Inducted in 2020
“Music, as they say, is the universal language. It connects cultures. It connects people. It is endlessly fascinating. There’s no end to the regional styles around the world. When I travel, I love going to used record stores to see what they have. In any city, that’s my priority. It’s enriching to listen to music, whether it’s live, on vinyl, or digital. It brings people together.”
Holger Petersen of Edmonton is a legend in the music world. As co-founder of Stony Plain Records and the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, and broadcaster on CKUA and CBC Radio, he introduces Alberta musicians to the world and brings world music home to Alberta.
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Do you (or someone you know) have a 200-300 word story about you and CKUA that you’d like to share with us? Please let us know by writing us. We’d love to feature it! What do such stories look like?
Well, here’s one by Roy Forbes, who celebrates the 15th anniversary of his CKUA show, Roy’s Record Room
, on Sunday April 11, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM (MT).
I first came to CKUA in the fall of 1973, a 23-year-old folkie, in Edmonton for a gig at the Hovel coffeehouse.
Holger Petersen had invited me to tape one of his now-legendary
Marmite rules at new Brit-ish Sydney cafe Cornhill Coffee Co.
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It s a brave cafe that puts Marmite rather than Vegemite on an Australian menu. Cornhill Coffee Co. on York Street in Sydney s CBD is owner Andrew Carter s ode to British food. It s nostalgia on my part, but I ve pretty quickly found Australians don t like HP Sauce, he says. We are importing Marmite from the UK, quite controversially it seems, and keeping Vegemite as an off-the-menu item, says Cornhill s British-born owner. Cafe and roastery Cornhill Coffee Co. in York Street.
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Marmite finds its way into the food, offering what Carter touts as the umani element .
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FIFTEEN YEARS ago today I was living in sleepysville Extremadura and Rafa Nadal was the new national hero.
The Spaniard won his second French Open in 2006 and he’s taken home The Musketeers’ Trophy 11 more times since.
Almost as impressive as Nadal’s serving has been the improvement in the nation’s driving. An eye-watering 4,101 lives were lost on Spanish roads in 2006, compared to 870 last year.
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