Twas the season of giving at fair CKUA
So we gathered some artists, for a Hidden Track Holiday!
In the music library they played, bringing songs of good cheer
To help us close the sixth season, another great year!

They shared festive tall tales and holiday fables
As well as what they love most on their Christmas turntables
So keep a glow in your heart when it's coldest and darkest,
As we're treated to music from these beloved artists:

With Lydia Persaud and Christine Bougie beside her,
You'll soon be serenaded by Serena Ryder!
The Good Lovelies will bring you a joyful noise
As will Jake Vaadeland and his Sturgeon River Boys.

Here they come wassailing in our quaint Christmas corner!
And making CKUA's holidays yet warmer
Is knowing that all of our programming, diverse and assorted

Is thanks to our donors; we are donor supported!

So in this season of giving, we say thanks to you,
The CKUA supporter, for all that you do.
Please accept this offering, and tell
Whoever you think would enjoy it, as well!

To the whole wide world, this merry-making is free!
There's plenty of room 'neath the CKUA tree.
So on podcast platforms and CKUA's YouTube,
Share the holiday cheer, and some serious Yule grooves.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producers: Scott Zielsdorf & Bronson Kashino
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams and Nick Adkisson!

Additional music for this episode provided via commercial license from De Wolfe Music.

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

It's Part Four of Hidden Track's collaboration with Music Yukon.

In this Hidden Track Session, we visit with a trio of artists who amply demonstrate the phenomenally wide spectrum of music-makers who call the Yukon home: John from Dawson's dynamic rap; the piano artistry of singer-songwriter Declan O'Donovan; and the majestic folk stylings of Caleb Tomlinson & the Perseids.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

In this episode of the Hidden Track podcast, we meet Canadian rapper Shadrach Kabango, better known as Shad. He has a new album, Start Anew, which hooks you in with songs exploring important and universal questions surrounding social, environmental, and cultural sustainability; passing the world along to the next generation.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

Music Yukon returns to the Hidden Track podcast for another year of collaborations!

The music of the north is the focus of this episode with performances from Electric Lemonade; Jamaican-born longtime New Yorker, now Yukon-dwelling rapper/ beatmaker/ indie rocker Ryan O'Neil; and the celebrated soulful singer-songwriter Hendrika.

These sessions are once again part of a larger collaborative project between the Edmonton Fringe, Music Yukon, and CKUA – one which sees artists from the Yukon travelling south to perform onstage at the Edmonton Fringe, and in-studio at CKUA.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

Musician, singer, and producer, Yves Jarvis remains connected to the music community in Calgary. In this Story episode of the Hidden Track podcast, you'll learn all about his connections to his old home province. All you need to do is listen to the title track from his album All Cylinders, which describes a road trip through Southern Alberta's beautiful foothills. He's an interesting case of a unique individual artist, shaped and inspired by a vast community.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

Hailing from Arkansas, Willi Carlisle is a grassroots folk musician who passed through Alberta in summer 2025, touring concert halls and theatres on a bill with Sierra Ferrell, followed by folk music festivals in Calgary, Canmore and Edmonton. This was all on the strength of his 2025 release, the self-produced new album Winged Victory.

He stopped by CKUA studios, bringing with him his banjo, guitar, concertina, and fierce musical sensibility.

In this Hidden Track Session, he shares with us three wonderful – and very different – solo acoustic offerings.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

Before arriving on the global stage, Peter Dreimanis - also known as Peter Dreams - grew up here in Alberta, falling in love with the arts in the vibrant Edmonton indie scene, becoming passionately involved at an early age in both music and film.

After more than a dozen years co-fronting the platinum-selling, multi-JUNO winning rock band July Talk, he put out his own debut album in 2025, a much-lauded record entitled Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR. Just ahead of some Alberta shows – both with July Talk and with Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR – Peter shared from the heart about a season of debuts for him.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

Twenty-five years ago, Eon Sinclair and Jay Malinowski met by chance while moving into the same student dormitory. The ska/roots/reggae band that they would form emerged from Kingston – not the one in Jamaica, but the one in Ontario, home to Queens University. Eon and Jay had envisioned very different futures for themselves before Bedouin Soundclash took off, turning them into Juno Award winners and genuine hitmakers.

Bedouin Soundclash have always followed their own rhythm, spinning heady successes into a record label of their own, Pirates Blend Records.

In this Hidden Track Session, we hear three songs from Bedouin Soundclash and portions of their conversation during a visit to CKUA's Edmonton studios.

CREDITS

• Host: Grant Stovel
• Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
• Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
• Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous
• Theme Music: Doug Hoyer

Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!

The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!

Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.