LISTEN for Smooth and Contemporary QUINTE JAZZ for the NEW YEAR Saturday December 30, 2023 at 9AM Replay Sunday December 31, 2023 at 4PM

🍁Laila Biali Four Sundays To Christmas SINGLE 2023
Soulful Strings Sleigh Ride 1968 A TRADITIONAL JAZZ CHRISTMAS
🍁Barbra Lica On Christmas EveSINGLE2023 barbralicamusic.com
Les Brown Let It Snow 1952 A TRADITIONAL JAZZ CHRISTMAS
🍁Luke McMaster Favorite Time Of Year 2022
Gene Ammons Swingin For Christmas 1948 A TRADITIONAL JAZZ CHRISTMAS
Melissa Bruscella Toyland SINGLE 2023
🍁Oscar Peterson Winter Wonderland AN OSCAR PETERSON CHRISTMAS 1995
🍁Laila Biali Joy To The World SINGLE 2023 lailabiali.com/bio
🍁Liona Boyd Anthema ONCE UPON A TIME 2023
Bobby Watson & Horizon Vauncing Chimes 1990 JAZZ FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Ahmad Jamal Snowfall 1961 A TRADITIONAL JAZZ CHRISTMAS
Ramsey Lewis What Are You Doing New Years Eve 1997 A TRADITIONAL JAZZ CHRISTMAS 1997
🍁Emilie Claire Barlow My Dear Aquaintance LUMIERS D’HIVER 2017
Michael McDonald Auld Lang Syne THROUGH THE MANY WINTERS 2005

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 246 (December 29, 2023)

Disclaimer: tonight’s show does contain explicit language, potentially offensive material, and may contain political views which are not reflective of CKMS 102.7, nor its board of directors. Listener discretion is advised.

What’s up, y’all? It’s ya boy mophead, here with the last Clean Up Hour of the year. Tonight is the show’s annual Worst of the Year list — 12 albums get put under the scope. Check it:

After rambling for a bit over an hour, I played a small mix of music:

Tracklist:

Mr. Muthaf**kin Exquire (HUGHIE!) – Dot vs. Dilla
Michael Christmas – 24’s Freestyle
G’s Us & Blu – Freaks
Serengeti – Untitled 3
Lupe Fiasco – 3,048
Pillz – City of Gold
Charles Hamilton – Child Safety

Then, in the final 16 minutes of the show, I did the 20th Mini All Things Considered on the late Curtis Plum, whose only album, Call My Cellphone, was on repeat this year.

Tracklist for that part:

Bike Cop
More Than One Hat
Xbox Trife Life

So, for #throwbackthursday, let’s go back in time to all of the Worst of the Year lists I’ve done since the show started:

See y’all in the new year!

 

2023 Golden MP3 Nominations

See the results of the 2023 CKMS Golden MP3 Contest!
2023 was a year of revival. The station passed its 45 year anniversary: Radio Waterloo was incorporated on 18 January 1978, and went on-air on 15 October 1978. In 2023 the studio was open again after being closed for Covid in previous years, we welcomed a number of new programmers and new shows, and added a whole bunch of music to our library.

The Golden MP3 Awards are the opportunity to recognize exceptional show hosts, producers, their programs, and the people who work behind the scenes. The awards ceremony will be held at our 2024 Membership Recognition Night, starting at 4:00pm and going to after Midnight on Saturday, 9 March 2024 at the Ouroboros Sports Lounge, 101 Hazelglen Drive, Kitchener Map

You can nominate a show for more than one award, and nominate more than one show for an award, or skip an award altogether. If you complete this nomination form but find you forgot to nominate a show, you can fill in another nomination form. Nominations close at 11:59pm Sunday, 14 January 2024. Since the awards are not until March, nominations are extended until 11:59pm on Sunday, 11 February 2024!

Descriptions of the shows are at https://radiowaterloo.ca/about-our-shows/

Nominations are now closed.

Award Categories

DJ AdRock
DJ Adrock Memorial Award is given for exceptional DJing.
LP Show
Awarded to a great Long Playing show that has been on the air for three or more years.
Freshest Beats
Awarded to a show in the first three years of existence.
Community Radio Award
Given to a show that exemplifies what Community Radio is all about.
Talk Focused Show
For the most interesting spoken word and informative talk.
Culturally Diverse
Either best show expanding the cultural diversity of the station or a show that features many diverse cultures or features a culture that is under-represented in the area.
Graphic Material
Awarded to the show with best supporting images either through a poster, logo, or website posts.
Most Original
Awarded to a show that is very original and can only be found on Radio Waterloo.
Sonic Boom
The name is an homage to the old sonic boom awards and is given to a show playing great music.
SoundFM Soldier
The SoundFM Soldier award is given to two members who have put in a lot of work behind the scenes to keep Radio Waterloo Community Radio alive. The name is an homage to the past nickname of the station and the hard work that people did at that time to move the station from the UW campus and to become its own entity) *This award is often given to two people.
Video Crown the Radio Star
Given to the show that best utilizes the studio video system to support their program.
Teamwork Transition
Given to the best 1-2 seamless transition programs on Radio Waterloo.
Local Liaison of Canada
Given to a DJ who puts local stories on a national level.
FUNdraiser Of The Year
Award is given to a FUN spirit during our fundraising efforts.
Robot Apocalypse Remote Broadcast
Given to the show that best uses Remote Live-To-Air.

FROM THE VOID #78 DECEMBER 26th

Welcome to Episode #78 of From the Void

Tonight is all about Christmas!!!

My new podcast with Co – Host Peri Urban is on YouTube, it’s called The Listening Eyebrow and its about deep listening to good music.

ALSO!!! I released  a new album. Everything, Vol. 3 SpotifyYou Tube23 and Bandcamp or where ever you stream your music!

Subscribe to the Podcast

See you in the Void!

 

New Music Added to Libretime + Horizon Broadening Hour #11

What’s up, y’all? It’s ya boy mophead. First and foremost, I forgot to post what was added to Libretime last week, so I have some catching up to do here.

Sludgehammer Antechamber Metal CanCon
Jean Leloup L’etrange Pays Traditional CanCon
Allison Lupton Words of Love Folk with Elements of the Irish CanCon
Carl Chesna & Co. Prayer to the Black Madonna Alterna-Folk/Americana/Rock No
Vonreason Boughs & Eros Folk CanCon
Basic White The Second Half Rock CanCon
Lungbutter Honey Indie Rock CanCon
Rhett Repko Lately Baby – Single Rock Unknown
City on Down Used to Be Young Alternative/Synth-Pop No
THNDR Plus Electronic CanCon
Sunday Brave Taking Over Alternative No
Mark Schirmacher Bird in Your Tree Pop No
Everett Bird People Person Indie Rock CanCon
Chastity Death Lust Indie Rock CanCon
The Blaze Velluto Collection Weatherman Indie Rock CanCon
Avi Granite 6 Orbit Jazz CanCon
Nicholas Krgovich Ouch Indie Rock Unknown
Ways in Waves Bloodless Arches Rock CanCon
Bleeding Horse Experiment Going South Rock Unknown
Jo Passed Their Prime Indie Rock CanCon
Julian Taylor Band Avalanche Rock CanCon
Deer Tick Hit Kringles Rock (Christmas) No
Vintage Lapointe No Forgiveness Within Me Unknown Unknown
Matthew Chaim Homemade Unknown Unknown
John Paul Kleiner Intercity Rock CanCon
Big Little Lions Alive and Well Country/Folk CanCon
Tracy Lynn The Young Old Woman Country/Folk CanCon
Cliff Grant Sweet Lover Woman Indie Rock No
John Lewitt All Good Things Country No
Steve Poltz Shine On Pop No
Among the Automated Schematic Electronic Unknown
Benedikt Fascia Alternative Unknown
Eric Chenaux Slowly Paradise [EP] Indie Rock CanCon
Dorjee Tsering Thank You Canada Traditional CanCon
Omhouse Eye to Eye Rock CanCon
Jay Ross vs. Teekay Str8 6 Shoota EP Rap NSFR (likely) CanCon
The Faps Grimelda Punk CanCon
Barbara Lica You’re Fine Jazz CanCon
Various Artists New Soul R&B CanCon
Backstabber Conspiracy Theorist Metal CanCon
Emily Jean Flack Throwing Shapes EP Country/Folk CanCon
Anything But Do or Try Rock CanCon
Les Lepages There’s Two Sides to the Story & Then There’s the Truth Country CanCon
Sabo Forte The Most Obvious Loophole Hip Hop NSFR CanCon
The Steady Rebels Common Ground REggae CanCon
Gen Gorman For a Friend Rock Tracks 5 contains the word “sh*t” in the opening second CanCon
Astin Clark Love & Self-Loating Hip Hop NSFR CanCon
Bloom Filter Bloom Filter Metal CanCon
Adrian Underhill CU Again Alternative CanCon
Haviah Mighty Flower City Hip Hop NSFR CanCon
Honey Beard Dreamless Sleep Alternative CanCon
Kubla Khan One of These Days Alternative CanCon
Busty and the Bass Uncommon Good R&B CanCon
Ramon Taranco Desperate Love and Devil Can Blues Blues CanCon
Warcall Invaders Metal CanCon
Mary-Catherine Pazzano You’re Gonna Hear From ME R&B CanCon
Shadow of Whales What we Do Rock Unknown
The Real McKenzies Two Devils Will Talk Punk CanCon
Saltland A Common Truth Indie Rock CanCon
Dante Mantas Midnight Sun Pop CanCon
Eamon McGrath Tantramar Folk CanCon
The New Customs All Walls Fall Rock CanCon
Rory Taillon Only Whispers Alternative Folk CanCon
The Utilities Heavy South Folk CanCon
The Velveteins Slow Wave Indie Rock CanCon
David Mott & Vinny Goila “Have You Heard?” Jazz Unknown
Dom Mar KZ Destiny Rock CanCon

Next up, here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:

Tracklist:

Manitoba Hal – 30 Odd Days
Manitoba Hal – When Leadbelly Walked the River
Unfaithful Servants – Baracuda
The Marrieds – Lying Next to Me
Katherine Fischer – Mess for Two
Son Roberts – Not ‘Nuff Night
The Bluesland Horn Band – Stone Man Blues
The Sturgeons – Drunk On Wine
The Black Fever – Marketing
Eamon McGrath – Yellow Sticker on an Empty Fridge
Eamon McGrath – This Town Dies When Festival Season Ends
Deep Cover – Nature Makes a Scene
Bridal Party – Jukebox Cutie
Science is Fiction – Getting Late
Fred Fortin – Redneck (Microdose)
Bretton Lee John – Hospital Coffee
Ken Stead – Be Peaced
The New Project Alternative – Sunshine & Lies
Carter & the Capitals – The Roller
Andre Akinyele – Call Me
Busty and the Bass – Dance With Someone!!! (Live from London)
Busty and the Bass – Dead Poet
Mary-Catherine Pazzano – Manhattan/New York State of Mind
Exdream – $exdreams$
Josh Ritchie – Paid What I Owe
Ostrea Lake – Grind Your Teeth
Adrian House – Short Back & Sides
Shotgun Jimmie – Tumbleweed
The Jump Off – Pasture
The Fizzgigs – End of the World
Rachelle Van Zanten – Peace for the Children

Heads up that The Horizon Broadening Hour is not on next week, so see y’all in the new year!

Radio Nowhere Episode 42, 12/23/23

Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RadioNowhere231223Episode42ChristmasShow2.mp3, 58m33s, 80.0 MBytes

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies The Vandals
2000 Miles The Pretenders
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht Vienna Boys Choir
Pie Jesu Sarah Brightman, Paul Miles-Kingston.
Hurry Home (Bonus Track) Jon Anderson
Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra
Feliz Navidad Jose Feliciano
Easier Said Then Done Jon Anderson
Christmas Must Be Tonight The Band
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Tom Waits
Christmas / Sarajevo 12/24 Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The Cherry Tree Carol Kacy & Clayton
Linus and Lucy Vince Guaraldi
Fairytale of New York (Featuring Kirsty MacColl) The Pogues
Auld Lang Syne Andrew Bird

episode 297 agriculture show dec 12 2023 fireside chat with the Ag Leaders of tomorrow

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture held their AGM in Toronto Nov 21-22.  One of the events on the program was the “fireside chat with the ag leaders of tomorrow”. The moderator was Sara woods, a director with the OFA.

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Singing for peace in Waterloo and across North America

Over 200 people went to Waterloo City Hall on Tuesday December 19  to sing for peace. The  ‘Mennonite Day of Action Hymn Sing for a Ceasefire’ was put on by the group Mennonite Action, which says it is a movement of Mennonites who believe they have a responsibility to speak out for peace and justice.

Sam Ramer of Mennonite Action talked about the purpose of the hymn sing and why they are focusing on Palestine.

But Mennonite Action’s event was not only in Waterloo. On December 19, over two thousand people came to sing hymns in 42 cities and towns across North America.

Thank you to A.S. Compton, for permission to play their recording of the hymn sing  on the show.

Homelessness organization obtains funding amid accusations of unfairness and inequity

Tensions simmered when the topic of A Better Tent City (ABTC) came up at the last Waterloo Regional Council meeting of 2023. ABTC is tiny home community in Kitchener that currently houses 50 chronic homeless people.

On one side were those who supported the motion from Councillor and Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic which granted $236,390 for the next two years to ABTC. On the other side were those who said the grant was unfair and inequitable.

Several Councillors insisted the wording of Councillor Vrbanovic’s motion be removed as they felt it was insulting to staff. Another criticism arose because six other groups had been denied original funding but did not afterwards ask Council for money, some councillors felt this was unfair and inequitable

Despite the criticism, Council carried Councillor Vrbanovic’s motion granting ABTC $236,390 for the next two years

CKMS News – 2023-12-22- Cambridge council votes against investigating affordable home builds above city parking lots

CKMSNews-2023-12-22-Cambridge Rejects Affordable Housing in Parking Lots Study

by: dan kellar

Cambridge – Joined by 4 city councilors on December 19th, Cambridge mayor Jan Liggett voted against a motion to investigate the plausibility building affordable housing in raised buildings above city owned parking lots.

The motion, brought forward by ward 7 councilor Scott Hamilton was supported by all the delegates who presented at the meeting including resident Matthew Rodgers, the advocacy groups “Citizens for Cambridge”, “For the City”, and “Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard”, and as stated by councilor Earnshaw, the Cambridge Business Improvement Association was also on board.

Despite strong support for the motion from delegates, and the voting support of councilors Kimpson, Earnshaw,  Roberts, and Hamilton, the motion was ultimately defeated, wIth Mayor Liggett suggesting churches should be converting their own parking lots for housing.  Before calling the vote, Liggett stated that voting “no” does not mean that a councilor is against building affordable housing.

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 245

What’s up, y’all? It’s ya boy mophead, here with tonight’s Clean Up Hour (to those of you who use RSS, I will upload the show here a bit later — I put the file away on my external hard drive before I remembered to upload it here). Check it:

Tonight’s mix is the 53rd All Things Considered, making the case for Keor Meteor, the french beatmaker whose music deserves a lot more attention. There are 189 songs in this mix, so I’m not writing out the tracklist here — it’s been a long enough day already.

For #throwbackthursday, I’m going to repost three of my previous holiday/Christmas mixes, as I don’t think I will be doing anything like that this year.

See y’all next week for the year’s worst of list!

episode 298 dec 19 2023 Alicia Becker and Jessica McCann

Jessica McCann and Alicia Becker are guests today of The Agriculture Show. Jessica and Alicia work at https://www.farmfoodcareon.org/    Our Playlist:

  • Mess Is Mine  by  Vance Joy
  • The Idea Of Me  by  Aiden Canfield
  • Keep Your Heart Young  by  Brandi Carlile
  • Dancing In The Sky  by  Sam Barber
  • Plea From A Cat Named Virtue  by  The Weakerthans
  • Anti-Hero  by  Taylor Swift

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LISTEN for Smooth and Contemporary QUINTE JAZZ for your CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Saturday December 23, 2023 at 9AM Replay Sunday December 24, 2023 at 4PM

After broadcast on SoundCloud [https://soundcloud.com/user-163878073/sets/quinte-jazz]
Russ Lorenson Warm In December IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT 2023
🍁Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop Little Drummer Boy A VERY TURBOPROP CHRISTMAS 2022
Tom Braxton Let It Snow
Sandra Grace Under The Mistletoe A GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS 2019 Patrick Lamb Christmas Time Is Here 2023
🍁Luke McMaster Christmas In Slo Mo 2022
Erin Stevenson Christmas Time With You
George Burton Christmas Waltz THE YULE LOG 2023
Elsten Torres The Holidays 2023
🍁Barbra Lica To That Eastern Shore barbralicamusic.com
🍁Laila Biali Nuit De Noel Phillip “Doc” Martin This Christmas Maria Jacobs Someone To Love At Christmas
Danny Kusz Merry Christmas Baby
🍁Oscar Peterson Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
🍁Oscar Peterson Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Ramsey Lewis Twelve Days Of Christmas A TRADITIONAL JAZZ CHRISTMAS 1997

Cambridge MP leads the right-to-repair revolution

On October 18 of this year, the House of Commons unanimously passed the right to repair amendment under the Copyright Act (Bill C-244). The bill, originally tabled by Cambridge MP Bryan May, will allow the circumvention of a technological protection measure (TMP) so long as it is for diagnosis, maintenance, or repair purposes.

TPMs are meant to protect proprietary information or software, but they also inhibit an individual’s right and ability to repair any device that they own, and so often devices end up in landfills. Waste diversion concerns are among the key reasons for this amendment, as is the expense that repair places on people.

Murray Zink is the founder of 4RepairKW and the UW Repair Hub and has been promoting repair for many years. CKMS News talked to both Bryan May and Murray Zink.

 

 

FROM THE VOID #77 DECEMBER 19th

Welcome to Episode #77 of From the Void

Tonight is all about Woman!!!

My new podcast with Co – Host Peri Urban is on YouTube, it’s called The Listening Eyebrow and its about deep listening to good music.

ALSO!!! I released  a new album. Everything, Vol. 3 SpotifyYou Tube23 and Bandcamp or where ever you stream your music!

Subscribe to the Podcast

See you in the Void!

 

New Waterloo Region hospital site to be announced in springtime

Waterloo Region residents will know the site of their new hospital by spring, according to the presidents of local hospitals.

The presidents, Ron Gagnon, Hospital President and CEO, Grand River Hospital, and Mark Fam, President, St. Mary’s Hospital, updated Kitchener City Council on the plans for a new hospital and new hospital system in Waterloo Region.

They are waiting for site selection to be finalized and for approval from the Ministry of Health before proceeding to the next phase of planning in spring 2024. The next phase will consist of functional programming, which determines what programs and services will be accommodated in the new facilities, and what resources are required to make that happen.

The main priorities currently are to identify the preferred site for the new hospital and to create a vision for working together in shared facilities.

Waterloo Region all-councils meeting ends a difficult year on a note of hope

This year has been another year full of frustration, if not outright despair, for housing in Waterloo Region. But at the all-councils meeting on December 15, Build Now Waterloo Region offered some hope.

Build Now Waterloo Region is a new local collaboration of for-profit and not-for profit groups which was announced back in July.  The objective of the coalition is to build 10,000 non-market and perpetually non-profit homes by 2030.

Philip Mills, the chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region, one of the central players in this initiative, updated the all-council’s meeting on this ground-breaking project.

Of these 10,000 homes, 7,000 will be available for purchase and 3,000 will be available for rent.  A one bedroom home is set to sell for $280,000, a two bedroom for $330,000 and a three bedroom for $400,000. This project will specifically prevent ‘flipping,’ investment property acquisition, or other profit-seeking schemes.

Increased number of firework-related complaints sparks concern and action on Kitchener City Council

Of the three firework celebrations allowed in Kitchener in 2023, Diwali fireworks drew the most complaints, leaving Mayor Berry Vrbanovic to speculate if this reflects less tolerance in the community towards the Hindu festival.

Other councillors believed it was more of a lack of education by both those setting off the fireworks and those calling the bylaw office to complain.  To counter this, new fireworks regulations include a comprehensive education campaign to educate residents and an increase in the number of bylaw enforcement officers on duty from two to eight for firework days.

Councillor Ayo Owodunni announced that 184 complaints were made to the bylaw office regarding fireworks in 2023, with Diwali accounting for 63 of these, Victoria Day, 54 and Canada Day, 32. Complaints are likely underreported as email/phone complaints after the fact are not included in these totals.

The motion introducing these new regulations about non-compliance with city’s fireworks regulations was carried.

CKMS-FM New Year’s Eve Special

Happy New Year (with animated fireworks)Join the CKMS programmers, show hosts, DJs, and other volunteers as they kick out the Old Year, play a few tunes, dance up a storm, and ring in the New Year.

The fun starts at 8:30pm on Saturday 31 December 2023 and goes to 1:00am on 1 January 2024. Listen on the radio at CKMS-FM at 102.7 Radio Waterloo, or the online stream at https://radiowaterloo.ca/listen, where you can send your New Year’s greetings in the chatbox!

The Horizon Broadening Hour #10

What’s up, y’all? Another week coming to an end, another Horizon Broadening Hour. I am changing these posts a bit: I will be posting a stream link as well as the soundcloud, if you cannot wait until 10:00 PM.

Tracklist:

Vintage Lapointe – Travels from Winnipeg
Robert Ross – Jack Daniels
Frantically Atlantic – Carleton County Girl
Zachary Lucky – Raining in December
Doug Smith – Pub with No Beer
Jessica Rhaye & the Ramshackle Parade – One More Cup of Coffee
Billy Oxkidd – Hot Pants (You Got It)
Billy Oxkidd – Slipping Away
Chron Goblin – Giving In To Fun
Adrian Chalfour – The Collapse
The Golden Seals – Idiot Kid
Danny Blueberry – One Bedroom Apartment Blues
Matt Zaddy – Little River
Foreign Diplomats – How Cool is That?
Jason Doel – …Long to Reign Over Us…
Nathan Shubert – A Thought, Persisted
Kathryn Ladano – Masked
Justin Wright and Kate Maloney – Flutes
Hellrazer – Necropolis
Greber – Backhanded Interest
Pyramids on Mars – F-22 Raptor
Ooluu – Tickbait
BornBroken – No Stranger to Failure

See y’all next week!

Radio Nowhere Episode 41, 12/16/23

Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RadioNowhere231216Episode41ChristmasShow1.mp3, 57m58s, 80.0 MBytes

Put a Little Love in Your Heart Annie Lennox, Al Green
Please Come Home For Christmas The Eagles
Song for a Winter’s Night Gordon Lightfoot
Christmas in Prison John Prine
Give Hope (Bonus Track) Jon Anderson
River Joni Mitchell
Blue Christmas Mary Margaret O’Hara
Christmas Vacation Mavis Staples
Getting Ready For Christmas Day Paul Simon
Go Tell It On The Mountain The Blind Boys Of Alabama (featuring Tom Waits)
Christmas Canon Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Christmas On TV Chris Isaak
Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses
Oh du fröhliche Fischer-Chöre
I Believe in Father Christmas Greg Lake

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