CKUT Time Capsule

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King. In commemoration of this historic event, Christopher Heron, host of Mind Soul & Spirit conducted an interview with Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Rev Jackson speaks of his love for gospel music (he grew up with Aretha Franklin). Christopher asks him to contrast today's "State of America" with that of the past. Rev Jackson speaks of the humiliation of racism, the current "tug of war for the soul of America", the dangers of "spending more money on militarism than on human rights leading to morally and spiritually bankrupting the nation".

They discuss importance of globalism - labor, capital, technology and human rights and states in the end it is "character and caring - caring is the key" - not limited to race, gender or religious persuasion.

CKUT intern Eve Fiertag speaks to former Music Coordinator and Production Coordinator Christof Migone who participated at CKUT from 1987 - 92. He also hosted the radio show "Dangers In Paradise" which he described as anything other than college rock.

He collaborated with Julia Loktev on a show called Body Map where they took the island of Montreal and imagined it as a reclining body and got people to call in so they could let them know what part of the body they were situated in. As CKUT Production Coordinator he trained and motivated volunteers to create with sound and open up the possibilities of radio.

The Montreal Sessions dug into this CKUT Time Capsule for the Month of March 2018. In this episode we look at 30 Years of feminist radio. Your hosts, Alex Moskos and Louise Burns interview Penny Patterson who hosted the radio shows CUTS, Thread the Needle and Beach Blanket Bingo on CKUT and who speaks about her experience interviewing Riot Grrrl bands in the 90s (many of those interviews are in this time capsule).

We also interview Anna Leventhal about her experience hosting Venus and being the chair of CKUT's Board of Directors.

As part of the 30th Anniversary Oral History special programming we interview Pat Dillon Moore aka The Dreadhead aka The Empress aka Sistah P - ormer host of Positive Vibes, former station manager of CKUT and current co-host of Bhum Bhum Time.

Pat tells us what it was like growing up in Montreal in the 70s. We discuss race relations at CKUT, money, moving the station from McTavish Street to University street we recount the story of when our turntables got stolen... and play lots of reggae music.

Throughout the month of March, the Montreal Sessions is being devoted to cracking open the time capsule and exploring what 30 Years of free form, independent, underground radio sounds like.

This episode includes an interview with longtime CKUT volunteer Margo Lane, Roots Rock Reggae listeners calling in with their shout outs and greetings, an interview with Joan LaBarbara, freestyling during Off The Hook Radio, an excerpt of the Sun Ra interview and much more.

Interview with Samaa Elibyari, member of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and host of Caravan on CKUT.

Interviewed by CKUT's former Arts & Culture Coordinator Tamara Filyavich.

In celebration of CKUT's 30th Anniversary on the FM dial, we will be exploring our past through a series of podcasts, time capsule posts and live events such as this first one.

We sat down with Rickey D, host of Sound of Soul since 1988 and hip hop promoter and influencer for 32 years! Rickey was interviewed at Artgang by Malik Shaheed - music by DJ Pro-V. Thanks to Heritage Canada and Arcmtl for their help in making this happen.

XX files celebrates 20 years of feminist radio on CKUT 90.3fm. In this clip Valerie Walker who has contributed to this show for 19 years speaks of the origins. Keeping it real cause "we have the power to learn and teach each other."

Josh Marquis, host of the radio show QueerCorps, interviews ex CKUT staff and former host of QueerCorps and Schmoozing, Puelo Dier and photographer Linda Dawn Hammond about the infamous event known as Sex Garage that galvanized the queer community in July 1990.

Sex Garage was a loft party put on by Nicholas Jenkins. The event was raided by policemen who took off their badges and proceeded to arrest and beat participants. Linda Dawn Hammond took pictures of the raid and managed to get them to the La Presse and the Montreal Gazette. An incredible story of homophobia and fighting back.