Garvia Bailey via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Garvia Bailey
- City: Toronto
- Country: Canada
- Hometown: Rural Jamaica
My Life & Work
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Bio:
I believe in the power of stories, and my passion has always been in helping others share theirs.
I am a co-founder of the Jazzcast.ca, a scrappy, smart, community driven platform for jazz enthusiasts and those who like to dig into the stories of the colourful musicians who inhabit that world.
Before founding jazzcast I was host of Good Morning, Toronto on JazzFM.91. Prior to that, I spent 10 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an arts journalist/producer, and broadcaster.
My career in media began when I was hired as a producer and writer for a groundbreaking startup media company called Channel Zero, making independent documentaries from around the world. While with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I served as the host of a variety of radio programs, including Big City Small World and Canada Live, as a columnist for Metro Morning and as a contributor at cbcmusic.ca, CBC Television, as well as a producer on the documentary programs Global Village and Outfront.
As a freelancer I have contributed to Out In the Open and Tapestry, Sunday Edition among others. I have been tapped as a commentator on CBC’s flagship news program, The National.
Throughout my career in broadcasting I have turned the spotlight on emerging talent from across the GTA and I have also interviewed many celebrated international artists including cultural pundit Roxane Gay, author Lawrence Hill, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, director John Singleton, actor Chris Tucker, jazz icon Tony Bennett, among many others. I am a regular host/moderator for the Toronto Public Library, Hot Docs, TOLive and others. I pride myself on bringing wit, warmth and curiosity to my interviews, qualities that set me apart as an interviewer, broadcaster and onstage host.
I’m pleased to have recently joined the jury pool for the prestigious Canadian Hillman Prize, honouring the best in investigative journalism.
I’m currently working on my own major photo/storytelling exhibit with photographer Justin Morris, an upcoming book-focused podcast with the Toronto Public Library and will curate a Curious Minds Series for Hot Docs for the summer of 2020. I continue to work on various projects with the award winning multi-media production company Pop Sandbox as a writer and producer.
Did I mention that I’m a co-founder and host/producer of jazzcast.ca. It's worth mentioning twice.
Contact Information
- Email: garvia@garviabailey.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: garveyschild
- ▶ Website: http://www.garviabailey.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://jazzcast.ca
- ▶ Article: http://nowtoronto.com/music/jazzcast/
Clips (more may be added)
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
