Canada Live is a Canadian radio program aired on both CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 since 2007. It debuted on March 19, 2007, on CBC Radio 2, and airs concert performances in a variety of musical genres from locations across Canada.
6-398: The program was originally hosted by Matt Galloway on weekdays and Patti Schmidt on weekends. However, their main role on most occasions was to introduce a local CBC personality in the region from which the concert was broadcast, who then hosted the remainder of the evening. From fall 2007 to fall 2009, the program only used the regional hosts. Following budget cuts (which also resulted in
12-656: A host of Canada Live and Podcast Playlist , and as an occasional guest host of The Current prior to his selection as the program's permanent host. Galloway was born in Newmarket, Ontario to a European-Canadian mother and an African-American father, and raised in Kimberley , Ontario . He is a 1994 graduate of York University in Toronto. Galloway took over as the new permanent host of The Current on January 6, 2020, succeeding Anna Maria Tremonti to become
18-455: The national current affairs programme's second permanent host. Galloway's final day as host of Metro Morning was on December 6, 2019. From 2004 through February 2010 Galloway hosted Here and Now , CBLA's local afternoon program . Before he became a CBC Radio host he wrote for Toronto alternative weekly NOW , worked as music director for campus radio station CHRY-FM , and was a freelance producer on Brave New Waves . Galloway
24-409: The program aired a tribute concert to Oliver Schroer , who died of leukemia later that year; the program was rebroadcast on July 9, two days after Schroer's death. On July 10, 2008, the program broadcast a special tribute concert to Jimi Hendrix , featuring noted Canadian musicians including Jim Byrnes , Randy Bachman , Steve Dawson , The Sojourners and Ndidi Onukwulu , performing Hendrix songs in
30-478: The program being shortened from two hours each night to one), Andrew Craig took over as permanent host of the program. In 2013, the program was reduced to a single airing per week, hosted by Garvia Bailey. The program is now hosted by Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe . It is also repeated Friday afternoons on CBC Radio One. On April 7 and December 6, 2007, the program broadcast the final concert by Canadian indie rock band Rheostatics , recorded on March 30. On April 7, 2008,
36-534: The recently restored Vancouver home of Hendrix's grandmother Nora. Matt Galloway Matt Galloway (born 1970) is a Canadian radio personality, who debuted in January 2020 as the host of The Current on CBC Radio One . Previously, he was the host of Metro Morning on the network's Toronto station CBLA-FM from 2010 to 2019. Galloway succeeded Andy Barrie as host of Metro Morning effective March 1, 2010. Galloway has also been heard nationally as
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