Weekend AM

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 

Shawn Basha of Brigus Productions takes us on a tour of the province's newest live music venue, the JAG Soundhouse. 

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin takes in a rec hockey game in Glovertown, where the star on the ice is 80-year-old Donald Sparkes. 

Heather and Melissa discuss the latest on the controversies surrounding two big music events scheduled for St. John's - The ECMA week in May and the NL Folk Festival in July. 

Masud Rahman and Fuaz Khan are the hosts and producers of OneStream Suffah, a new podcast produced at Memorial University about Muslim life 

Joe Fitzgerald, Memorial University physicist and curler, explains the physics behind curling.

Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, speaks to Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin.

Julie Vogt, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society, explains why the group is asking for donations to help make the annual folk festival happen in 2025.

Actor and comedian Shaun Majumder explains why he and his family have moved from Los Angeles in the United States and are coming back to live in Atlantic Canada. 

Sa'adatu Usman, founder of Global Citizens, Inc. and Abrar Al Shafi of Memorial University's Muslim Students' Association tell us about their Ramadan intentions. 

MusicNL's Executive Director, Tamara Kater, tells us how NL musicians are diversifying into markets other than the United States 

A group of musicians in Twillingate is recording an RPM Challenge album called Twillingreat

Memorial University medical student Karim Elnaas describes how his experience with cancer treatment and his passion for art are helping him with his medical studies 

 Los Angeles based music producer Greg Wells talks to Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin about why, after losing his L.A. home and studio in the January fires, he feels compelled to return to Winterton

Visual artist Les Sasaki creates portraits out of tape for his exhibit, Invisible, at Gallery 59 in the Gander Airport International Lounge 

Local cover band Record Club is about to fill the St. John's Convention Centre with fans of 1980s dance floor classics

German long sword fighting instructor Edmund Quigley shows us the basics

Melissa talks to Richard Butt of the Western NL Food Hub, Phillip Thornley of Campbellton Berry Farm, and Laurie LeGrow of Some Good Market about efforts to get more consumers to buy local 

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin hung some damp sheets out on a clothesline with Memorial University physicist Joe Fitzgerald 

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin drops by a rehearsal of Oderin, a stage performance interpreting the poetry of Agnes Walsh through dance