''Canada Live'' is a Canadian radio program aired on both

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and

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since 2007. It debuted on March 19, 2007, on CBC Radio 2,"Radio Two's new gig". ''

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'', March 19, 2007. and airs concert performances in a variety of musical genres from locations across Canada. The program was originally hosted by

Matt Galloway Matt Galloway (born 1970)"Matt Galloway ...

on weekdays and Patti Schmidt on weekends. However, their main role on most occasions was to introduce a local CBC personality in the region from which the concert was broadcast, who then hosted the remainder of the evening. From fall 2007 to fall 2009, the program only used the regional hosts. Following budget cuts (which also resulted in the program being shortened from two hours each night to one), Andrew Craig took over as permanent host of the program. In 2013, the program was reduced to a single airing per week, hosted by Garvia Bailey. The program is now hosted by

Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe is a Canadian radio personality, currently a host on the CBC Music network as of October 2016. A graduate of the radio and television broadcast arts program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Tetteh-Wayoe worke ...

. It is also repeated Friday afternoons on CBC Radio One.

Notable performances

On April 7 and December 6, 2007, the program broadcast the final concert by Canadian indie rock band

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, recorded on March 30. On April 7, 2008, the program aired a tribute concert to

Oliver Schroer Oliver Schroer (June 18, 1956 – July 3, 2008) was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer. Early life Oliver Schroer grew up in Vandeleur, Ontario, a small farming community near Markdale in rural Grey County. He attended Grey High ...

, who died of leukemia later that year; the program was rebroadcast on July 9, two days after Schroer's death. On July 10, 2008, the program broadcast a special tribute concert to

Jimi Hendrix James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Inducted ...

, featuring noted Canadian musicians including Jim Byrnes,

Randy Bachman Randolph Charles Bachman ( ; born September 27, 1943) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of the bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. He was the writer and singer of several hit rock songs, ...

Steve Dawson Steven "Dobby" Dawson (born 24 February 1952) is an English bass guitarist and a founder of the heavy metal band Saxon (band), Saxon. Dawson started out in 1970 in the band Blue Condition, which became SOB after a few shows only, together wit ...

, The Sojourners and

Ndidi Onukwulu Ndidi Onukwulu (born 1988) is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in British Columbia.Ken Eisner"Melodrama seems to suit wide-ranging Ndidi Onukwulu", ''Georgia Strait'' Although her style is often classified as jazz and blues, Onukwulu combines se ...

, performing Hendrix songs in the recently restored

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

home of Hendrix's grandmother

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."Hendrix House". ''

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'', July 10, 2008.

References

External links

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