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Rogue Folk Club Artistic Director Steve Edge, in the studios of CiTR. Note the Manchester United cap!
Saturday November 11, 2006
| This week sees the first ever CiTR on-air Pledge Drive. It started yesterday. This was the first time I've ever done one. I'd been stressed about it all week. Especially when the instructions came in, telling me to do a major speech about the fundraising for 5 to 7 minutes - EVERY 15 MINUTES! And to speak after every song. Instead I played the songs in twos and threes and didn't do too much talking (I hope!) I brought in loads of new music this week, to try to emphasize what I feel is the special nature of the programming on CiTR in general, and my show in particular. | ||||
| Next week is the final week, so I hope to have a guest to share the load. Probably Cajun Crazy Karla Mundy. Should be a lot of fun. | ||||
| Meanwhile, if there are any fans of my show out there who would like to pledge to CITR and reap some excellent benefits, you can do it on- line at www.citr.ca/donate.php $25 gets you a Friends of CiTR card and a free CD. There are various steps up to $250 with 2 Friends Cards, 10 CDs, 2 CiTR t-shirts or bags, and 2 designer t-shirts for the pledge drive. Such a deal! | ||||
| # | Artist | Song Title | Album (label) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Street | Music For A Found Harmonium | Irish Times | |
| 2 | Donn | Wenge Yongo | African Guitar Summit II | |
| 3 | Ellika & Solo | Kaira | Abaraka! Tack! | |
| 4 | Etran Finatawa | Surbajo | Introducing ... | |
| 5 | Diogal | Sor | Africa Acoustic | |
| 6 | Djelimady Tounkara & Habib Koit | Artistes | Midnight In Mali | |
| 7 | Ali Farka Tour | Ledi Coumbe | Savane | |
| 8 | Kora Jazz Trio | Folly | Part Two | |
| 9 | Amparanoia | Puerto Claridad | Music Of The Wine Lands | |
| 10 | Salsa Celtica | Cuando Me Vaya, CD | El Camino | |
| 11 | Grouyan Gombo | Lafayette Two-Step | Betsy Stomp | |
| 12 | Les Amis Creole | Oh Bye | Les Amis Creole | |
| 13 | Riccardo Tesi & Claudio Carboni | Suite de Mazurka | Crinali | |
| 14 | Boulerice & Demers | Hommage Serge Leboeuf / Reel Du Moccasin | Un Peu D'Ci Un Peu D'Ca | |
| 15 | Claude M | Le Terre-Neuvien / La Fleur De Lys / Le Champs De Bataille | L'Amant Confesseur | |
| 16 | Van Django | Blue Drag | Tiptoe Trip | |
| 17 | Mihirangi | World Citizen | Kulcha Nation | |
| 18 | Rachelle Van Zanten | January | Back To Francois | |
| 19 | Chris Smither | Leave The Light On | Leave The Light On | |
| 20 | Del McCoury Band | 1952 Vincent Black Lightning | Del & The Boys | |
| 21 | Tony Ellis | Paddlewheel | The Quest | |
| 22 | William Lee Ellis | Dust Will Write My Name | God's Tattoos | |
| 23 | The Gruff | The Blackest Crow | A Goat On Every Floor | |
| 24 | Chris Frye & The Analog Ghosts | The Subtlety Of Skin | Raised On Rhythm & Rhyme | |
| 25 | Chris Frye & The Analog Ghosts | Waiting On The Sun | Raised On Rhythm & Rhyme | |
| 26 | Hanneke Cassel | The SHISSF Kangaroo | Silver | |
| 27 | Jaime RT & Andy Hillhouse | Quantum Curry | Spark | |
| 28 | The Duhks | Domino Party | Migrations | |
| 29 | Baby Gramps | The Old Man Of The Sea | Rogue's Gallery | |
| At this point, in a wonderful gesture of international DJ solidarity, I had a call from Susi Lanagan in Melbourne, Australia. She first trained as a DJ at CiTR, so she decided to call in to encourage people to pledge. Wow! Thanks Susi!! | ||||
| 30 | Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick | When I Was A Boy | Straws In The Wind | |
| 31 | Tim Van Eyken | Barleycorn | Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves | |
| 32 | Tom Waits | Hold On | Mule Variations (request) | |
| 33 | Junction Pool | Happy One Step | Junction Pool | |
| 34 | Bellowhead | The Rigs Of The Time | Burlesque | |
| Remembered Remembrance Day with these anti-war songs (more schoolboy left-wing rhetoric, no doubt, so I thanked last week's listener for complaining - and giving me loads of ideas for concert intros and DJ chats all week! Not surprisingly, he didn't call in again this week!) | ||||
| 35 | Chumbawamba | Diggers Song | English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 | |
| 36 | Dick Gaughan | Workers Song | Handful Of Earth | |
| 37 | Chumbawamba | Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire | English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 | |
| 38 | Eric Bogle | No Man's Land | At This Stage | |
| There's a special tribute concert and book launch for BC Song Collector Phil Thomas tomorrow. A sort of Alan Lomax meets Woody Guthrie of the Canadian folk scene, Phil Thomas collected songs for over 50 years in logging camps, fishing villages, and mining towns all across British Columbia. Without him, we would have little or no idea of how life was for the early European settlers in the west, and the labour struggles here would have passed by without record. Here are three of the songs he collected, including one that was adapted by James Gordon and which became a hit for the Cowboy Junkies: | ||||
| 39 | Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat | I'm A Young Man From Canada | A Young Man From Canada | |
| 40 | Fraser Union | Bank Trollers | This Old World | |
| 41 | Tamarack | Mining For Gold | Collection | |