CJSW Funding Drive 2018 and Breaking The Tethers

Ahoy!

From a CJSW perspective, we're coming up to the happiest time of the year, the annual funding drive (FD)!  This is an important week for Calgary's campus and community radio station where we call upon our listeners to pledge support to CJSW to help the station grow and develop for the next year.  Here are the basics about the drive for this year:

*The FD will run from Friday, October 19 at 9 am through Friday, October 25 at 6pm.

*The theme this year is an aquatic one, FM Anchor (as in "CJSW is your FM anchor". Truth!)

*The website for the funding drive is fundingdrive.ca.

*The hashtag for the FD is #FMAnchor.

*The main goal is to bring in $200,000, all of which will go to new equipment e.g. high quality audio recorders, band room upgrades, etc.

*There is also a stretch goal of an additional $50,000, which, if reached (fingers crossed!), will go to replacing CJSW's backup transmitter.

*There will be incentives given as thanks for pledging, at various levels. Check these out at fundingdrive.ca. There's some cool stuff!

*You can pre-pledge online at fundingdrive.ca. Once the funding drive officially begins, you can still pledge via the website or call 403-220-5000.  You can also email me anytime about pledging at wallersmooth@gmail.com.

The Breaking The Tethers (BTT) funding drive program will take place on Monday, October 22, 10-11 am MT, 90.9 FM or cjsw.com.  As happened the last couple of years, Linda Cunningham and I will co-host the show.  We'll chat, play some music, have fun, and hopefully help to raise some money for the station.

There will be a special Breaking The Tethers mix CD available to everyone who pledges at the $100 level or higher ($100+ pledgers will still get the incentives at the station level). Here's what's on the disc, in order:

The Sons Of Kemet - "My queen is Harriet Tubman"
Keith Price - "Grunge"
Mark McGrain - "Etreinte"
Fred Gerlach - "Eyrie"
The Flying Horse Big Band - "Bat-spin"
David Crosby - "She's got to be somewhere"
Brandon Seabrook Trio - "Bovicidal"
The Flying Horse Big Band - "Bat-spin"
Kamasi Washington - "Humility"
Lisa Hilton- "Too hot"
The Flying Horse Big Band - "Bat-spin"
Indo-Pak Coalition - "Rasikapriya"
Kait Dunton - "OCD"
The Flying Horse Big Band - "Bat-spin"
Hoaxer - "Reprise of menthol buddha menthol"
Roscoe Mitchell - "Discussions I"
The Flying Horse Big Band - "Bat-spin"
Aquaserge - "Virage sud"

These are all great tunes, each played on BTT in the past year.

That's it for now!  More on the funding drive soon!

Andrew