CBC’s Searchlight has begun and the voting is on! We had a post about it on Wednesday that you can read about here. With 2073 artists that have a song entered in the contest, it is going to take a lot of listening to get through them. I have started listening and made a playlist of the artists that I threw a vote to that I found on Spotify. I didn’t always find the same song that was entered in the contest but it can help you check out the artist. You can vote for as many artists you want once a day and I will be using the playlist to help me search for the artists again on the CBC site to give them more votes.
I began the playlist with some Saskatchewan talent I think you should give a listen and give them a vote. I found a few other artists as well that I knew about or caught my ear as I was listening to the entries. The playlist is on collaborative so that if you know of an artist you would like us to know about you can add them to the playlist. Help me out and let me know who I should vote for! If you follow the playlist you can keep track of any changes to the playlist and use it to help you find artists to vote for as well. Or you could just simply listen to the playlist to see who is trying to get heard and possibly win the whole thing.
Some of the artists that I voted for at least once but didn’t find on Spotify are:
Picture Radio
WILL
Jim Audet
Slug the Bird
Old.Soul.Rebel
Denny Von-Braun
Weird Knocks
Spouse
Lila Starlight
Game Boy
Matt Bolhuis
Stereo Arcadia
JSG
Good morning.
Good morning!
Good morning!
darbar: EARLY!
Indeed. I had to make sure the blog was up before I head off to the studio I can’t get on the blog at.
Hello hello! Happy Friday!
I had the dreaded blank out on stage last night. My mind went blank on what the rest of my line was near the end of the show. It’s a terrible feeling. There was a long awkward pause, until a fellow cast member whispered a word that triggered my brain and we carried on. Most of the audience probably didn’t even notice but I had trouble sleeping last night rehashing it. Shake it off…two more nights to go!
Whoa, that blank! Quite the experience!
hello
It’s awful! I really don’t want to do that again. Ugh…
Hi Garf.
Drawing a blank is definitely not a fun experience! I’ve never done it on stage, but it happens to me a lot when I’m giving presentations. Honestly, people staring at me make me nervous, and then I forget what I was saying!
I’m sure you’ll bounce back tonight Darbar, and Mother Superior will kill it!
Thanks Janet! I had to navigate a puddle on stage and that was enough to throw my brain sideways and lose my place. Then panic sets in and my brain went and hid. Ha! I certainly won’t do that in the same spot anyway.
I am off to the studio. Have fun with the playlist! I will check back later.
*whistles*
Good morning everyone!
hi Justin
Sorry about your blank moment Barb… I hope your next performance goes well. 🙂
I just fired up today’s playlist to get in work mode…. just under 9am here on the west coast. On an entirely funny note…. Canadians are awesome snow rally racers…. see this: https://jalopnik.com/a-visual-reminder-that-rally-drivers-are-completely-bon-1823043211
Stages, well some anyway, used to have a small metallic “looks like a vent to the audience” protruding from the edge of centre stage, which would conceal a prompter.
Woo hoo! Just scored Dan Mangan and Stars tickets for April!
I have just updated yesterdays post to have full album streams for each release, if you are looking for something to listen to after today’s playlist
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!
Badass Janet! Where are they playing? I’d love to go to that show.
My guess would be here
Show ticket (2 acts), $26.
Parking, $20.
Guess which one’s a business.
Selling tickets for other people? (with overinflated fees)
Garf for the win! 9:30 Club it is!
Benoit – if you order your parking online it is also considered a “ticket” and each ticket is subject to an $8 service fee. Depending on the band you can usually pay $12 for parking the night of the show, which is I think what I’ll do.
hah. The other day I bought a ticket to a show at Pressed (café), cheap, 10 dollars, and there was a 16 cent charge added. Total $10.16
I was stunned.
9:30 club is an awesome venue… I went there in 2005 for a show, total fun.
thank goodness its friday; a playlist sure to delight!
ticketing service fee’s make me grumpy. at least they are separated from the ticket price though. remember when airlines were forced to advertise full ticket prices and also separate out the airport and fuel surcharges as well as luggage fees? not that the extra’s arnt frustrating as well but I prefer the breakdown.
Stars and Dan Mangan will be a great show @Janet!
speaking of Dan Mangan, this looks like it would be super fun
http://www.kootenayparklodge.com/dan-mangan/
Dan Mangan at Kootenay Park Lodge would be fun too!
It would be. Pricey. The day before Kaslo Jazz Etc Fest as well. Just a point of interest as it is way too expensive for me.
that is an expensive time of year to fly to Vancouver
I’m listening to CHMR3 hosted by Rebby (I recorded it last night)
Flying is an expensive luxury for sure.
What is Rebby playing these days?
she plays CanCon Indie for an hour each week with a track from each province/territory
that is a sweet gig.
Has anyone tried to add a song yet? Just making sure the playlist works for those who want to use it.
listened this morning but have not tried adding
Suki and I are heading out into the white, snow blowing tundra out there.
Checking the trap lines for lettuce.
I hear those wild lettuces can be ferocious, particularly at this time of year
@DBS, I have added a track to the playlist
We have returned! Nothing in the traps so I guess I will go to the store …
I am rather overwhelmed by all the new music. I kept finding my ears wandering. It seems like more than three new songs and my ears want something they know before they can go back to more new gems.
Thank you for the huge effort to assemble them all. I’ll root about more this weekend.
I didn’t see it Garf. I will check back later. Off to the second last show!
Thanks for listening morgana!
I have made a record of all the entries in the first round of spotlight and see an artist is listed twice
White Crow from Vancouver Island with ‘What Would We Be’
The track Garf added showed up for me today. I was excited that a couple other people had added tracks too until I discovered that they weren’t Searchlight related tracks. Ha!
Please continue to add to the playlist if you find a Searchlight entrant that you like. Thanks 🙂