Rebroadcast: 04/04/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM
For the first time in Wake Up Winnipeg, we aired our conversation with Canadian Comedian classic Colin Mochrie in it's entirety. Colin was the first guest we ever welcomed to Wake Up Winnipeg and stems from episode number 1.
Rebroadcast: 03/28/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM
We started today's show off with a developing story regarding Air Canada's wild cat strike at a variety of airports across Canada. To understand how the strike affected passengers with flights scheduled in Winnipeg. To help us, we spoke with Christine Alongi who is the Director of Communications & Public Affairs at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport.
Following that we welcomed Canadian hip-hop artist Classified back to our program for his second time. We spoke to him moments before he took the stage to open up for Canadian band Headly at the MTS Centre while on tour in Winnipeg.
Finally, we welcomed back Dan The Intern who offered his thoughts of the Poor Young Things performance at the Oak bar in Winnipeg.
On Wake Up Winnipeg Episode 73, we welcomed Classified to our show for the first of many conversations with the Juno nominated artist. At the time, Classified was in town playing at the Garrick Centre promoting his album Handshakes & Middle Fingers.
On Saturday March 17th, 2012, host Andru Valpy alongside Dan The Intern had the opportunity to catch up with Classified while he was on tour in Winnipeg with Hedley. During this tour bus chat we followed up with Classified one year later and found out what he was up to.
Here's our conversation with Classified:
For more on our interview with Classified, tune in to Wake Up Winnipeg Episode 116 on Friday March 23rd or
catch the repeat of this interview on our podcast.
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On Saturday March 17th 2012, approximately 600 people turned up for Winnipeg's First ever St. Patrick's Day Parade.
The parade started at the Manitoba Legislative Building, went east on Broadway, north on Smith Street, west on St. Mary Avenue. and south onto Carlton Street before wrapping up at Shannon's Irish Pub.
An unseasonably warm weather pattern helped attract a larger crowd as temperatures reached 20 degrees Celsius.
In this video we hear from parade-goers Mike Boyle, Kimmy Marland and event organizer Margaret Gannon as they describe their experiences while marching in the parade:
Video captured and produced by: Andru Valpy (UMFM 101.5 FM)
(c) 2012, A. Valpy / Wake Up Winnipeg / UMFM / Aimless & Andy Productions)
Rebroadcast: 03/14/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM
On this week's episode we welcomed Dan The Intern and Just Dave to our show and introduced them to the world of Wake Up Winnipeg. After they learned the ropes of our program we carried on as per usual.
We welcomed Toronto based band Poor Young Things into our studios as part of The Aimless & Andy Sessions.
The band was in Winnipeg opening for The Trews while on tour across Western Canada. During this session we had a proper conversation with the band and featured a track called Reckless and Young of their EP "Let It Sleep" which was released on January 24th of this year.
Ahead of his show at the MTS Centre, we revisited our interview with Classified from episode 73 which we aired on April 13th, 2011.
Rebroadcast: 03/14/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM
This week was a very busy week for Wake Up Winnipeg.
After our news and event listings we took the time to fill our listeners in to some upcoming events happening within Winnipeg, and also focused on a new project launched by the NHLPA and Blackberry.
We talked to Big Ol Entertainment, the company responsible for bringing in Norm Macdonald to Winnipeg and found out what we can expect from his show at the Burton Cummings Theater.
During our conversation Nancy pointed us towards a video containing more information about the Move 'N Groove-a-Thon:
Finally we talked to Colin Campbell, Director of Corporate Partnerships about the NHLPA Players PlayBook video series. Whether it’s family life or life on the road, shopping trips or autograph sessions, five NHL star players have been given a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with a simple goal: film everything.
The NHLPA Players’ PlayBook is giving exclusive access into the lives of five of the league’s most engaging players.
NHLPA and BlackBerry have teamed up for the first of its kind video series that features off-ice action captured by the players themselves.
The new series features footage recorded exclusively on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in high-definition format and edited into short video episodes that are updated daily at www.nhlpa.com/playbook
Creating the ultimate power play, the minute and a half long episodes feature five NHLPA members:
Though we have aired certain portions of our conversation before, we have never aired the entire chat un-edited. We do this to kick off the 2012 Winnipeg Comedy Festival which starts next week.
