Music Buddy
Join musician/songwriter Jane Gowan as she sits down with a variety of musical guests for insightful and upbeat conversations about music and music-related adventures. From instrumentalists and songwriters, to teachers, authors, producers and fans, this is a podcast about music, community, work, passion and creativity.
Episodes
69 episodes
Julian Taylor - Beyond the Reservoir
Julian Taylor is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter with a truly independent success story. He has been honing his special blend of timeless roots rock since the 1990s, steadily growing followers while weaving his way into the fabric of Canada's...
Simon Paradis & Kara Stanley - Roll 'um Easy
Simon Paradis is an accomplished roots/rock musician, having played in bands across Canada for over 30 years. One morning in 2008, while working his construction job on the Sunshine Coast in B.C., Simon fell off a scaffold and landed on t...
Adriana Barton - Wired for Music!
Music releases dopamine, and dopamine makes us feel good! It’s a scientific fact. We get happy when we listen to music. Who doesn't love going to see their favourite band live, or singing along to a treasured album, or staring out the car windo...
Alan Matheson - Jazz Mentor
Alan Matheson is a much-admired jazz composer, trumpeter, pianist, and educator. He is an expert in jazz history, and leads his own big band, nonet, septet and trio. Alan has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Louis Bellson,...
Tim Vesely - Part 1: The Songwriter
Tim Vesely is a bassist, guitarist, songwriter, composer, and sound engineer. Best-known as a co-founder (with Dave Bidini) of the much-revered Canadian art-rock band Rheostatics, Tim has also recorded ...
Anvil - Pedal to the Metal
Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner aka "The Hungo Hammer" have been bandmates and rock 'n roll co-conspirators since the 1970s. Their band Anvil had massive success in the 1980s after the release of their now-classic album, "Metal is Metal".&n...
Gill Deacon - Music is Magic
Gill Deacon is a much-loved radio broadcaster and host of CBC Radio’s Here and Now. She is also a best-selling author, a hard-working Mom of 3 boys, ...
Andy Maize & Josh Finlayson - Skydiggers!
Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson are the founders of Toronto’s much-loved roots rock band, Skydiggers. In this conversation, they offer up insight gained over a successful 35+ year career, one fuelled by hard work, passion, creativity, love, and g...
Koralee Tonack - Spygirl No. 7 is a Good Hang
Koralee Tonack is a gifted singer and long-time bandmate of Music Buddy host, Jane Gowan. As musical collaborators in the 90s and early 2000s, Koralee and Jane developed a unique but accessible sound, first as the acoustic folk/pop duo Time Wai...
Mike Downie - Dance With Your Arms in the Air
In this episode, Director and Producer Mike Downie sits down with Jane for an in-depth conversation that will transport you onto a documentary film set, then backstage at a Tragically Hip concert (with alter-ego Buddy Scrotts), then to a Legacy...
Stephen Stanley - A Troubadour's Song
Stephen Stanley is a veteran of the Canadian indie rock scene, a stellar singer-songwriter, a prolific storyteller, gifted guitarist, and a radio DJ,. He was a founding member of the alternative rock band Lowest of the Low, with w...
Wayne Stewart - To Bop is Human
Wayne Stewart is a Musician, Actor, Emcee, Stage Manager, and much more. He can work up a crowd like nobody's business, and compose a montuno in minutes. In this episode, Wayne reveals how to get a jazz audience to chill and chuckle...
Paul Romanuk - A Life in Sports, a Love of Music
Paul is a seasoned sportscaster and play-by-play guy, having called games all over the world. In addition to an illustrious career in radio and TV, he’s also a writer, teacher, voice-over artist and podcaster. His podcast
Andrew Cash - Punk to Politics
Andrew Cash is a musician, singer-songwriter, journalist, politician, and lifelong social justice advocate. In this episode, Andrew talks about growing up Catholic in Scarborough, starting a band in the 80s, playing at the infamous...
Tim Falconer - Tone Wasn't Built in a Day
Author and journalist Tim Falconer loves music with a passion, especially the sound of the human voice, breaking into song. However, Tim is tone deaf, a condition formally known as "amusic". His 2016 book
Marnie Grey - Music, Movement, and Mumbu!
In the late 1990s, Marnie Grey developed "Music with Marnie" - a unique method of teaching music and movement to young kids. Using props, puppets, dance moves and sing-alongs, she delighted young audiences. Before long, parents were linin...
Lisa Sabino - Music is My Happy Place
Following two concussions, teacher and music lover Lisa Sabino developed tinnitus and hyperacusis. In this episode, Lisa speaks openly about how she navigates life with sound sensitivity, and the various ways in which she's working to get back ...
Steve Wright - If You Build It, They Will Hum
Steve Wright is a singer, songwriter, rocker, composer, sound enthusiast, and teacher. He created the Sound Space, an all-ages music-making and learning hub, on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. In this episode, Stev...
Ryan Myshrall - The Ramblin' Roller
Musician, singer, songwriter and actor Ryan Myshrall (a.k.a. Chuck Phillips Jr.) talks about growing up the son of a DJ, playing music with life-long pals, moving to the country, recording his newest album "Ramblin' Roll" and weird things that ...