The Once Vinyl Cafe

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.

The once vinyl cafe.

Mclean s hilarious stories are. 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. Numerous other stories have been written and read out loud on the radio show but are not current. Note that this list features only the stories that have been published in book form and on audio.

The vinyl cafe was a radio show written and hosted by stuart mclean. From 1994 to 2016 the vinyl cafe took listeners along for the ride across canada and the u s with writer and host stuart mclean. Vinyl cafe toronto on. That choice of music reflected taste growth and personality.

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. Over the holidays it was a. 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.

Vinyl records once defined nearly all social life and extended to jukeboxes in every restaurant and cafe. The vinyl cafe stories are about dave owner of. The vinyl cafe was an hour long radio variety show hosted by stuart mclean that was broadcast on cbc radio and was syndicated to approximately 80 u s.