Formerly Royal City Rag: Recent Episodes
Jan Hall
Welcome to the original website for Royal City Rag. Royal City Rag started in Guelph in August 2005 as a Tuesday morning mixed music and spoken word (politics and current affairs) show. After a brief stint in the Wednesday 6-7 p.m. slot we found our way to our current home on Saturday mornings from 8-10 […]
On July 1 2009, Royal City Rag headed out to Riverside Park to celebrate Canada Day on location with storytellers Sya Van Geest and Brad Woods, and singer-songwriter Sam Turton. Despite the poor weather, all turned out sunny on a fun show. Our storytellers were on fine form; Sya explaining the origin of storytelling and […]
Royal City Rag will be taking a much needed rest this winter. CFRU’s Migrant Matters will be filling our time slot on December 11 and 18. Thanks to Mary-Carl for helping us out. We’re expecting to be back on the air on January 8. In the meantime, please take advantage of our archive. Don’t forget […]
Royal City Rag on December 4 will have a distinctly seasonal theme and lots of guests. Charlie Cares from Ground Floor Music will be joining us during the first hour to chat about “A Christmas Carol”, a dramatic tour de force featuring John Huston portraying Charles Dickens as he tells his classic yuletide tale. The show takes place at […]
The fourth edition of Hillside’s winter festival, Hillside Inside, is taking shape. 2011’s indoor festival takes place from February 4-5 2011 and this year moves from the Sleeman Centre to a variety of downtown Guelph venues. As usual, it promises to provide a great winter fix for those who can’t wait for the summer festival to come around again. […]
After a SIX year hiatus the Ground Floor Music Concert Series returns on December 7 with a reprise performance by John Huston portraying Charles Dickens, as he tells his classic yuletide tale, “A Christmas Carol” at St. James The Apostle Anglican Church in Guelph. This is NOT a reading, nor a recitation, but a dramatic […]
Guelph Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 10th Anniversary season, featuring five concerts and five guest conductors . One of these will be selected as the new resident conductor of the GSO, starting in the 2011-12 season. Audience members are invited to contribute to the selection process, through a survey available after each concert! “Christmas Choral Fantasy” […]
Royal City Rag will be back on CFRU 93.3fm this coming weekend with a busy show featuring a follow up interview with Guelph M.P. Frank Valeriote (complete with his Movember moustache) and a visit from The Working Week‘s Scotty Hertz to update us on the Wood’s Site/Downtown redevelopment plan and the 2nd Canadian Labour International Film Festival taking place […]
Guelph Youth Singers present their annual seasonal concert This Frosty Tide at St. George’s Anglican Church on December 4 at 7.30 p.m. Traditional carols in beautiful choral arrangements will mix with songs of frosty winter. Guest soprano soloists, Marion Samuel-Stevens and Sandra Tucker, will add to the concert with solos including Mozart’s “Exultate Jubilate,” Adolph […]
The 2nd Canadian Labour International Film Festival will be coming to Guelph on November 28 for a special Festival-in-a box screening at the Guelph and District Labour Council, 141 Woolwich Street, (Matrix Building, Woolwich and Eramosa) starting at 2.00 p.m. CLiFF aims to increase awareness about labour issues worldwide by screening short films about workers […]
Guelph audiences have a one-time opportunity on December 4 to experience the joy of “Wassail!”- a celebration of old-fashioned Christmas and solstice traditions that has been entertaining London (Ontario) audiences for 20 years. The show features traditional songs and carols sung by a 13-member choir, elegant English dances and rollicking Morris dancing accompanied by live […]
Royal City Rag has two sets of two tickets to give away for the show by Lights (with special guests, Michou) at Cowboys on Wyndham Street on November 26. A third set of two tickets has already been claimed by Gerry D. Tickets are the all-ages show are $25 each and available via all Ticketmaster outlets. If […]
We’re taking a break from Royal City Rag this weekend for a well-earned rest. CFRU’s Migrant Matters will be filling our time slot this week. Thanks to Mary-Carl for helping us out. We’ll be back on the air again November 27 when Guelph MP Frank Valeriote, complete with his Movember mustache, will be our guest. In the meantime, please […]
Guelph artist Sarah Elaine Quick has an opening reception at the Red Brick Cafe on Douglas Street, Downtown Guelph this evening, Saturday November 13 at 7.00 p.m. The exhibition runs till the end of the year. Check out the portrait of Guelph singer-songwriter Tannis Simmon, one of Royal City Rag’s favourites at the back of the […]
We have a busy, recreation-based, Royal City Rag planned for CFRU 99.3fm this Saturday morning, November 13 between 8-10 a.m. In the first hour, we’ll be talking to Jack Frimeth about the Reel Paddling Film Festival. The Centre Wellington DHS Aboriginal Program presents the 5th Annual Reel Paddling Film Festival at the E.L. Fox Auditorium (JF Ross CVI), 22 […]
Singer-songwriter Royal Wood is back in Guelph on November 24 for a show at Dublin Street United with special guest, Vancouver based pop/roots performer, Hannah Georgas. Royal is currently on a Canadian headline tour in support of his latest recording, The Waiting. The album appropriately begins with a song entitled “You Can’t Go Back.” Based […]
We’re dedicating the whole of CFRU 93.3fm’s Royal City Rag on November 6 to Our Environmental Future, a symposium taking place this coming Wednesday, November 10 from 4.30 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. in the Thornborough Building Rm 1200 at the University of Guelph. The forum, organized by City of Guelph Councillor Maggie Laidlaw, The Guelph Chapter of the […]
We were broadcasting from the basement at CFRU 93.3fm on October 30. All part of the station’s fundraising drive, Raise Your Voice, apparently. Evidently I hadn’t raised enough money. Fortunately some good folk from radioland bailed me out however we could still do with some more pledges. If you enjoy Royal City Rag, please consider donating to […]
It’s that time of year of year again. CFRU’s funding drive “Raise Your Voice” runs from October 23 to October 31. CFRU 93.3fm is a Campus and Community Radio Station that broadcasts 75 different shows in multiple languages 24 hours a day, 365 days a week. With a hefty volunteer base that includes students, business […]
Significant changes have taken place in Bolivia since the election of Latin America’s first peasant-indigenous President, Evo Morales. in 2006. In addition to approving a new constitution that establishes the continent’s first plurinational democratic state, Bolivia was the site of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held last […]