CKUA meets fundraising goal - thanks to YOU!
Thank you!
The support you showed CKUA during our recent Spring Campaign was inspiring. You often hear us say CKUA couldn’t exist without the support of our friends and listeners and, once again, you proved that to be true. As a CKUA listener you stood up to be counted, even in these difficult times, ensuring CKUA’s financial goal was not only achieved but surpassed. After 17 days of fabulous music, exciting giveaways and lots of fun, you were the key that helped us reach our Spring 2009 Campaign goal.
While the financial achievement is critical to CKUA’s current and long term sustainability, your belief in and support of CKUA’s vision is humbling and also vital to CKUA. It reaffirms that CKUA programming and service represents a genuine and important value in your life, and it encourages us to recommit ourselves to ensuring we offer you quality music and information programs that entertain and enlighten, hosts whom you can trust and who respect your intelligence, and genuine, meaningful companionship wherever you go.
On behalf of all CKUA Staff, our Board of Directors, our family of volunteers and the CKUA audience, THANK YOU for your very generous support of CKUA and our Spring Campaign.
Ken Regan
General Manager
CKUA Radio Network
Thank You Volunteers!
Thank you so much to all our wonderful, dedicated and passionate volunteers for making this Spring fundraising campaign such a huge success! Without your time and energy, running a 17 day campaign, from 6am to midnight each day, would just not be possible. From our pledge room volunteers that take many phone calls and connect so well with our supporters, to our hospitality volunteers that run up and down flights of stairs around the building carting trays of food, to our library volunteers that are able to quickly find the right piece of music, and our wonderful data entry volunteers that spend countless hours entering information, we appreciate you all. Thank you for giving of your time and talents to CKUA and making this a successful campaign! We couldn't do it without you.
Hear some volunteer vignettes that were broadcast during the campaign.
Join CKUA in Hinton for June's First Friday
Join CKUA in Hinton for a great evening of live radio, art and high-energy music!
CKUA’s First Fridays series continues on June 5th in the ballroom at the Howard Johnson Hotel (formerly the Crestwood Hotel) in Hinton. The evening will kick off with a live Celtic Show, with Andy Donnelly from 6-8pm.
Then at 8 PM, CKUA’s Tony King will host musical guests the Polyjesters for an hour-long live concert. The band has created their own genre of music, a combination of bluegrass and jazz they have dubbed "blazz".
This First Friday is presented in collaboration with the Hinton Art Club. During the evening, the club will be unveiling their mural: Hinton Through The Ages. The community art project was created by local artists aged 5 to 91.
Great Music and Celtic Cuddles at Edmonton's First Friday
During the 2009 Spring Campaign, CKUA’s First Fridays series brought the station – along with the pledge room – out to the Newcastle Pub in Edmonton for a high-energy night of rockin’ good times.
The evening kicked off with a live Celtic Show hosted by Andy Donnelly, with special guest Allison Brock. The pair played great music and created tons of energy, offering Celtic cuddles for donations to CKUA.
The Front Porch Roots Revue then took to the stage. Holger Petersen was on hand to introduce and interview members of the blues and roots group. The band, comprised of Ron Rault, Bobby Cameron, Stewart McDougall, Dave "Crawdad" Cantera, Bill Hobson and CKUA’s own Grant Stovel, brought the house down and filled the dance floor.
For more information about First Fridays, please visit ckua.com.
CKUA and Tim Williams "electrify" the Auburn Saloon
A dance floor was not needed for the many blues fans that leapt to their feet and danced on the spot at the Auburn Saloon in Calgary on Saturday, April 25.
Of course, folks were there to do more than just dance and their generosity proved it. The evening was organized as a fundraiser for the CKUA Spring Campaign and over 200 CKUA listeners and supporters were on hand as Terry David Mulligan, Lionel Rault and Baba hosted a live broadcast from the base of the Calgary Tower.
The evening’s highlights included the hip shaking tunes from Tim Williams and the Electrofires, a live auction including items you could only find at CKUA and the excitement in the air as CKUA raised over $7,000 towards the spring campaign.
Thank you to those who spent their evening at Auburn Saloon with us and to those who stayed at home listening to the radio and helped us raise money.
The Old-disc Jockey Shifts Gears
After 35 years as "The Old-disc Jockey" and 60 years in broadcasting, John Worthington, is shifting gears at CKUA. The May 10th broadcast of the Old-disc Jockey was John’s last fully produced new program.
The Old-disc Jockey program will remain a part of the CKUA broadcast schedule. There are years of wonderful programming in our archives that we will rebroadcast and continue to make available for program sponsorship. John himself will be choosing the programs, adding thank you’s to donors and ensuring the programs reach the airwaves with the same high quality as ever.
John will continue to pursue his passion for restoring classic records. He has just launched a new CD, The Old-disc Jockey Restored – Volume II, available now.
A documentary that celebrates John’s long and distinguished career will air on CKUA, Friday, May 22nd at 8 PM Mountain Time. Be sure to tune in and join us as we honour and celebrate this very special person.
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Scenes from the Library
Newsflash! LP Cataloguing Is Now Done!
Is the LP a dead music medium at CKUA? Hardly! At CKUA, the vast, quirky and in-depth vinyl collection is one of the reasons why CKUA can offer such a vast, quirky and in-depth variety of programs! And as of last month, the LP library has finally been completely catalogued!
Over the last eight months, a massive LP cataloguing blitz has been happening in the CKUA Library, with library staff and several key volunteers working hard to finish cataloguing all the LPs. While 90,000 LPs! - LP Library was already catalogued and sitting on shelves, ready to be used, eight months ago there was still a lot of the LP Library that needed to be catalogued and added to the database. Recently catalogued genres include: World, Spoken Word, Children’s, and Showtunes.
Cleaning up the LP Library was like going on an exciting treasure hunt every day, since you never knew what you’d find when you opened a box or cabinet, or picked up another pile of random LPs. Some of the many treasures that we found include many vintage, rare Jazz, and Country and Roots albums, many of which are by local Albertan artists. Most of these LPs never made it to the CD format, and can’t be found anywhere else. Also discovered, under a table in the basement, was a huge collection of Folkways albums in mint condition!
Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in vinyl. Current bands are now putting out CDs as well as vinyl albums. CKUA is responding to the resurgence of interest in vinyl by starting a show called Tales From the Vinyl Vault, which airs every second Friday of each month, from 8-9pm. On this feature program a different announcer each month will showcase a variety of LPs that kick started their interest in music.
The LP Library is one of the things that makes the CKUA Library an Albertan treasure. It was built by the people of Alberta, and it continues to be enjoyed by Albertans and listeners around the world on the CKUA airwaves!
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