

Anyway, check this out, or don’t, but it’ll be your loss.

Playlist:
Like A Ghost – Ian Blurton’s Future Now (Second Skin)
Chapter 99 – Elektric Mistress (Self Titled)
Supersonic – Deaf Radio (Single)
Blood Blood Blood – The Creepshow (Death At My Door)
The Woods – Reignwolf
Like Blood – Kitchen Witch (Back to the Mud EP)
Shine – Blue Hour Ghosts (Due)
Dawn to Dusk – Kilmore (Call of the Void)
Lightning Comes Again – Ruby The Hatchet (Planetary Space Child)
Sands of Time – SANDVEISS (Saboteur)
Blackstar – Parasol Caravan (Nemesis)
Epilogue – Claemus (Daydream)

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The Lunchbox Interview: Emily R. Dow

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Art is one of those things which transitions from the personal to the public, which allows us to take the inside and put it up for everyone to see.

My guest today is Emily R. Dow, another artist-in-residence as part of this summer’s Fredericton Arts Alliance program. Emily is a painter and survivor of relationship abuse. In her art during is depicting the pain and challenges one must overcome to ‘break out’ of a toxic or abusive relationship in order to find peace and happiness again.

Dow’s work will be collaborative. She wants other victims of abuse to help her in depicting the beauty and purity inside the heart in her painting. Anyone who wants to contribute can pick their favourite colour and paint anything they like—a flower, their initials, a simple brushstroke, etc.

Dow is planning to do her pop-up in Odell Park, weather permitting, July 16, at 2 p.m. She is looking forward to meeting people of all ages, LGBTQIA+ individuals, victims, and non-victims at her event.

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Homemade Jams || 2022-07-15 Sweltering Songs

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Track List:
1.) Julie Doiron – The Letters We Sent
2.) Cedric Noel – Stilling
3.) Les Hôtesses d’Hilaire – This Is My Pencil
4.) Motherhood – Handbrake
5.) Jon McKiel – Private Eye
6.) DenMother – BIRDS (Feast of the Gluttons)
7.) JOYFULTALK – Take It To The Grave
8.) Aquakultre – Don’t Trip
9.) Senior Citizen – Better Off Alone
10.) The Hypochondriacs – Highway #2
11.) Jason Anderson – Sweet Note Sung
12.) Pallmer – Quiet Clapping
13.) Alan Jeffries – Sitting On Top Of The World

Got U Covered || Vol. 04

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Track List:
The Acorn – Strange Animal (Gowan)
Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)
William Shatner – Common People (Pulp)
The Bird and the Bee – Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (Van Halen)
Death Cab For Cutie – Waterfalls (TLC)
R.E.M. – Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell) 
Jenn Grant – Boys Of Summer (Don Henley) 

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Got U Covered || Vol. 03

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Track List:
The Snuts – Summer In The City (The Lovin’ Spoonful)
Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
Big Wreck – Closer To The Heart (RUSH)
Rich Chambers – I Saw Her Standing There (The Beatles)
William Shatner – Common People (Pulp)
The Kills – Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
Anna Calvi – Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)

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Got U Covered || Vol. 02

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Track List:
MONOWHALES – The Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nails)
No Doubt – It’s My Life (Talk Talk)
Seaway – Just What I Needed (The Cars)
Crown Lands – Feeling Good (Nina Simone)
Weezer – Enter Sandman (Metallica)
MonteCarlo – All She Wants Is/Wild Boys (Duran Duran)
Volbeat – I Only Wanna Be With You (Hootie & The Blowfish)

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Post-Cheese Radio 07 2022-07-14

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Post-Cheese Radio 07 features more new music from Motherhood, along with newcomers Kiss The Sky & Teleporters. There’s another set of 2022 tunes from Cursed Blessings Records, in anticipation of the forthcoming MVLL CRIMES release. Then we dip into some classic tracks from Agent Orange and others.

Post-Cheese Radio 07 Track List:

Kiss The Sky – The Greenest Grass

Cluttered – ativan love letter
CRITTER – shift & drift
Wake Ghost – Not Now Madeline

Teleporters – Teleporters Go!
Pink Blob – Embarassed
Motherhood – Flood

MVLL CRIMES – Bootlicker’s Delight Reprisal
No More Moments – Me & My Friends
Maldita – Trabajo
The Slime – Instinct

Pointed Sticks – Billy Wilder
Pointed Sticks – The Witch (The Sonics cover)
Exxotone – Sideways
Exxotone – Big Shot
Active Dog – Fun While It Lasts

Agent Orange – Everything Turns Grey
X-Ray Spex – I Live Off You
The Rezillos – Cold Wars
The Clash – The Prisoner

X – You Phone’s Off The Hook (LIVE)
X – Soul Kitchen (The Doors cover LIVE)

Post-Cheese Radio 07 Show Notes:

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Homemade Jams || 2022-07-14

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Track List:
1.) Matt Steele – Vintage Photo Filter
2.) Marian – Eyes On A Drive
3.) Honey Gut – Ghost of the Tundra
4.) Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew – Stateless
5.) Kill Chicago – What Doesn’t Kill You
6.) Motherhood – Crawly I
7.) Lisa LeBlanc – Gossip
8.) Alicia Toner – Waves
9.) George Woodhouse and the Public Service – Lost Soul Rodeo
10.) Sam Hudson – Secrets
11.) Mike Bern – Shrine of Shirl
12.) The East Pointers – I Saw Your Ghost
13.) Adam Baxter – Most Of My Life
14.) Mike Trask &Julie Aubé – Love On The Rise
15.) Thomas Stajcer – Building A Home (Yip Walla Wahoo)

Mornings Are Hard || 2022-07-14

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Track List:
1.) Doot/Dedoot – Touch Tone Overdrive
2.) Doot/Dedoot – Plutonium Blinde
3.) Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours
4.) Breakbot – One Out Of Two
5.) TEKE::TEKE – Kala Kala
6.) TEKE::TEKE – Yoru Ni
7.) Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz – Run Away With Her
8.) Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz – Wrecking Heart
9.) Witch Prophet – Musa
10.) Witch Prophet – Regbu
11.) LOONY – either side
12.) LOONY – be cool
13.) Milk & Bone – Deception Bay
14.) Milk & Bone  -BBBLUE
15.) LAL – End Of This World Together
16.) LAL – Meteors Could Come Down

Homemade Jams || 2022-07-07

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Track List:
1.) Laura Rae -Pillow Lines
2.) Catherine Kennedy – Maybe Tomorrow
3.) Andrew Moore – Blackbird
4.) Ross Nielsen – City Of Regret
5.) Jessica Rhaye & The Ramshackle Parade – One More Cup Of Coffee
6.) Mo Kenney – Hard On You
7.) Honey Gut – Something’s Gotta Give
8.) Colin Fowlie – Passerby
9.) Lester Slade – Not The Greatest
10.) Jaclyn Reinhart – Rearview
11.) Jeremy Rice – Why Do You Lie
12.) Ashley MacIsaac – Sleepy Maggie
13.) Aquakultre – Don’t Trip
14.) Strangelands – Fictional Lover

B Street : July 11, 2022

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On this episode we heard from some of the artists featured in the 2022 edition of Sweltering Songs. You can learn about it here.

We also heard some fun summer tracks too, and a few Songs About Feelings. As always, this show has it all.

1) Mavis Staples “High Note” (from Livin’ On A High Note)

2) The Weather Station “Marsh” (from How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars)

3) Motherhood “Shepherd” (from Winded)

4) Julie Doiron “You Gave Me The Key” (from I Thought Of You)

5) Michael Feuerstack “Where Are You Now” (from Natural Weather)

6) Adam Baldwin “Causeway Road” (from the forthcoming album Concertos & Serenades)

7) Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit “Flying Over Water” (live from Harvest 2019)

8) Georgia Harmer “Headrush” (from Stay In Touch)

9) Feist “Get It Wrong, Get It Right” (from Metals)

10) Hannah Georgas “Right Love”

11) Tim Baker “Some Day”

12) Stars “My Favourite Book” (from In Our Bedroom After The War)

13) Nada Surf “Beautiful Beat” (from Lucky)

14) The Hypochondriacs “Waitin’” (from Waitin’)

15) Alan Jeffries “All About You”

Homemade Jams || 2022-07-11

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Track List:
1.) Les Moontunes – Paper Boat
2.) Umläb – Cerbia
3.) Pamela Pachal – Lost Myself
4.) Keeper E. – This Is Like Everything
5.) Burning Coast – Stranger
6.) Before The War – Melody
7.) Shorty Tubbs – Teenage Zombie Heart
8.) Sex Ghost – Dead Girl
9.) Brookside Mall – Twenty Thirteen
10.) Heat $heets – Groger
11.) On Vinyl – Strode Dodger
12.) Dillon Anthony – The Fox ft. Cedric Noel

Testing For Echo – Episode 2 – Open Your Ears Really Wide and Listen 2022-07-09

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If you enjoy Canadian content you’re really going to like the next couple of episodes.

I’ve been doing a whole lot of digging into a whole lot of great music. Canadian or otherwise.

I’m sure you knew that RUSH was going to make an appearance soon. They’re in here.

Do you remember Nash The Slash? He’s here too!

That’s all I’m going to tell you. You’re just going to have to listen for yourself to hear the goodies I’ve found.

You will not be disappointed.

Episode Song List

  1. Nash The Slash – Swingshift
  2. UK – In the Dead of the Night
  3. Chris Squire – Hold Out Your Hand
  4. RUSH – Xanadu
  5. Klaatu – Sub-Rosa Subway
  6. Nightwinds – Crude Exports
  7. Gentle Giant – Free Hand
  8. Genesis – Watcher of the Skies
  9. Prism – Nightmare
  10. The Tea Party – Save Me

 

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RFYL Episode – SlummerEP219

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks
Somehow, another handcrafted playlist JUST FOR YOU is coming your way. Some cool stuff is resurfacing (is that the right term?) from episodes past, so why not celebrate their way onto the show again?

So here we are, with a free podcast and a bunch of links to the bands that made this playlist sound so good. Go buy music.

Playlist:
Lost – Kitchen Witch (Earth and Ether)
Idle Hands – Sacrifice to Survive (self-titled)
Red Sky – Kilmore (Call of the Void)
We Stand Strong – Trucker Diablo (Rise Above The Noise)
Antithesis – Cellar Twins (Duality)
Last One Standing – Icon For Hire (Amorphous)
Burn To Rebuild – Thera (From The North)
Blood Eagle – Verse The Sun (Drowning In A Distant Ocean)
Return To Me – Unleash The Archers (Abyss)
Memories of Water – Shumaun (Memories & Intuition)
King Beyond The Gates – Sergeant Thunderhoof (This Sceptred Veil)
Breakaway – Tsunami Bomb (Trust No One)

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Mornings Are Hard || 2022-07-06

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Track List:
1.) Eric Hilton – Lost Dialect
2.) Rich Aucoin – Release
3.) Rich Aucoin – We’re In It Together
4.) Patrick Holland – Losing Touch
5.) Datarock – Double Vision
6.) Les Louanges – Pitou
7.) Weak Size Fish – Elevate
8.) Yves Jarvis – For Props
9.) Kylie Fox & Nikkie Gallant – Late Night Skateboard
10.) Lydia Képinski – Depuis
11.) Ren-Tan-Gen – Apparently
12.) Grace Ives – Lullaby
13.) Angel Olsen – All The Good Times

Post-Cheese Radio 06 2022-07-07

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Post-Cheese Radio 06 features more new music from Fredericton’s own Motherhood, along with the new single from Halifax’s Outtacontroller, a set of tunes from the mighty Tarantula Tapes label, Brazilian Riot Grrrl, and more!

Post-Cheese Radio 06 Track list:

Heavy Petter – Romance in Hogtown

Motherhood – Crawly I
Motherhood – Crawly II
Mike Trask – Goosebumps

Outtacontroller – Limit And A Situation
We Should’ve Been Plumbers – Sad And Lonely
Like a Motorcycle – Hitting the Bottle

Boring Girls – Long Terms Loser
Hysterics – Sugar
Witch Island – Ride With Me
Angry Spells – Light Her Up
Viola Swamp – End of the World

Bratmobile – Girl Germs
Courtney Love – Don’t Mix The Colors (Beat Happening cover)
Heavens to Betsy – My Red Self

Dominatrix – Knowledge
Feminil Kaos – Politicos
She Devils – Nada para mi
Hiccupus – Virgens with attitude

Heavy Petter – Big Mouth (The Muffs cover)

Show Notes:

  • We first heard selections from Motherhood’s new Winded LP in Episode 04.
  • Motherhood just released a video for Crawly I and II, live at Fredericton’s Playhouse.
  • Mike Trask’s track features guests from Les Hay Babies.
  • We first heard Outtacontroller in Episode 01.
  • Taylor Cos (Viola Swamp) has performed with the Anti-Queens, Hysterics, and most recently The Squeegees.
  • Read the Girl Germs zine online at the DC Punk Archive Zine Library.
  • “Don’t Mix The Colors” originally appeared on the self-titled debut by Beat Happening (1985).
  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, by Carrie Brownstein is the third selection in the Post-Cheese Book Club.
  • Kill Rock Stars and Riot Grrrl Brasil II are the two compilations featured in this week’s program.
  • Thanks to the RawPuNKHC Blogspot for bringing the Riot Grrrl Brasil compilations to my attention.
  • “Big Mouth” originally appeared on the self-titled debut by The Muffs (1993).

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