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A Day To Listen 2024

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On Monday, September 30, CKUA will join with more than 500 radio stations throughout Canada for A Day To Listen. Hear the words of Indigenous leaders, artists, storytellers, and residential school survivors.

Radio stations of all formats, sizes, and regions will participate. This year’s theme is All Our Relations with hosts Kim Wheeler, Julian Taylor, and January Rogers. Between 6am and 6pm MT, you will hear stories and interviews from Indigenous community leaders, artists, creators, and elders, revealing culture, community, and how we are all connected.

CKUA hosts will also choose special music to mark the occasion. The artistry and creativity of Indigenous singers, songwriters, and bands will be heard throughout the day.

Chanie Wenjack was an Anishinaabe boy who died in 1966 at the age of 12 after running away from a residential school in Kenora, Ontario, in an attempt to reunite with his family. Gord Downie was a Canadian musician best known for leading the band The Tragically Hip; before his death in 2017, he spent considerable time and energy inviting himself and others to “do something” to heal Indigenous-settler relations.

Inspired by Chanie’s story and Gord’s call to build a better Canada, the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

“In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, CKUA is proud to partner once again with the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) on A Day To Listen 2024,” says Content Director Arianne Smith-Piquette. “Highlighting the voices of Indigenous Canadians and sharing the stories of Indigenous identity as part of this important broadcast allows us all to move reconciliation forward in meaningful ways.”

Joe Hartfeil is your guest host on Alberta Morning. He’ll present music and stories, including the cross-generational reverberations connecting artist and activist Alanis with her much younger cousin Mali Obomsawin.

Leo Cripps will play music by Indigenous artists, and will share excerpts from conversations with William Prince, Shauit and Leonard Sumner.

Kate Stevens will play music by Indigenous artists, with a focus on queer and LGBTQIA+ 2S artists. Also, hear clips from Kate’s conversation with OHSOTO’KINO incubator artists Brettyn Rose and Darrian Gerard.

Tony King will cover the wide breadth of Indigenous contributions to the music scene through flavours sculpted in electronic pastures by artists like Zoon and Classic Roots, to the Classical fusion of traditional sounds evident in Cris Derksen and Morgan Toney. All of this will be parsed with postcards from the north as purveyed by PIQSIQ and Kelly Fraser, plus the view from our backyard as seen through the eyes of artists like Leela Gilday and ASKO.

Lisa Wilton will have a special feature on Elisapie.

Kerry Clarke has tunes to spin by Amyma, Laura Niquay, Mimi O’Bonsawin, Leela Gilday, Boogey the Beat, OMBIIGIZI, Josh Q., and Silla.

Amy van Keeken will share music by Indigenous artists in many genres including ambient, classical, jazz, and choral. She’ll spin some deep cuts from Willie Dunn’s vast and varied catalogue as well.

Listen with us!

Monday, September 30, 2024

Alberta Morning, 6am-9am – guest host Joe Hartfeil
Discoveries, 9am-11am – Leo Cripps
The Upload, 11am-1pm – Kate Stevens
Thoroughfare, 1pm-3pm – Tony King
Traffic Jams, 3pm-6pm – Lisa Wilton
Catch and Release, 6pm-8pm – Kerry Clarke
A Newcomer to Old Music, 8pm-10pm – Lark Clark
Twilight, 10pm-midnight – Amy van Keeken