Routes, Branches & Beyond is a weekly excursion, starting from Celtic music and moving beyond – geographically, stylistically and culturally. Explaining the history and meaning behind the songs you can travel the world, without changing planes in Toronto. Every Sunday at 4pm.
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 292 2023 09 21
Are you the sort of person who is distracted by the new? The seemingly improved? The unique? The... sorry... I lost my train of thought... I just saw a shiny object over there in the corner... where was I...?! Yes, the new! It has an allure, in ou...
Sep 10, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 291 2023 09 14
The word "relative" has several meanings. Thus, you could say that the meaning of "relative" is relative (which is another meaning right there). You could use the word in a sentence like, "my lottery numbers came relatively close last week," or "I am...
Sep 09, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 290 2023 09 07
Sometimes the seemingly-simplest of tasks can confound us. For me, one of these is taking the shrink wrap off a new CD. OK, it sounds simple, right? But I stumble with it, trying to get a fingernail under the wrap or searching for a bit of sagging c...
Sep 03, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 289 2023 08 31
We're seeing more of those unmistakable signs that summer is almost over - the wasps are getting more restless than usual, you can actually work outside during the day in the garden and not expire, the national media is full of those tiresome annual st...
Sep 01, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond for 24 August 2023
Summer is the time for rambling - even if it is just through one's CD collection...! (Though you may be surprised at how many steps I get for going from A to Z in my collection.) So set aside the croquet set and lawn darts, and pull up a hammock and jo...
Aug 24, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond for 17 August 2023
This is the time of year when many radio shows are taking some vacation. Here at Routes & Branches & Beyond, I get a generous three weeks off, so this show is what the big stations call an "encore" presentation. It's a show from about this time of the...
Aug 17, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond for 10 August 2023
This is the time of year when many radio shows are taking some vacation. Here at Routes & Branches & Beyond, I get a generous three weeks off, so this show is a re-run... no... what do the big stations call it? This is a reprise - it's a show from abou...
Aug 10, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 288 2023 08 03
When I was growing up on the farm, folks would talk about the "dog days" of August. I was confused by this as our farm dogs were always pretty lazy at this time of year - they would just lay there in the tractor shed panting. It didn't look like they...
Aug 02, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 287 2023 07 27
Some former huckster once said, hopefully, "there's a sucker born every minute." Maybe this relates to our human desire for novelty - but novelty in small things. We may generally lack an appreciation for huge changes in our lives or homes or jobs or...
Jul 27, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 286 2023 07 20
I am convinced that there should be a law against complaining about more than one season of the year. I quickly tire of folks who take every opportunity to whine about each of the seasons the creator gives us! At this point of the summer - these folk...
Jul 15, 2023
