CFRC Music Fans & Friends

CFRC Music Fans & Friends Bringing Queen's and Kingston the best mix of indie music!

Check out the hot hot hottest 30 songs trending this week on CFRC Radio! Local act Almond Milk featuring Luella are i...
02/01/2025

Check out the hot hot hottest 30 songs trending this week on CFRC Radio! Local act Almond Milk featuring Luella are in the Top 10! What's your favorite song right now?

Hosted by Simar Kaur, , Melodies of Myth is a storytelling radio show blending spoken-word mini-stories with the rich so...
01/31/2025

Hosted by Simar Kaur, , Melodies of Myth is a storytelling radio show blending spoken-word mini-stories with the rich sounds of Indian classical tradition and western music. Immerse yourself Fridays at 1:30 PM!

Q. What’s the one time “I’m sorry” and “I apologize” don’t mean the same thing?A. At a funeral. While we have bad dad j...
01/30/2025

Q. What’s the one time “I’m sorry” and “I apologize” don’t mean the same thing?
A. At a funeral. While we have bad dad jokes all the time, you can tune in Thursday at 3 for pretty great sad songs about erm, pretty sad sad things on Sad Song Central with Emily. Recently, we've heard songs by artists including Ethel Cain, Sky Ferreira, En Stéréo, Men I Trust & Alvvays.

Coming up today at 4 PM on I'll Try Anything Once, host Kate Bassett takes a deep dive into Indie Rock! Each week Kate...
01/29/2025

Coming up today at 4 PM on I'll Try Anything Once, host Kate Bassett takes a deep dive into Indie Rock! Each week Kate explores the vast and vibrant world of niche music genres, with each episode focusing on a different style—ranging from Midwest emo to dream pop and beyond. Tune in to see what she's trying out today!

And that's a wrap for our campaign! Congratulations to all candidates and fee-seeking clubs/groups heading to election a...
01/29/2025

And that's a wrap for our campaign! Congratulations to all candidates and fee-seeking clubs/groups heading to election and referendum on Jan 29-30th! Students! Watch your inboxes for ballots and voting information.

✅ SGPS Students will receive an email from the SGPS at 12:01 on January 29th inviting them to vote. Check your email and vote YES to renew CFRC's SGPS optional student fee! Learn more about our campaign on our website via linktree in our instagram bio! ✅


📣📣📣 Calling all AMS members at Queen’s! Your 102-year-old campus radio station hasn’t increased its fee in over a decad...
01/29/2025

📣📣📣 Calling all AMS members at Queen’s! Your 102-year-old campus radio station hasn’t increased its fee in over a decade! Yet operating costs continue to grow as we modernize to bring you great music and spoken word programming across radio and digital platforms! We’re seeking a modest increase to support core operations including staffing, equipment, maintenance and programming! Please support our campaign!

Vote YES for a modest increase to our optional student fee ($8.22 to $10) on January 29th and 30th!

✅ AMS Students will receive an email from the AMS at 12:01 on January 29th inviting them to vote. Check your email and vote YES for a modest increase to CFRC’s AMS optional student fee! Learn more about our campaign on our website via linktree in our bio! ✅

📻📻📻Graduate and Professional students at Queen’s are making their mark on our airwaves and podcasts (and you can too any...
01/29/2025

📻📻📻Graduate and Professional students at Queen’s are making their mark on our airwaves and podcasts (and you can too any time of year!). We train student volunteers and student staff members to produce music and spoken word programming that allows them to gain translatable skills that are useful on the job market after graduation. We also provide meaningful and paid creative opportunities to students in sound production, radio theatre, DJing, and live musical performances from our studios to help students build their portfolios!

Please vote YES to continue CFRC’s optional student fee on January 29th and 30th!!!

✅SGPS Students will receive an email from the SGPS at 12:01 on January 29th inviting them to vote. Check your email and please vote YES for continuing our OPTIONAL student fee, one of the lowest in the country! Learn more about our campaign on our website via linktree in our bio! ✅

Tune in for Tommie and their show, Dark Side of the Tune every Tuesday at 3 PM! Gothic, darkwave, pop punk, alternative ...
01/28/2025

Tune in for Tommie and their show, Dark Side of the Tune every Tuesday at 3 PM! Gothic, darkwave, pop punk, alternative and more to explore the dark, the loud, and the moody corners of music. Also, general PSA, don't set forest fires. Be cool.

01/27/2025

CFRC has lots of HOT SUMMER JOBS for students! Come meet us at the Summer & Part-Time Opportunities Fair in Bartlett Gym, Mitchell Hall, on January 28 and learn about fun jobs at your campus radio station! We'll even have a mic handy for chatting about the fair and/or making Valentines' Day song requests and dedications!

You can also check out our Work Study, SWEP and soon Canada Summer Jobs postings on our website (link in bio), and on the Career Services job portal!

See you there!

🎙️🎙️🎙️ Calling all AMS student members at Queen’s! Established in 1922, CFRC is your campus radio station and one of the...
01/27/2025

🎙️🎙️🎙️ Calling all AMS student members at Queen’s! Established in 1922, CFRC is your campus radio station and one of the oldest broadcasters in the world! Help us serve our campus community with news, music, radio theatre, talk radio programming, podcasts, concerts and more!

Please vote YES to increase CFRC’s optional student fee on January 29th and 30th!!!

✅AMS Students will receive an email from the AMS at 12:01 on January 29th inviting them to vote. Check your email and vote YES for a modest increase to CFRC’s AMS optional student fee! Learn more about our campaign on our website via linktree in our bio! ✅

🌴☀️Heat up your winter day today at 5:30 PM with Cuban Sounds in Canada, hosted by Karen Dubinsky ☀️🌴Today, Karen featur...
01/27/2025

🌴☀️Heat up your winter day today at 5:30 PM with Cuban Sounds in Canada, hosted by Karen Dubinsky ☀️🌴

Today, Karen features a 2010 recording from Glenda del Escalante from her Toronto years, and another from her 2024 Latin Grammy nominated album. She's also got 2 songs from Canada’s favorite Alex Cuba, plus a gem from Jane Bunnett’s 1993 album of Cuban music, and a Hilario Duran and David Virelles two piano duet from 2022.

Check our the latest trending tracks on CFRC's airwaves! Thanks to our student music assistant Amelia Mackenzie for comp...
01/27/2025

Check our the latest trending tracks on CFRC's airwaves! Thanks to our student music assistant Amelia Mackenzie for compiling the list!

Oh it's on! Coming up at 11 AM and running through til 5 PM, we have an absolute Campus Beat Marathon for you with our ...
01/26/2025

Oh it's on! Coming up at 11 AM and running through til 5 PM, we have an absolute Campus Beat Marathon for you with our coverage of the AMS and SGPS Elections & Referenda coming up on January 29th & 30th! Learn about the Executive Candidates and all student-fee seeking clubs/groups heading to referendum through our exclusive interviews and coverage of the All Candidates' Debates.

Here's what we've got in store today!

Approximate Broadcast Start Time Episode:

1. SGPS Fee seeking Club/group Interviews (11:00 AM)
2. SGPS Exec Candidates Interviews (11:38AM)
3. SGPS All Candidates Debate (12:39 PM)
4. AMS Fee seeking Club/group Interviews (2:04 PM)
5. AMS Exec Candidate Interviews (3:08 PM)
6. AMS All Candidates Debate (3:34 PM)

Can't tune in today? We've got you covered! Check out each episode through our podcasts & youtube page (link in our bio!)

Tune in tonight for The 90's! Deep cuts, weird stuff, random facts, big hits, and the little ones too from 90s alternat...
01/25/2025

Tune in tonight for The 90's! Deep cuts, weird stuff, random facts, big hits, and the little ones too from 90s alternative, rock, post-punk, grunge & post-grunge. Come join the ride with your host Zakk starting 8 PM!

📣📣📣 Calling all SGPS members at Queen’s! Your 102-year-old campus radio station needs you! Operating costs continue to...
01/24/2025

📣📣📣 Calling all SGPS members at Queen’s! Your 102-year-old campus radio station needs you! Operating costs continue to grow as we modernize to bring you great music and spoken word programming across radio and digital platforms! We’re seeking continuance of our optional student fee to support core operations including staffing, equipment, maintenance and programming! Please support our campaign!

Please vote YES to continue CFRC’s optional student fee on January 29th and 30th!!!

✅SGPS Students will receive an email from the SGPS at 12:01 on January 29th inviting them to vote. Check your email and please vote YES for continuing our OPTIONAL student fee, one of the lowest in the country! Learn more about our campaign on our website via linktree in our bio! ✅

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CFRC has lots of HOT SUMMER JOBS for students! Come meet us at the Summer & Part-Time Opportunities Fair in Bartlett Gym, Mitchell Hall, on January 28 and learn about fun jobs at your campus radio station! We'll even have a mic handy for chatting about the fair and/or making Valentines' Day song requests and dedications! You can also check out our Work Study, SWEP and soon Canada Summer Jobs postings on our website (link in bio), and on the Career Services job portal! See you there!

From all of us at CFRC 101.9 FM, we hope you and yours have a safe and happy holiday. Tune in for great music all day long to enjoy with the whole family! #ygk

Tune in for another episode of Kitchen Sink with Paige! Literally anything and everything can be anticipated in this fun fresh program! Join in the fun 10 PM tonight! #ygk

Congratulations to local musician Megan Hamilton who won our Week 6 Funding Drive Raffle Draw on Sunday night! It's your turn to get in on the action YGK!! Donate today via CFRC dot ca this week and get free CFRC swag and enter to win our Week 7 raffle draw featuring gift cards from local businesses including @tangonuevo @taranaturalfoods @novelideakingston @whitktown and @thehairextensionroom.ygk! These are absolutely great gifts for yourself or to share with a loved one over the coming holiday season! We're just over the $18,000 mark in our campaign!! Help us reach our $25,000 goal and support community driven broadcasting with funds supporting costs including a new transmission link from our station to our new antenna, critical studio upgrades to better support live broadcasting and live studio performances etc.! Every dollar really does matter, please help, donate today via cfrc dot ca! #ygk

Congratulations to local musician John Rose @jwlrose who won our Week 5Funding Drive Raffle Draw on Sunday night! It's your turn to get in on the action YGK!! Donate today via CFRC dot ca this week and get free CFRC swag and enter to win our Week 6 raffle draw featuring gift cards from local businesses including @tangonuevo @minotaurgamesandgifts @ygk_thrift @smokenbarrelkingston and @tommyskingston! Just a reminder that Tommy's Christmas Hampers are ready for order! Get yours today by visiting https://www.tommyskingston.ca/christmas These are absolutely great gifts for yourself or to share with a loved one over the coming holiday season! We're just over the $11,200 mark in our campaign!! Help us reach our goal and support community driven broadcasting with funds supporting costs including a new transmission link from our station to our new antenna, critical studio upgrades to better support live broadcasting and live studio performances etc.! Every dollar really does matter, please help, donate today via cfrc dot ca! #ygk

After a raucous Saturday night of wrestling action, IWA Champion Alexi Ouromov wants to offer a very warm thank you to two community partners that made the event possible - CFRC 101.9fm and The Spire! If you missed the live broadcast of the show, you can find a podcast version on our podcast network under the CFRC Sports header. If you’re looking to run an event in the Kingston community, head over to thespirekingston.org and take a 360 threshold tour of the space! The IWA hopes to see everybody back in the Upper Hall of The Spire on Sunday, April 13th for IWA: Countdown! Can’t make it live? No problem, this event will also be broadcast over CFRC’s airwaves with the intrepid Lauren Tucker and Jeff “The Nerd” Williams on commentary! #ygk

Congratulations to Danielle Ambrose who won our Week 3 Funding Drive Raffle Draw on Sunday! It's your turn to get in on the action! Donate today via CFRC dot ca this week and get free CFRC swag and enter to win our Week 4 raffle featuring gift cards from local businesses including Black Dog Hospitality (redeemable @atomicakingston, @dianneskingston, @blackdogtavernygk & @harpersburgers), Graymalkin's Metal Works @graymalkins.metalworks appearing at Fat Goose this weekend, Agent 99 @shopagent99,The Toucan @toucankingston and Novel Idea Bookstore @novelideakingston Great gifts for yourself or to share with a loved one over the coming holiday season! We're at the $4500 mark. Help us reach our goal and support community driven broadcasting with funds supporting costs including a new transmission link from our station to our new antenna, critical studio upgrades to better support live broadcasting and live studio performances etc.! Every dollar really does matter, please help, donate today via cfrc dot ca! #ygk

Congratulations to Joey Bray who won our Week 2 Funding Drive Raffle Draw on Sunday! It's your turn to get in on the action! Donate today via CFRC dot ca this week and get free CFRC swag and enter to win our Week 3 raffle featuring gift cards from local businesses including @improbableescapeshq, Black Dog Hospitality (redeemable @atomicakingston, @dianneskingston, @blackdogtavernygk & @harpersburgers), @screening_room_, @graymalkins.metalworks and @novelideakingston! Great gifts for yourself or to share with a loved one over the coming holiday season! We're at the $2000 mark. Help us reach our goal and support community driven broadcasting with funds supporting costs including a new transmission link from our station to our new antenna, critical studio upgrades to better support live broadcasting and live studio performances etc.! Every dollar really does matter, please help, donate today via cfrc dot ca!

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