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Program 08-08-10-A |
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*20 years ago a group of musicians gathered in Trinity
Church in Toronto and did something extraordinary. In one night, using
only one microphone and with no budget, they recorded a masterpiece. The
band is the Cowboy Junkies. And the album, "The Trinity Session."
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Cowboy Junkies
look back on the moment that defined the alt-country movement.
SEGMENT 1:
Jim Fleming talks with Ward Cunningham, the man who invented the wiki in 1995. A wiki is a web page written and then edited and added to by any other user. The collaborative on-line encyclopedia called Wikipedia now boasts several million entries and is entirely written and run by volunteers. Also, Steve Paulson goes to the Quantocks in Southwest England to tell the story of the remarkable collaboration between 18th century British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. To see photos, click HERE. We also hear from Adam Sisman, whose book "The Friendship" describes their relationship.
SEGMENT 2:
"Ten Canoes" is an Australian film that was made as a collaboration between film-maker Rold De Heer and the aboriginal people of Ramingining. De Heer tells Steve Paulson what an extraordinary process the film-making was, and we hear excerpts from the film.
SEGMENT 3:
Michael Timmins writes the music and lyrics that his sister Margo Timmins sings as part of The Cowboy Junkies. Twenty years ago, they recorded a seminal album in Trinity Church in Toronto. Anne Strainchamps talks with the Timmins siblings about "The Trinity Session." And of course we hear some of the music. Their latest album is called "At the end of Paths Taken."
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 08-07-20-A.
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Books & CDs:
| Adam Sisman, The Friendship:
Wordsworth and Coleridge (Penguin) |
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| The Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Revisited | |
| The Cowboy Junkies: Trinity | |
Websites:
- For more on the Cowboy Junkies:
http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/ - For Ward Cunningham’s personal website:
http://c2.com/~ward/ - For more on the Film Ten Canoes (and to see clips
from the film):
http://www.tencanoes.com.au/tencanoes/ - To see photos from Steve Paulson's visit to the Quantocks, click HERE
- And, an invitation: Do you want to collaborate on writing TTBOOK’s wikipedia site? Well, here’s the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Best_of_Our_Knowledge
Music:
- “Arrinyenin Apurta (Stone Circle)” by Woomera on the CD Traditional Aboriginal Music on Indigenous Australian Music Ltd.
- “Duality” by DJ Krush on the CD Holonic: The Self Megamix on BIEM.
- “A Shrosphire Lad” by George Butterworth on the CD Fantasia on Greensleeves on London Records.
- All Cowboy Junkies music was record live in Buck Studios at Wisconsin Public Radio.
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