Friday, March 28, 2008

MARCH 28, 29, 30

The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Friday March 28, 2008
Tonight on The Signal Pat ventures deep into the quirky world of singer songwriter Joanna Newsom and her harp. Then it is off to Montreal for tonight’s concert featuring a mostly acoustic set from Malajube. Pat fills in any unsightly cracks with covers from Matt Mays, Battle of Land and Sea and expansive electronic sounds from Edmonton composer Don Ross.




The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Saturday March 29, 2008
Tonight on the Signal Pat spins a few tracks from a spanking new CD from Toronto’s Prince Nifty. In concert it is one of LA’s top improvisers; trombonist Michael Vlatkovich featuring saxophonist David Mott. Pat also digs deep and surfaces with music from EL-P, The Battles, The Winks, Thom York and Kid Koala.



The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Sunday March 30, 2008
Tonight on The Signal Pat offers up a grab bag of sounds from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival;Nicole Lizée’s piece “Arcadiac”, Glenn Buhr’s “Pno Concerto”, Jesse Zubot’s “Intolerable Distance” Ether 1, by Pierre Michaud and David Eagle’s “Soundplay 2”. And to fully hog tie your senses, Pat will also feature music from the Coen Brothers’ “O, Brother Where Art Thou”, some Final Fantasy and a little dollop of Michael Nyman.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

MARCH 21, 22, 23

The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Friday March 21, 2008
Tonight Pat steps onto the Easter weekend roller coaster and plays the sounds of elation and sorrow, chocolate and rabbits. Chad Van Gaalen, Rachel Yamagata, Sheri-D Wilson and a Sufjan Stevens profile are just some of the sounds to be experienced on this Good Friday night. Pat will also play Osvaldo Golijov’s gorgeous take on the Passion play.


The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Saturday March 22, 2008
Tonight on The Signal Pat spins music to accompany Easter Egg shenanigans with multiple tracks from the new Plants and Animals CD. To engage your chocolate high Pat will toss out a skill testing question leading to A Morrissey CD give away. All this and a basket full of music including Vancouver’s P:ano, Germany’s De-Phazz, One Ring Zero’s take on Alice in Wonderland and the freshly recorded Soundstreams concert of Sofia Gubaidulina’s stunning piece “Seven Words”.


The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Sunday March 23, 2008
Tonight on The Signal Pat will ease your chocolate hangover with spring and Easter flavoured music from Veda Hille, Ivan Moody, Christos Hatzis and Lily Frost. Soundtrack Sundays will feature a few pieces from Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”. Tonight’s concert is spicy blend of East and West from the Turning Point Ensemble with the Gamelan Gita Asmara. And in the third hour Pat will dip into music from last year’s International Rostrum of Composers.

Friday, March 14, 2008

March 14, 15, 16 2008

The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Friday March 14, 2008
Tonight on the Signal sit back and enjoy a concert from Montreal’s Feu Thérèse. Pat will also dip into the prolific and ecclectic music of another Montrealer, guitarist and composer Bernard Falaise. New music will be spun from Jean Martin, The Mountain Goats, Cornelius and one very interesting cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”.

The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Saturday March 15
Danny Boy” is overplayed and has been ranked among the 25 most depressing songs of all time so tonight Pat will not be playing it to pre-celebrate St Patty’s Day. Instead music from Julia Kent, Sean Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra and many tracks from the new Brad Mehldau CD. Tonight’s featured concert is by the genius of John Kameel Farah.


The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Sunday March 16, 2008
Tonight Pat gets the Blues even with spring trying its hardest to sprung.
Soundtrack Sunday will have Pat sprinkle music from the film Genghis Blues throughout the evening. The concert tonight features solemn music inspired by Jazz, folk, pop and politics thanks to composer Frederic Rzewski, performed by pianist Milton Schlosser and soprano Kathleen Corcoran of the Augustana School of Music.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

MARCH 7,8,9 2008

The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Friday March 7, 2008
Tonight on The Signal Pat profiles the incredible career of clarinetist Lori Freedman. It is Friday on the Signal and that means we have a Loot-bag give away, tonight: The new Kronos Quartet CD with Wu Man. Get out your guitar picks, because in the third hour Pat will be playing a concert by the zen master of the six string, Mr. Bill Frisell along with his band; Joey Baron and Tony Scherr.


The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Saturday March 8, 2008
Tonight on The Signal Pat will spin music written, inspired by and involving women as international women’s day winds down. On High-Rotation Pat will delve into Veda Hille’s brand new CD: “This Riot Life” throughout the night. Tonight’s concert is the Sappho Project featuring the Constantinople Ensemble, Lori Freedman, Shannon Mercer and a new commissioned work by composer Kiya Tabassian.



The Signal with Pat Carrabré- Sunday March 9, 2008
Tonight Pat initiates “Soundtrack Sundays” by sampling a few pieces from the soundtrack to Deepa Mehta’s film “Water” by composer Michael Danna. Pat also celebrates the belated 60th birthday of composer Marjan Mozetich with a concert featuring musicians Gisel Dalbec, Wolf Tormann, Donelda Gartshore and more. Music also pays tribute tonight as Pat celebrates music by the late Canadian composer John Weinzweig with his Divertimento performed by flutist Robert Cram.