CKUA Presents: First Fridays
CKUA’s new initiative First Fridays has been a huge success so far and continues to grow.
We are eagerly looking forward to April 3rd, when CKUA heads to the legendary Last Chance Saloon in Wayne. Andy Donnelly will get things started with the Celtic Show, live from 6 until 8 PM. Then at 8 PM, Lionel Rault hosts alt-country rockers Dave McCann and the Ten Toed Frogs as they perform an hour-long live concert broadcast. The group is comprised of some of the best musicians in the business and their sound has been described as a feast of electric, acoustic and slide guitar, mandolin, dobro and pedal steel.
Everyone is welcome to attend, but space is tight and seating is on a first come, first served basis, so make sure to get there early!
This event helps kick-off the East Coulee Spring Festival which runs the next day, Saturday, April 4th. The annual festival is a benefit for the East Coulee School Museum and offers a wide range of live music by many talented artists playing everything from folk, jazz, blues and more.
To help keep up your energy for all that great music, Lionel, Andy and the rest of the CKUA crew will be up bright and early (for us!) on Saturday, April 4th at the East Coulee School Museum! Join us from 10-11am for refreshments, door prizes and great conversation.
On the first Friday of each month, CKUA brings listeners, volunteers, staff, and musicians together throughout Alberta with live concert broadcasts. Following the kick-off event in Medicine Hat, March’s First Friday brought the station to the Vat in Red Deer. Peter North was on hand to host blues-rock legends Tacoy Ryde. The central-Albertan band put on an amazing show that had the packed pub hopping - check out part of the show.
Visit ckua.com to find more details about First Fridays and where we’ll be in the coming months. We just may show up on your doorstep!
Volunteer for the Spring Campaign
The CKUA Spring Campaign launches April 17th and we’re looking for volunteers to help with early bird callouts. If you are based in the Greater Edmonton area, and have volunteered on the phones before, this is a great way to gain experience by connecting with many other CKUA fans and supporters. We need help for these dates and times:
• Wednesday, April 15th from 6-9 pm
• Thursday, April 16th from 6-9 pm
If you are interested in volunteering, contact Deanna at 1-800-494-2582 or email dfuoco@ckua.com.
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TDM's "Juno Couch" is Back!
CKUA's Terry David Mulligan is once again hosting "the Juno Couch" - a special program focused on the 2009 Juno Awards. The show will be pre-recorded from the lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel in Vancouver, on Saturday March 28th, from 2-4 pm MST. The program airs from 5-7 pm MST on Mulligan Stew that same day. Confirmed guests include:
Dustin Bentall
Steve Dawson
Brandy Zdan and Dave Quanbury from Twilight Hotel
Crystal Shawnda and Zaki Ibrahim
Jim Byrnes
Janaya Ellis from Souljah Fyah
Suzie Vinnick
Plus - The Narramata Winery will be onhand with a sampling of their latest offerings.
If you happen to be in the neighborhood, stop by and say "hi" to Terry. We'll be recording from 2-4pm MST (1-3pm PST) The Shangri-La Hotel is located at 1128 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC.
CKUA welcomes new Director of Development
CKUA would like to welcome Sharon Marcus to the family. Sharon is our new Director of Development, responsible for overseeing all aspects of CKUA fund raising, donor relations, donor development, donor management and major gift programs.
Sharon comes to us with 20 years of experience in the non-profit world of fund development and program management in Alberta and at the national level. Sharon is a passionate listener to CKUA Radio and a long standing contributor.
Most importantly, Sharon brings an outstanding commitment to the principles of donor centred fund raising and a deep understanding of the value and significance of cultural institutions like CKUA; and she has a great sense of humour (a must for anyone working in such a wacky, wonderful place).
Many of you will have opportunity to meet Sharon in the weeks and months to come; her first official day on the job is Monday, March 16th. In the meantime, all of us at CKUA are very happy and excited to have Sharon joining us and look forward to working with her and you, to make CKUA an even greater success.
CKUA Endowment Fund
Karen and Chuck Douglas have listened to CKUA for 20 years; they began donating one year later. Flash forward 19 years where although they have moved out of Alberta, they continue to tune into CKUA daily and stay strong on their monthly support. CKUA has found a place in their hearts. Karen recalled one evening in her kitchen, years ago, while listening to former classical music host Richard Moses that she knew she had found an unlimited resource from which to learn about music. CKUA was helping to open new doors and broadening musical horizons.
It wasn’t until an email requesting information on CKUA’s charitable number and legal name came, that it became clear Karen and Chuck were thinking big. They have included CKUA as well as four other charities close to their hearts, in their estate planning.
When asked why they choose to make this generous commitment to CKUA, Karen recounted that both she and Chuck believe in CKUA’s commitment to music, artists and the broader community. They wanted to leave a legacy to CKUA by making a bequest that will be directed to CKUA’s Endowment Fund, ensuring their gift will live on as it will generate income into perpetuity, a sure step to achieving sustainability.
We at CKUA are thankful that Karen and Chuck have kept us in mind for the future. If you would like more information on the many benefits of making gifts to the CKUA Endowment fund, how to build an emerging fund or the other ways you can support CKUA, please contact Laura Svajlenko at 1-800-494-2582 or lsvajlenko@ckua.com.
Scenes From the Library
Every month in the CKUA Library we receive CDs from all sorts of different sources, from mainstream labels to Indie groups. In this CKUA Library section of the Newsletter, every month we highlight new CDs considered to be undiscovered gems of the Alberta music scene.
Artist: The Provincial Archive
Album: Nameless Places
The band name "The Provincial Archive" leads one to make the assumption that the music made by such a band is concerned with the preservation of history and memory. And, in fact, this is precisely the case with Edmonton-based group The Provincial Archive, which states on its MySpace page that it is "dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, publication, and public exhibition of documents, parchments, manuscripts, records, books, maps, plans, photographs, magnetic tapes, or other materials regardless of physical form, the preservation of which is in the public’s interest." Or, put in a less Library Policy Manual-like way by group founder Craig Schram, the band uses their music to collect and preserve their own histories.
Their debut CD, Nameless Places does something besides collecting and presenting the band member’s personal histories – it musically presents and preserves what it feels like to grow up on the prairies. The band’s original formation went under the moniker "The Granary", based on the group’s love of prairie farm life. The music is prairie-big-blue-sky spacious, sparsely populated with other instruments, such as violin, mandolin, accordian, banjo and layered vocal harmonies, beyond the reverie-laden guitar playing and singing. The group is composed of talented multi-instrumentalists that are well established in the local music scene, with members Dave Meagher and Craig Schram, (who were both in the folk-rock band Five O’Clock Charlie), Nathan Burge (a former member of the local punk-rocker group The Johnsons), and Ryan Podlubny (who played with the now-defunct punk group Fullblast).
The songs on Nameless Places are the kind of soundtrack one would want to have for a summer roadtrip through the prairies, especially the dreamy yet driving songs "Night Sounds" and the gentle melodic prairie night-driving song "Draw an Outline" which begins with the words "I think I could touch the stars/ in Manitoba/ driving in the dark/ I think I could hear your heart beating faster/ than the car."
For more information about The Provincial Archive visit:
theprovincialarchive.com
myspace.com/theprovincialarchive
The Provincial Archive will be playing at McDougall United Church on March 28, 2009 at 7 PM along with three other bands as part of the Project HOPE Benefit by Foundation Concerts.
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