our programs
Hour
Mon
Morning Soul Shake-Up!
Start your day right with a joyful mix of rare vintage soul, r&b and funk! A righteous mix, brought to you every day of the week from 8-9am. A dynamite soundtrack for the breakfast table, the cafe or the commute. Get up to get down!!
Breezy Breakfast Radio
The Breezy Breakfast is a weekly community gathering focused on raising awareness and sharing ideas about important issues that concern residents of Guelph and beyond. For the last four years this weekly gathering has taken place at the Breezy Corners Restaurant in downtown Guelph, facilitated by two Guelph city councillors, Phil Allt and James Gordon. Since the restaurant closed at the onset of the pandemic, the gatherings have moved online using the ZOOM platform, expanding our mandate beyond those able to attend in person, and it’s these meetings that will be shared in audio form on CFRU.
CFRU mini-interviews
The Mini Interview Project is a new initiative for the Covid-19 era aimed at helping folks connect and bring a variety of new voices and perspectives to our airwaves during this unusual time. Anyone who identifies as a Guelph community member, whether physically living here, attending school, or working here from afar, can choose a guest to interview, record a conversation, and submit a short interview to air on our airwaves throughout our broadcast week. This show airs the Mini Interviews that people submit to us, and various other short-format interviews, interspersed with music.
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Every day, a new host will take over the show, a 27-29 minute show featuring only artists from the earshot-distro.ca website. It will be 100% all Canadian and made by NCRA/ANREC members for NCRA/ANREC Members.
The Sentinel’s Marvellous Kaleidoscope
Through this lens, you will be guided on audible explorations, gazing across the ever-changing horizon of music. The fantastical soundscape is filled with landmarks, relics and anomalies in progressive, fusion and alternative styles, near and far. Each observational session is constellatory, pulverizing, mystifying… and simply marvellous.
Blues Around the Block
Everything from folk to rockin’ electric and all stops in between. Occasionally veering off the rails into the unknown, it’s still all blues all the time. If you love the blues, we’ve got ’em and a whole lot Mo’.
The Deep House Project
Welcome to the Deep House Project. The show is an exploration of early deep house and its influences on modern music. The show plays classic club tracks in contrast with contemporary sounds while always spending time recognizing Canadian contributions.
Democracy Now (Rebroadcast)
With award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America. This is a rebroadcast of the previous day’s edition.
Tue
Morning Soul Shake-Up!
Start your day right with a joyful mix of rare vintage soul, r&b and funk! A righteous mix, brought to you every day of the week from 8-9am. A dynamite soundtrack for the breakfast table, the cafe or the commute. Get up to get down!!
Bridging The Social Distance
A show that aims to give a platform for sharing ideas, perspectives and feelings in the wake of the Global COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews will feature local Guelphites as well as people living elsewhere around the world.
Puerto Almendro
Puerto Almendro has been broadcast in Argentina since 1997, winning awards for the quality of its literary and musical production, representing different regions of the country. The series was first involved with CFRU on Saturday evenings as a highly valued contribution to the Spanish language program Alternativa Latinoamericana. Now every week, the Argentinian writer María Neder brings readings in Spanish by Latin American poets and narrators, accompanied by outstanding contributions from the musical culture of Argentina: tango, folk, jazz. A program for listeners who want to connect with the rich creativity of South America, simply not available on commercial radio.
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Every day, a new host will take over the show, a 27-29 minute show featuring only artists from the earshot-distro.ca website. It will be 100% all Canadian and made by NCRA/ANREC members for NCRA/ANREC Members.
Wild Combination
There is something inherently magical about radio. So with this show I hope to play a ‘wild combination’ of music that I find strange or beautiful, to encourage late night moments of magic through listening.
Democracy Now (Rebroadcast)
With award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America. This is a rebroadcast of the previous day’s edition.
Wed
Your Show Here
Why not get involved at CFRU and host a program in one of our available time slots? Email cfru.volunteer@gmail.com for more info!
Morning Soul Shake-Up!
Start your day right with a joyful mix of rare vintage soul, r&b and funk! A righteous mix, brought to you every day of the week from 8-9am. A dynamite soundtrack for the breakfast table, the cafe or the commute. Get up to get down!!
The Stillness & The Dancing
Searching for the sublime in the simple? Give your ears some solace with highlights from the world of ambient, drone, electronic, neoclassical and post-rock. A quiet corner of sonic comfort food in a chaotic world. Soon to be your favourite introverted musical retreat.
Bridging The Social Distance
A show that aims to give a platform for sharing ideas, perspectives and feelings in the wake of the Global COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews will feature local Guelphites as well as people living elsewhere around the world.
!earshot Daily
Every day, a new host will take over the show, a 27-29 minute show featuring only artists from the earshot-distro.ca website. It will be 100% all Canadian and made by NCRA/ANREC members for NCRA/ANREC Members.
End Credits
End Credits is a new weekly radio show on CFRU. The point of our show is movies: movie news and movie reviews. Our is a show dedicated to local movie fans, by local movie fans. We discuss and debate the latest news items in the realm of film and TV development in the first half, and after a music break we do an in-depth review of a movie recently released to theatres, streaming sites, or on demand.
Jazz in Session
Exploring the vastness of jazz through themes, stories, interviews and more. Jazz musicians and aficionados are welcome on the show, contact host Karim Mosna at: karimmosna@gmail.com. This program is broadcast on CFRU and CIOI.
Current Fantasy
The show brings you a new, live, extended, modular and hardware synthesizer exploration every week. Host and synthmaster Jeff Heisholt invites you into his mind for the hour to introduce you to his CURRENT FANTASY.
Radia
Radia is a network of independent radio stations, who have a common interest in promoting and producing artworks for the radio, and in forming related projects based on broadcasting and cultural exchange. Radia members produce a weekly radio show that is broadcast by each of the member radio stations. The shows represent the local artistic community of each station, whilst at the same time these new works point to an emergent collective notion of self-determined art for radio.
Democracy Now (Rebroadcast)
With award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America. This is a rebroadcast of the previous day’s edition.
Thu
Morning Soul Shake-Up!
Start your day right with a joyful mix of rare vintage soul, r&b and funk! A righteous mix, brought to you every day of the week from 8-9am. A dynamite soundtrack for the breakfast table, the cafe or the commute. Get up to get down!!
Your Show Here
Why not get involved at CFRU and host a program in one of our available time slots? Email cfru.volunteer@gmail.com for more info!
FoodFarm Talk
FoodFarm Talk: Celebrating Food, Honouring Food Champions.
Food is life: We eat to live, and if there is anything worth celebrating, then it is food and the people behind it.
FoodFarm Talk is an interactive program that builds on the diversity of food research here at the University of Guelph and the strong agricultural and food community of the City of Guelph, to bring to listeners, among others, some of the wonderful works, being done from farm to fork. The program shows and celebrates the research, the people, and the activities that define the food we eat.
Your Show Here
Why not get involved at CFRU and host a program in one of our available time slots? Email cfru.volunteer@gmail.com for more info!
Bridging The Social Distance
A show that aims to give a platform for sharing ideas, perspectives and feelings in the wake of the Global COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews will feature local Guelphites as well as people living elsewhere around the world.
Android’s Dungeon
Enter the Android’s Dungeon with hosts Jack and Joel on a weekly show that discusses board and video games and their creators, the mechanics in them, and the culture around them. Give us a shout at androidsdungeon@cfru.ca or on twitter @ADRadioCFRU!
!earshot Daily
Every day, a new host will take over the show, a 27-29 minute show featuring only artists from the earshot-distro.ca website. It will be 100% all Canadian and made by NCRA/ANREC members for NCRA/ANREC Members.
Raccoon Radio
Raccoon Radio is brought to you by the campus Sustainability Office. Our rotating group of hosts will interview community members about a wide variety of topics relating to the environment, from the tiniest soil microbes to the largest birds of prey. So tune in if you dig stories about the wild and wonderful natural environment and how we as humans interact with it. Spoiler alert, stick around if you DIG compost (pun intended)!
Open Sources Guelph
Open Sources Guelph is a weekly news, politics and current events radio show on CFRU 93.3 FM, campus and community radio in Guelph. Picking up the baton passed down by the Beyond the Ballot Box and Gang of Four shows, Open Sources will remain a dedicated, informative and alternative media source in the Royal City. Our mission is to bring Guelph all the latest news, insight and interviews on both the big issues of the day, and the issues being overlooked by the mainstream media. You can listen to Open Sources live, every Thursday at 4 pm by tuning your radio 93.3 FM or you can listen to us online at cfru.ca. Open Sources Guelph is hosted and produced by Scotty Hertz McWhinnie (The Working Week) and Adam A. Donaldson (Guelph Politico).
Sounds Good To Me
Sounds Good to Me is a mixed bag o’ nuts. You’ll hear anything from experimental hiphop, old soul music, jazz, indie electronic and world music to remixes of all of the above. Every show is an attempt to find music that stirs.
The Crooked Beat
One of CFRU’s longest running and most beloved shows! Nicky Dread has been making Reggae Revolutions on the Radio since 1979. Listen to Reggae, Dancehall, Ska & Rock Steady of all ages, styles and origins. “Don’t forget your history, know your destiny, In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty” (Bob Marley).
Democracy Now (Rebroadcast)
With award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America. This is a rebroadcast of the previous day’s edition.
Fri
Your Show Here
Why not get involved at CFRU and host a program in one of our available time slots? Email cfru.volunteer@gmail.com for more info!
Morning Soul Shake-Up!
Start your day right with a joyful mix of rare vintage soul, r&b and funk! A righteous mix, brought to you every day of the week from 8-9am. A dynamite soundtrack for the breakfast table, the cafe or the commute. Get up to get down!!
Couples Retreat
Couple’s Retreat is the vacation you never knew you needed! You’ll have a blast hearing our music picks and discussions on how music plays a part in our lives and in the world around us. We draw upon various genres, so expect a journey. Come aboard the Couple’s Retreat with Nicole and Justin on Fridays from 9 to 10 am!
Bridging The Social Distance
A show that aims to give a platform for sharing ideas, perspectives and feelings in the wake of the Global COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews will feature local Guelphites as well as people living elsewhere around the world.
!earshot Daily
Every day, a new host will take over the show, a 27-29 minute show featuring only artists from the earshot-distro.ca website. It will be 100% all Canadian and made by NCRA/ANREC members for NCRA/ANREC Members.
We Know Some Stuff
We Know Some Stuff: Scientists of Tomorrow Talking Today
Why are my house plants always dying? Do computers experience heartbreak? Will chocolate solve all my problems? We know the answers … well, mostly. Current and recent graduate students talk candidly about their science and how it helps us better understand life’s little questions. Unscripted, unedited, and understandable science that is fun to listen to, shaking up the traditional science radio show format.
Walkuman Style
Dinner time Hip Hop every Friday! One of the few weekly hip hop mix-shows today on Canadian radio. Gamma Krush gives you a continuous blending groove of underground and alternative hip hop, boom bap, old school, true school. Plus, featured mix-sets from other deejays.
Or Be Lost Forever
Or Be Lost Forever is a poetic, interlanguage, interspecies, intersound dialogue and reflection prompted by the artist’s experience of infant loss and transcultural identity in the mechanized world; it is an aural dialogue with water and sound as media of transport and feelings between worlds, species, intelligences. The piece was written and crafted by Aaron Haddad before and during the pandemic.
Democracy Now (Rebroadcast)
With award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America. This is a rebroadcast of the previous day’s edition.
Sat
Folk Roots Radio
If folk, roots, country and blues are your thing you’ll find them all during this genre hopping show. Grab your favourite morning brew and settle down for two hours of music and more to start your Saturday! If you are a musician and you want to play live in the studio, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
Alternative Radio
Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
BLM Solidarity protest in Guelph (rebroadcast)
On June 6, 2020, CFRU broadcast a special edition of the show Caribbean Anthology from a Solidarity Protest in support of Black Lives Matter from downtown Guelph. To commemorate Juneteenth, CFRU is today featuring a rebroadcast of the first hour of the event.
Alternativa Latinoamericana
Reflects Latin America’s reality, from literature and news to important social and political issues, A place for information in Spanish for those who want to know what’s happening in their countries of origin as well as their own communities in Canada.
Sun
Beautiful Druid
Join host Alden Hadwen for a relaxed Sunday morning mix of music and poetry – for the day which we often set aside for pursuits close to our hearts. Whatever the activities you have planned, this program will give you a thoughtful start with some poetry to savour and some mellow music to set the tone – singer songwriters, jazz, classical and folk music tracks that you do not hear every day. This is a show for the garden of your mind; philosophical musings, letting your mind drift in the wind and the willows of beautiful music and words, all to go with a great cup of coffee and a slow easy start to the day.
The Kookoo Bananas Variety Hour
The Kookoo Bananas Variety Hour is a family-friendly show jam-packed with kiddie records, weirdo pop culture, and songs sung by robots, animals, and even kids! Hosted by Cap’n Kookoo & The Banana Brats.
Your Show Here
Why not get involved at CFRU and host a program in one of our available time slots? Email cfru.volunteer@gmail.com for more info!
Clan Na Gael
Clan-na-Gael is one of CFRU’s longest running shows. Host John Fahy features Celtic/Folk music from around the world and around the corner. The music played originates in Canada, USA, Australia, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall in England, Brittany in France & Ireland. The Show particularly features local, regional and national artists with approx. 50% Canadian content weekly.
