{"id":7512,"date":"2013-03-15T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2013-03-16T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T14:13:05","slug":"farewell-to-canadian-spaces-host-allan-chopper-mckinnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/03\/15\/farewell-to-canadian-spaces-host-allan-chopper-mckinnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Canadian Spaces host \u201cChopper\u201d McKinnon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7515\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/03\/15\/farewell-to-canadian-spaces-host-allan-chopper-mckinnon\/allanmckinnon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7515\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7515\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7515\" title=\"allanmckinnon\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/allanmckinnon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/allanmckinnon.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/allanmckinnon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Spaces host Allan \u201cChopper\u201d McKinnon on stage at the Ottawa Folk Festival in 1998. Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grilledcheese\/6182575126\/\">Christine K<\/a>, CC <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">some rights reserved<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Folk music isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s cup of tea.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">But music, culture and people who make a difference deserve space in the public radio spectrum. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">With that in mind, here&#8217;s word on the passing of a major figure in the Ottawa folk scene. Allan &#8220;Chopper&#8221; McKinnon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to this Ottawa Citizen profile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McKinnon hosted a radio show on folk music program for 33 years and he was a familiar face at the Ottawa Folk Festival and also at the Ottawa Folklore Centre, where he worked. He was a dominant voice for folk music and singer-songwriters in Ottawa, promoting many of Canada\u2019s best known artists through Canadian Spaces, his broadcasting perch on Carleton University\u2019s CKCU-FM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckcufm.com\/\">CKCU (93.1 FM)<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have a very strong signal. But you can listen live over the internet. Some of Canadian Spaces past playlists and archived shows are <a href=\"http:\/\/cod.ckcufm.com\/programs\/129\/info.html\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday at 10 am Canadian Spaces will pay tribute to McKinnon by playing some of his favorite artists.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can &#8220;put on a pot of your favourite hot, brown beverage, and sit back for 40 minutes of uninterrupted folk&#8221; and maybe<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0make a toast to a dedicated champion of folk music.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folk music isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s cup of tea.\u00a0But music, culture and people who make a difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11452,880,11454,11453,11451,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}