One of Canada's most beloved storytellers and best-selling authors, Stuart McLean, will bring the stage version of his hit CBC radio show The Vinyl Café to Swift Current on Feb. 27.
The show is part of The Vinyl Café's Winter Tour 2012, featuring special guest Harry Manx and presented by the Swift Current Allied Arts Council.
The Vinyl Café premiered in 1994, and each week over one million listeners tune in to hear stories about Dave, owner of the second hand record store where the motto is: “We May Not Be Big, But We're Small”. The show also features live and recorded music by both new and established Canadian musicians.
Since 1998 Stuart has taken The Vinyl Cafe to theatres across Canada, playing in both large and small towns from St. John's, Newfoundland to Whitehorse in the Yukon.
Vinyl Cafe Notebooks is Stuart McLean’s ninth book and each one has been a best seller. Stuart has sold over one million books in Canada.
Home from the Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged and Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe have all received the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. The Vinyl Cafe Diaries (2003) was chosen as the best short story collection of the year by the Canadian Author's Association.
Stuart has also just released his tenth collection of Vinyl Cafe stories on compact disc. For the first time this new album, Vinyl Cafe Family Pack, is a four-disk package that chronicles the lives of Dave, his wife Morley, their kids and the family pets.
One of Stuart’s albums, Coast to Coast Story Service, has gone gold in Canada.
Close to one million people listen to The Vinyl Cafe every weekend on CBC Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio and on a growing number of Public Radio stations in the United States. The program is also broadcast on an occasional basis on the BBC.
Swift Current and Lloydminster are McLean’s only two stops in Saskatchewan on this tour, and tickets are expected to sell out quickly. Tickets are available at the Living Sky Casino Box Office at www.livingskycasino.ca/boxoffice or by calling 778-5759.
