Jessica Kirson + Michael Barclay + Raeann Brown

This week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet comedian Jessica Kirson. We talk about how her grandmother influenced her to follow her dreams and how she cultivated her talent. Keep up with Jessica check out her website jessicakirson.com and check out her entertaining podcast, “Relatively Sane Podcast,” which is available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Then author Michael Barclay stops by. His book “Hearts on Fire” is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s. In the conversation we talk about how the fiercely independent Canadian spirit of the early 2000s plus musicians and bands like, Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Feist, Tegan and Sara and Alexisonfire, who embraced, what Barclay calls their weirdness to great success. If you love music, you’ll want to hear this interview. Then we’ll meet Raeann Brown who joined me from Wabush, Newfoundland to talk about her new book “Bedtime in Nunatsiavut,” which is described as an “Indigenous fairytale of dreams."