Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 100
Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy Paul McAvoy & Natty Somers
Air Date: 11/04/2011 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
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Rebroadcast: 11/09/2011 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM
This week we celebrated our 100th episode of
Wake Up Winnipeg, To help us reminisce we invited former co-host Paul McAvoy to the station alongside queen of co-hosts Natty Somers.
Two years ago
Wake Up Winnipeg started as a side project to
The Aimless & Andy Show which also aired on
UMFM. The intent was to put together a talk show built specifically around local news and event listings in an effort to show our stations ongoing support to our community, but also as a resource for us to explore a side of radio production that we had not personally explored before.
Here we are two years later and we continue to learn more about this city. I am happy to officially call it home and act as a strong advocate for Winnipeg. Our ongoing goal for each episode of
Wake Up Winnipeg is to seek out new opportunities, adventures and stories and continue to share to those our friends within the perimeter and those families and fans throughout the world.
On today's episode we take a look back on our success and replay just some of our favorite interviews including:
- Colin Mochrie - Episode 1
- The Heavy (UK) - Episode 5
- Joel Plaskett - Episode 12
- Jill Barber - Episode 12
- The Edmonton Folk Festival - Episode 11
- John Blackwood & The Housewives - Episode 18
- Winnipeg Folk Festivals - Episodes 4, 10, 50, 51, 85, 86
- Trampled By Turtles - Episode 85
- Melissa McClelland - Episode 85
- Tom Green - Episode 77, 78
- Folklorama - Episodes 4, 54, 88, 89
With over 100 episodes of our show and only 30 minutes to reflect it was certainly challenging to decide on what interviews we were going to feature. The above mentioned interviews and clips are only
some of the
many moments that have helped build up our show over the last year and a half. If you'd like a complete look at all of our episodes
be sure to check out our show logs.
Towards the end of the episode I release a surprise to share with all of you with a cover of
The Guess Who's song -
These Eyes that I recorded with our friends from
Callida and with the help of
Greg Arcade.
A note about the video:
This is what happens when a drummer makes the jump to front man. . . It's my first attempt at publicly singing.
In case you missed it. . . this was my surprise for Wake Up Winnipeg episode 100.
My
vocals were a bit scratchy towards the end and it was tough to hit some
of Burton Cummings high notes because I had been practicing a bit too
much before recording.
A big thanks to Geoff Thompson, Trevor
Lux, Rodrigo Ramirez for their help in recording this take! The actual
audio recording that aired on Wake Up Winnipeg also featured Greg Arcade
on the keys, so thanks to him for that!
The video and audio
don't sync exactly. I didn't end up filming the actual take of the song
so I matched the video as best I could.
The episode is now available for free download as a free podcast
in the iTunes music store. Feel free to subscribe for past episodes, in studio sessions and extended interviews from Season 3.
A big thanks to all of our fans and supporters for their help over the last 100 episodes.
Rock and Roll with a Thanks on Top,
Andru Valpy
(c) 2011 A. Valpy - Wake Up Winnipeg/UMFM
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.
