Weekend AM

Nelly and her human, Lisa Roy, tell Weekend AM's Maddie Ryan about how Nelly has become a sensation on TikTok and YouTube

Musician Brad Jefford has been crunching the numbers and starting a conversation about the wages for musicians who play in the bars and pubs around Newfoundland and Labrador

Weekend AM's Amy Feehan tries out a summer biathlon session at the Blow Me Down Biathlon Club in Corner Brook

Craig Morrissey of the Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and David Allen Lambert, the Chief Genealogist at American Ancestors, talk about this weekend's Rockbound Roots Conference on Genealogy.

Indigenous comedian Don Burnstick tells us about his upcoming performance at Miawpukek First Nation.

We check in on the goldfish which have become an invasive species in Massey Drive's Link Pond

Weekend AM's Amy Feehan tells us about a new video game that incorporates a Newfoundland character and a Newfoundland voice actor

In 2012, Anita and Brad Squires wrote a message, put it in a bottle, and threw it into the ocean off Bell Island. Now, in 2025, that bottle has been found and opened in Ireland by Kate Gay and Martha Farrell

Musician Larry Foley has acquired the guitar that was once owned by Dick Nolan, best known for his song Aunt Martha's Sheep

Longtime 2SLGBTQ+ activist Susan Rose remembers the first Pride week gatherings on Middle Cove Beach in the early 1980s

Flanker Press publisher Jerry Cranford on his memories of Earl Pilgrim

Textile artist Daniel Rumbolt explores queer rural life in his new exhibit at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Gallery

Runner and walker Mike Kavanaugh of Mount Pearl remembers his 40 Tely 10 road races, from his top 10 finish, to his last place finish

CBC Reporter Maddie Ryan brings us a roundup of the major film and television production projects happening in Newfoundland and Labrador this summer

Kelly Young and Heidi Dixon of First Light demonstrate the Indigenous practice of Deep Listening

Stan Hill Jr. and Kenneth J. Harvey talk about their new documentary film, The Bear Inside a Whale

St. John's area punk bands are embracing their DIY roots and crafting their own physical show posters, in addition to advertising shows on social media

Duli Hua has planted more than a thousand tulips in front of her family's business, Grand Rodeo Restaurant, in Grand Falls-Windsor

Jerome and Holly McGrath document their excursions around the bay on their own YouTube Channel

Kids in the Hall member Kevin McDonald talks about his solo career in comedy and why it's only now he's coming to Newfoundland.

Glass artist Rod Taylor takes us through the process of fixing a broken stained glass window at the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Gander.

Musician Dave White has played stages big and small over his 20 year career. He talks about the mental strain the job can have and how he's learned to stay healthy. 

Newfoundlander Veronica Sullivan says she works to hike. She tells WAM's Gavin Simms about a recent thousand-mile solo hike in the untouched wilderness of Utah and Arizona

Audiologist Ian Verge talks about the importance of hearing health and how to protect your ears from overuse.

Melissa Tobin tells us how a smashed up microphone from a highway in Newfoundland and Labrador wound up in the Shure company archives

Sarah Harris and Michelle LaCour of Lawnya Vawnya demonstrate what will happen during International Drone Day in St. John's 

Maria Lesic, Iryna Pegasina, Olena Antymiychuk, and Olena Horbatenko bring their traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts into the Weekend AM studio

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin visits a session of Eastern Radio Controlled Racing

Fogo Island blacksmith Marc Fiset sets up his workshop at the Central MinEx Conference in Gander

Charlie Wall-Andrews, originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, talks about her work supporting emerging Canadian musicians and music industry professionals 

Jamie Fitzpatrick interviewed Snowden Walters about his comic strip, Sculpin Tickle.

Local forager Shawn Dawson shows the CBC's Gavin Simms how to make maple syrup

35 songs to mark 35 years. A new boxed set from the iconic Newfoundland and Labrador band.

His time at the CBC made him a media celebrity. Now, Karl Wells tells his story in a new memoir.

Weekend AM goes to an early reading of Mike Heffernan's stage work in progress about a 1981 murder and its investigation

Stephane Alexis tells us about his photography exhibit at Eastern Edge Gallery which documents the meanings behind various Afro-Caribbean hair styles. 

Cast On Cast Off is releasing a digital knitting book, Wartime Knits - In Support of the Juno Beach Centre.

We hear from the writers celebrated at the 2024 BMO Winterset Award presentation at Government House in St. John's. 

Maria Halfyard, the founder of Mernini, explains how she is adapting her export plan for Mernini raincoats to weather out international trade disputes.

NL Health Services and artists give us a tour of the artworks placed at the new Mental Health and Addictions Centre in St. John's 

Percussionist Zaynab Wilson tells us how her love of music and travel led her to this province, and how living in St. John's has broadened her musical horizons

Cancer survivor Paige Sargent is pursuing her dream of becoming an opera singer