January 30th, 2016

January 29, 2016 00:48:31

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Welcome to The Neighbourhood.

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Tasting Room Radio is heard on Vancouver’s newest FM station. Roundhouse Radio 98.3 and is 5 blocks East of Gastown in jumping East Van.

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I thought I’d walk the neighbourhood and talk to the chefs and somms.. Guests include:

Sean Reeve – The Mackenzie Room. On Powell

Jason Sussman and Gino Di Domenico of Tacofino in Gastown

Also Pierre Deschamps. Director of the documentary Noma: My Perfect Storm

About the restaurant in Copenhagen that won World’s best restaurant four times.

THE SHOW

Sean Reeve – Chef/Partner The MacKenzie Room 415 Powell

Created out of a passion for food, drink and sharing both with good friends and partners Andrew and Katie Jameson. They all wanted to share their love of honest food and delicious drink with all of us, and also helped us create a restaurant we are proud of . They believe that fresh ingredients and exceptional service are what you deserve, they also think a delicious local beverage paired with food from around home should be your routine. They search for the best quality ingredients the west coast has to offer, get dirty and happy finding them for you, so you can get happy and full eating them.

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“Our happiest surprise of the year. Co-owner Sean Reeves is a fiercely talented chef with an intrinsic understanding of what it takes to make local food sing in season without pretentious falsetto. Lovely room, too.” Scout Magazine

www.themackenzieroom.com

NOMA: My Perfect Storm (Documentary)

Pierre DesChamps – Director. On the phone from Paris

Chef Rene Redzepi NOMA

After winning a Best Restaurant In The World award in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014, chef Rene Redzepi discusses his Copenhagen restaurant Noma and how his culinary philosophy has shaped its success. This isn’t just another foodie film, it’s also a movie about place, immigration (the Danish-born Redzepi talks frankly about his Macedonian descent), and the importance of being true to your locale.

A once-ridiculed experiment by chef René Redzepi, the resto and its free-associative menu of Nordic-based cooking – marked by an eclectic assortment of native vegetables with “meat as the backup singer” – was serving “crowds” of 15 when word of Redzepi’s innovation began to spread.

What followed was an unlikely rocket to the top of Pelegrino’s famed 50 Best Restaurants list, and a four-time stint as “the best restaurant in the world.” And then some things happened.

Pierre Deschamps’ Noma: My Perfect Storm is a remarkable documentary, a 33-month fly-on-the-wall experience of a restaurant and its resident genius on top of the world, losing their balance and attempting to right themselves.

Noma provides a busy plate of events and insights, from the complex psychological profile of its central character – a mercurial, Macedonian-born chef with an outsider’s chip on his shoulder – to the eccentric outside characters (including a Swedish mushroom expert and a Scottish sea urchin harvester) whose provisions inspire some of Redzepi’s wilder culinary visions.

But the central narrative is the rough journey of a small team of epicurean artists dealing with life under the world’s microscope. Michelin stars are won and lost. Top spot at Pellegrino is suddenly not a given.

NOMA

There is an outbreak of food poisoning, and Redzepi and his acolytes suddenly find themselves questioning their priorities and seek to rediscover their joy.

“A foodie’s valentine.” New York Times

Screens at VanCity Theatre

Jan 31 04:15 pm Guests: Royal Dinette’s Head Chef Jack Chen, Chef Rasmus Leck Fischer, Sous Chef Erik Køllgaard Pedersen will be in attendance

Feb 02 01:00 pm

Feb 03 08:20 pm

http://www.viff.org/theatre/films/fc8789-noma-my-perfect-storm

TACOFINO GASTOWN – Jason Sussman & Gino di Domenico

We finish back in the neighbourhood at Tacofino in Gastown

Tacofino Gastown is celebrating its one year anniversary by giving back to customers and the local community. Today!!

TacoFino Taco Bar (15 West Cordova will be serving its famous Baja-style fish tacos at half-price ($3 per order) on Saturday, January 30 (11 a.m. through midnight).

All proceeds will be donated to Potluck Café Society an outreach program in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside aimed to create jobs for people with barriers to employment and provide healthy food options.

For every use of the hashtag #tacoversary from now until January 30, an additional $1 will be donated by Tacofino to the local outreach program.

The Boys

Tacofino’s Gastown location opened last January, and features an 80-seat dining room, 20-seat lounge, and 16-seat patio in addition to their Burrito Bar take-out counter.

Guests are the founder Jason Sussman and partner Gino di Domenico.

It’s a great story about one single food truck in Tofino that gets so popular they’re convinced to bring their concept into Vancouver with two more trucks which leads to 2 restaurants in Vancouver and one more in Victoria!! (with another location hinted at in this interview).

They honour Ocean Wise and as you can see – give back to the community.

The Original Truck in Tofino

Grab a fish taco Saturday at half price. You will feel better knowing you’re stuffed and helped people at the same time.

tacofino.com/gastown-home

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STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON:

38^th Vancouver International Wine fest

Savio Volpe – what a find

January 23rd 2016- Quails Gate Winery

January 23, 2016 00:49:06

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Quails Gate buys another California vineyard. We talk to founder Tony Stewart!

We travel from Sonoma to Rutherford in Napa Valley ..and find Chuck Wagner and his daughter Jenny at Wagner Family Wines. Wagner makes Conundrum, Belle Gloss. Caymus etc

Harry Hertscheg and Christopher Gaze bring the stories on the 38^th Vancouver International wine festival.

And Chef Ian MacDougall the 2015 winner of the Hawksworth Young Chefs Scholarship.

The SHOW

Tony Stewart – Owner/Founder of Quails Gate

Tony Stewart

The Stewart Family are a third-generation BC winemaking family with more than sixty years of outstanding wines under their belt. The family owns Quails’ Gate winery in the Okanagan Valley.

Quailsgate Winery

They have just announced the acquisition of California’s prestigious Envolve Winery from sibling proprietors Mike, Kate and Chris Benziger and Ben Flajnik.

The two veteran multi-generation wine growing families became acquainted when the Stewart family joined the Sonoma community in 2012 with the acquisition of Glen Ellen’s Madrone Estate Winery, Valley of the Moon wines, and Lake Sonoma Winery.

Tony is Chief Executive Officer of the Stewart Family–owned winery business. His vision and guidance have been instrumental in the growth of Quails’ Gate and Old Vines Restaurant to what it is today: internationally respected as one of the leading wine producers and culinary experiences in BC.

Stewart Family

I found and bothered him in Hawaii.

www.quailsgate.com

Chuck and Jenny Wagner – Wagner Family Wines. Rutherford

Wagner Family of Wines

The Wagner’s have been farming in the Napa Valley since 1906 . In 1972 Charlie , Sr and Lorna Wagner asked their son, Chuck, to join them in starting a winery to be called Caymus Vineyards. Today, Chuck oversees all vineyard and wine production focusing exclusively on Cabernet Sauvignon. With pride, Chuck’s two sons have now joined the family operations ; Charlie II making Mer Soleil Chardonnay from the Santa Lucia Highlands in Monterey County, and Joseph making Belle Glos Pinot Noirs. Conundrum is a team effort lead by Chuck.

Now comes Chuck’s daughter Jenny and she’s starting to make her own wines.

Jenny Wagner

Jenny is the newest member of the Wagners to join the family business as winemaker for Emmolo Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot. Emmolo is named after Jenny’s maternal family, and was launched twenty years ago by her mother, Cheryl Emmolo

And so it grows!!

http://www.wagnerfamilyofwine.com/

Harry Hertscheg Executive Director – Vancouver Wine festival

Christopher Gaze Founding Artistic Director – Bard on the Beach

It’s one quick month to the start of the 38^th annual Vancouver International Wine festival.

If anyone knows about what’s going on and how to get ticketed it’s Harry Hertscheg. He’s been leading the team since 2001. Harry has the numbers and suggestions for which events still have tickets.. pssst it’s seling out FAST.

Harry and Christopher

And that’s a good thing because the festival raises funds for Christopher Gaze’s Bard on the Beach. Consistently one of the summers most popular events.

Chris fills us in on what plays are under the tents this year.

They make a great one/two punch. Enjoy!!

www.bardonthebeach.org

www.vanwinefest.ca

Ian MacDougall of Model Milk in Calgary won the Hawksworth Young Chefs Scholarship. He won an award of $10,000 and a chance to cook in an international restaurant.

Ian MacDougall and David Hawksworth

Ian beat out seven other finalists Saturday with his dish of roasted squab with lobster agnolotti, nasturtium braised endive and squab jus.

Surprisingly he won despite the fact he sliced his finger and was late with his dish. Must have been SOME dish.

Scholarship founder and chef David Hawksworth and his chef de cuisine Kristian Eligh, from Vancouver’s Hawksworth Restaurant, held heats in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Montreal.

The eight finalists were chosen from among 37 competitors.

The scholarship is intended to encourage Canadian chefs age 28 and under by giving them the opportunity to cook for acclaimed chefs and food critics.

Judging the finals were chefs Mark McEwan of the Toronto-based McEwan Group, Normand Laprise of Toque! and Brasserie T in Montreal, Scott Jaegar of the Pear Tree in Burnaby, B.C., and Anthony Walsh, executive chef of Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants in Toronto.

STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON

The 38^th Annual Vancouver International Wine festival

Featured region – Italy

Outstanding restaurants in the neighbourhood – East Vancouver.

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Mulligan Stew January 23rd 2016-Guests Nathaniel Rateliff and Derek Trucks

January 22, 2016

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We start with a playlist that hopefully speaks to your heart:

Boz Scaggs
Mary Gauthier
Janis
RAY Charles Live
James Brown at The Apollo
City and Colour
Howlin Wolf

All the good stuff
And two interview guests.
Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats just played Calgary and Edmonton and we found him at sound check in Vancouver.
(apologies for the roadie belching into the microphones..he’s just doing his job)

Lots to talk about. For example, last time we talked it was 3 days AFTER he played The Jimmy Fallon show and blew Jimmy and everyone watching away.
He trys to remember the blur since that time..but it means he won’t be playing small clubs ever again.
The son of a preacher, we talk spirituality and whiskey.
And his plans for the next little while.
After Fallon and SOB The Sweats have become one of the hottest acts anywhere.
And we finish by talking about the song that started it all SOB..there’s a dark side in the lyrics.
And one of the nicest people in the music business plus one of the best most distinctive guitarists working today Derek Trucks.

Along with his wife and partner Susan Tedeschi..they lead a killer band The Tedeschi Trucks Band.
They’re just releasing a new album Let me get by
With tour dates in western Canada in June.

Besides the new music, which is yet another shift upward and forward, Derek also talks about the legacy of his friend BB King and The Allman Brothers band of which he was a member.
Please look for the RAW interview on our site
Enjoy!!

PLAYLIST:

Mulligan Stew with TDMulligan Year 20	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca	Guests Nathaniel Rateliff and Derek Trucks
Cadillac Walk	Boz Scaggs	Memphis
Spider Web	Joan Osborne	Relish
drag queen in limosines	Mary gauthier	Live at Blue Rock
Bye Bye Baby	Big Brother and the Holding Company	Texas – Oxford American
Nuevo Larero	The Gourds	Keep your soul. Tribute to Doug Salm
Mulligan Stew with TDMulligan Year 20	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca	www.canadahouse.com
www.canadahouse.com	Coming UP Nathaniel Rateliff	Mulligan Schstew
Counting Mercies	Jann Arden	Everything Almost
Busted (live)	Ray Charles	Ray Charles Live
Mulligan Stew with TDMulligan Year 20	Next – Nathaniel Rateliff	www.mulliganstew.ca
Night Train (live)	James Brown and the Famous Flames	Live at the Apollo remaster
Smokestack Lightnin	Howlin Wolf	Live in London
Nathaniel RATELIFF Interview	at the Commodore Vancouver
Howling at Nothing (live)	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats	EP – SOB
Nathaniel RATELIFF Interview	at the Commodore Vancouver
I need never get old	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats	self titled
Nathaniel Rateliff Intervoew	at the Commodore Vancouver
SOB (live on Fallon)	single
Mulligan Stew with TDMulligan Year 20	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Mercury Blues	David Lindley	El Rayo X
Lets get it on 99	robert palmer	Rhythm and Blues
lover come back	City and Colour	`if i should go before you
www.coyotesbanff.com	NEXT – Derek Trucks Interview
Derek Trucks Interview
right on time	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Let me get by
Derek Trucks Interview
Let me get by	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Let me get by
Mulligan Stew with TDMulligan Year 20	Derek Trucks Part two NEXT	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
derek trucks interview
in every heart	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Let me get by
Derek Trucks Interview	tedeschitrucksband.com
Laugh about it	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Let me get by
Thanks for tuning in to Mulligan Stew	NEXT WEEK – Nothing but music	Wall to Wall

January 16th, 2016- Wine expert Christine Coletta

January 15, 2016 00:48:34

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Our feature interview is with Christine Coletta..from helping to launch the BC wine industry to actually making and releasing her own wines at Okanagan Crush Pad. It’s been quite a journey for Christine.

And the story behind Argentine winery Chayee Bourras and it’s Canadian owners.

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THE SHOW

Wine expert Christine Coletta began her career working at some of Vancouver’s most notable fine dining restaurants.

Christine Colletta

When Christine began working with the Society of Wine Educators and the Vancouver Wine Festival, she knew she had found her calling. With her opinion and expertise often being sought out, she was quickly regarded as one of the most respected authorities on wine marketing. As the word quickly spread, she was promptly introduced to founders in the BC wine industry – including the late Tom Capozzi of Calona Wines, George Heiss of Gray Monk Cellars, and Harry Mcwatters the founder of Sumac Ridge Estate Winery. She soon became executive director of the newly formed BC Wine Institute in 1990, and asked her to help develop and launch the new VQA program.

Christine was instrumental in defining Okanagan wine country, putting VQA wines on the map and convincing BC restaurateurs to carry BC wines.

Christine also created marketing and branding programs that built awareness for BC wines across Canada and in international markets. As a result of her numerous contributions to the industry, Christine was recognized at the 30th annual Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival where she was awarded the “Spirited Industry Professional” award.

Christine Coletta then reinvented herself as co-owner of Summerland’s Okanagan Crush Pad Winery, a custom winemaking facility that is home to the Haywire and Narrative labels as well as wines made for other vintners. Since opening the facility in 2011, Coletta and husband Steve Lornie have already received numerous accolades and recognition for their unique business model and phenomenal wines. They were named Innovator of the Year for 2013 from the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association and were also celebrated by BC Business Magazine as one of the Top Innovative Companies in BC for 2013.

She was inducted into the BC Restaurant Hall of Fame.

Haywire

But what CC is REALLY doing is stretching the boundaries of BC winemaking.

Working with concrete tanks, natural wines that are unlike anything being made in BC.

The new tanks

We’ll also talk about the Garnet Valley Pinot Noir plantings above the Crush Pad that will be the talk of the valley in the near future.

If you’re at all interested in the direction BC wines are headed, then look no further than Christine Coletta and those working with her at Okanagan Crush Pad.

www.haywirewinery.com

https://okanagancrushpad.com

Chayee Bourras – Argentina

Katrina O’Reilly-Ryan and winemaker Jose Gomez

Chayee Bourras - The Portfolio

Gordon Ryan believes that the next popular star in red wines from Argentina, where Malbec dominates now, will be wines from a grape called Bonarda.

In fact, Gordon is so convinced that he and Katrina O’Reilly-Ryan, his wife, have invested in an Argentine winery called Bodega Chayee Bourras.

The Ryans, who now live in Mill Bay on Vancouver Island, tell a remarkable story about the development of their love of Bonarda.

Gord and Katrina O’Reilly-Ryan

Both were born in Newfoundland in the mid-1960s.

Gordon grew up a beer drinker. The first of his wine epiphanies came when he was best man at a wedding for a friend of Italian heritage. The Valpolicella flowed freely and the flavours were a revelation to his palate.

The second epiphany came in 1999 when the couple took a sabbatical to Australia and New Zealand, volunteering as vineyard workers in McLaren Vale in return for room and board. After doing the harvest in Australia, Gordon decided that he wanted a vineyard. “That’s where the wine ideas came,” Gordon says. “We tasted some good red wines down there.”

“We worked on a couple of vineyards,” Katrina recalls. “It was in your face, right from the growing to harvesting to watching the wine being made.”

After several years of looking, Gordon found a vineyard in the Cuadro Benegas district near the city of San Rafael, about two hours south of Mendoza, Argentina’s wine capital.

Much of Gordon’s vineyard consisted of 40-plus year old Bonarda vines. “We ended up with one of the best Bonarda vineyards in Argentina,” he believes. “The Malbec is what I thought I would be producing but we happened on the Bonarda. It is going to be the next niche wine from this area.”

Jose Gomez Winermaker

It’s our pleasure to welcome to TRR Katrina O’Reilly-Ryan and winemaker Jose Gomez.

http://www.bodegabourras.com.ar/english/

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STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON

Uwe Boll – film director and restaurant owner

Tony Stewart – Quails Gate partners with Benziger in Sonoma

The Late Alan Rickman on Hollywood and Vines

Vancouver Wine festival kick-off

Mulligan Stew January 16th 2016- David Bowie Tribute. Vance Joy & Rueben and the Dark Interviews

January 14, 2016

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The Stew will mark the untimely passing of a great artist- David Bowie.
Singer songwriter actor mentor creator and wonderful human being.
Quite simply, one of the nicest people I have ever met.
He left us with words, thoughts, music, fashion and performance moments that will last the harsh test of time.
I interviewed Bowie at least twice. This I know because the edited interviews are on YouTube. We’ll plays clips and play tunes..

Vance Joy Live at Railtown

Vance Joy And TDM

Also playing live in Edmonton Saturday and Calgary Sunday are red hot Australian
Pop artist Vance Joy and Calgary’s Rueben and the Dark. Both will join us for interviews. Enjoy!!!!

PLAYLIST:

Ths is Mulligan Stew – Year 20	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Remembering David Bowie	TD Mulligan
David Bowie Interview
Changes	David Bowie	Best of Bowie
David Bowie Interview
All the young dudes	David Bowie	A reality Tour
Remembering David Bowie
Sue (or a season of crime)	David Bowie	Dark Star
Golden Years	David Bowie	Best of Bowie
Young Americans	David Bowie	Best of Bowie
You’re listening to Mulligan Stew – Year 20	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Seventh Son	Long John baldry	Everything stops for tea
St Clarity	The paper Kites	States
Mouth Music	Rhiannon Giddens	Factory Girl EP
Memphis in the Meantime	John Hiatt	Best of
Lola (live)	The Kinks	To the bone
www.coyoyesbanff.com	www.mulliganstew.ca
Love someday blues	Bob Dylan	Love and Theft
3 cigarettes in an ashtray	kd lang	Angel with a lariat
Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Coming UP – Reuben and the Dark
Reuben Bullock Interview	Reuben and the Dark	with TDM
Rolling Stone	Reuben and the Dark	Funeral Sky
Reuben Bullock Interview	Reuben and the Dark
Devil’s Time	Reuben and the Dark	Funeral Sky
www.canadahouse.com	Mulligan Stedw – year 20	Coming UP – Vance Joy
OdffRed	Dan Mangan and Blacksmith	club meds
13 crows	Roger Roger	Fairweather
little wing	Jimi Hendrix Experience	Rainy Day Dream Away
Mulligan Stew – Year 20	playlist www.mulliganstew.ca	NEXT – Vance Joy
Best that I can	Vance Joy	Dream your life away
Vance Joy Interview
Fire and the Flood (live in studio)	Vance Joy	Live from Railtown Roundhouse Radio
vance joy interview	with TDM
Riptide	Vance Joy	Dream your life away
vance joy interview	Mulligan Stedw – year 20
this is The Stew	www.mulliganstew.ca	[
think of me	Roger Roger	Fairweather
Moody	Hi Rhythm Section	Hi Times

David Bowie-Raw Interviews with Terry David Mulligan

January 12, 2016

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David Bowie has left the stage.
A magnetic personality who drew generations of fans to him by his very being.
So regal in his character that he could have been royalty.
Actually, he was rock royalty.
He spoke the truth and wrote a truth that few matched, blending his words into and through the music.
I had the amazing luck to spend one glorious night with him in his suite in Vancouver
He had just flown in from Japan and was just beginning his day as we were ending ours. He warned me he could talk for hours because of jet lag.
And so we did.. After the camera ran out of tapes..an hour I think, we just sat and talked. About family, children, jazz, Canada and Vancouver in particular.
The man was the kindest,nicest, most thoughtful artist I ever interviewed.
His loss numbs my heart but his influence and his music will live on.
TDM

Mulligan Stew January 9th 2016

January 9, 2016

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White Stripes. New Avett bros. Rod Stewart. EL Harris/Rodney Crowell.Robert Plant & led Zep. Beatles. Stones with Clapton.
The Band & a Jam with Colin James & Jeff Healey.

ENJOY!
TDM

PLAYLIST:

This is Mulligan Stew	with Terry David Mulligan	Playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Going back to new orleans	Dr John	Going back to New Orleans
Liquid Spirit	Gregory Porter	Liquid Spirits
Come with me	Kirsten Nash	The view from here
Seven Nation Army	White Stripes	Elephant
www.CanadaHouse.com	This is Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Coming UP – Bo Diddley
Another is waiting	Avett brothers	Live Vol 4
Cry one more time	Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels	Live 73
Keep a knockin	Albert Lee	HighwayMan
This is Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Can I walk you home	Bo Diddley	A man among men
How many more tears	Magic Slim	The Essential Magic Slim
Natural Man	Rod Stewart	Rarities
Watchin the River Flow	ColiN James	Limelight
This is Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Bring it on home to memphis	Emmy Lou Harris/Rodney Crowell	The Travelling Kind
Old Folks Boogie	Little Feat	Hotcakes and Outtakes
This is Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Playlist www.mulliganstew.ca	Coming UP – A double shot of Robert Plant
Gallows Pole	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin 3
Mighty Rearranger	Robert Plant	Mighty ReArranger
Love and Happiness	The Rev Al Green	Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years
The Lord will make a way somehow	Mike Ferris	Shine for all the people
Come Together	The Beatles	Box Set
www.coyotesbanff.com	Mulligan Stew www.mulliganstew.ca
all shook up	Billy Joel	Honeymoon in Vegas sndtrk
Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Coming UP – The Stones and Clapton
Little Red Rooster (live)	The Rolling Stones with Eric Clapton	Flashpoint
What’s going on (live)	Los Lobos with Sheryl Crow	el Cancionero mas y mas
Boys are back in town	The Avett Brothers	Live Vol 4
Mystery Train	The Band	To Kingdom Come
Mulligan Stew – Year 20	Next WEEK – Derek Trucks pays a visit	Cheers
Jumping Jive/Baby what you want me to do	Colin James and Jeff Healey (LIVE)	From the Archives

Jeff Healey & Colin James Interview – 1989

January 7, 2016

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Much Music in the 70’s and 80’s was a place of magic, where anything could happen and DID happen.
For Example…
I was able to convince my fellow West coaster Colin James to sit in with Jeff Healey to riff on a couple tunes.
BUT…if they worked my name into the lyrics they got 5 bucks EACH!
This is fine music with a great vibe. I treasure it.
Enjoy!
-TDM

January 9th, 2016 – New Zealand

January 7, 2016 00:48:05

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The first of several One Hour Specials recorded in March during a two week wine blitz through New Zealand’s wine regions, with special interest in their amazing sustainability programs. In this special we start in Auckland and conclude in Hawkes Bay.

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Hawkes Bay

THE SHOW

The opportunity was just too good to pass up. For a number of years I’ve been interviewing NZ winemakers as they passed through Canada. The meetings were great but I had no sense of the land. Where these wines were grown and under what conditions. Kiwi’s kept referring to Gimblett Gravels, a place called Nelson, Central Otago and Waiheke Island. I very much wanted to “get it”. To complete my understanding of what went into the astounding success of New Zealand wines – in Canada and around the World.

Map of NZ

The invite from Wines of New Zealand to tour the country was Waaaay to good to pass up. 94% of all NZ wines are farmed under sustainable practices. It’s not so much a program as a way of life. New Zealanders are all about being green. Just a note: I seem to have done enough interviews for at least 2 other specials. They’ll be coming over the next month and a half.

NZ Vineyard

Our guests include: Sarah Szegota New Zealand Winegrowers www.nzwine.com Rob Meredith/Connie Festa Co-Owners of Peacock Sky Vineyard (Waiheke Island) www.peacocksky.co.nz

Peacock Sky

Beautiful hilltop vineyard, wonderful Bistro. Rob’s retired and works 7 days a week. Connie’s from Montreal. Cooks like her Mom. Staying on Waiheke Island..just off the coast from Auckland..we visit Mike Spratt at Destiny Bay, maker of only three wines. three Bordeaux influenced red blends..one of which, Magna Praemia, is the most expensive wine in NZ. Mike, his scientist wife Ann and winemaking son Sean lead a stellar team. http://www.destinybaywine.com/ In between both those Waiheke island wineries we talk to our “host” Phillip Manson, the man in charge of New Zealand’s Sustainability efforts.

Waiheke Island

He’s proud of New Zealand’s reputation. So he should be. www.nzwine.com Before we leave the dormant volcanoes of beautiful Auckland we visit just one more winery. The most awarded winery in all NZ – Villa Maria!! www.villamaria.co.nz Sir George Fistonich has spent five decades at the forefront of New Zealand’s wine industry that he helped develop. As an icon of the New Zealand wine industry, Villa Maria is known for bold and industry-changing moves such as moving to 100% screw cap through to the emphasis on sustainable practices in every area of the family owned company. Villa Maria Estate was named the supreme winner at the New Zealand Sustainable Business Network awards in November 2012

Sir George Fistonich Villa Maria

We start with David Roper/Winemaker. Then Fabian Yukich, in charge of wineries and vineyards and finally, the man himself, Sir George Fistonich. [divider] Hawkes Bay is a short flight from Auckland. http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/ Hawke’s Bay’s long, hot summers and cool winters offer the best weather for growing grapes. The climate is dry and temperate. Hawke’s Bay is renowned for its horticulture with large orchards and vineyards on the plains. Hawke’s Bay is one of New Zealand’s warmest, driest regions and this has made it one of the country’s leading producers of wine; notably red wines – cabernet sauvignon, merlot and syrah – but also with some quite stunning whites. They are working on being the Syrah Capitol of NZ. www.winehawkesbay.co.nz/ [divider] Pask Winemaker and Managing Director Kate Radburnd is one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed winemakers. She commands an international reputation for her extensive record of award winning wines and her vision and contribution to the industry. Kate holds the role of Deputy Chair of the Wine Institute of New Zealand, has been a Director of the Wine Institute of New Zealand and New Zealand Winegrowers since 1999, and is Chair of Judges at New Zealand’s oldest wine competition, the New Zealand Royal Easter Show Wine Awards. Kate has also been instrumental in the development of the Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand program and led Pask to be among the first group of wineries in the country to secure ISO environmental accreditation.

Kate Radburnd

Kate spent five years as Chair of the SWNZ advisory/working group, which at that time saw the introduction of the winery programme under the scheme. Four of her labels command the wine world’s attention Declaration Gimblett Road Roy’s Hill Kate Radburnd Loved this interview..Enjoy!! http://www.pask.co.nz/ [divider] In Our second New Zealand Special we will attempt to include Elephant Hill Trinity Hill Selini Estates Mission Estates Winery (all in Hawkes Bay) TeMania Kono (in Nelson) Spy Valley Yealands Stoneleigh Brancott ( all in Marlborough)

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STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON

David Lebovitz – My Paris Kitchen Bill Jones – The Dearholme Foraging Book The 2014 California Wine Tour Naramata Bench wine tour BC Vintage 2013 – 6 BC wineries Heartland from Australia

Mulligan Stew First show of 2016 – #20yearsofstew #rollitagain

January 2, 2016

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Today it’s a repeat of our 20 year birthday party for Mulligan Stew.

On November 21^st of 2015 we celebrated because 20 years ago Moses Znaimer contacted TDM and asked if he would travel to Edmonton and do a story on CKUA Radio for Citytv and Bravo.
As soon as Terry walked into the old ckua building he knew THIS was the station he loved so much and used to listen to
when he was a Mountie in Red Deer and Olds.
TDM says the 20 years have been a blur but certain highlights stand out. Those are the ones he’ll talk about on Saturdays STEW.
Along with 100 friends in studio , the party will include with fine wines, beer and scotch by Sherbrooke Liquor & sensational food by the brand new Alberta Hotel Bar + Kitchen.
Terry will be playing memorable music from the 20 year charts, in house DJ will be Baba and live music will be performed by Jim Byrnes and Lindsay Mitchell at 5:30!!!

Wines from Benjamin Bridge/Calliope/Malivoire. Canadian & Irish Whiskey, Jim Beam and single malt scotches by Amrut and Glenfarcais
#20yearsofstew for you Saturday night 5-7Pm Mtn www.ckua.com
-ENJOY!

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