Hurricane Rena's

(28) Cortes Rocks.

They played the Mayday dance on Quadra Island last spring, with their unique and original style of country music from the islands. They have a place on the Homegrown show for sure.

A girl bluegrass style band from Victoria who played a great dance at the HBI in the winter. I am so glad to have their music on the Homegrown Show.

this is the main album I play. Here are some of their others

Here’s a link to his album, Making Waves, which I often play on the Homegrown Show

Great BC musician, I discovered his music at the Cortez radio studio during the early days. I especially like the poem Sea Fever, set to muisc and sung by him. His most famous song is Women of Labrador.

Another great band often played on the Homegrown show. Their music celebrates lives past and present, honours the history and culture of BC. Which is part of why we love them

There are two main albums of theirs I use on the Homegrown Show. There are Hello Stranger and From There to Here.

Here is the bands’s own site Fraser Union Home.

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Here is Tim Hus, and his album, songs of Western Canada.

He’s the writer of such Homegrown hits as “the Gravel Pit” and the “Seine Boat Song,” and “Big Wood Timber” his songs have a great beat and capture moments in history, celebrating different aspects of our lives in this fantastic place and time.

This is the great Canadian writer of sailing songs that are fun and catchy tunes, which I love to play on the homegrown show. Including the great hit, Miss Inclined, and Dancing with the Moon. Her album Miss Inclined is the one that most often contributes to the Homegrown show.

Eileen Quinn – music for sailors … and normal people.

TMO for short, is a fabulous ecelctic band from Cortes who have a truely unique and individual style of music. Two albums most often played on the Homegrown show are Carte Blanche and Follow my Lead,  Lead Me to Follow.

Welcome to the Official Carl Dixon Website.

Original Canadian Songwriter whom I discovered in the studio of Cortez radio during the early days of Rockin’ it With Rees and Rena. His greatest hit, in my humble opinion, is the song, Lost in Time, where he goes on about younger people today idealizing a previous era of freakiness and freedom, which is something I think about quite a bit when playing songs on this show. His song captures the feel of it, from the point of veiw of a person who actually was around then and has a realistic picture of it, as opposed to someone who only idealizes it.

The Official Kate Wolf Website – Home.

Although Kate Wolf is not a Homegrown musician, being from California, she is often played on the Homegrown show because of the magical and beautiful quality of her music. I love the magical way her songs came into my life when I was giving a friend a ride to his home,  which was a long drive, and he happened to find this tape in the parking lot of the dock. Putting it on the tape player, we heard these fabulous songs which I would often like to include on my radio show. There is a festival in her honour every year. We found this tape in the summer of 2010, more than 20 years after Kate Wolf died from cancer at 37 years of age, in California, her songs touched the hearts and lives of a lot of people here on the BC coast.