Shawn Campbell/Picture: Sally Blood
I’ve a confession to make. I could have two turntables and a microphone, however neither of my turntables works, and in the event that they did, I’m unsure I’d have something to plug them into. However what does work is the CD participant in my automobile. If I had a turntable in my automobile, I don’t suppose that might go properly, given what number of potholes Chicago has. However the CD participant works like a attraction, and fact be advised, I’ve extra CDs than LPs, and I’m all the time trying to fill holes in my assortment, a lot to my present spouse’s chagrin.
If I lived nearer to North Heart, I’d have my automobile radio tuned to 107.1 FM, CHIRP Radio, as I’m a volunteer and DJ there, however I’m near O’Hare, and the low-power FM sign doesn’t carry that far, so it’s a uncommon day I don’t have a CD enjoying, and my laptop computer at house is sufficiently old to have a CD drive. I deliver a collection of my CDs (and typically some vinyl) to play on my weekly radio present at CHIRP. Once I’m at residence I additionally take heed to CHIRP by way of the web site or their cell app, however typically I’m within the temper to take heed to an album or two whereas I work or match socks or no matter I is perhaps doing.
Like lots of people of my technology, I think, our household’s first CD was “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band,” on condition that the Fab 4 was one of many few shared loves of mine and my mother and father. After all, by the point I used to be rising up, my mother and father had matured and have been extra into classical music than what grew to become often called traditional rock, even when the Beatles LPs they’d have been closely orchestrated rock.
Once I began in faculty radio in 1989, our station had simply put in its first CD participant, and we have been determining use it. That they had three turntables. By 1992 the CD was so ubiquitous that CD singles of Alice In Chain’s “Would” have been being handed out freely earlier than Screaming Bushes went on at that summer time’s New Music Seminar.
However my level right here isn’t to inform my private historical past of the CD. You recognize who has numerous CDs? CHIRP Radio. They take donations of CDs (and vinyl) and placed on file festivals yearly at Plumber’s Corridor and at Pitchfork, promoting them to lift cash for working the radio station. This weekend they’re having their Second Annual CD Blowout Sale at Burning Bush Brewery in North Heart. The occasion additionally options CHIRP DJs spinning data and native bands enjoying.
Why a CD sale? “CHIRP is understood for its two large file festivals every year,” says CHIRP founder and normal supervisor Shawn Campbell, “however we’ve additionally collected tens of hundreds of CDs which have been donated to us through the years. Since we all know many CHIRP followers are music collectors, we wish to share the musical wealth whereas additionally benefiting the station, so we’ve priced these CDs to maneuver—we wish them to go to good properties the place they’ll be beloved and listened to!”
CD buyers needn’t thirst or starvation, as Burning Bush may have beer, wine, cider and soda for buy and Dimo’s Pizza can be slinging slices all through the day.
Whereas the plan is to make use of the again patio and have a wonderful day like final yr, if the climate seems to be dodgy, CHIRP will arrange in Burning Bush Brewery’s new River Room area.
So… free admission, tens of hundreds of CDs priced to maneuver, pizza and drinks on the market, outside (climate allowing, and a beautiful indoor area if the climate doesn’t allow), reside music and CHIRP DJs spinning music… If this seems like a fairly good time to you, then I assume I’m not only a biased partisan, however this factor sells itself, doesn’t it?
Superfrye
Right here’s the schedule of DJs and reside performances:
DJ rexi DJ set: 12-1:30pm
Superfrye acoustic set: 1:30-2pm
Melissa Okay. DJ set: 2-3:30pm
Sip set: 3:30-4pm
Jack Ryan DJ set: 4-5pm
Sunday Could 21, 2023, 12-5 pm, Burning Bush Brewery, 4014 North Rockwell, free admission, all ages. For extra particulars, go to CHIRP’s web site.
Craig Bechtel is a contract author and has additionally been a Senior Workers Author for Pop’stache. He’s additionally a DJ, volunteer and Assistant Music Director for CHIRP Radio, 107.1 FM, and contributes sometimes to the CHIRP weblog. As DJ Craig Reptile, you possibly can hear him play music on the FM dial or at www.chirpradio.org most Sunday nights from 6pm to 9pm. He beforehand labored in radio at KVOE AM and Fox 105 in Emporia, Kansas, and served as a DJ, music director and normal supervisor for WVKC at Knox School in Galesburg, Illinois, the place he additionally received the Davenport Prize for Poetry and earned a B.A. in English writing. Craig has been working in numerous capacities inside the resort and conferences trade for over twenty years, and presently works at an organization that makes use of proprietary programs to develop confirmed knowledge methods that improve income, room nights and assembly attendance. In his spare time, he additionally fancies himself an armchair herpetologist, and thus along with a spouse, son and cat, he has a day gecko and a veiled chameleon in his assortment.
