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Happy Friday Drivers! Back at it with episode 3/3 and the final FDFDF (Friday Drive Funding Drive Freestyle) for this year’s CKCU’s annual funding drive ending this Sunday November 12th at 6 PM. Although we ll still be accepting donations past 6 PM Sunday this is your last chance to donate while the Drive is officially still on! Do it now! Looking to enlist your support for the radio station I’ve been volunteering at since 1991, producing various programs over the years. Currently offering “The Friday Drive”, two hours of grooves to unwind you from your workweek and wind you up for your weekend every Friday since September 2005. CKCU is trying to raise $165 000 in this year’s campaign which is one third of the stations annual budget to keep the station operating. You can donate directly to your favourite show, hopefully, the Friday Drive Campaign by clicking the donate button on the CKCU website which takes you to the “Canada Helps” site or use the link in the “Frida
Welcome Noah Snieckus to CKCU! Noah s "Between The Lines" segment debuts on In A Mellow Tone with Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans 1962 album "Know What I Mean?". Heavy Ben follows suit with a 1962 album from the Oscar Peterson Trio. Noah Mean? Noah Snieckus is a new host of ‘Between the Lines’, a monthly segment within CKCU’s “In a Mellow Tone” program, with a focus on Bebop, Bop and Post-Bop (ie. the Golden Period of Jazz and its influence through the ages into more modern settings). The idea of this segment is to approach each record with the rhyme and rhetoric of liner notes, the words printed on the back of many LPs. A journalistic format made popular by Jazz critics on the scene, the covers would often detail musicians in their creative, and personal, processes towards bringing the work to life. Each month you can tune, and delve, into the stories and subtexts behind the songs: information about the men and women in this seminal period in Jazz