Soul Food: The Ghost Light Season

Soul Food Ghost Light: Ghosts of Christmas Presence Past

This week on Ghost Light Radio, bits and pieces from forty years worth of Christmas shows at Pacific Theatre. First Christmas: An Entertainment, Cotton Patch Gospel, Dreams Of Kings And Carpenters, and of course Christmas Presence itself. From Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Bone Man Slim, seasonal selections with a theatrical flavour.

Soul Food Ghost Light: True North

Sixty years of Canadian music - and radio! - in an hour and a quarter. We'll take a road trip with the son of a Saskatchewan premier, travel from the Cowichan Valley to Vancouver to Winnipeg to Toronto in search of CanCon, check up on some illustrious expats, and tune in the voices and sounds of a couple generations of north-of-the-49th radio. And you out east, don't worry, we'll pick up the cross-country journey after Christmas. Maybe call it "Strong and Free." 

Soul Food Ghost Light: No Particular Place To Go

We're playing exactly what we feel tonight on Ghost Light pirate radio, from Robert Zimmerman to Doris Mary Anne Keppelhoff, Domenico Modugno to Gary Keillor. The mailbag is full to bursting - Iwan from Cardiff, Tim from Saskatoon, Jack from Des Moines and Norm from Etobicoke - as we ruminate on happenings great and terrible, from Bakersfield to the moon.

Soul Food Ghost Light: Back On The Air!

We're back! Had ourselves some shore leave - almost three years worth, that oughta do - and it seems like high time to unfurl the sails, unpack the microphone, and start spinning some tunes once again. New releases and really old favourites, requests and discoveries, flotsam and jetsam, just right for this present moment. Or any moment, come to think of it...

Soul Food Ghost Light: Show Tunes (but not THAT kind of show tunes), Pt 2

Just before disappearing into the rehearsal hall to work on Pacific Theatre's "How The World Began," Ron looks back on some more of his favourite shows, and their music: Mercy Wild, Jesus My Boy, You Still Can't, Godspell, The Disappearing, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Doubt, The Rainmaker.  Just keeping that Ghost Light burning...

Soul Food Ghost Light: Show Tunes (but not THAT kind of show tunes), Pt 1

January 27, 2021 was host Ron Reed's last day on the job as Head Chef at the Pacific Theatre Diner, and tonight he and Jack Nicholson mark the one year anniversary of that occasion by looking back at some of Ron's favourite shows, and the music that enhanced their distinctive Soul Food flavour.  The Casino, The Foreigner, Tent Meeting, A Bright Particular Star, and more - tasty tunes from skits that schmeck. 

Soul Food Ghost Light: The Ronnies, Pt 1

The first annual presentation of our Ronnie Awards, in the spirit of the erstwhile, affable co-host of Radiolab, Robert Krulwich. Oysters and pearls, Christmas oranges, the ultimate Specialty record, free men and gentle men and jazz royalty in Moscow and Paris and much closer to home - dilettantes, aficionados, raconteurs and flaneurs all.  And there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last...

Soul Food Ghost Light: December 2, 2021

Stormy seas, bright fields. Ports of call: Liverpool, Wales, Boston, Nanaimo, Detroit, and more. Music and words to knit up the raveled sleave of care... 

Soul Food Ghost Light: November 5, 2021

The pirate radio crew is back from shore leave, and tonight we're playing favourites! Sent in by our loyal listeners, our faithful followers, and our sleepy supporters. Gilette, David, Rachel, Norm, Donnie, Nelson, Marianne, Spencer and the two Karens. Including an interview with our audio technician, Mr. Hugo Taney, who's got some high tech advice for Kenton "Sleepy" Klassen...

Soul Food Ghost Light: October 20, 2021

Broadcast like no one's listening!  A tribute to radio DJs everywhere, from the Good Ship Ghost Light - Lester the Nightfly, The Count, Deke Duncan, Gary Keillor, Symphony Sid, and that Top Ten Thousand guy, whatever his name was.