Mulligan Stew May 20th 2023-Special Guests Bruce Allen and Doug Cox

Episode Notes

Have yourself a great Long Weekend

We have two guests and wall-to-wall music, hand-made for a superb Saturday in May.

First guest in Hour Two is Doug Cox artistic director of the Vancouver Island Music Festival.

July 14-16 in Courtney-Comox.

Doug is also a well-known performer and through the performing year,  shares stages with some of his festival guests.

The stellar line-up this year includes

Rickie Lee Jones

Bros. Landreth

Sarah McLachlan.

Dave Alvin,  Jimmy Dale Gilmore and the Guilty Ones

Roy Forbes,  recreating his BIM album Thistles

AV and the Inner City

Galactic

Angelique Francis and many more.

www.islandmusicfest.com

NEXT WEEK on The Stew– Artistic Directors from Folk Festivals in –

Vancouver/Canmore/Winnipeg & Calgary. Together in one discussion.

and Terry Wickham takes us through the Edmonton Folk Fest Line Up

Second guest is Bruce Allen – celebrating his 79^th  Birthday this weekend.

Bruce is the manager of Jann Arden, Michael Bublé, Bryan Adams, The Offspring and Bob Rock.

We’ll talk briefly about how Bob Rock and Gord Downie ended up creating the album Lustre Parfait together. It took 7 years.

Both complete interviews can be heard on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and seen on the terrydavidmulligan You Tube Channel.

We also celebrate the birth date  of Joe Cocker and remember  drummer Roger Hawkins from the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.  (Percy Sledge/Aretha/Wilson Pickett)
New music from Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, Rhiannon Giddens, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Bruce Cockburn  Matt Anderson, Natalie Merchant, Rodney Crowell, Galactic, Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter.