Via CBC: Live Caribou and Chad VanGaalen podcasts

Caribou, the winner of the 2008 Polaris Music Prize is this week's featured artist on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions with reworks of some of his award winning tunes - you'll never hear these songs done this way anywhere else. You can grab a copy of it at http://www.cbc.ca/radio3/podcasts/sessions/CBCR3Sessions_2009-01-14.mp3.

Also, if you missed it, yesterday's Canada Live podcast from Radio 2 features "Queen of the Cantina" Anna B and artist, instrument inventor and singer-songwriter Chad VanGaalen. You can get a copy of that one at http://podcast.cbc.ca/radio2/canada_live/CBCR2CanadaLive_2009-01-13.mp3.

As always you can find a full list of the CBC Radio 3 Sessions podcasts to date at http://publicbroadcasting.ca/sessions.html and you can keep up to date with the Sessions podcast through the Facebook Group or page.

RVT Caribou

Accoring to their Myspace Blog the polaris nominated Caribou are about to take off for some international dates in "playing in the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, England and Wales". After these dates Caribou will reportedly go on hiatus to write and record new music.

But, before all of that "Video Marsh, the team behind the beautiful video for Irene have made another great video for Hummingbird - off the 2007 Tour CD"

Caribou - Hummingbird

Polaris Short List Announced

As just announced live on CBC Radio 3 the short list for this year's Polaris Music Prize:

Plants And Animals:: Parc Avenue



Basia Bulat :: Oh My Darling



Two Hours Traffic :: Little Jabs



Stars In Our Bedroom After the War



Shad :: The Old Prince



Kathleen Edwards :: Asking for Flowers



The Weakerthans :: Reunion Tour



Caribou :: Andorra



Black Mountain :: In the Future



Holy F*ck :: LP

RVT: Caribou - She's the One

You can also find video's of Caribou from Blogotheque's Take Away Show's series here