The Once Vinyl Cafe

Numerous other stories have been written and read out loud on the radio show but are not current.

The once vinyl cafe.

Featuring canada s favourite storyteller the late stuart mclean the vinyl cafe is a blend of stories essays and music recorded at live concerts across canada. The following is a list of stories written by stuart mclean featuring his popular fictional characters dave and morley from the radio program the vinyl cafe. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Over the holidays it was a.

The program is also available as a podcast although the podcasts are usually just mclean s stories for studio episodes because of copyright restrictions on recorded music. The vinyl cafe stories are about dave owner of. Mclean s hilarious stories are. First read on air in 1994 many of the stories were eventually compiled in book form followed by audio recording compilations from the program.

Public radio stations through public radio international. During a series of concerts mclean collected stories about real people in the real places they lived mostly focused around mclean s fictional character dave owner of a second hand record store called the vinyl cafe. Vinyl cafe toronto on. Vinyl records once defined nearly all social life and extended to jukeboxes in every restaurant and cafe.

That choice of music reflected taste growth and personality. Note that this list features only the stories that have been published in book form and on audio. It aired on sunday at noon est and tuesday at 11 00 pm est on cbc radio one and saturday at 9 am est on cbc radio 2.