Season 6 Finale: A Hidden Track Holiday 2
Hidden Track
Twas the season of giving at fair CKUA So we gathered some artists, for a Hidden Track Holiday! In the music library they played, bringing songs of good cheer To help us close the sixth season, another great year! They shared festive tall tales and holiday fables As well as what they love most on their Christmas turntables So keep a glow in your heart when it’s coldest and darkest, As we’re treated to music from these beloved artists: With Lydia Persaud and Christine Bougie beside...
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Hidden Track x Music Yukon | Part 4
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It’s Part Four of Hidden Track’s collaboration with Music Yukon. In this Hidden Track Session, we visit with a trio of artists who amply demonstrate the phenomenally wide spectrum of music-makers who call the Yukon home: John from Dawson's dynamic rap; the piano artistry of singer-songwriter Declan O’Donovan; and the majestic folk stylings of Caleb Tomlinson & the Perseids. CREDITS Host: Grant Stovel Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous Theme Music: Doug Hoyer Special thanks to the...
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Shad | Elegies and Levity
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In this episode of the Hidden Track podcast, we meet Canadian rapper Shadrach Kabango, better known as Shad. He has a new album, Start Anew, which hooks you in with songs exploring important and universal questions surrounding social, environmental, and cultural sustainability; passing the world along to the next generation. CREDITS Host: Grant Stovel Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous Theme Music: Doug Hoyer Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams! The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA...
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Hidden Track x Music Yukon | Part 3
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Music Yukon returns to the Hidden Track podcast for another year of collaborations! The music of the north is the focus of this episode with performances from Electric Lemonade; Jamaican-born longtime New Yorker, now Yukon-dwelling rapper/ beatmaker/ indie rocker Ryan O’Neil; and the celebrated soulful singer-songwriter Hendrika. These sessions are once again part of a larger collaborative project between the Edmonton Fringe, Music Yukon, and CKUA – one which sees artists from the Yukon travelling south to perform onstage at the Edmonton Fringe, and in-studio at CKUA. CREDITS Host: Grant...
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Yves Jarvis | Beyond DIY
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Musician, singer, and producer, Yves Jarvis remains connected to the music community in Calgary. In this Story episode of the Hidden Track podcast, you’ll learn all about his connections to his old home province. All you need to do is listen to the title track from his album All Cylinders, which describes a road trip through Southern Alberta’s beautiful foothills. He’s an interesting case of a unique individual artist, shaped and inspired by a vast community. CREDITS Host: Grant Stovel Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette Senior...
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Willi Carlisle | Finding Winged Victory
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Hailing from Arkansas, Willi Carlisle is a grassroots folk musician who passed through Alberta in summer 2025, touring concert halls and theatres on a bill with Sierra Ferrell, followed by folk music festivals in Calgary, Canmore and Edmonton. This was all on the strength of his 2025 release, the self-produced new album Winged Victory. He stopped by CKUA studios, bringing with him his banjo, guitar, concertina, and fierce musical sensibility. In this Hidden Track Session, he shares with us three wonderful – and very different – solo acoustic offerings. CREDITS Host: Grant Stovel Associate...
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Peter Dreams | A Cinematic Life
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Before arriving on the global stage, Peter Dreimanis - also known as Peter Dreams - grew up here in Alberta, falling in love with the arts in the vibrant Edmonton indie scene, becoming passionately involved at an early age in both music and film. After more than a dozen years co-fronting the platinum-selling, multi-JUNO winning rock band July Talk, he put out his own debut album in 2025, a much-lauded record entitled Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR. Just ahead of some Alberta shows – both with July Talk and with Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR – Peter shared from the heart about a season...
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Bedouin Soundclash | Memory Is What You Know
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Twenty-five years ago, Eon Sinclair and Jay Malinowski met by chance while moving into the same student dormitory. The ska/roots/reggae band that they would form emerged from Kingston – not the one in Jamaica, but the one in Ontario, home to Queens University. Eon and Jay had envisioned very different futures for themselves before Bedouin Soundclash took off, turning them into Juno Award winners and genuine hitmakers. Bedouin Soundclash have always followed their own rhythm, spinning heady successes into a record label of their own, Pirates Blend Records. In this Hidden Track Session, we...
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Tami Neilson | Light Up the Night
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In 2007, Canadian-born country & soul singer/songwriter Tami Neilson moved to New Zealand to marry the love of her life. In this Hidden Track Story, she shares that journey and her dreams of joining the galaxy of true country stars. Neilson’s new album, Neon Cowgirl, is inspired by experiences touring North America over recent years — including the title track, which pays tribute to a genuine giant neon landmark in Nashville, an iconic and richly symbolic figure which "lights up the sky", as Tami sings. Tami Neilson shares the journey of her non-overnight success. She’s lived the...
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Steve Marriner | Hear My Heart - Live
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Blues and roots musician Steve Marriner is an accomplished singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. In the spring of 2025, he brought all that talent and his band to the Beresh Arts Den at CKUA to launch his new album, Hear My Heart. This episode of the Hidden Track podcast case was captured live, and you will hear this artist pour his heart out for a rapt audience of CKUA community members. CREDITS Host: Grant Stovel Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous Theme Music: Doug Hoyer Session...
info_outlineThe joy in the everyday, the continuous arc of life's changes and the way a simple shift in perspective can utterly transform one's experience...
Ellen Doty's new album is a kind of musical meditation, a collection of songs that aims to bring some gentle joy to the listener's heart. Every Little Scene is gorgeous set of songs that relate how if you pay mindful attention, small moments and subtle shifts can bring about great beauty and peace.
It's interesting that Ellen herself was undergoing just about the biggest life change that there is, as she was crafting these songs. In this episode, we hear all about how these songs were created in parallel with a transition into parenthood. We'll also hear stunning renditions of three songs from the new album, "Kaleidoscope", "Coming Back to Me", and the title track to Every Little Scene, as performed with her band.
Reflecting the gracious, spacious beauty of the songs themselves, the musical setting is spare and poetic. Ellen's voice is in dialogue with the lyrical keyboard playing of Devin Hart, and the painterly textures of drummer Peter Hendrickson. Their instruments combine together with a kind of graceful, crackling energy that seems to imbue every note with richness and resonance. There's a roominess to the sound of this trio that creates space for that magical, transcendent quality that the songs invoke.
This is Ellen Doty, as seen on Hidden Track Sessions. You can check out the video version of this episode on CKUA's YouTube channel!
Host: Grant Stovel | Producer: Scott Zielsdorf | Graphics: Craig Taffs | Music: Doug Hoyer
The final mix for this session was provided by Brendan Cross.
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