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Comedy Songs Special (a.k.a. How to be a funny songwriter)

Comedy Songs Special (a.k.a. How to be a funny songwriter)

by | Mar 26, 2018

We got our funny on by looking at what makes comedy songs tick. Friend of the show Mike MacInnes “Phil’d” in for Phil. Thanks Mike! And our own tech person, Linda Lavender, treated us to a live comedy song she just wrote – great stuff Linda! We...
Robert Priest – how to write songs for children

Robert Priest – how to write songs for children

by | Mar 6, 2018

We had the pleasure of having the prolific Toronto poet, novelist, and singer/songwriter Robert Priest (with David Hynes on guitar) back in the studio to share a couple of his children’s songs. We talked about… testing a song on a 6-year old moving from...
Bridging Jazz and Pop with Sean Bertram

Bridging Jazz and Pop with Sean Bertram

by | Mar 4, 2018

Sean Bertram returned to the show following the release of his debut album, The Right Place. We talked about: Sean’s studies at Humber College in Music Guitar poetics in your lyrics changing chords and melodic centre between sections of your song contrast in pop...
On composing jazz songs with Paul Novotny

On composing jazz songs with Paul Novotny

by | Feb 25, 2018

Paul Novotny (born Peterborough, Ontario, 1958) is a composer, bassist, producer, and engineer. He is the bassist on the international runaway hit video-game, CUPHEAD; over 50,000 sales in 2017. As a producer, his record label has achieved three Juno nominations and...