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On this week's edition of The Saturday Edge On Folk, 8am to noon on 101.9fm and www.citr.ca, I will be spruiking shamelessly to raise money for the station and its sister magazine. If you enjoy listening to my show - which has been on CiTR for over 40 years - then please consider making a donation on this website.
Here I am with two of the artists featured on the show today: Sona Jobarteh and Cathy Jordan (at the Edmonton Folk Festival a couple of years ago). Every week I scour the internet looking for exciting new releases to play for you. Sometimes this involves me purchasing a download, other times it means sifting through countless emails from artists, labels, and agents, who are striving to find airplay in this increasingly marginalized music sector. Then I select up to 50 tracks and weave them into some sort of sequence that makes some sort of sense and helps the music flow. I really hope it finds its way to your ears!
There are premiums from CiTR, including a Space Age Mouse Pad for donations of $40 and up, and a Hoody sporting a Space Age Logo for $250 and up. You could even host your own one-hour radio show on CiTR for a $500 donation, or have your name etched permanently on the Donors Wall Of Fame at CiTR for $1,000! Click here to make your donation.
I am offering premiums at a more modest level. Anyone donating at least $30 will receive a free ticket to one of Sunday's Fiddle Festival concerts (Daniel Lapp & Quinn Bachand at 4pm, or Kristian Bugge & Ruthie Dornfeld plus Allison de Groot & Nic Gareiss at 8pm). This increments in $30 levels, so you would receive two tickets for $60, 3 for $90, etc. (and you would also receive a Mouse pad from CiTR at this and higher levels). If you donate $101.90 or more you will receive 2 tickets to either The Fugitives (March 6th) or Danny Michel (March 8th).
The CRUCIAL part of these deals is that, after you have made your donation to CiTR, you MUST email me on [email protected] to claim your Rogue prize(s).
There is one extra special bonus: the most generous donor will receive two tickets to Saturday's Sold-Out concert with Socks In The Frying Pan. So if you are making a donation of more than $101.90 you COULD be the lucky one! Again, please email me on [email protected] right after you make your pledge and tell me how much you pledged. This one is even more time-sensitive. Please email me before 3pm on Saturday.
Onbviously, this is an Honour System offer. I would prefer to verify your donations before handing out the tickets, but this may not be possible. So please be honest! Thanks a million!
Stop Press: I mention the Dervish PBS TV Special during the radio broadcast. Sadly, KCTS in Seattle is not carrying this one-hour music documentary this evening. I hope they will show it later in the year - preferably before Dervish play The Rio on April 26th!
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