Acheulean Age - Episode June 6, 2026

Acheulean Age - Episode June 6, 2026

Sean and Connor join Syf to chat all things community, creativity, and collaborative storytelling! AARDCON, Calgary's greatest and best convention, founded by Sean and Connor to spotlight grassroots TTRPG players and makers (that's table top role playing games! and boy are there so many out there, for every kind of person!) is NEXT WEEK June 13, 10:30am-6pm, at the Scandanavian Centre, 739 20 AVE NW. Head to the link below for more info: https://www.aardcon.com/ Playlist: * Bruce Cockburn - The Blues Got The World (By The Balls) * Lord Lebby, featuring The Jamaican Calypsonians - Dr. Kinsey Report * Exponians of the Steel Orchestra - Goin' Out Of My Head * David Bowie - Please Mr. Gravedigger * One Leg One Eye - Sympathetic Vertebrate Ritual * Leeroy Stagger - Dogwood Flower * Early Music Consort of Calgary - Crux Triumphans - Loyset Compere (c.1445-1518) * Abigail Lapell - Little Cannibal * Real Mckenzies - Shackleton * The Eagleheart Singers & Drummers - Round Dance Song (II) - Social / Alberta * Squarepusher - Museum * Noah Zacharin - Small Town Novel * The Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like A Train * Ray Bonneville - Tomorrow's Yesterday * The Witching Tale - Within Her Flame * David Munrow - Dance Tune - Scottish c. 1250 (David Munrow Introduces Early Woodwind Instruments) * Randy Petersen, Tim Heintz, & Monterey Bay Aquarium - Song Of The Humpback * Jim Chapin - 01.09. Melodic Exercise 1B - A) No. 1, B) No. 2, C) No. 3, D) No. 4 * Jocelyn Gould - Spring, It Seems * The Gories - You Don't Love Me * The Melvins & Napalm Death - Awful Handwriting

Acheulean Age - Episode May 30, 2026

Was showing off the cool stuff in my room (trinkets, treasures, old records, old books, even new books) to some pals of mine. I've got a couple of nifty tote bags (ok brag!) and one is of a library card, not for a person but for a book, the recipe card that goes in the beige pocket, that one? Yeah! So I picked up what I thought was an empty toe, and it had some weight, I peeked inside, showed my friends - "a toddler's pockets!" Some lovely stones, delightful sticks, a massive pinecone, everything I might need to make a real good radio show! And here we are, pocket and tote-sized, to boot :) Playlist: * Montreux - Egrets * Hilary Kleinig - Tomorrow Will Be Fair * Meredith Bates - Book I - 1st Incantation (Protection) * Andrew MacKelvie - Another Place * Henry Nielsen - Brief Outline * Patricia O'Callaghan & John Burge - The Abandoned Waltz (The Mata Hari Suite, No. 6) * The Abramson Singers - Roses * Doris Troy - Bossa Nova Blues * Lee Scratch Perry - Repented * Iggy Pop, featuring Joshua Homme, Dean Fertita, Matt Helders - Vulture * Jerome Godboo - Michelle * Morgus & The 3 Ghouls - Morgus The Magnificent * Jenny - Gospel Of City Lights And Pavements * Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair * MacDowell Sisters, featuring Henry I. Marshall - Intro: "Honolulu Hula Hula Heigh!" / Baby Sister Blues * Rufus Wainwright - Leaving For Paris No. 2 * Harry Styles - Coming Up Roses * Joni Mitchell - Judgement of the Moon and the Stars (Ludwig's Tune) * Chilliwack - California Girl * McGnarley's Rant - Fisherman's Pride * Dolly Houston, featuring Woody Herman and His Orchestra - Lonesome Gal (Theme Song of the "Lonesome Gal" Program)

Acheulean Age - Episode May 23, 2026

ALL CANADIAN SPECIAL opening with a moving, loving, honest tribute to the accordion, on the 197th anniversary of the day (May 23, 1829) the patent was first given to Cyrill Demian by Viennese officials who most certainly had no idea just how integral that weird boxy thing would become to expressing Canadian hyphenate identities through song and stories. Playlist: * Cameron Nickerson - Little Country Home * Kelly Cliperton - Meet Me At The Railway * Howells - The Pressure (Acoustic) * Cryptozoologists - Someone Egged My Car * Gene Kucherawy - Gene's Polka * Harry Hibbs, featuring Johnny Burke and the Caribou Showband - Brennan On The Moor * Emilia Volodymyrivna Ostapchuk (Andrusiw), featuring Michael Minsky, Herman Kropatschek, the Viennese Symphony Orchestra - White Cottage In The Orchard * Ron - Polka Medley: Arbourg Polka, Accordion Polka, Southern Polka * Female Beat - Walking the Meadows * Andy De Jarlis and His Early Settlers - Wayne's Old Time Waltz * Gaby Haas And His Barndance Gang - Barbary Polka * Wilf Carter - Memories Of My Little Grey-Haired Mother In The West * King Biscuit Boy, featuring Crowbar - Highway 61 * Tegan and Sara - Hang On To The Night * Herbie Hancock , featuring Leonard Cohen, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lionel Loueke - The Jungle Line * Quit Music - sometimes i don't * Rolf Boon, featuring The University of Lethbridge Contemporary Music Ensemble - Waves For Two Synthesisers, Percussion, Guitar, and Saxophone * Canadian Brass, featuring William McCauley - Staggering * Status/Non-Status - Basket Weaving * Jim Balfour and Friends, featuring Don Griffith (piano) - Still Vertical * Whitehorse - Manitoba Death Star * Diamondtown - Faded Lines * Loreena McKennitt - The Bonny Swans (Live) * Lucy Maud Montgomery, featuring Marsha Epic Harris - The Children's Garden * The Joel Plaskett Emergency - True Patriot Love * Nova Scotiables - Down Donegal's Stairs

Acheulean Age - Episode May 16, 2026

I've been re reading books I loved as a kid, recently. Maybe it's to tap into my inner child. or to relive the glory days of being 6. Or the books are just good. That's always a possibility. I'm enjoying re reading these stories I either half-remember or don't recall at all. A few I remember differently. Currently, I've hit the 1960s/70s Dr. Who Novelisations streak, books that were old even when I was a child, and I am having the most lovely time going back into these. Novelisations of nostalgia. Nostalgisation. Today's tunes come from that place. Music I listened to while reading Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen by Gerry Davis, published by Target Books (not that Target), novel first published in 1978, TV serial broadcast 1967. Read along as we listen together, if you'd like! Playlist: * Duke Ellington , featuring The Ron Collier Orchestra - Aurora Borealis * Maude Audet - Pas besoin d'se mentir * Benji Crane - Mikayla * Giorgos Zampetas - The Lemon Market * The Cadillac Three - Legacy * Thornetta Davis - Helpless * Dominique Claire - If God Is A Woman * Willi Carlisle - Sound and Fury * Bill Bourne, Lester Quitzan, & Madagascar Slim - Scarecrow Murders * Melvins - Hag Me * Mike Tod - John The Revelator * soa - One Day * Mildred Bailey - Almost Like Being In Love * Rush - Cygnus C-1 * Muddy Waters - Standing Around Crying * The Animals - Cheatin' * Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays * St. Arnaud - Pretend Like You Do * Pablo Cruise - For Another Town * Nature Walk - Sun Shiner * Jerry Perkins, featuring Mal Hallett and His Orchestra - Dearly Beloved * The White Stripes - Take, Take, Take * Keturah - Nchiwewe (Ode To Willie Nelson) * Frankie Carle - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Acheulean Age - Episode May 9, 2026

Local poet Richard Harrison, Governor General's Award Winner for his book of poetry On Not Losing My Father's Ashes In The Flood joins Syf to discuss his new book of poetry, My Mother Joins The Resistance, published last month. Head to a bookstore on your CJSW Friends Card and pick up a copy NOW! (please) Playlist: * Meredith Bates - Book 1 - 3rd Incantation (Love) * Female Beat, featuring Joan Evanchyshin (accordian), Valerie Feniuk (drums), Joyce Fedorowich (guitars & vocals) - Red Shawl Tango * Kacey Musgraves, featuring Miranda Lambert - Horses and Divorces * Astral Swans - True Love Leaves No Traces * SquareHead - Home * Kalsey Kulyk - Little Boy * Ken Coyler's Skiffle Group - Downbound Train * Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr - Home To Us * St. Arnaud - Midwest Superstardom * Loreena McKennitt - Bonny Portmore * Tanya Tagaq - Summoning * Flying Lotus - HORSE NUKE * Elysia Biro - Running From Nothing * Oscar Peterson Trio - Politics and Poker * Lionel Richie, featuring Brenda Harvey-Richie - Penny Lover * Tori Amos - In Times Of Dragons * Black Mountain - Night Walks