Shad | Elegies and Levity
Hidden Track
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
Hidden Track
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...
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Jeremy Dutcher | Full Circle
Hidden Track
For six seasons we at CKUA have had the opportunity to connect with a wide range of inspired artists, from Albertan expat sensation Feist, to folk/punk firebrand Frank Turner, multi-JUNO Award winning rock band July Talk and homegrown hip-hop great Cadence Weapon, to name a few! For episode 100 of Hidden Track, we cycle back to the guest who joined us for episode one — two albums later, multiple Juno Awards and Polaris Music Prizes later - and for us 99 episodes later — we’re thrilled to be able catch up with the true Hidden Track original, and an original in so...
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Reuben and the Bullhorn Singers | All These Roads, All These Rivers
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A few years ago, Calgary musician Reuben Bullock invited the band the Bullhorn Singers to the stage at the Calgary Stampede. This sparked a collaboration which led the musicians to form Reuben and the Bullhorn Singers. Now they have debut album called All These Roads. In this episode of the Hidden Track podcast, they will share music and stories, and you’ll hear a performance recorded live at the Beresh Arts Den at CKUA's Edmonton building. The Hidden Track podcast is a CKUA production, made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support! ...
info_outlineJoel Plaskett first came to fame in the beloved rock band Thrush Hermit, a group who came together as teenagers in Halifax and barnstormed across Canada and beyond throughout the '90s with a dynamic stage show, plus an actual neon sign reading "Rock and Roll". In fact, last time Joel visited CKUA's Edmonton studios was five years ago during a Thrush Hermit reunion tour, and he told us about keeping that "Rock and Roll" sign in storage for many years.
For his autumn 2024 tour, he certainly wasn't in need of the iconic "Rock and Roll" sign. It was just himself and his guitars (plus a reclining armchair and photo projector) for an album launch tour to celebrate his stunningly intimate acoustic album One Real Reveal.
He's an artist who's been known to challenge himself to ever-greater thematic journeys in his solo work. There's his well-loved 2009 release Three— his third solo outing - a triple album which was largely made up of songs with triple-barrelled titles. Then there was 44, released the day before he turned 45, consisting of four albums of eleven songs each. He's come up with maybe an even more daunting creative challenge this time, scaling the process all the way down to the number one — a record made with a single microphone, created almost entirely by Joel alone. Except for one very notable exception, which he'll reveal to us in this conversation.
An unparallelled storyteller and an artist of remarkable candour and curiosity, Joel Plaskett shared very generously with us about the serendipitous musical moment that sparked this whole album, how it represents a return to his roots in somewhat surprising ways, how spoken word suddenly introduced itself as part of his artistry, and the importance of embracing the presence, spontaneity, transience, and cyclical nature of music, art, and life. This is a Hidden Track Story: Joel Plaskett | Four Tracks and the Truth.
Host: Grant Stovel | Producer: Scott Zielsdorf | Graphics: Craig Taffs | Music: Doug Hoyer
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