DAVID FRANCEY WINS SOCAN FOLK MUSIC AWARD!
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
47 RECORDS PRESENTS FEELS REAL STRONG BY THE GARY KENDALL BAND
Gary Kendall is available for interviews in person or by phone at your convenience.
Contact info: gken@look.ca
Website: www.garykendall.com
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Friday, November 28, 2008
SAVE DAWG FM (SPECIAL BULLETIN)
Canada’s first ALL BLUES radio station is in Jeopardy!! We need your Help!
On November 21 the Conservative Cabinet sent our licence back to the CRTC for reconsideration and hearing. The Government decided that the decision "derogated" from the Broadcast Act. The decision was appealed by a group that was applying for a French-language community station at the same hearing. The CRTC decided that our application was more in the public's best interest than was their application. Now the government has stepped in.
DEROGATE!!!!!
We only committed to exposing hundreds of Canadian Blues Artists that get airplay in the U.S. but not in Canada. We committed to give 3 quarters of a million dollars to Canadian Content Development, including creating a Blues music series at Canadian Music Week, supporting the Ottawa Blues Society and the Blues in Schools programs that give kids that can't afford instruments a chance to play music. Not to mention we were going to employ 20 people in Ottawa and spend over 1 million dollars in our first year of operations in the local economy.
We committed to play 40% Canadian content, 5% more than any other [commercial] station in Ottawa currently plays. But it's easy to target the only stand alone independent radio station in Ottawa.
So we need your help. We need your support, we need the support of your friends and anyone else that loves Blues music and justice.
1. Send us your email support via Facebook;
2. Send the Minister of Heritage and Official Languages a letter supporting our licence - his email is Moore.J@parl.gc.ca;
3. Send the same letter to the CRTC under "complaints" http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/Register.asp?lang=E.
4. Send the same letter to the Minister for Industry - Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca.
5. Send us the same letter via Facebook.
6. Send it to your local politicians or anyone that will listen.
7. Get all of your friends to join this group.
Thanks for all of your support; together we can come through this.....keep the faith.
Ed Torres
General Manager
SkyWords Radio
Canada's Source for Radio Content
95 Royal Crest Court Unit 5
Markham, ON L3R 9X5
Tel: 905-470-7655 ext. 120
Fax: 905-470-1655
etorres@skywords.com
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
"IRON MAIDENS" SEEKING HELP FOR CKCU 93.1 FM FUNDING DRIVE
Ottawa campus/community/internet radio station CKCU 93.1 FM's "Iron Maidens" is a program giving exposure to (for the most part, unknown) female musicians and/or composers from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and around the world. It airs on Wednesdays, from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. EST. Week 2 of "Iron Maidens" funding drive is on Wed., Nov. 5.
I would greatly appreciate any support you can provide in the form of a financial donation, big or small. Donations can be pledged at any time, 24/7, and payment can be in the form of a cheque, for which you will be issued an invoice (and, upon payment, a tax receipt for donations over $35).
Donations can also be paid for in cash (by dropping it off at the radio station at Carleton University) or by credit card. You can make a donation pledge by calling the station at 613-520-3920 or toll-free at 1-877-520-3920 or filling out an online pledge form at www.ckcufm.com.
You can also pledge your support by sending an email to ddrocker@yahoo.com, stating your name, mailing address, the amount of your pledge, and method of payment. An invoice will be mailed to you from CKCU 93.1 FM.
Apart from four or five paid administrative and technical staff, the station, which launched its initial open-circuit broadcast on November 14, 1975, with Joni Mitchell's "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio", is run totally by volunteer (over 200 in total) show producers/hosts and other assistants, and receives bare-bones funding towards operating costs. Remaining expenditures are solicited once a year from the general listening public and supporting members of the local and global music community.
"Iron Maidens" was launched in September 2007 and is one of the newer programs on the station. The format includes all genres of music (folk, blues, rock, funk, reggae, classical, world music, etc.), regardless of geographic or linguistic origin. The only restriction for this particular program is that the composers/recording artists be women (with the exception of musical groups comprised of both women and men).
If you have received promotion or publicity for your music or other artistic endeavours (on-air and/or through my websites/blog) over the last eight years or so from current "Iron Maidens" and former "Patchwork Blues" producer-host D.D. Rocker (a.k.a. Misty Blue and Red Queen 17), your reciprocal support would be greatly appreciated at this time.
Of course, any one else who is interested in supporting my volunteer ventures in promoting music and art, in general, is also welcome to do so.
Check out the other great shows on CKCU 93.1 FM, as well - there is something for everyone!
Yours truly,
D.M. Wells
"Rockin' the Blues from Canada - www.geocities.com/irocktheblues
Nov. 2/08
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EPILEPY OTTAWA - PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING - MONDAY, NOV. 3
Topic: Epilepsy and Non-Pharmacological Treatments
Speaker: Dr. Erick Sell, MD and Neurologist at CHEO
Date: Monday, 3 November 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Avenue, Room 221
Topic: Epilepsy and Non-Pharmacological Treatments
Speaker: Dr. Erick Sell, MD and Neurologist at CHEO
Date: Monday, 3 November 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Avenue, Room 221
(Room number subject to change, so please check notice board
in main foyer when you come in)
'Hope you are able to attend.
For more information, contact the Epilepsy Ottawa-Carleton office at 613-594-9255.
Epilepsy Ottawa-Carleton is a local non-profit organization providing support and information meetings for people with epilepsy, their families, friends and the general public.
'Hope you are able to attend.
For more information, contact the Epilepsy Ottawa-Carleton office at 613-594-9255.
Epilepsy Ottawa-Carleton is a local non-profit organization providing support and information meetings for people with epilepsy, their families, friends and the general public.
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