EP 365 | Introducing Jeff Guignard. New CEO-President of Wine Growers of BC

September 27, 2025

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Not only is he outspoken and focused, but Jeff also spent 10 years in Ottawa. He knows well which doors to knock on or kick down.

Jeff Guignard

Jeff has been traveling to the various wine growing regions of BC and learning firsthand the challenges brought by climate and dealing with Crafted in BC wines.

We’ll talk about the future of specific varietals in BC (Syrah, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and more)

Jeff brings comments on “generational opportunities“, getting more BC wines on store shelves and all the challenges ahead.

He brings strong commentary on Interprovincial shipping and relationships in Alberta.

Also, Jeff reminds us that Wine BC kicks off Fall For BC.

Inspiring visitors to explore BC Wine Country. Discover new memories and experiences. Get connected or reconnected to wine country.

Come meet the new voice and face of BC Wine. – Jeff Guignard.

www.winebc.com

EP 363 | Nigel, Derek, David and Marty – Back with Spinal Tap 2 – The End Continues

September 13, 2025

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Just when the world needs a laugh, here comes The Tap.

All three guest with Terry David Mulligan on Sunday.

Saturday he’s joined by their Director Marty DiBergi .

Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now-estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer) are forced to reunite for one final concert.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues also marks the resurrection of documentarian Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), who once again tries to capture his favourite metal gods as they contemplate mortality—and the hope that their 12th drummer doesn’t join them in The Great Beyond.

Joined by music royalty Paul McCartney and Elton John, Spinal Tap wrestles with their checkered past to put on a concert that they hope will solidify their place in the Hall of rock ’n’ roll.

Part 2 on Sunday with ‘The Tap”

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EP 362 | Madeleine Roger Nerve (Extended)

September 6, 2025

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Maddy reveals how the acoustic versions of four songs from Nerve were included on the just-released NERVE (extended) album.

Because they were about relationships and breakups, Madeleine wanted them to sound like they were recorded at a campfire. Warmer and less Conflicted.

(my words, not hers)

Madeleine is off on another Road Adventure. Touring with The Bros Landreth, Fretless and VASEN.

A number of dates come from being one of 6 winners of the famous Kerrville New Folk Winners Tour in Texas. Impressive list below.

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 15 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre (opening for Noah Reid)

Sep 21 – Winnipeg, MB @ The West End Cultural Centre

Sep 23 – Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door *

Sep 25 – Ashland, OR @ Grizzly Peak Winery *

Sep 26-28 – Sisters, OR @ Sisters Folk Festival *

Oct 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Cafe

Oct 40 – Portland, ME @ One Longfellow Square ^

Nov 2 – Northampton, MA @ The Parlour Room

Nov 9 – New Braunfels, TX @ New Braunfels House Concert ~

Nov 10 – Wimberley, TX @ MIlagro Springs House Concert ~

Nov 11 – Houston, TX @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck ~

Nov 12 – Austin, TX @ 04 Center ~

Nov 15 – Fischer, TX @ Cabin 10 Presents: Old Folk New Folk Festival ~

Nov 16 – San Antonio, TX @ Bowman House Concerts ~

Nov 21 – McKinney, TX @ Guitar Sanctuary +

Nov 22 – Fort Worth, TX @ Magnolia Motor Lounge +

Nov 23 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s Nightclub +

*with The Fretless

^supporting Väsen
~ Kerrville New Fold “Winners Tour”

+Supporting The Bros. Landreth

EP 361 | Ron Sexsmith with 18th Album ‘Hangover Terrace’

August 30, 2025

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Our guest this week is songwriter, storyteller and singer with a one-of-a-kind voice, Ron Sexsmith.

I think the older I get, the clearer those memories become—and the more precious,”

Friday of this week, he released his 18^th album, Hangover Terrace.

It’s a wonderfully complex album born during Ron’s extended stay in the UK after his Sexsmith at Sixty tour. Recorded at London’s Eastcote Studios with longtime producer Martin Terefe, the sessions marked a turning point—ushering in a more introspective sound.

“This record speaks to the hangover I feel from the last few years of pandemic and life knocking us around,”

Gone is the gentle optimism of his recent work, The Vivian Line & Hermitage—Hangover Terrace is marked by personal loss, shifting friendships, and emotional grit.

Ron Sexsmith proves, once again, that no one captures life’s quiet truths quite like he can. “The version of me that wrote those early records couldn’t write these songs,” he says. “Don’t give up. Stay focused on what’s real.”

There was a celebration of Gordon Lightfoot and his songs at Massey Hall not too long ago. Missing was the biggest fan of Gord, Ron Sexsmith.

Ron organized his own celebration for Gord at Hugh’s Room in Toronto from Jan 31 to Feb 2. It was all Gord, and each show was sold out. For the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the Terry David Mulligan YouTube Channel, Ron lays the whole story out.

He also takes us through his new songs….

Easy for you to say, “I wear my heart on my sleeve, where’s your heart at?

Cigarette and Cocktail “what comes for us, we can’t outrun”

Damn well please – “I’ve got one life, that’s all I know”

Burgoyne Woods “up to no good in Burgoyne Woods. A band of misfits from the land of hosers.”

Must be something wrong with her, “she says I’m lovely but the mirror says otherwise”

Ron Sexsmith tour dates include

Oct 31 Festival Place Sherwood Park

Nov 1 The Grand Calgary

Nov 4 The Winspear. Sidney BC

Nov 5 Parksville, Vancouver Island

Nov 7 The Hollywood, Vancouver.

https://ronsexsmith.com/tours/

EP 360 | Rhiannon Giddens, 2 interviews – Edmonton Folk Music Festival

August 23, 2025

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“I started singing at an ungodly age, standing in my crib and warbling at passing family members. I didn’t really think of it as a career until I went to the School of Science and Math and realized that I never wanted to do another algorithm. So I went to Oberlin Conservatory and did the whole opera/recital thing, burned out and discovered the banjo! The rest is history.”

Rhiannon Giddens

Singer-songwriter Giddens is the co-founder of the GRAMMY Award–winning African-American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also played banjo and fiddle. She began gaining recognition as a solo artist when she stole the show at the T Bone Burnett–produced Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall in 2013. She sang Odetta’s Water Boy with, as the New York Times put it, “the fervor of a spiritual, the yips of a folk holler, and the sultry insinuation of the blues,”

The elegant bearing, prodigious voice, and fierce spirit that brought the NYC audience to its feet that night, and audiences around the world since, was also abundantly evident on Giddens’ Grammy-nominated solo debut album, “Tomorrow Is My Turn”. The recording masterfully blends American genres like gospel, jazz, blues, and country, showcasing her extraordinary emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess. She since followed that success with “Freedom Highway”, produced by T Bone Burnett. A record that traces the power of African-American song from 200 years ago to today.

It has become abundantly clear that Rhiannon Giddens was to take her place as a peerless and powerful voice in roots music, and her appearance at the festival was to be eagerly, enthusiastically, breathlessly anticipated.

“What was on display tonight was the performance of an artist on the cusp of a true critical and commercial breakthrough with a voice that was regal, confident and, at every turn, breathtaking.” -The Musical Box

A founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, and the all-female banjo supergroup, Our Native Daughters, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator. She is the current Artistic Director of the Yo-Yo Ma-founded Silkroad Ensemble, hosts a TV show on PBS, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, and has hosted two podcasts (Aria Code from New York City’s NPR affiliate station WQXR, which ran for three seasons, and American Railroad from Silkroad). Giddens has published two children’s books and written and performed music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II, one of the best-selling video games of all time. She appeared as a recurring cast member on ABC’s hit drama Nashville and as a music history expert on Ken Burns’ Country Music series on PBS. This year, she launched her own music festival in Durham, NC called Biscuits & Banjos, to celebrate Black culture outside the mainstream.

EP 359 | It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. Interview with Documentary Director Amy Berg

August 16, 2025

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Our guest is Amy Berg, the director of the just-released documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.

Jeff was, quite simply, one of the most engaging and brilliant performers. Blessed with a voice that could mimic singers such as Robert Plant and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

His single album Grace is still considered one of the greatest ever released.

Almost three decades after his death and with several posthumous releases, Jeff Buckley’s legacy continues to grow, and his music lives on. His fan base includes rock legends, pop artists, loyal followers, and an entirely new generation of music lovers around the world. Jeff’s only studio album in his lifetime, Grace, endures.

The documentary opens on August 15. The complete Interview can be heard on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the Terry David Mulligan YouTube Channel.

EP 358 | Bruce Cockburn talks Past, Present, Future and Turning 80

August 1, 2025

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Bruce Cockburn returns to The TDM Podcast. Thoughts on Dylan at Newport, Bo Diddley, a possible covers album, his legacy, today’s headlines and turning 80.

Lots to talk about.

EP 357 | Honeybear, the band – Release album I was Wrong

July 26, 2025

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The guests are Ian Beaty and Colin Brumelle

Singers and songwriters leading the soul and R&B sounds of

Honeybear, the Band. New album: I Was Wrong.

Vancouver based but they’re creating music that could easily have come from Memphis, New Orleans or Muscle Shoals.

See and hear it for yourself:

Aug 5 Harmony Arts Fest West Van

Aug 7 The Drake Canmore

Aug 8 Ironwood Calgary

Aug 9 Wapiti Fest Fernie

Aug 29 Fox Cabaret Vancouver

Sept 12 Barnside Harvest Fest Ladner

Oct 8 Centennial Theatre North Van

www.honeybear.band

EP 356 | Here comes Tami Neilson/Neon Cowgirl

July 12, 2025

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NEON COWGIRL

“The Neon Cowgirl-towering over Broadway like the patron saint of heartbreak in downtown Nashville as she smiles coyly over her shoulder in red cowboy boots-watched me grow up.

Basking in her glow, I walked wide-eyed into the Ryman Auditorium as a 16 year-old, clutching my ticket. Later that night, dreaming of standing on that stage,

I drifted off to sleep in the bunk of our home on wheels at the KOA next to the Opry. When I was 18, she saw me flipping through Loretta Lynn CDs in Ernest Tubb Record Shop after performing the breakfast and lunch shows on the General Jackson showboat with my parents and brothers in our family band, The Neilsons. At 25, she watched me running all over town, meeting up with other songwriters-writing, writing, writing-before I had to fly back home to Canada again. At 30, I returned as a newlywed on my honeymoon, flying in from New Zealand where I’d moved for love, holding hands with my new husband in Hatch Show Print, introducing him to her like a family member. A decade passed without her as I built a life on the other side of the world and raised 2 babies. My heart raced as I returned to her once again, to showcase at Americanafest, playing to 12 people at 3rd and Lindsley. 5 years and many showcases later, I swear she smiled right at me as I stopped to point her out to my two children as we walked past her, through the doors of the Ryman to finally perform for the first time.

NEON COWGIRL represents a lifelong dream of chasing Nashville and country music. I’ve loved her my whole life, even when she breaks my heart over and over again.”

This weeks guest = Tami Neilson – through much hard work, fierce determination and drive has begun to make all her dreams come true.

She is blessed with a voice that’s been described as “a fire-breathing R&B belter” by Rolling Stone.

Tami has now played the Ryman, sung a duet with her hero Willie Nelson. Travelled the highways and cities of the USA and Canada in an RV with her NZ family, so they could experience where she came from and the places on the planet she was singing about.

Her latest adventure was opening for Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan as part of the Outlaw Music Festival. Dreams DO come true.

She’s done all this while dealing with health issues and her brother Jay’s recovery from major surgery.

EP 355-Western Folk Festival Artistic Directors Cage Match 2025

July 6, 2025

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It’s Festival Season.

One of the very best times of the year.

Sun, relaxed lifestyle, friends, family and FESTIVALS.

Jazz, blues, rock, roots, pop, French. Everything !! Especially Folk!

There are many folk festivals where you’ll see and hear all of those artists. The barriers are well down.

If it’s music and engaging, then it all fits.

“An artistic director is a leader in arts organizations who shapes and guides the creative vision”

This is the second year we’ve had an Artistic Director Cage Match.

All four AD’s exchanging comments and suggestions about who’s coming and who not to miss. The state of the music business 2025. They’ve all been shaping their rosters for the past year. At times, going after the same hot artists.

The success of each festival rests on their shoulders.

When they’re all in the same room, so to speak, it’s best to just has to ask a question and get out of the way.

Returning Guests are

Chris Frayer – Winnipeg Folk Festival (celebrating 50 years) July 10-13