Candi is the Mrs. Carlson of IndieTalent.ca, the owner and the GM.

Candi McNeil was born in the UK and emigrated to Australia with her parents at a young age. She was always interested in singing and bands and when she came to Canada she learned to play the bass and joined many groups and travelled round Western Canada.

First in Calgary and then Victoria and then Toronto. Candi has always played country and pop style and enjoys it all.
She joined the band Denam and Lace in 1991 and had tremendous fun and met many beautiful people, but in 1995 decided to give music a break and try something new. During that time off she played flute in community bands and sang with some 40 era type swing bands.

And also during that time, she and husband Jim started Canclone Services, a CD replication company (CD replication and more). In 2006, Candi decided that it would be a great idea to have an internet broadcast station so she could play the music of the artists whose CD's Canclone replicated. Candi is now the owner and General Manager of IndieTalent.ca

About Casper and Sabrina
Ron Tuttle a.k.a Casper and Sabrina Tilochand- Tuttle, owners of RST Entertainment which includes a record label Unlimitedsounds Records and a recording studio USR Studios.

Ron Tuttle a.k.a Casper has been in the music industry for over 10 years. He’s a accomplished recording artist, songwriter and producer. He has won Album of the year at the Toronto International Reggae Music Awards for his hit album  "WHEN U WHINE IT".

Sabrina Tilochand- Tuttle is the promoter for Unlimitedsounds Records and personal
publicist for Casper forthe past 4 years.

For more information,  you can check out www.myspace.com/reggaecasper and www.myspace.com/unlimitedsounds06

NOTE: We are sorry to let you know that our Chaz is unable to continue with Naked Truth due to being overcommitted and his personal life is suffering.
We appreciate the time Chaz gave us and hope that one day he will come back.
The Chazonator
Chaz,  Chazonator, is a very special guest host all the way from Illinois.  He brings his own brand of hellfire to the programs. You can hear Chaz on The Naked Truth - World News in Review

Born Carl Shepherd, Nov 25/68, in Winchester, Kentucky.  Artist name is Chaz (AKA Chazonator).  Chaz attended the Academy of Performing and Visual Arts in Chicago where he learned to sing.  Chaz taught himself how to produce electronica style music using Sony's multitracking software, Acid.

Chaz has been heard on radio World wide. He was a local radio host in Lake County, Il, where he was such a hit that he rapidly gained over 10,000 Myspace friends.

In addition to his talents as a musician and radio show host, Chaz is also a video producer. His YouTube videos have been see over 140,000 times.

Chaz was featured on CNN Headline News and on QNation.fm to a world wide audience.

You can visit Chazs' web page at CHAZONATOR or his MySpace page here



Clay Phillips - and the gang from Toronto Experimental Artists -TEA South

About Clay and TEA

TEA(Toronto Experimental Artists) Canada is a venture created by Clay Phillips and Mark Harrington and is geared towards the discovery and recognition of emerging and developing songwriting and performing talent. We are a small independent venture without any outrageous promotional costs, and we like to consider ourselves an artist friendly service, that supplies cost effective resources for the independent artist.

You can learn more about TEA at this link to their Website: http://www.teasouth.com/main.php

Clay along with various other members of TEA will be hosting TEA south programs in the future, which is why we called it TEA the Next Generation.....


Ashwyn Smyth

This is another "Their loss - our gain" story.  Ashwyn was hosting a blues show in the UK and he was let go - because he DARED to voice an opinion that ran counter to management's view (Fancy that?).

Of course, as soon as we found out, we invited Ashwyn to run his show from IndieTalent, and that's what he's going to do.  His show "Digital Blues" will air once a month, and we expect to launch this in the near future, actually as soon as Ashwyn sends us a show!

"I’m Ashwyn Smyth and I am delighted to be presenting Digital Blues here on IndieTalent.ca.
It was in my teens that I developed a love for many genres of music and at boarding school sang in small and large choirs (appearing on television several times), fronting a pop group with school mates and taking the lead female role in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance at age 13 – I am told that I made a very pretty girl!!!

It was during this time that I first discovered the Blues, and unearthed, thanks to the likes of the Rolling Stones and others, the great heritage of music that there was with artists like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and Snooks Eaglin (who sadly died recently) to name but a few.

In the late 60s and early 70s I ran a very successful mobile disco but the need to pay bills, I married for the first time in 1976, forced me into a ‘respectable’ career working in the City of London as an insurance broker, something which I continued to do until retiring in June 2008 by which time I had become a director with one of the top ten UK insurance brokers..

I continued to enjoy a wide range of music and was involved with a couple of small choirs as well as doing the occasional disco for friends. In 1988 I joined Orsett Hospital Radio in Essex as a presenter and after a couple of years, I became the station’s PR officer as well as presenting two shows per week, one featuring classical music and one general requests from the patients and staff.

In the mid 90’s I joined MayflowerFM,  a community radio group based in Billericay, Essex and became their press officer as well as presenting various shows including a speech based magazine show, a rock programme and various others.

I subsequently joined  another community radio group based in Brentwood, Essex (which shall remain nameless) and after presenting various shows for them, in 2001 when the station started a full time internet service, I created Digital Blues, a programme that featured ‘blues ancient and modern’ and specialised in featuring music from local bands and artists, mining the deep vein of the Thames Delta Blues that was championed by the likes of Dr Feelgood, Howling Wilf (now better known as James Hunter!) and Mickey Jupp.

To promote Digital Blues and raise awareness of the radio shows, I started an e-mail newsletter which included details of local gigs and band news and, in a natural progression, set up the Digital Blues website (www.digitalblues.co.uk) which has become a very popular blues resource and includes the most detailed guide to blues gigs in and around Essex.

Working with drummer Mike Hellier of the Cornwall based Movinmusic agency, we also created the Movinmusic Digital Blues Gig Guide which is probably the biggest UK blues gig guide on the internet.

Until June 2008, I was also the compere each week at the New Crawdaddy Blues Club, one of the most respected blues venues in the UK and had the honour of introducing many top UK and international artists. In association with the New Crawdaddy Blues Club, I promoted a number of one & two day blues festivals which raised thousands of pounds for charity. I was also involved in promoting various gigs, particularly at the historic and renowned Pam’s Bar, now the Seaxe Bar, at the Essex Arms in Brentwood.

Sadly, my involvement with (------------) came to a sudden end in June 2007 when, without notice, I was sacked by e-mail and the show was immediately removed from the schedule, all because I dared to hold and express an opinion that did not concur with that of the station’s MD! Freedom of the Press huh!

However, the Digital Blues website has continued to thrive and I continue to be a contributor to Blues Matters!, the UK’s biggest specialist Blues magazine and recipient of the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award (Print Media) in 2007, writing reviews and conducting interviews as well as recording promotional shows for Blues Matters! online radio (www.bluesmatters.com) showcasing Blues Matters! recording artists. I also contribute, occasionally, to Blues in Britain, another top UK specialist magazine.

Upon retiring from the day job, Patricia, my wife, and I moved to rural France where we are now living in an old farm which we have been and continue to refurbish and renovate in the lush green countryside that is the Haute Vienne area of the Limousin.

We have a sheep, Benji, who helps keep the grass down and hope later this year to get him a mate! A puppy has also just arrived – thank goodness for tiled floors! - and we are also hoping to add some chickens and ducks in due course!

We also help a friend who is a sheep farmer and the first part of 2009 has seen us deep in mud &/or snow rescuing lambs abandoned by their mothers and bottle feeding them. You cannot say life is not varied!! You can read more about this new life at www.lamaisondubluesnumerique.com.

The Digital Blues shows on IndieTalent.ca will feature tracks from the best of the excellent UK Blues scene as well as fine artists from around the world. Digital Blues is proud to have given many bands and artists their first radio airing world-wide and regularly receives CDs from around Europe, Canada, the US, South America, Scandinavia and Australia. Over the years we have also been proud to feature world exclusive first airings of tracks from new CDs.

I look forward to your company on Digital Blues, the first show will be up and running just as soon as I can pull it all together and obtain the necessary releases!

A bientot! "