Cam Hayden's Friday Night Blues Party on CKUA
9802 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada

Here’s the late great Paul Oscher working the crowd at the 2016 Edmonton Blues Festival... Paul passed last weekend and on tonight’s first Friday Night Blues Party of the 2021 spring fundraiser (9 to midnight MT)Holger Petersen and I (bottom pic) will play some of Paul’s music recorded at that show. We’ll be talkin’ blues, playin’ tunes and raisin’ dough, so drop in and hang for a while on any of CKUA’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com. See you on the radio, real soon!

Just some of the great CD’s and LP’s that are coming your way 9 to midnight MT on this week’s Friday Night Blues Party. We celebrate the birthdays of Gatemouth Brown, Doug McLeod and George Harmonica Smith; We’ll have new tunes from Damon Fowler, Sunday Wilde, Ally Venable, Rick Fines, and Chris Cain, take a look at the Blues Juno Awards, and, of course, lots more! Join me on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com See you soon, Blues Hounds!!

Back in the cozy confines of the John Worthington main studios at CKUA’s Edmonton location. Friday Night Blues Party coming your way 9 to midnight MT, with new music from Cousin Harley, Ghalia Volt, MIss Emily, Curtis Salgado, and Ally Venable along with classics from John Lee Hooker, SonnyBoy Williamson, Bessie Smith, Frank Frost and Hound Dog Taylor....Close to 100 years of blues featured on tonight’s show so join me on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM Transmitters, the CKUA App or online at www.CKUA.com. See you on the radio, real soon!

Back in The John Worthington Main Studio at CKUA Radio Network for the month of April...been a while ! Great stuff tonight with Muddy Waters birthday to celebrate, new music from Brian Blain, The Atomic 44’s, Maria Muldaur and Chris Cain...Throw in some Michelle Willson, James Harman, Jimmy McGriff , SRV, Terry Hanck, Big Walter, Samantha Martin, and Jody Williams and you have the makings of 3 hours of the best in blues, boogie and beyond on this week’s Friday Night Blues Party. Join me on any of CKUA’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com..see you on the radio in a half hour or so...onward!

Meet guitarist, singer, and songwriter Chris Cain, seen here at a jam in Memphis in May of 2018. After decades on the scene Chris releases his Alligator Records debut Raisin’ Cain in a couple of weeks and we have a sneak peek with a couple of tracks on tonight’s Friday Night Blues Party. Join me, 9 to midnight MT, on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com. We’ll also hear form the new Maria Muldaur recording and have tunes from Harmonica Shah, Robert Jr Lockwood, Kat Danser, Leroy Carr, Colin James, Johnny Copeland and a whole bunch more. Talk at ya on the radio soon, Blues Hounds!

Exactly what we’ll do from 9 to midnight MST tonight on the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com Tonight’s Friday Night Blues Party will feature new music from Ronnie Earl, The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, Red’s Blues and an all new instrumental album from Tony Diteodoro (Tony D) of Monkeyjunk. The birthdays of BB King, Barbecue Bob, Snooky Pryor, Charles Brown and Billy Boy Arnold will be celebrated and we’ll have more fun than you can shake a stick at. See you all soon!

Friday Night Blues Party coming your way, 9 to midnight tonight on any of the CKUA Radio Networks’ 16 FM Transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com ...We’ll debut a new single by Edmonton based Bobby Cameron, Blue as Could Be, written to mark the 30th anniversary of the passing of Stevie Ray Vaughan. New music from JW Jones, Lisa Mann, Kat Riggins and Hamilton’s Smoke Wagon Blues Band on the show along with classics from Jimmy Reed, Little Milton, Little Walter, Koko Taylor and Sunnyland Slim plus, we hear from award winning Aussie band, Blues Arcadia. And we mark the birthday of the man who set the bar high for Chicago blues drummers, Fred Below, and share a laugh with Little Charlie and the Nightcats. See you soon, Blues Hounds....er... gophers!

Just part of a stellar line upon tonight’s show...an honour to be able to share Bobby’s new song with you all...

Hey Blues Hounds! Friday Night Blues Party gets underway shortly, 9 to Midnight MST tonight... more new music to sample from, including tracks from everything you see here! Classics from Memphis Slim and Matt Murphy, Ray Charles, Freddie King and Taj Mahal.. see you soon on any of the CKUA Radio Networks 16 FM Transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com

Friday Night Blues Party coming your way 9 to midnight MST tonight on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA APP or online at www.CKUA.com. It’s an embarrassment of riches as the mail finally came in and we have a about 4 dozen new albums to share with you over the next few weeks! Tonight’s crop includes everything you see here. We’ll help John Lee Hooker and Debbie Davies celebrate their birthdays, and have classics from Muddy and Wynonie Harris plus a whole lot more. Come on down!

Friday Night Blues Party coming your way 9 to midnight MST tonight on the CKUA Radio network’s 16 FM Transmittters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com . As usual, we’re chock full of blues goodness with tunes from Son Seals, Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, Downchild, Jimmie Vaughan, Nick Moss, Shemekia Copeland and Albert Collins.. and new music from Lisa Mann, Linsey Alexander and Kirsten Thien is featured. We celebrate the birthdays of 3 gentlemen from Arkansas born in the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s and hear about the original Rolling Stones, a blues band formed in Chicago in 1957...Just to whet your appetite, a little Memphis street art... see y’all soon...

Friday Night Bues Party is coming up 9 to midnight MST! I hope you’ll join me for a set of music from the soon to be released Downchild 50th Anniversary live CD recorded last summer with special guests David Wilcox, Gene Taylor,Kenny Neal and Dan Akroyd. We’ll also have James Harman, Albert King, Soem new Ronnie Earl and vintage Ray Charles, we celebrate the birthdays of Magic Slim and Percy Mayfield and hear great Canadian blues form Steve Strongman, Tim Williams, Suzie Vinnick and Guy Belanger...Catch it on any of the CKUA Radio Networks 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com See y’all real soon!

This week on the Friday Night Blues Party we’ll have a feature set from each of 2 new discs... KennyBlues Boss Wayne’s Go, Just Do It and JW Jones’ Sonic Departures. We mark the passing of Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green and the birthday of Robert Cray... JB Lenoir, Koko Taylor, Howlin Wolf, Kat Danser, Colin Linden, Jimmy Reed and Ronnie Earl are all on board and we’ll have a ton of fun... see you 9 to midnight MST on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online, anytime at www.CKUA.com ...Just in case you’re a drummer or Stage Tech and were wondering....

Chess Records? Yep, we’ll be playing tracks by Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters on tonight’s Friday Night Blues Party. We’ll also feature new music from JW Jones; the IBC Guitarist of the Year for 2020 releases Sonic Departures very soon and we’ll sample from it. We celebrate the blues birthdays of Roy Rogers and Michael Bloomfield and our first hour donor has asked to hear the blues of The Rolling Stones so we’ll dip our toes in that catalogue. As they say, All that and more! 9 to midnight MST on any of the CKUA Radio Networks 16 FM Transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com.. see you soon!

Friday Night Blues Party is broadcasting from the home studio tonight. New tunes from the Confusionaires and Jay Coda Walker with Pete Johnson will be featured along with music by Jeff Healey, Junior Wells, Muddy, Debbie Davies, Diunna Greenleaf, Little Charlie Baty... we celebrate the blues birthdays of Blind Boy Fuller, Smokey Wilson, Long John Hunter. Some vintage KIng Biscuit Boy is in the mix as is Cleveland Fats working with Robert Lockwood Jr. Tune in on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA App or online at www.CKUA.com.. Can you hear me now?

Friday Night Blues Party goes from 9 to midnight tonight! This week we take the first 2 hours to help a group of 25 friends pay tribute to their recently passed blues buddy, Dr. David Willox of Peace River. Dedicated Physician, Community builder and total blues fan, Willox spent a weekend every August at the Edmonton Blues Fest, often bringing along his friends from across Alberta and BC to the festival. Music from the 21 Edmonton blues festivals, that were the highlight of ...his summer, will be featured, including all the cats and kittnes you see pictured here.... We’ll also hear from blues nominees for the Western Canadian Music Awards, new music from Ruthie Foster, Sean Pinchin, Billy Joe Green and David Clayton Thomas, plus we mark the blues birthdays of James Cotton Willie Dixon, Mac Arnold and David Honeyboy Edwards. Join me for all this and more on any of the CKUA Radio Network's 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app, or online at www.CKUA.com See more

Tonight’s guest host, Finn, invites all you blues hounds to tune in between 9 and midnight MST tonight for The Friday Night Blues Party. We’ll have new tunes from the Ruthie Foster Big Band CD, The Nighthawks and Duffy Bishop; check in with this year’s inductees to the Edmonton Blues Hall of Fame and celebrate the birthdays of Clifton Chenier and Lazy Lester...we’ll hear from Downchild, Colin James, Bob Corritore, Bonnie Raitt, Donald Ray Johnson, Tommy Castro, Buddy Guy, Canned Heat, Big Bill Broonzy, Lindsay Beaver and many more...Tonight on any of the CKUA Radio Networks 16 FM Transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com. A Howlin’ good time is guaranteed for all!

Here’s Fiona Boyes, working hard at the Drom (Dromedary) in Central Tilba, Australia a few years ago.. Fiona’s birthday was this past week and we’ll hear music from her Voodoo In The Shadowsrecording on the Friday Night Blues Party, 9 to midnight MST on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM Transmitters,the CKUA App or online at www.CKUA.com. Also on the bill tonight... new music from the Ruthie Foster disc Live at the Paramount recorded in Austin with a BIG BAND (inclu...ding a 10 piece horn section), tunes from the new John Primer and Bob Corritore disc, Alex Dixon’s (the grandson of legendary Willie Dixon) new project The Real Deal, and Johnny Burgin’s new recording featuring some of the cream of the crop of the small but fervent Japanese blues scene.. We’ll also have tunes from Downchild, Jerry McCain, Gatemouth Brown, David Vest, Sass Jordan, The Perpetrators, Hound Dog Taylor, some vintage John Mayall and more. See you on the radio tonight! See more

Music from all of these discs coming up on tonight’s Friday Night Blues Party on any of the CKUA Radio Network ‘s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or at www.CKUA.com... We’ll eat BBQ with James Harman and Big Twist and The Mellow Fellows; take a trip to the North Mississippi Hill Country with R.L. Burnside; have new tunes from Duffy Bishop and The Nighthawks plus a great new disc from WIllie Dixon’s grandson Alex Dixon..we mark the birthdays of Howlin Wolf and Skip James and welcome Canadians Amos Garrett, Fathead, Suzie Vinnick and Lucas Hanneman to the party.. see you all, 9 to midnight MST tonight!

A peek at some of the great blues coming your way, 9 to midnight MST on this week’s Friday Night Blues Party.. We’ll feature a couple of tunes from each of the new Nighthawks and Duffy Bishop CD’s and hear new recordings by Evelyn Rubio, Forrest McDonald and Al Basile... we mark the birthdays of Memphis Minnie, Jimmy Rogers and Lafayette Leake and hear from each of the discs pictured here... Join me on the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com See you all in a few hours Blues Hounds!

Working out of the home studio for tonight’s Friday Night Blues Party on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or at www.CKUA.com . Tonight we mark the passing of Lucky Peterson, celebrate the birth of one of the most influential blues guitarists of all time, born 110 years ago this week in Linden Texas (10 bonus points if you know who) We have new tunes from Tinsley Ellis, Mary Flower, and Johnny Burgin and a load of fun, so drop on by between 9 and midnight (MST) See you soon!

Friday Night Blues Party coming your way, 9-midnight MST tonight on the 16 FM transmitters of the CKUA Radio Network, the CKUA app or online at CKUA.com .. tonight we celebrate the blues birthdays of Taj Mahal, Big Joe Turner and Dave Specter; hear new Chicago blues from Delmark artists Linsey Alexander and Johnny Burgin and find out about the interesting connection between Little Richard and Albert Collins...See you on the airwaves soon, Blues Hounds!

Hope you’re all staying safe and staying home like this little Blues Hound... This week’s Friday Night Blues Party features loads of your requests that came in during our very successful spring fundraiser, where we topped our goal by close to $90,000!!! Way to go, CKUA fans!! We’ll also preview the virtual Blues Music Awards, celebrate some blues birthdays and hear new tunes from The Dice Cubes, Linsey Alexander, Federico Luiu and Jimmy Johnson. Friday, 9 to midnight MST on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters, the CKUA app or online at www.CKUA.com... see you soon, Blues Fans...

These guys.... Holger Petersen and Cam Hayden.. CKUA’s award winning Blues Guys ... Join us tonight as we swap stories, talk blues and raise funds on the last Friday of the 2020 CKUA Spring Fundraiser... In the words of Downchild Good Times Guaranteed.. Find us on any of the CKUA Radio Network’s 16 FM transmitters the CKUA app or online, anytime at www.CKUA.com. We’re here 9 to midnight MST, come on down!