 Neko Case's new memoir, Recordkeeping with Feven Kidane, and YI SHI Cacao CollectiveNXNW Feb. 8/9, 2025 | Welcome to the NXNW newsletter! This weekend, indie music icon Neko Case previews her new memoir, Feven Kidane talks about performing Jazz at the Bolt, and Olivia Wu takes us through a tasting experience in our February Chocolate series.
Looking for something from a past show? Check out our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on NXNW this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | This week on CBC's The Fifth Estate: Valleyview, Alberta is divided over a movement to control which books can sit in its library. Fifth Estate co-host Mark Kelley gives us a preview of its investigation, The Shadow War on Libraries. | | | | | Ktunaxa dancer and choreographer Samantha Sutherland shares her thought process behind naŧa, a contemporary dance piece coming to the Scotiabank Dance Centre on Feb. 20 as part of the Matriarchs Uprising Festival (Feb. 17-22.) | | | | | Although Trump's new tariffs on Canadian goods are on hold, Canadians are still looking for homegrown options at the grocery store. Buy B.C. Chef Champion Ned Bell is here with some local food options for your next grocery trip. | | | | | Composer and trumpeter Feven Kidane is set to play the music of Charles Tolliver with her band at the fifth annual "Jazz at the Bolt" festival on Feb. 16. Feven talks about the upcoming concert while doing some Recordkeeping. | | | | | Sunday | | | Pulmonary fibrosis is a lung disease that impacts more than 30,000 Canadians. To mark Heart Month, Sharon Lee from the Canadian Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation shares advice on early intervention. | | | | | Our February Chocolate series continues as we sample sweets with Olivia Wu of The YI SHI Cacao Collective, which curates bean-to-bar chocolate-tasting experiences that celebrate the stories of craft chocolate. | | | | | Early Music Vancouver presents a weekend of concerts to brighten the dark winter days with the 2025 LUMEN Festival (Feb. 14-16.) Singer and EMV artistic director Suzie Leblanc sheds some light on the classical and choral talent set to perform. | | | | | Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and New Pornographers founding member Neko Case discusses her new memoir The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, which chronicles her poverty-stricken childhood, her musical journey in Vancouver, and more. | | | | | | | | | | | Recordkeeping with Feven Kidane | | | Feven Kidane is a Vancouver-based composer, trumpeter and bandleader who is making a growing impact on the B.C. jazz scene. For the fifth annual Jazz at the Bolt festival (Feb. 14-16), Kidane and her quartet are set to perform the music of legendary Jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver. The concert is inspired by the Cellar Live release of Live at the Captain's Cabin, a recently discovered archival recording from 1973.
Feven's Recordkeeping picks:
A song from your youth?
Thoughtforms (2nd version) by Lush.
A song you keep coming back to?
Tanto by Milton Nascimento.
Music you're listening to right now?
Earl's World from Charles Tolliver's Live at the Captain's Cabin.
The Feven Kidane Quartet will perform Jazz at the Bolt on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 11:45 am PT, at the Shadbolt Centre For The Arts in Burnaby. | | |  | Feven Kidane in the NXNW studio | | | | | | | The 2025 LUMEN Festival | | | Created as a means of brightening the dark winter days, Early Music Vancouver returns with the 2025 LUMEN Festival, a weekend of concerts running Feb. 14-16. Early Music Vancouver artistic director and singer Suzie Leblanc stops by to chat about the classical and choral talent coming to the show.
Here's some of the pieces we'll hear: - Northern Lights composed by Ola Gjeilo, performed by Voces8
- Te Lucis Ante Terminum, Festval composed by Thomas Tallism, performed by Voces8
- Ich binin mir vernugt, Cantata BMV 204: No 8 "Himmlische Venrugsamkeit" composed y J.S. Bach, performed by Dorothee Mields
- Airs sérieux et à boire, Livre II: Pourquoy doux rossignol, composed by Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, performed by Perrine Devillers
| | |  | Suzie Leblanc, artistic director for Early Music Vancouver | | | | | | | February Chocolate - YI SHI Cacao Collective | | | In this week's edition of our February Chocolate series, we're joined by baker Olivia Wu - the founder of YI SHI Cacao Collective.
Translating to "joyful room" from Taiwanese, YI SHI is Olivia's new endeavour, which curates bean-to-bar chocolate tasting experiences that celebrate the stories and origins of cacao.
Olivia brought us a number of samples to try, which we've listed for you below.
The NXNW Chocolate Tastings with YI SHI Cacao Collective: - YI SHI Cacao Collective, Changzhi Pingtaung Taiwan June 2024 Harvest , 70% cacao (created in collaboration with Kasama)
- Black Jaguar Chocolate, La Dalia Nicaragua, Heirloom Preservation, 77% cacao
- Kasama Chocoloate, Tupi, South Cotabatu Phillipines, 75% cacao
- Kasama Chocolate, Year of the Snake bar (white chocolate with B.C. giant kelp, blue spirulina, ceremonial matcha from Yame Fukuoka Japan and candied pomelo by YI SHI Cacao Collective)
- Cocoaro Craft Chocolate, haskap berry and yuzu bonbon
| | |  | | Olivia Wu with some of the chocolate samples | | |  | | | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, Ruby Smith Diaz joined us to discuss her new book Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim 'Joe' Fortes, which paints a nuanced picture of the famed lifeguard from a contemporary Black perspective.
You can read more about Serafim 'Joe' Fortes on CBC, or stream this interview via CBC Listen. | | | | | Thanks for listening! | Have comments or suggestions you'd like to share? Email us!
The NXNW Team | | | | | |
