Interview with Regina Folk Festival artistic director Sandra Butel
BuzzCity's Jo Anne Lauder chats with with Regina Folk Festival artistic director Sandra Butel about the amazing line up for the 2011 festival.
*The name of this band is - CoelacanthDanceor, what's in a name? May 10, 2011
Guest interviewer Dylan Dowler chats with Regina, Saskatchewan band CoelacanthDance (pronounced SEAL-A-KANTH) about the evolution & origins of the band and the pros & cons of naming a band after a semi-extinct primeval fish.
CoelacanthDance will be delivering their potent mix of rock funk, jazz fusion and psychedelia, spinning traditional monster riffs with healthy dollops of Krautrock grooves, mid-70s ambience and left field curve balls Friday, May 27th at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival on a double bill with electro-clash fusion meisters - Intergalactic Virgin.
Also, not mentioned in the interview, as well as Brent Pylot and Len Imbery, Don Modderman was also a member of the early version of the band, playing keyboards and flute. Don also contributed flute and other wind instruments to the original studio CD - 'Sonic Excursions and Audio Spasms'.
The accompanying video of the band rehearsal of 'Coyote Lunch' was shot by Dylan Dowler the same night.
*In June of 2011, the band re-branded as 'Sun Zoom Sparx'.
BuzzCity sat down with members of the Cathedral Village Arts Festival organizers to get all the scoop on the 2011 'Hats Off' themed festival. First interview is with co-chair Marilyn Turnley and Visual Arts coordinator Margaret Bessai talking about some of the many highlights of the 2011 festival, including the return of Osmosis Lounge, Art Car, Gerri Ann Siwek's Funomena Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange, Holophon Sound Art Project ... and more!:
BuzzCity Chats with Cathedral Village Arts Festival 'Hats Off' artist Tammy Ward, Visual Public Arts Project coordinator Jan Anweiler, and Visual Arts coordinator Margaret Bessai about the theme of the 2011 festival - 'Hats Off!'
Cathedral Village Arts Festival Literary coordinator Bernadette Wagner talks about the Literary events at the 2011 festival.
For her first time as music coordinator for the 2011 festival Debra Bell has booked a wide variety of performers with a good balance of emerging artists and established artists and an emphasis on original music. Performers such as Jane Galloway, a young 16 year old from Oxbow Saskatchewan with an amazing vocal range. Debra estimates the balance to be about 15% out of town artists and 85% local. There are also out of province artists such as Rae Spoon from Montreal, Julia and Her Piano from BC, originally from Saskatchewan. The Saturday Street Fair stages May 28th feature a healthy representation of emerging artists such as Roughtripp, buzz band Indigo Joseph who are fast rising stars on the Regina music scene who have already made an impact and are booked to play the Regina Folk Festival and Bengough Gateway Festival.
Along with emerging artists, Debra has booked known and established local acts such as Regina indie faves RAH RAH, who recently toured Europe, Kory Istace vs The Time Pirates, who are playing the festival for the first time,The Lazy MKs, CoelacanthDance, Intergalactic Virgin, Chad Kichula & The Douglas Ave Garage Band, Cam Wenzel and Black Drink Crier ... the list goes on, and of course Cathedral resident and internationally acclaimed guitar virtuoso Jack Semple.
It's a rich smorgasbord of talent at the 2011 festival and for a complete listing of all the performers check out the music page @
Interview with Busking Festival organizer Neil McDonald
BuzzCity chats with Community Recreation Programmer Neil McDonald about the Big Busk buskers festival that was held in Regina, Saskatchewan, June 1st, 2011.
The video launch of: A North Side Story or Two - Revisited . . . 15 Years later
Interview with film maker Don List and Gerry Ruecker, artistic director with Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
It was the summer of 1995 in the North Central community of Regina, Saskatchewan. “Moccasin Flats,” as it was called by the residents of this largely aboriginal neighbourhood was in a state of transition. In the late 1800’s settlers had converged on First Nations people on this very spot. Now the neighbourhood faced challenges of poverty, slum housing, fear, and
anger among its diverse residents.
Common Weal Community Arts, along with local activists, theatre professionals and concerned young people undertook a project that would begin to change attitudes within and towards North Central. They made public the lost and over-looked stories of their neighbourhood by staging a community play that honoured the past and addressed the challenges that lay before them.
Fifteen-years later, twenty of the original participants gathered to reflect upon and share their experiences of that unique summer in the“hood.”This is their story.
Production Credits:
North Side Story or Two:
Rachael Van Fossen - Artistic Director
The documentary production: Donald List Producer/director: Morden Mitchell
Fur Eel perform at the Creative City Centre: Big Grand Opening Party!
On Friday, May 13, 2011 Marian Donelly and Creative City Centre threw a grand soirée to celebrate the opening of Creative City Centre, a creative hub in the downtown area that will give artists a space to create and collaborate, and will engage the community in arts and culture through a myriad of new programming and activities.There were a variety of dj's to keep the party going all night long, as well as a smoking live set from Regina's up and coming funksters Fur Eel performing 2 original compositions "Sangria" and "Stones". The night started early at 6 pm with the opening reception for the visual art show "Mr. Johnson's Belief Continuum" featuring works by Katherine Boyer and Teiji Wallace-Lewis. Printmaking tenants, Articulate Ink, did some demonstration print making and all of the visual art tenants were on hand to meet and greet the attendees.The Creative City Centre is off to a roaring start and congratulations to Marian Donelly and all the people who believed in her vision and helped it happen!
