Sled Island

Uh, the-- Asides from just a funding drive, some funding drive events, I should say.

Uh, something that I'm very, very lucky and happy that I did, I managed to get tickets to the Rager Against the Machine, CJSW, uh, Sled Island, and, uh, I guess Sled Island and CJSW collab, um, Halloween party, the Halloween Bash happening, uh, Saturday, October 31st at the Number One Royal Canadian Legion.

Uh, that sold out very, very quickly.

As always, it's the biggest party in Calgary on Halloween.

I've got a pretty cool story about Toxic Femme.

So they were playing at the Ship & Anchor during Sled Island this summer, and I work at the Ship, so I didn't get the chance to go out a lot.

It was my first time having a full-time gig, so that was pretty cool that I got to see them.

And at one point after they played, I actually talked to the lead singer, and she told me that she was classically trained in opera before she joined the band, and she quit because opera wasn't the path she wanted to take.

Okay.

And just, like, speaking of your bands, you've been, um, some of you have been on, like, festivals at Sled Island.

Mm-hmm.

Some of y'all are performing a bunch more.

Gonna keep on rolling with the new music.

And the next artist is an artist that I saw at the iconic Sled Island Music Festival and she is a seeing impaired artist that goes by the name of Emma Ruth Rundle and does really interesting music.

It can be pretty heavy at times, but most of the time it's very atmospheric.

And she's got a new record called These Killing Times.

Yeah.

Uh, but you have those few festivals like Sled Island, Purple City-

Yeah

... which do kind of bring those artists from the rest of the province into these larger areas in, in Alberta.

This features music from Our Last Crusade, Salem Trials, Reject, Howls, Citizen Rage, and more.

Speaking of festivals, Sled Island just opened up their submissions.

I believe they close in January, but submissions are now open.

Uh, please do, if you are an artist interested in playing the festival, please do, uh, apply.

Uh, they have a whole application package for you that will give you all of the instructions on how to apply for Sled Island.

I believe that link will be available through their website at sledisland.com. All right, we're gonna head right into our next set.

This one's a bit of a hard set as well.

It is going to be happening this Saturday, October 10th, for their 10th installment.

Shout out to Hayman, who we know good friends from Sled Island.

He's the curator, he's a programmer, so you know that the music curation for this show is going to be stacked.

We have Zennith, Dempsey Bolton, who we heard earlier in the show, Hip Hip Thursday, Nate Leisco, who we also heard from earlier, Ginger Beef, Yassen, who we're going to be inviting on next week's show, but all that and more, and it's presented by Goodfam, celebrating the independent music community right here in our own backyard.

I said I would focus on the Alberta music scene, and that's what I wanna do.

I had a great interview with Arlo Maverick, a hip hop icon out of Edmonton, to start this off, all part of my Sled Island series that I did this year.

I have 10 episodes all about Sled Island, and it just sparked me to cover this great music.

With all that being said, let's get rolling on this awesome special episode.

Some of the best ideas start with a simple thought.

Was just kind of flipping through that comp the other day and saw Mary Lattimore's name, so knew we had to play her tonight.

My wife and I had the privilege of seeing Mary Lattimore at Sled Island.

Was that last year or the year before? Ah, where do the years go? But it was a beautiful show nonetheless.

Previous to that, we heard a new track from Bonobo, "Fire on the Water" from the new album, Distance in Static.

And we just came from Calgary.

We did Sled Island there.

And we just, we also did some areas in Quebec, like Gaspésie.

It's this beautiful area of Quebec.