Dancehall Film at TIFF Harbourfront

Thursday, Sept 15th | 7:00 p.m. | Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
Cost: $15

Winners of CKLN.FM's Mad Salutes Awards in Broadcasting and Social Activism 2011

Congratulations to all the winners and to the success of Mad Salutes Night through the efforts of CKLN's staff organizers and all the performing artists -Shaunga Tagore, Qara Clemente, Murphy Browne, Bob Wiseman, K.C. Roberts and the Live Revolution, Clara Engel, Yvette Tollar, and M.C.Clifton Joseph.

1) CKLN Activist Award: Awarded to a volunteer who has contributed to the fight for social justice and grassroots community engagement.

The winner is.....Jointly awarded to Kristin Schwartz and Susy Alvarez. Kristin is former news director at CKLN who used her time to report on a variety of issues from mining injustices to the World Social Forum. Susy Alvarez, is long time host of Friday Word of Mouth, including coordinating for No one Is Illegal Radio and OCAP radio

2) The Pioneer in Radio Award: Given to a show that has demonstrated ground-breaking originality.

The winner is Fantastic Voyage, formerly hosted by Ron Nelson in CKLN's early days. The timeslot came to be identified with underground artists. Ron Nelson currently hosts reggae mania.

3) The TurnTable Arts Award: Awarded to music programmers who keep the Vinyl tradition alive

The winners are Nik Red of Statik and Mano from Bruckbeat Radio.

4) Behind the Mic Award: This given to a volunteer who works tirelessly off air to support the station.
This year's winner has been there for CKLN in its most turbulent moments: the winner is Chris Scully.

5) The Arnie Achtman Award for long service in spoken word programming: named after one of the founders of the Life Rattle show, Arnie and Guy Allan worked for

 twenty-five years to carry out their vision of autobiographical storytelling and writing as a form of the community's self expression.

The winners are Norman Otis Richmond for Saturday Morning Live and Troy (The Boy) from Inversions.

6) The Mllton Blake Award for long service in music programming is named after the former host of The Musical triangle and a much beloved community member.

We are pleased to announce a tie for first place between Verlia Stephens andColin Smith.

7) The Award for Most Canadian Content goes to the play list that entered the most entries that are Canadian. The winner is our very own Paul Corby of Corby's Orbit. Corby's Orbit has presented, over the years, a parade of indie artists acoustic and Ottawise, and has been among the strongest supporters of Toronto's independent music scene.

8) The CKLN Mentor Award: This award is presented to a CKLN volunteer who has helped mentor others in the community.

The winners are Norman Otis Richmond and Ron Gaskin.

9) The Girls and Women in Radio Award: this award celebrates women who make radio their work and their passion. This year we had a tie for the winners, so we invited Amita Hamda and Murphy Browne to the stage, as well an honourable mention going to Julie Hill. Our congratulations.

10) CKLN Generations Award honours our elders and our youth. We called Don Weitz to the stage to thank him for his wisdom and also, Judah to the stage, as our youngest volunteer

11) The CKLN Friends Award goes to an agency or organization that has supported CKLN over the years. There were so many nominees, but the name that came up most consistently was Regent Park Focus,  a Youth Media Arts centre that has done programming at CKLN for over a decade. And when we needed them, they invited us to share their space. From all of us, we say Thank You Focus and your amazing staff!

Talent uploads on Friday's Orbit Sept. 9.

The sweet and sublime  Ivy Mairi  will be visiting at 11:30 with her No Talker sophomore disk.


THE PAINT MOVEMENT - Fortune's Window from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

Then at 12:30, hopes are high for the Paint Movement's upward trajectory as they drop up from their big cross- Canada tour at 12:30.
"The 6 piece band mixes elements of rock, pop and soul and melds them into unique songs which at times feature male vocals, at others female vocals, and a lot of the time you hear group chants". The band will be bringing the new songs to the Orbit, with an official Toronto CD release tonight at the  Horseshoe.

Architectural Mapping Moscow

4D Show In Moscow (23 pics + 1 video) On Moscow City Day a Russian Bank that celebrated its 20th anniversary organized a marvelous 4D show with largest video images in... more The facade of the main building of Moscow State University on Sparrow Hills turn into a huge screen to show the unique light and music presentation staged by David Atkins.

My Favourite Song From This Summer.

Kasper Winding Remixes Efterklang's Raincoats.

I couldn't find a vid for it so I made one so I could share it with you.

The song just gives me energy...the bass...the guitar sound...the reverb....the glockenspiel.

Makes me wake up and live.

I don't own any of these images or gifs, btw.

Heavyweights in Orbit - Interview and Bring You Down live!

Visually a bit monotonous but a sonically thrilling version of the Heavyweights in the studio today.

Playlist for Corby’s Orbit on CKLN.FM, Show of Friday, second of September, 2011

 (brought to you by Awesome Autumn NRG , Harlem Renaissance, and the Shelter Valley re-brother re-sister vibe)

11-2 p.m. online. Canadians in red.

11:00  Instructional Rock

Mumbles and Cut Chemisy – Caution

Puracane – Went Away

Camp Radio – Cosmic Fair

The Pack A.D. – Positronic

The Paint Movement – Porcelains

The Light from the Heart

Saidah Baba Talibah – Fall Again

Jorge Martinez – Dulce Melancolia

Heavyweights Brass Band – Just the Two of Us / Interview /

                                                     Heavyweight Don’t Bring Me Down and  Single Ladies (live)

Little Feat – Long Distance Love (live)

Wagons – My Daydreams

12:00  Out Shelter Valley Way Showcase

Raymond McLain and Mike Stevens – Footprints in the Snow

Corin Raymond – Blue Mermaid Dress

Layah Jane – Follow You

Eliza Gilkyson – Beauty Way

C.N.E. Seasonal Soul Scene

Steven Ambrose – My Private Little Hell

Paul James – Gotta Gimme Some Of It

Dr. Nick and the Rollercoasters – Got Love if You Want It

Muddy Waters – Clouds in my Heart (live)

B.B. King – Don’t Look Down

Speech – Like Marvin Gaye Said

1:00 Eternal Luminaries for Romare Bearden

Carmen McRae  / Clifford Jordan – Looking Back

Winter Consort & The Dmitri Pokrovsky Singers – Kyrie

Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy – Lament

Pressure and Pleasure Points

Alexandre Gismonti – Na Pressao

Cesaria Evora – Bia D’Lulucha (live)

Mandeng Elektrik – Oya Oye

Microbunny w. Rebecca Campbell – Blue September Blues

 Laura Nyro – Sweet Blindness (live)

Selected Toronto Listings over Charles Lloyd’s Sweet Georgia Bright

Joy Kills Sorrow - We Will have Our Day 

Jack Bruce & Robin Trower – Take Good Care of Yourself

Loads to hear this weekend! Out along the 401 to Shelter Valley.

Come up to the surface for fresh musical air blowing toweards Grafton Ontario this weekend where Shelter Valley Folk Festival will offer cool breezes of contemporary folk and roots music of the highest effervescence. Special feature on many of the artists today at noon.