D.I.Y. crafts & the voice of hammerhead...

it's officially one month until christmas... that means time to kick your shopping list into gear, or perhaps revive your creativity... if purchasing is more your thing, homegrown will highlight the craft fairs happening today and in the following weeks so you can work some local artistry into your gift giving... but if you're more into creating, we'll take a look at some do-it-yourself events taking place at the whitehorse public library all afternoon as part of the fraught festival...

she's reincarnated herself to front a number of musical powerhouses in the territory, but now fiona solon has put her pipes on a new disc... solon joins homegrown live in the studio to chat about hammerhead, her latest musical endeavor, and the band's self-titled debut cd... and she'll shed a little light on what it's like to be a part of the whitehorse arts and culture scene...

tracks:
1. Two Hours Traffic - Backseat Sweetheart
2. Christine Fellows - Phantom Pains
3. Nelly Furtado - All Good Things Come To An End
4. Chantal Kreviatzuk - Leaving On A Jet Plane
5. Corb Lund Band - Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer
6. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Time Of Your Life
7. The Golden Dogs - Strong
8. Esthero - Everyday Is A Holiday (With You)
9. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
10. Great Lake Swimmers - Various Stages
11. Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong
12. Magneta Lane - Butterflies Are Blue
13. Barenaked Ladies - Jane
14. Alanis Morissette - Unsent
15. Scotch - Dark Cold Night
16. Hammerhead - How I Re-Roll
17. Hammerhead - What Time It Is
18. Peter Elkas - Skipping Stone
19. Miracle Fortress - This Thing About You
20. Rufus Wainwright - California

doors open on yukon play & nakai fundraiser...

when i saw celia mcbride's play, "so many doors", i was moved to tears and was talking about it days later... celia joined homegrown on an earlier to program to talk about the production which she wrote and starred in on the yukon arts centre stage... but showcasing its success didn't end in whitehorse... moira sauer, another star of the show, joins homegrown live in the studio to talk about what happened when the play hit ottawa to present in front of production buyers...

gearing up for christmas means consulting a great big list of things to do for most people... so, take a break from the seasonal hustle and bustle and make a little room for a great night of laughs and canadian music... david skelton joins homegrown today to let you in on a christmas fundraiser nakai theatre is throwing with canadian television star, cathy jones, and musician, tom wilson... plus, david will let us in on what else is happening during nakai's 2007-2008 season...

tracks:
1. The New Pornographers - All For Swinging You Around
2. The Duhks - Love Is The Seventh Wave
3. Hayden - Hollywood Ending
4. Hawksley Workman - We Will Still Need A Song
5. Kim Barlow - Out of Your Head
6. Joel Plaskett - Waiting To Be Discovered
7. Run Chico Run - Wake Up
8. Jill Barber - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
9. The Mohawk Lodge - Wear ‘Em Out
10. David Francey - Torn Screen Door
11. Patrick Watson - The Storm
12. Carolyn Mark - The Eternal Ideal
13. Finger Eleven - One Thing
14. Jason Collett - I’ll Bring The Sun
15. Tom Wilson - Super Sun Natural
16. Semi-Louise - When Monkeys Rule The Planet

homegrown hiatus...

the mics will be off at homegrown over the next two weeks, as i'm taking a long-awaited holiday to southern california, to compare my palm and foot size with the hollywood big-wigs on the walk of fame...

homegrown will be back on sunday november 18...