Round 1 of Searchlight is all over and we went from over 2000 artists down to just 100 artists for Round 2. Fifty of the artists were decided on by CBC music producers and fifty were by who got the most votes. You can find the list on the CBC Searchlight post by Grant Lawrence.
Many of the artists I was voting for didn’t make it through unfortunately. I have more listening to do! I haven’t had a chance to listen to them all yet but I do have a few that have gotten my vote already:
The Royal Foundry
The Dearhearts
Killjoy
Super Duty Tough Work
Dayda Banks
Veronica Winter
Skylar Bouchard
Dana Lee
Sinzere
Amanda Jackson Band
Dan Verner
FM Berlin
Global Party Starters
Jordana Talsky
Karis
I will add to that list as I listen and find more. What artist are you liking? You can listen and vote here. I made a playlist of the ones I could find on Spotify and you can check out some of the artists there and then head over to vote for the ones you like. Enjoy and share your discoveries with the rest of us.
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Wow, Bell’s a major sponsor I guess.. I wonder if they’ll ever get, like Formula 1, to stating things like “Bell’s Juno Awards”? Or the Canadian Tire Juno Awards…
Oh, manners. Good morning…
The most Canadian story on CBC radio news this morning concerns Hells Angels maple syrup. “Support red and white” is apparently the slogan. An H.A. boss owns a bush around St-André-Avellin, not very far from Ottawa, and the syrup’s recently been put up for sale. Scandalous. I suppose.
Locally, we live in peaceful times, it appears.
What a time to be alive
Hello hello! Happy Friday!
Garfield, how’s the snow, locally? A big mass of slush and melty water yet? (Brits do know about ‘slush’, yes?)
not yet, the roads and some foot paths are slushy in places but on the whole the snow is still here
Good morning. Yawn…
We are getting blown away down here! My neighbour’s shutter was just blown off and landed in the street! Typical southern Americans with some odd weather though, they’ve closed the schools and government offices for the day.
The housemate is back at
playgroupwork after they were sent home early on WednesdayClosing things for weather? Never happens here. There may be less people showing up but it is open for who can make it.
Crazy weather all around and we are finally sunny and mild here.
yeah, but Canada plans for bad weather, we are not set up for weather like this because most years it would be a waste of financial resources that could be spent giving tax cuts on those that don’t need them
Garf: welcome to The New Normal™.
It’s not that new and far too normal here
Eggggzactly! Time to start buying some more trucks and equipping them with removable implements like salt and gravel spreaders and, of course, big friggin’ plows. Can’t really be avoided.
Hi Janet! (from up there, far far).
I’m taking off for a very short visit to the family cottage. Some work’s been done, and I want to look at it before it’s finished, never a bad idea. Have a good day everyone!
@Janet, Do you plan on watching the Brier?
Garfield – I sure do!
Benoit – enjoy the cottage!
I don’t usually watch men’s curling but I might watch some of the morning draws. Miss Lawes’ assistant was almost as good as her during the mixed pairs
I’m also more of a fan of the women’s game than the men’s, but I’ll take what I can get. I don’t think Miss Lawes’ assistant will be there this time though, it’s a team I’ve never heard of out of BC.
I was watching Canada playing at the Olympics and the commentator (Mr Steve Cram) mentioned some “Canadian Fans” when they appeared on screen ignoring the fact that one of the was former gold medal winner Jennifer Jones.
That happened down here too, with NBC. My favourite part was when they were talking about how Brent Laing was married to Jones, but didn’t actually name her when they showed her in the stands.
it was probably the same shot
riiight.
Searchlight’s still a thing…forgot
halfway through my last jar of Vegemite. London drugs has stopped selling it. Not sure what I’ll do when it’s gone
guess it’s back to Marmite, assuming I can find it in a store here
@krib, if only you knew someone that could mail some to you
🙂
or you could try amazon
Jill Officer leaving Jennifer Jones’ powerful curling team at season’s end
well, Marmite’s generally easy to find here. Vegemite, not so much.
I’m partial to Vegemite’s not-so-saltiness, and it’s less-gooey nature. Easier to spread on stuff.
I generally try not to give my money to Jeff Bezos. He has plenty already.
I was just reading about Jill Officer taking a step back. And all of a sudden Jones’ statement at the end of the Scotties about winning it with Jill in their last year together makes a lot more sense.
@krib, in that case let me know if you can’t find any and I’ll mail some to you
Might take you up on that sometime, Garf, for something like the XO or Guinness versions.
Plain ol’ Marmite can be found in a lot of grocery stores here, but the other ones, not so much