a re-print from “The Record”
“Stop!” is a TV show on Videotron’s community cable network Vox (channel 9) out of Granby, and features young local musicians from the area playing different genres of music.
For the past three years “Stop!”, produced by Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM / CIDI 99.1 FM) in conjunction with Télévision Communautaire de Waterloo, has presented 18 bands to date in a televised battle of the bands. The criteria for becoming a contestant are: the artist has to be an independent artist, perform original compositions and be able to play live in studio in front of TV cameras.
This year, from the beginning of September right up until the third week of December, the producers of “Stop!” will be presenting for the first time the “Stop!” piano competition. The show will feature six classically trained piano students from the area vying for $1, 000 of scholarship prize money for the benefit of furthering their musical education; 1st place $500, 2nd place $350 and 3rd place $150. There will also be a public choice award decided by people who go to Radio Communautaire Missisquoi’s website (www.rcmmedia.org) and place their votes in an online voting booth.
Voici un article publié dans La Voix de L’Est (Arts & Spectacles) du Mercredi 1er septembre 2010 traitant de la Compétition de Piano organisée par RCM
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Par Marie-Ève Lambert – La Voix de l’Est (Arts & Spectacles) – Publié le 01 septembre 2010 à 08h20
“C’est un grand jour pour moi, ça faisait six ans que j’attendais ce moment, lance l’écrivaine de renommée internationale Louise Penny. Je suis extrêmement contente, maintenant, mes voisins, mes amis et tous les Québécois pourront lire mes livres.”
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(Sutton) Louise Penny revenait tout juste de faire une petite balade sur le dos de Markus, ancien cheval de course qu’elle a sauvé de l’abattoir en l’adoptant. «C’est une journée magnifique», s’est-elle exclamée au bout du fil avec un charmant accent anglophone et une joie de vivre absolument communicative.
Il faut dire qu’elle avait bien raison de se réjouir: ses romans sont enfin publiés en français, la langue de sa communauté d’accueil. «C’est un grand jour pour moi, ça faisait six ans que j’attendais ce moment, lance la résidante de Sutton. Je suis extrêmement contente, maintenant, mes voisins, mes amis et tous les Québécois pourront lire mes livres.»
C’est dès jeudi le 2 septembre que sera disponible le premier tome des aventures de l’inspecteur Armand Gamache, En plein coeur (traduction de Michel Saint-Germain de Still Life aux éditions Flammarion). L’action se situe à Three Pines, un petit village fictif des Cantons-de-l’Est grandement inspiré de l’endroit où demeure l’écrivaine à la renommée internationale. «Si je ne vivais pas ici, il n’y aurait pas de livre», dit carrément la Torontoise d’origine.
Journaliste aux faits divers pour le compte de la CBC pendant de nombreuses années, Louise Penny s’est recyclée en auteure de romans policiers à la Agatha Christie il y a une dizaine d’années, alors qu’elle s’installait avec son conjoint dans une maison ancestrale de Sutton.
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a re-print from “The Record”
The “BIG Brome Fair” is coming and CIDI is abuzz in anticipation of the event. This will be the third year for us at the fair (in the same booth by the cattle barns). What’s different about this year is that it’s the first time we will be broadcasting live from the fair across Brome Missisquoi county at 1450 watts (effective radiating power). With our new Patch Hill tower right next to the fairgrounds the sounds of the event will be heard from Sutton right through to Bedford and around the world online.
Brome Fair is a good way, every Labour Day weekend, to meet fiends and relatives, including the ones we haven’t seen in years. For CIDI it’s a perfect place to sign up new members, and for our listeners to get to greet and meet the CIDI volunteers; hosts, technicians, producers and organizers. Come see the faces behind the voices you hear on 99.1 FM. It’s also a great way for Townshippers living abroad to get to hear sounds of the old homestead.
Being across from the cattle judging areas, our microphones pick up the results of daily events being blared across the grounds through metal speakers hanging from telephone polls. Fortunately our microphones are closer to our guests and hosts than the action and the sounds provide a perfect backdrop to interviews featuring local politicians and fair goers.
a re-print from “The Record”
It’s amazing how people are quick to pass judgement on others simply because they look and act differently. If one doesn’t resonate with the “flock” then that person is out, with very little hope of being taken seriously.
One of the challenges we are faced with at Radio Communautaire Missisquoi is accommodation. How do we embrace the variety of personalities coming through our door wanting to do radio, TV or help out in the kitchen so to speak?
We are all special and need to be recognized as such if there’s going to be any hope of “being who we are”. People in key positions of any non-profit have to put their feelings and prejudices on the backburner in exchange for corporate success. Give people a chance if there is to be peace, has to be the realization of the day.
a re-print from “The Record”
Did you know that Sutton has one of the highest concentrations of artists per capita compared to most places in the country? According to Michael Hynes who was recently interviewed by CIDI host Jacques Lecours for the Around Town / Tour de Ville radio show: “The percentage of the population in Sutton that are artists, based on information provided each year by Canadian tax returns, is well over 25%”. (listen to the show)
I can believe it. For many years I have noticed, as a life-long Townships resident, that Sutton is different. There is more of an interest in all things spiritual, organic and artistic, and the town has taken steps to physically reflect its special character. It has buried telephone wires in its downtown core and supported a successful non-profit organization called Le Coeur du village which is responsible for the success of the popular venue La Salle Alec et Gérard Pelletier.
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Looking for the right combination of people to move a project forward can be counter- productive. At times, it seems that the best policy is to rely on the law of attraction. With non-profits such as Radio Commuautaire Missisquoi it can be argued that the only guarantee we have things will work out, is directly related to the devotion our volunteers and employees have toward the company’s mission statement: being who we are.
CIDI is only as good as it sounds and RCM is only as good as it gets. Simply put, it means that our best chance of succeeding as a non-profit multimedia production company is based on our ability to be honest with ourselves and our community. That’s right, no pretending to be people we aren’t.
We can’t afford to be like Jethro Bodine of the Beverly Hillbillies. For example, the time he decides to become a banker on a whim; rents an expensive office, hires a beautiful secretary and puts his feet up on his classy desk expecting business to come pouring in the front door.
a re-print from “The Record”
The more I think about what Radio Communautaire Missisquoi is and does, the more I realize how close we are in spirit to the Orford Arts Centre. OAC and RCM both attract young musicians and artists embarking on professional careers within the world of music and the recording and broadcasting arts and sciences.
The OAC’s main focus is to help develop the talents of young musicians from around the world through training in the performing arts, and RCM’s focus is geared toward the training and development of young artists (musicians, singers, songwriters, producers, sound engineers, promoters and actors) in the arts and sciences of recording broadcasting.
Our job as a rural multimedia production company is very challenging in the light of today’s technological world. RCM has to train volunteers on a continual basis if we want to be successful.
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a re-print from “The Record”
Radio can be like a trampoline. A springboard of sorts. Launching the feelings, sentiments and interests of a community into the slipstream of magnetic airwaves and electrons, showing up on people’s Ipods, radios and computers. The better the capturing capabilities of CIDI, the more interesting Radio Communautaire Missisquoi becomes to its listeners.
By “capturing devices” I mean good microphones, a piano, and a live broadcasting facility. CIDI’s studio area is such a place, or at least will be by the end of the month. Now that we have removed a couple of walls and are having a stage built at one end of our newly designated venue, which will be able to seat close to 100 people, the mind-gears of CIDI volunteers have been churning coming up with possible artists to present to two audiences; on air, and in house.
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Boy is it hot or what? When I come home after work these days I see what seems to be a dead cat on my deck. Smoke (better known as Smoke the Singing Cat) completely collapses in 30 degree-plus temperatures. Imagine wearing a fur coat in this weather.
This whole thing of community radio in Brome Missisquoi and Shefford, CIDI 99.1 FM, has pretty much the same effect on me as the warm and sticky summer weather has on Smoke. It’s an incredible challenge and energy drainer. You know Harry S. Truman’s saying: “if you can’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen”. Well, the team at CIDI plans to keep on cooking.
All the same, it’s perfectly normal to back away from the heat once in a while, relax and restore the life forces so to speak. However, I just don’t understand why the cat needs to recharge his batteries so much. Hot weather or not, I see him in a sleep mode most of the time.
