Music for a While with Brian Finley / Westben's Podcast

This podcast is sponsored by Finley & Associates: www.finleyandassociates.com  Its mission is to inspire leaders, co-create solutions, & deliver impact. Based in Calgary, Canada, Finley, and Associates serve clients across Canada’s major cities. We are so grateful for your continued support.   Joining Westben’s Artistic & Managing Director Brian Finley today is violinist, Amy Hillis. Hillis completed her Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and her Bachelors of Music at McGill. Amy now collaborates with performers and composers around the world to explore new approaches to classical and contemporary music.   We are delighted to be premiering Amy’s Digital Concert from The Barn on November 20th. If you have found this podcast later, not to worry! This concert will be available for the rest of the year at our digital venue. Visit www.westbendigitalvenue.ca today to see all of our digital concerts and content!

Thank you to our episode sponsors Finley & Associates, (https://finleyandassociates.com/) and metaphorhome, (https://metaphorhome.ca/).   Kerri Ough https://www.kerriough.com/Kerri is a musician, writer, speaker & artist currently located in Port Hope Ontario. Kerri has lived in Newfoundland, London, Toronto and toured the world with The Good Lovelies for over 15 years. February 2019, Kerri released her first solo album One Day Soon.  Good Lovelies With nine critically acclaimed releases, a #1 single, a JUNO Award, and a devoted fanbase blanketing the globe, roots-pop combo the Good Lovelies are among Canada’s brightest musical lights. The hardworking trio of Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough, and Susan Passmore, are guitar-wielding songwriters all, and queens of the goosebump–raising three-part harmony.  Download their NEW album ‘B Sides’ on Bandcamp: https://goodlovelies.bandcamp.com/ Digital Concert at The Barn - Saturday, June 5th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm As refreshing as a summer breeze and as colourful as a brilliant autumn day! Recorded at The Barn in September 2020, this digital concert features the ever-colourful Good Lovelies amidst the beauty of one of the most colourful Northumberland autumns in memory. Three guitar-wielding songwriters and goose-bump-raising three-part harmony at The Barn – Colour it with a smile! Concert Details: https://www.westben.ca/dcatb-good-lovelies Watch the Premiere here on YouTube on June 5th!   #westbenpodcast #digitalconcerts #goodlovelies

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On this episode, Brian Finley is joined by the author of Tree of Light which is the inspiration for our upcoming Digital Concert at The Barn. This guest is a veteran writer and editor. He spent much of his life as a professional opera singer, his memoir Dr. Barolo’s Umbrella was published in 2017 and combines all of his many disciplines. Long time friend of Westben we have with us today, author/opera singer and all-around fascinating human being - Christopher Cameron. Chris also brings his passion for the arts and his respect for the beauty and power of the written word to his new editing portfolio at Watershed Magazine.

Cozy up with your household bubble on December 12th for the free digital premiere of Tree of Light. In this Digital Concert, Frank Moore narrates the original story by Chris Cameron, with music by Donna Bennett, Brian Finley, Dave Mowat, Dan Foster and the Westben Choruses, along with Christmas Wishes and Memories supplied by the Westben community!

This episode is made possible through the support of our episode sponsors Canadian Tire Campbellford, Warkworth Community Service Club, Rotary Club of Campbellford & our galaxy sponsor Finley & Associates. Be sure to visit westben.ca/sponsors to learn all about our other community partners. And now please enjoy a conversation between Christoper Cameron & Westben’s Artistic Director & Director of the Tree of Light, Brain Finley.

You’re listening to Music for a While, Westben’s podcast devoted to exploring the wonderful world of music. This podcast began in March of this year at the beginning of the pandemic with in-depth and fresh looks at music history and has evolved into a vehicle through which the artists performing in Westben’s Digital Concerts at The Barn series can respond to the pandemic’s effect on their life as artists. Would you like to support the podcast? A quick and free way to show your support is to leave a review on iTunes or to share this podcast with fellow music enthusiasts! Follow or Subscribe wherever you are listening to join our Westben community.  On this episode, Brian Finley is joined onstage at The Barn (from a safe distance of course) by our upcoming Digital Concert at The Barn artist singer-songwriter and Ojibwe drummer Jordan Mowat! Tune in to YouTube or our Digital Venue https://westbendigitalvenue.ca/ on November 21st at 7:00 pm to enjoy the premiere of Jordan’s Digital Concert!   Click HERE for more details: https://www.westben.ca/dcatb-jordan-mowat Enjoy music from Jordan, his father Dave Mowat & the Smoke Trail Singers throughout this wonderful chat all about Jordan’s relationship to music.   This episode is made possible through the support of  Episode sponsors Bennetts Furniture & Mattresses: https://www.bennetts.ca/  & Galaxy Sponsor Finley & Associates:  https://finleyandassociates.com/ Be sure to visit https://www.westben.ca/2020-sponsors to learn all about our other community partners.  MORE PODCAST: https://www.westben.ca/podcastMORE CONCERTS: https://westbendigitalvenue.ca/MORE WESTBEN: https://www.westben.ca/ #podcast

Welcome to Episode 8 of Westben’s Podcast Music for a While! This week we are giving Brian & Barb a bit of a break. You may recognize my voice from the start and end of previous episodes of our podcast. My name is Samantha Clark & this week I am very grateful to be moving into the hot seat today to talk with a very interesting guest, Ben Finley.

Ben is the creative director of the International Performer Composer Residency. He is an incredible bassist & composer who has studied at U of T, CalArts, the Banff Centre and is now working on post-graduate studies at the University of Guelph. Ben grew up in Campbellford and part of his childhood farm grew into what we now know of as the Westben Barn. 

This episode we dive in to Ben's history as a Bass player & then take a closer look at the origins and evolution of the International Performer-Composer Residency that goes into showcase on July 6th at www.westben.ca/pcr

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"In his lifetime he was forced to play a surreal game with mortal stakes. He survived three cataclysmic events: the Russian revolution, world war two and Stalin's purges. His sadly uneven output gains much of its power from our understanding of what he lived through and tried to embody in his work and to fully understand his work, we must read between the lines, and behind the notes to find the real voice." - Jan Swafford

In this episode of Music for a While, join in Brian Finley & Barbara Hobart as they discuss the life, music and trials of Dmitri Shostakovich. 

Artists: Michael Burgess & Brian Finley 

Album: Westben’s Original Cast Recording of Rapunzel by Brian Finley (2005) 

Song: If You Could Hear – words & music by Brian Finley

Considering all that is going on these days, I thought you just might need a Musical Moment. 

Welcome to Murray Corner, from my Preludes to Canada. Take a moment to enjoy...