Toy Heart with Tom Power

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Toy Heart with Tom Power
Host Tom Power
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An in-depth interview podcast about bluegrass, from CBC radio host Tom Power and The Bluegrass Situation.[unverified]

Produced with The Bluegrass Situation. Episodes tend to be long-form conversations with a single guest, which is why the patterns below can be as simple as "the title is the guest's name".[unverified]

Latest Episodes

Billy Strings
Billy Strings sits down with Tom Power for a special live episode of Toy Heart recorded at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee,...
2026-08-24 04:00:45
Alison Krauss
We could hardly think of a better guest with whom we’d conclude our second season of Toy Heart than 27-time Grammy Award winner, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alisonkrauss/?hl=en" rel="nofol...
2024-04-23 04:00:00
Jody Stecher
For the latest episode of Toy Heart, we embark on a journey through the primordial, musical ooze that birthed bluegrass, old-time, and country music with the incredible Jody Stecher. A multi-instru...
2024-04-09 04:00:00
Tim O'Brien
Our latest guest on Toy Heart is bluegrasser, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter <a href="https://timobrien.net/" rel="nofollow">Tim O’Brien</a>. His conversation with host Tom Power begins by...
2024-03-26 04:00:00
Laurie Lewis
In the latest episode of Toy Heart, we explore the roots and evolution of bluegrass in the modern era by examining the story of legendary bluegrasser, singer-songwriter, and recording artist, Lauri...
2024-03-12 04:00:00

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Guest name patterns

These are used by the Bluegrass Podcast Firehose to pull guest names out of episode titles. They are tried in order and the first match wins, so the specific ones belong above the general ones.[unverified]

  • A line starting with skip: marks episodes that have no guest.[unverified]
  • A line starting with # is a comment.[unverified]
  • Anything else is a Python regular expression with a named group (?P<guest>...) around the part to capture.[unverified]

Edit these freely. A pattern that does not compile is skipped and logged rather than breaking the feed.[unverified]

# Season announcements and previews carry no guest. "Seaon" is a typo in the
# feed itself, not here.
skip: ^(?:Season|Seaon) \d+
skip: ^Preview[ ]
^The Bluegrass Breakdown Podcast [-–] (?P<guest>[A-Z].+?)\s*[-–].*$
^Remembering .+[-–]\s*Episode \d+\s*\((?P<guest>.+)\)$
^(?P<guest>[A-Z][\w'À-ÿ]+(?: [A-Z][\w'À-ÿ]+)+)(?:\s+in Conversation.*)?$
^(?P<guest>[A-Z][\w'À-ÿ]+(?:\s+[A-Z][\w'À-ÿ]+)*)$

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