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Freeform music, focussed on singer/songwriters, roots rock, and other music not found on your normal radio! Broadcast on CJUM/101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Sunday May 04, 2025
Sunday May 04, 2025
Dennis Ellsworth's new album! https://dennisellsworth.bandcamp.com/album/hardcore-freewheelin
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-guC
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
It's the final day of UMFM's Pledge-O-Rama and I managed to once again weasel myself in between Joe & Twisty on The Wee Hours and Cretin Rob on Cretin Radio for 3 hours of bangers for breakfast on Mudge in the Morning! It's our last official day to ask for your help before we go back to doing what we do without asking anything of you. If you feel like showing your support and encouragement, your donation, no matter how seemingly small, is greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all who donated and once again made Tell the Band to Go Home's pledge drive a smashing success! I really appreciate hearing from so many people.
If you missed out, there's always time to get your name on the list:
Pledge-O-Rama info: https://umfm.com/news/pledge-your-support-for-great-radio-in-winnipeg-2025
Incentive merchandise & prizes: https://umfm.com/donate/incentives
Make a donation: https://umfm.com/donate
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-guh
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Pledge-O-Rama info: https://umfm.com/news/pledge-your-support-for-great-radio-in-winnipeg-2025
Incentive merchandise & prizes: https://umfm.com/donate/incentives
Make a donation: https://umfm.com/donate
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-gto
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Pledge-O-Rama info: https://umfm.com/news/pledge-your-support-for-great-radio-in-winnipeg-2025
Incentive merchandise & prizes: https://umfm.com/donate/incentives
Make a donation: https://umfm.com/donate
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-gto
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Pledge-O-Rama info: https://umfm.com/news/pledge-your-support-for-great-radio-in-winnipeg-2025
Incentive merchandise & prizes: https://umfm.com/donate/incentives
Make a donation: https://umfm.com/donate
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-gto
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Episode #1085
It's time once again for UMFM's Pledge-O-Rama, the one week of the year where we ask for your help. In order to keep the station functioning the way we'd like and to make necessary improvements, we need an infusion of money that we hope you will be willing to help provide. More importantly for me, however, it's the one week where I get to learn some of the names of the people out there listening in. We truly have no idea who's listening or how many of you there are unless you let us know directly, and this is the best way to find out. Your donations, large or small, all show that what we do is important to you, and that means a whole lot. I adore putting together this show every week, and I'd gladly do it just for myself, but knowing that it means something to you is very rewarding and it helps motivate you to make the best show possible.
As usual, the show includes a bunch of new music, memories of a truly great concert last night and we look ahead to a busy week of shows here and elsewhere. We also spin some classic Winnipeg music that doesn't get played anywhere other than on campus & community radio.
We've also got a new interview with one of the greatest songwriters in Canada and one of my true heroes, Ron Hawkins, all about the new album from The Lowest of the Low, which is truly exciting. We've even got some tracks from the upcoming album to debut!
Thanks for all of your support. If you didn't get a chance to donate during the show, Pledge-O-Rama is on all week and you could help us get to our station goal.
Join me Friday morning from 6-9 am for Mudge in the Morning!
Pledge-O-Rama info: https://umfm.com/news/pledge-your-support-for-great-radio-in-winnipeg-2025
Incentive merchandise & prizes: https://umfm.com/donate/incentives
Make a donation: https://umfm.com/donate
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-gto
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
When I heard that my friend and mentor and UMFM mainstay for many years, John Prentice, was hoping to do his great show, Planet Mainstage, remotely this year, I knew I had to jump in and help out. John has been a part of the folk & roots music community longer than I've been alive, and certainly all of the time that I've been with UMFM, so it was an honour and a pleasure to be his board operator and help solicit some donations for UMFM's annual Pledge-O-Rama! Unlike commercial stations and other big community stations, we do not get paid to host our shows, so it truly is a labour of love. We also have no idea who is listening to our shows, so it's a real boost when we get opportunities like this, where we hear directly from listeners who appreciate what we do. I make my donation as a thanks to John's show every year, and I hope that many of you will do the same.
Today, John played parts of some of his great interviews with the likes of Peter Yarrow, Stephen Fearing, Sam Baardman, and more.
Check out Planet Mainstage: https://umfm.com/programming/shows/planet-mainstage
Support UMFM's Pledge-O-Rama: https://umfm.com/donate/pledgeorama
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-gt7
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
A special podcast exclusive deep dive into the recording career of Stephen Fearing! There's a power outage at the radio station this weekend, so no new episode will air on UMFM, however, I had some special plans this week because there are some exciting shows coming up, so I thought I'd put together some exclusive podcast episodes.
Seeing Stephen Fearing at my first folk festival in 1993 was a monumental moment for me. I remember being blown away and amazed that I'd never seen him or even heard of him before. I realized that there was a world of great music that I had been missing out on, and it set me off on a path of musical discovery that continues to this day. I also vowed to some day be able to help others discover music like his, and eventually that vehicle became Tell the Band to Go Home. Stephen has been one of the most played artists on the show since the beginning, and I've been attending his shows ever since that first festival.
On this special episode, we hear selections from throughout Stephen's solo career, as well as some covers, live performances, and collaborations, including his longstanding supergroup Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.
Get to know Denmark's The Sentimentals on the Dec. 8, 2024 episode: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2024/12/08/podcast-december-8-2024/
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals, March 29: https://www.wecc.ca/events/2025/03/stephenfearing
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-gmQ
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Episode #1069
2024 was another banner year for music even though a lot of our usual favourites didn't release new albums. This allowed for some new discoveries and unusual selections. This week's show looks at some of the many highlights of the year. Here are some of the releases that really caught my ear this year!
I'd love to know what resonated with you this year! Please leave a comment, visit the website contact page, or find me on social media and let me know what you liked & didn't like this year!
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-g6v
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Episode #1065
For the first 15 years of this program, I made an annual compilation of some of my favourite songs released during the year. I revisit those often but haven't ever really used them as the topic for a whole episode, until now. With that in mind, I went through each of the compilations and pulled out a couple of songs, then imagined what subsequent compilations might have included, for a Best of the Best of compilations, which in turn kind of serves as a very best of Tell the Band to Go Home!
This is one of our standby series of pre-recorded episodes that are meant to be timeless, so we can pop them into the schedule again some time when I can’t be at the studio live, so enjoy this one now and again!
playlist: https://wp.me/p1lizT-g2n
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024