by chartz_2j82lc | Feb 11, 2022 | The Practice Collection
Listen to the story as you follow along … With a beautiful hippie wife and two little flower children we took the Muskeg Special, a train full of stories, to Churchill, Manitoba in the fall of 1969. It was the quintessential late sixties adventure. A...
by chartz_2j82lc | Feb 1, 2022 | The Arts Collection
Listen to the story as you read along … It is the Juno weekend of 2018 as I write this little story. Twenty-seven years ago, I went to my first and I suppose only Juno Awards show. The Juno Awards are named after Pierre Juneau, one of my early public service...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 30, 2022 | The Arts Collection
I had been working pretty hard for a couple of days in Toronto and was happy to be boarding a plane for the four-hour flight home to Saskatoon. So I was tired, cranky and very much deep into my own head as I boarded. The one silver lining was that a few minutes...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 29, 2022 | The Arts Collection
Big Bill Broonzy, famed Chicago bluesman, for much of his life, sang the blues on Saturday nights to make a living and engaged in some “fire and brimstone” preaching on Sunday mornings to honor his father. This battle between the Devil owning Saturday night and...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 28, 2022 | The Arts Collection
Recorded 2014 at Seventh Street Sound Studios I grew up in the historic little town of Battleford Sask. It was a town that from the beginning had an uneasy relationship with its First Nations neighbors. The town grew from an early fur trade post three hundred...
