Jowi Taylor

Jowi Taylor is a radio broadcaster for CBC Radio, Canada's national public broadcaster.

For over 10 years, Taylor was the host of "Global Village", which broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2 and Radio Canada International. He was also the host and co-producer of an eight-part series called "The Wire", on CBC Radio, NPR and other services, which won a Peabody Award in 2006.

One of Taylor's most unusual and note-worthy accomplishments was to create a "Six-String Nation Guitar". Just before the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, he got the idea of building the guitar as a symbol of national unity.

Luthier George Rizsanyi built the guitar in his workshop near Pinehurst, Nova Scotia with Taylor over a period of 10 years, using 64 pieces of bone, metal and wood.

Much of the front piece came from the Golden Spruce, a 300-year-old tree revered by the Haida Gwaii of British Columbia. Other parts include gold from Maurice Richard's Stanley Cup ring and a piece of the oldest rock in the world, found near Great Bear Lake.

Another project was to host and produce for "Ideas" a segment called "Invisible Cities: Toronto", along with Chris Brookes (producer) and Paolo Pietropaolo (producer). They called it a "sonic composition celebrating the layers of the city of Toronto".

In July 2007, Taylor began to sit in for Danielle Charbonneau on the Radio 2 program "Nightstream". At that time, he had been in charge of the CBC Radio 2 blog, which he had been writing since February 2007, and before handing it over, he wrote an impassioned final blog entry.

Upon Charbonneau's retirement from the CBC in August, Taylor became the host of "Nightstream".

External links

* http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2007/03/22/allow_myself_to_introduce_myse.html#comments
* http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2007/07/09/final_thoughts_from_the_grove.html
* http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/06/30/guitar-canada.html
* http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/03/29/mb_6-string-nation-20060329.html
* http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/07winter/alumninotes.asp
* http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060629/canadian_guitar_060629/20060629?hub=Canada
* http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/04/05/peabody-winners.html
* http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/invisible-cities/