lark.clark@ckua.com
Lark Clark has been
the host and producer of a number of programs on the CKUA Radio Network:
Radio Mondo, Tin Roof Radio, Showers of Blessings, Sonidos Latinos, and
now, World Spinning.
Lark's interest in world music began in grade 7 when Nigerian drumming
patriarch Babatunde Olatunji performed at a school assembly. She spent
her high school years attempting to get on the cheerleading squad and
trying to figure out how African music became the blues.
Lark has been travelling since she hit the road at age 17. Years spent
in hippie communes (Mendocino, Powell River, Staten Island) and living
in the bush (Haida Gwaii) yielded to re-entry into the world via Grant
MacEwan College in Edmonton. Graduation from the Music Theatre department
led to a career in Industrial Acting (pizza commercials, how to change
hospital bedsheets and other dazzling roles; she is still recognized as
The Busdriver and The Battered Woman.)
After a singing stint with Pro Coro, Lark was struck by a bolt of harmonic
lightening and founded the a cappella group Juba!, which sang southern
African traditional music and freedom songs. Juba! performed at theatres
and festivals across Canada, and sang in churches and schools in Zimbabwe.
Succumbing again to travel fever (it lodges in the blood like malaria),
Lark left her steady gig at The Home (CKUA) and spent the last year travelling
to New York, Cuba, South Africa, and the remoter parts of B.C.
A world music show just seemed like a natural.
Join her Sundays at 4 pm for World Spinning.
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