Episode 48 - Gateway Music Festival

Welcome back for Season 3! We're kicking it off with something a
little different this time around. 

Last July, for the second year in a row, I headed down to the Big
Muddy, an area of Southern Saskatchewan known for ranch land and
not much else, to the town of Bengough and the site of the
Gateway Festival.  It’s a very small town of just a few
hundred people, just a little north of the Montana border, and
the border of Treaty 4 Territory. They have a motel, a credit
union, a high school, a Co-op, your usual assortment of shops,
and even a municipal pool. It’s kind of an oasis in an ocean of
horses and hay bales. It’s also the home to this festival – which
attracts music fans from all over the province and musical acts
from all across the country. This anachronistic gem of a summer
attraction shouldn’t work – but it does. I had the good fortune
to be able to chat with some of the folks who help make it
happen, and some of the artists on the bill.

This episode features interviews with members of Library Voices,
CJTR host Redbeard, The Garrys, Kay The Aquanaut & Factor
Chandelier, The Steves, and Mike Dawson. Thanks to them and all
the artists whose music is included – bootlegged or not –
including the aforementioned list along with Northcote, Close
Talker, The Sadies, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, and Tom
Cochrane.