Dave White

Dave White is the host of Airplay, CBC Yukon's afternoon radio show. He's lived in the Yukon since 1989, more or less.

Latest from Dave White

Yukon researchers bring Indigenous history home from museums in Ottawa and the Vatican

Indigenous people are tracking the thousands of cultural items that have been taken from them over the years and are working to bring them home.

Being in all-woman band changed their life, says Yukon rocker

Long time Yukon musician Drea Naysayer said being in an all-woman band for the first time has changed their life.

Yukon theatre hopes national playwright search picks up Northern and Indigenous talent

A new consortium of 10 Canadian theatre companies have created the country's first national queer and trans playwriting unit and Whitehorse-based Gwaandak Theatre says bringing in Indigenous talent from the North is highly important.

Songwriting challenge produces flood of new tunes from Yukoners

Several Yukon songwriters created new music, and made new connections, through the Bell Songwriting Challenge.

Yukon musicians developing their own guitar fuzz pedal

Whitehorse musicians Patrick Hamilton and Dawson Beaulieu are building their own fuzz guitar pedal.
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Music for the armchair traveller

Dawson City's Maria Sol Suarez Martinez shares five songs she loves, even though she doesn't really know what most of the lyrics mean.
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Digging those cross border blues

Jim Robb shares some of the songs he remembers tuning in to late at night growing up in Montreal.

Yukoners tackle systemic racism in the territory and discuss how to address it

We put together a panel of three people to discuss ways systemic racism could be addressed in Yukon.

Bringing back the music of 'true artist' Aylie Sparkes

Friends and supporters of the late Yukon musician Aylie Sparkes have re-released his long-unavailable record 'Beautiful and Deranged,' 15 years after his death.
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From folk to rock and back again with Lana Welchman

Yukon musician Lana Welchman shares the five songs that chart her own musical journey to a reluctant folkie.