The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra bids adieu to their long-standing conductor with a special concert Saturday night (May 10th) The music director and principal conductor drops by the On The Go studio to talk about his time on the podium in St. John's. (Krissy Holmes with Marc David)
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13:09
Pope Leo the 14th's NL connection
Pope Leo the 14th is from the United States... but he also has connections that will hit much closer to home for people in this province. The chair of the Basilica Heritage Foundation joins us in the On The go studio to talk about that... and what his first homily today says about where he plans to take the church tomorrow. (Krissy Holmes with Anne Walsh)
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12:44
New premier and new faces in cabinet
The province has a new premier... and there's some musical chairs in cabinet. We hear all about the swearing-in ceremony, and get some analysis of John Hogan's choices for his first cabinet. (Krissy Holmes with the CBC's Peter Cowan)
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16:50
Disaster Chef Challenge
Bring on the canned, packaged and dried food. We hear why participants in a chefs' challenge at MUN today were allowed to use only non-perishable food to create their culinary delights as part of Emergency Preparedness Week. We hear more from Memorial University’s manager of emergency planning... and the winner of the unique chef challenge. (Krissy Holmes with Holly Tobin and Melissa MacLean)
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10:01
ECMA weeek: Measha Brueggergosman-Lee
Musicians are flooding into St. John's for the ECMA's... including an opera singer and concert artist who was singing at the Lincoln Centre in New York a couple of nights ago. Now, the multi-talented, multi-nominated singer is getting ready to sing for local audiences. (Krissy Holmes with Measha Brueggergosman-Lee)
CBC Radio's On The Go has now been on the air for 50 years, bringing Newfoundlanders and Labradorians stories from every nook, cranny and cove in the province.
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