101.9 DAWG FM Live at the 15th Annual Maple Blues Awards

Posted on January 18, 2011 by admin
Posted in Blues In Canada News Tagged 101.9 FM, blues, blues in canada, blues music, canada radio, canadian radio station

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101.9 DAWG FM became the first commercial radio station to cover the maple Blues awards live yesterday.

J-man interviewed nominees, winners, presenters and some hall of fame blues musicians from around the world.

101.9 DAWG FM became the first commercial radio station to cover the maple Blues awards live yesterday.

J-man interviewed nominees, winners, presenters and some hall of fame blues musicians from around the world.

Hamilton, Halifax and Hogtown Celebrate Maple Blues Awards!
Ottawa’s Monkey Junk take three awards!

(January 17, 2010) Toronto, ON – Canadian blues artists from coast-to-coast were well represented at the 14th Annual Maple Blues Awards gala in Toronto last night as a sold-out crowd of blues lovers gathered to celebrate Canadian Blues at Koerner Hall.

Ottawa’s Monkey Junk took the lead with three wins, including Electric Act of the Year, Harmonica Player of the Year (Steve Marriner) and Drummer of the Year (Matt Sobb). East Coast blues giant Matt Andersen walked away with two Maple Blues Awards for Entertainer of the Year and Acoustic Act of the Year. Another young East Coast bluesman, Garrett Mason, took home the Guitar Player of the Year award.

Hamilton’s Rita Chiarelli was presented the Blues With A Feeling Award (lifetime achievement) by Frederic Lamoureux from the Montreal Jazz Festival and the president of legendary blues label Alligator Records, Bruce Iglauer. Chiarelli, who has been dubbed the “goddess of Canadian blues”, received the award for her long and vibrant career as one of the premier female blues musicians in Canada. Following a moving tribute video Hamilton native, Richard Newell a.k.a King Biscuit Boy received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to the blues in Canada and internationally, accepted by his son Richard Oddie and brother Randy Waller.

Other highlights include Female Vocalist of the Year for Toronto’s Shakura S’Aida, an internationally recognized singer whose performance earlier in the evening had the audience spellbound. The award was presented by popular CBC personality George Stromboulopoulis and MBA winner Matt Andersen, who also presented Recording of the Year to Toronto’s Downchild. Toronto’s Julian Fauth was presented the award for Keyboard Player of the Year by legendary blues keyboard player Curley Bridges and Dave Booth, a.k.a Daddy Cool, now back on the air waves at Whistle FM. Keith Picot, of the Vancouver based band The Twisters was presented with Bassist of the Year by Montreal blues singer Dawn Tyler Watson and Bill Wax, host of XM Radio’s popular program Bluesville. The Maple Blues Awards gala featured outstanding performances from winners and nominees Jack de Keyzer, Tom Lavin, Matt Andersen, Shakura S’Aida and Dawn Tyler Watson, all backed by The Maple Blues Band.

The Blues Booster of the Year award, a very special Maple Blues Award honouring outstanding contribution to the Canadian blues music industry was awarded to Gord MacAulay, Chair of the Saskatoon Blues Festival and a long time serving board member of the Saskatoon Blues Society.

Now in its 25th year, The Toronto Blues Society is a non profit membership organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Blues. The Maple Blues Awards is Canada’s national blues awards program. Its goal is to promote blues music across Canada, and to recognize outstanding achievement in the field.

WINNERS OF THE 14TH ANNUAL MAPLE BLUES AWARDS

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Matt Andersen

ELECTRIC ACT OF THE YEAR
Monkey Junk

ACOUSTIC ACT OF THE YEAR
Matt Andersen

MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
John Mays

FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Shakura S’Aida

NEW ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Mike “Shrimp Daddy” Reid

RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Downchild / I Need A Hat / Linus
Producer – Don Walsh

BLUES WITH A FEELING AWARD (Lifetime Achievement)
Rita Chiarelli

BB KING INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band

GUITAR PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Garrett Mason

HARMONICA PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Steve Marriner

PIANO/KEYBOARD PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Julian Fauth

HORN PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Chris Whiteley

DRUMMER OF THE YEAR
Matt Sobb

BASSIST OF THE YEAR
Keith Picot

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Paul Reddick & Colin Linden

BLUES BOOSTER OF THE YEAR
Gord MacAulay

SPECIAL LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD
Richard Newell

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For more information contact:
Sarah French
Sarah French Publicity
sarah@sarahfrenchpublicity.com | 416-566-4188
Jordan Safer
The Toronto Blues Society
info@torontobluessociety.com
(416)538-3885

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Blues In Canada is On TWITTER!

Posted on January 11, 2011 by admin
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DAWG FM 101.9 FM is Here!

Posted on January 11, 2011 by admin
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101.9 DAWG FM is Canada’s first and only ALL BLUES COMMERCIAL RADIO STATION! DAWG FM is based in Ottawa, Ontario on 101.9FM and was launched in June 2010 with 4500 Watts.

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Watch Our You Tube Promotion Video

Posted on January 11, 2010 by admin
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Watch Our You Tube Promotion Video

DAWG FM, North Americas first all-blues commercial radio station, will broadcast from Ottawa next year. Founders Ed Torres and Todd Bernhard share their vision with Ottawa Citizen arts reporter Lynn Saxberg.

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AWARDS We’ve Won at Blues In Canada – ED TORRES FROM THE NEW 101.9 DAWG FM WINS THE BLUES BOOSTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Posted on January 11, 2010 by admin
Posted in Blues In Canada News, Featured Tagged 101.9 FM, blues in canada, blues music, canada radio, canadian radio station, dan aykroyd, dawg, dawg fm, maple blues award, the blues, toronto blues society

AWARDS We’ve Won

For Immediate Release

ED TORRES FROM THE NEW 101.9 DAWG FM WINS THE BLUES BOOSTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Toronto, ON January 5, 2010 — The Toronto Blues Society has announced the recipient of the Blues Booster of the Year award, a very special Maple Blues Award honouring outstanding contribution to the Canadian Blues industry.

This years Blues Booster of the Year award goes to Ed Torres, one of the founders of all blues radio station 101.9 DAWG FM. “It’s a great honour to receive this award on behalf of the staff of The New 101.9 DAWG FM. The real boost for the Blues and all of the Canadian Artists that make it their life’s work starts June 1, when we light up our full service commercial Blues FM station in Ottawa. There’s a real buzz in the Ottawa radio scene, advertisers are excited and the applications and CD’s are flooding in,” said Torres.

What was to be Canada’s only all blues station based in Ottawa and Gatineau, DAWG FM was licenced by the CRTC in August 2008, only to have the licence sent back for reconsideration. Torres was instrumental in launching an exhaustive and expensive year-long campaign to have the licence upheld and to pave the way for all Blues radio formats across Canada.

In August 2009, the CRTC re-issued the licence for DAWG FM and the station is set for launch in the summer of 2010. “We were very pleased to get the licence re-issued by the CRTC. The appeal of the first licence was emotional and exhausting. It’s unfortunate that we’ve been delayed almost a full year but as it was explained to us by countless politicos that we met along the way: democracy isn’t always efficient but in the end it works. The excitement of our June 1st launch date is building hourly. The CRTC has acknowledged that Blues is not just an essential North American art form but that it can be the basis of a financially viable commercial FM station. This paves the way for the first Blues radio station in Canada,” Ed Torres will receive the Blues Booster of the Year Award at the 13th annual Maple Blues Awards gala on January 18 in Toronto.

What: The Maple Blues Awards

Where: Koerner Hall – The Royal Conservatory (273 Bloor Street W., Toronto)

When: Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:00PM

Website: http://www.torontobluessociety.com

Tickets: $20.00 – $28.00 available at www.rcmusic.ca or 416.408.0208

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LINKS of Friends of Blues In Canada

Posted on January 11, 2009 by admin
Posted in Blues In Canada News, Featured Tagged 101.9 FM, blues in canada, blues music, canada radio, canadian radio station, dan aykroyd, dawg, dawg fm, the blues

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http://muddcats.com – To The Official MuddCats Website, a great blues band.

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http://www.jw-jones.com/ – the JW Jones Blues Band official website

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http://thebearcats.com – please visit the Bearcats!

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http://www.Musician911.com - This is a place where musicians can post for free to find other band membersit is the mission of this service to help musicians improve their musical careers as well as be connected to others in the scene.This is also a unique opportunity for business to advertise in a place where bands are working on their careers. To offer their brand of guitars, microphones, drums,? basses or other recording hardware to a targeted audience. In the Forums – is a good place for pro’s to help beginners with their questions and for other pros to offer the latest information on new products and services we will be featuring the latest gear and break down of what its about? and the manufacture as well as a example of how it can be used.
A rate card is availableinquire for more information.
Thank you

http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2766/206/

http://www.ottawasun.com/Showbiz/OtherShowbiz/2008/08/27/6591481.html

http://www.radio-info.com/news/

Toronto Blues Society
http://muddcats.com – To The Official MuddCats Website, a great blues band.

http://www.grandriverblues.org/ - One great site

http://www.jw-jones.com/ – the JW Jones Blues Band official website

http://www.garykendall.com/ – official website of Gary Kendall

http://www.beaumontblues.net/

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Ottawa Gets The Blues!

Posted on October 15, 2008 by admin
Posted in Blues In Canada News Tagged 101.9 FM, blues music, canada radio, dawg, ottawa

Ottawa, August 26 2008- Finally, Blues artists and fans in Canada and across the world have a radio station that they can call their own. Today, the CRTC announced the approval of a new radio station in the Ottawa market -DAWG FM 101.9

Dawg FM will broadcast on the FM dial at 101.9 MhZ and will represent the best of the Canadian and international blues worlds. Well known Blues artists like Norah Jones, Eric Clapton and Jeff Healey will be featured. At the same time, DAWG will be the promoter of home-grown Canadian blues artists including Jack DeKeyzer, Downchild Blues Band, Sue Foley and Harry Manx. Finally there will be a Blues station that will bring this previously underserved genre to the masses on mainstream FM radio.

DAWG FM will be young, energetic and will bring new ideas to radio. DAWG representatives claimed at the CRTC presentations, “We aren’t the Big Dog on the block, but we have attitude. Our radio station will have a brand and it will have a feel, and the feel is the blues.”

“We are ecstatic!” says Frank Torres, “The Commission made a bold decision today that will not only add a new, diverse voice to Canadian radio but will also provide exposure to hundreds of Canadian artists that previously had no commercial voice.”

DAWG FM will be owned by Frank and Ed Torres, Robyn Metcalfe and Todd Bernard; the senior management group at Skywords Traffic Network. Skywords is a leading Canadian radio content provider. Skywords produces and distributes a wide range of radio programming to radio stations across Canada from offices throughout the country. Skywords has been part of the Ottawa community since 1994.

Dawg FM will be on the air in 2009.

For more information please contact Frank Torres 905 470-7655 ext 100

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Wildlife: Blues, Blues, And More GTA4 Blues

Posted on May 1, 2008 by admin
Posted in Blues In Canada News Tagged 101.9 FM, blues in canada, blues music, canada radio, canadian radio station, crtc, dan aykroyd, dawg, dawg fm, ottawa, the blues

Blues fest and Blues FM make announcements, and There’s more blues to be had in the gaming sphere
Published May 1, 2008 by Fish Griwkowsky in Music Preview

How much blues is enough for you? Three hundred and fifty-seven pounds? Forty-six and five-sixteenth tonnes? Can such a thing even be measured? Does there even exist a limit as to how much concentrated “done-wrongness” you can accept as your personal saviour?

Well, either way, Edmonton is a fine place to be this summer if you relish dependable textbook beats, lyrics that describe your exact position in life, and repeated citations of the plural form of one of the three primary colours. First off, Jeremy Loome—the singer in front of The Hardline Blues Band and an enthusiastic blues journalist—has issued a general summons:

“A radio company out of Ontario, Skywords, is currently pitching six large-market FM blues stations to the CRTC,” he says. “It has applications in cities across the country, including Edmonton.

“The CRTC is holding a hearing on May 27 in Edmonton and I was hoping you could put the word out over the next week and see if any artists you know would be interested in becoming intervenors on behalf of the station, to show why having mainstream blues (and the license is for 100 per cent blues—a first, as far as I know) on the FM airwaves would benefit blues musicians and music culture in general.”

Done and done. Anyone interested in helping out should e-mail Jeff McFayden quickly at jmcfayden@skywords.com. Non-artists can get involved by writing letters of support through the bluesincananda.com site. Seeing as we’re already groovin’ on the blues-puter, you can also download some of Loome’s music at littleknownblues.com.

Now the second way to seriously immerse your entire twitching body in this music is to join in the 10-year anniversary celebrations at this year’s Blues Fest down at the Heritage Amphitheatre from August 22-24. For the hot dogs alone, people. I must say I admire organizer Cam Hayden’s specific attempt to bring fresh bands in every year—a lesson to be learned. That said, this is a big anniversary, so Blues International is treating 2008 as a best-of year, which is fair enough. The lineup includes a good mix of Downchild, the sultry Janiva Magness, Ann Rabson, Charlie Musselwhite as a festival closer, and piano legend Pinetop Perkins, who’s coming up fast on his 100th birthday in 2013. Tickets go on sale today everywhere, including Megatunes.

Incidentally, Ike Turner was not asked to return. Though his show in Hawrelak a few years back was spectacular and hilarious, he’s actually dead now. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is some serious blues. But if you’re still looking for even more blues, the realest blues of all, visit democracynow.org.

Fans of music and DJ culture were sorely disappointed in the midnight lineup for the new Grand Theft Auto IV this week, instead serving up a bland, Soviet-style lineup with two models dressed as cops occasionally harassing us with posters and XXL Xbox Live T-shirts, fertile ground for chip grease and man tits. While I hella appreciate the tough love behind cop shades, the only other thing to “entertain” us in the shivering queue were Chinese vacationers torturing a cockroach by melting a Tim Hortons straw onto it and a bunch of showboater, truck-driving doofs rolling over every curb possible, looking around to see if everyone’s watching. I cannot believe the lame depths this **cking world has sunk to.

First, as fun as they are to play, rock ’n’ roll, metal and punk have become inarguably suburbanized by a tsunami of karaoke band games… and now “crime” has been totally nerdified by the latest murder simulator?

Does everything evil need bouncers at the door now? Go back to math, you **cking geeks. At least you’d be good at something.

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