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Caribbean Days 2008
2008/09/03 (Wed)
Every year hundreds of revelers pack the streets of North Vancouver for the Caribbean Days Multicultural Street Parade. This year was no exception, in fact, the weekend long event including the parade, the Waterfront Dance and the music, food and culture events taking place all day Saturday and Sunday attracts more people every year.


Melo Productions "We Carnival" wins Best Band


Multicultural Street Parade entries


King Fish "The King of Limbo"


Caribbean Days attracted a huge crowd over the whole weekend.

WV Receives Reggae Music Award
2008/06/17 (Tue)


Carrie Mullings presents Wayne Vernon of Caribbean Express on 96.1 FM with the Community Appreciation Award at the 2nd Annual Reggae Music Awards in Toronto.

13th Canadian Chinese Song-Writers Quest
2008/06/16 (Mon)

The 13th Canadian Chinese Song-Writers Quest brought together rising local talent with well-known Hong Kong song-writing, singing and acting personalities.

This year all the proceeds from the tickets sold for the SQ13 finale at Michael J. Fox theatre on May 31st were donated directly to the Red Cross for aid to Szechuan earthquake relief.



All of our winners took home valuable prizes.


Hong Kong song-writer Eddie Ng took the stage with rising stars Percy Fan and Wada Hiromi


The UNION SQUARE Best Pop Song & Best Lyrics Award went to the song ¡§Overwhelmed¡¨ by May Chan & Joyce Chan


The BRIAN JESSEL Best Music Arrangement was awarded to the song ¡§Crazy Fire¡¨ by
One Arm Bear


Our listeners chose ¡§Your Heart My Heart¡¨ by Nelson Tin for the
REGENCY LEXUS People¡¦s Choice Award.


MC's Mary Lo and Delon Lew.

Mapumba in Vancouver for Putumayo's 15th Anniversary
2008/05/13 (Tue)

South African recording artist Mapumba came to Vancouver to promote the latest compilation CD's from Putumayo, "African Party" and "African Dreamland" being released in celebration of Putumayo's 15th Anniversary.

Mapumba spoke with DJ KMG from La Palabre heard on 96.1FM every Saturday at 11am about his musical journey from the Congo to becoming and international recording artist.

Listen to the podcast at http://www.privilegegroup.net/podcast/.



Mapumba with DJ KMG at Fairchild Studios


Mapumba plays "Mwafwako" from the new Putumayo CD "African Party".


Katy from Western Canada Putumayo, Honore Gbedze (DJ KMG) from La Palabre and Mapumba at Fairchild Radio.

Children's Festival Comes to Aberdeen Centre
2008/05/07 (Wed)
The Vancouver International Children's Festival showcased some of the talent that will be at this year's festival in Vanier Park from May 11th - 15th.

Get ready for the excitement and fun of the 31st Vancouver International Children's Festival going on now at Vanier Park. Check out music, puppetry, and plays for kids of all ages. Site admission gets you into dozens of free events. See the roving entertainers or sit down and enjoy a show at the outdoor stage.

There's something for everyone at the Vancouver International Children's Festival, May 12-19th at Vanier Park.


Leroy Sibbles and the Mighty Tamlins
2008/04/18 (Fri)


Leroy "Heptone" Sibbles and the Mighty Tamlins with Maffie, Eduardo and WV.
Leroy "Heptone" Sibbles and the Mighty Tamlins paid a visit to the 96.1FM studio to speak with Wayne Vernon about what they've been up to lately and the revival of their legendary music.

Caribbean Express in Antigua 2007
2008/01/03 (Thu)


Sandals Grand Antigua Resort
In November 2007, Caribbean Express went live on location at Sandals Grand Antigua Resort in beautiful Antigua. With miles of white sandy beach, swim up bars and fine dining, and a friendly and knowledgable staff to make your stay an unforgettable one, Sandals Grand Antigua Resort has everything for the perfect Caribbean vacation for singles, families and couples


Sandals Grand Antigua has everything you need

for the perfect Caribbean vacation.


WV interviews Antigua Prime Minister live on Caribbean Express

Antigua Prime Minister, Winston Baldwin Spencer stopped by for an exclusive chat with WV to talk about the many wonderful things that Antigua has to offer.


Latino Soy 14th Anniversary Party
2008/01/02 (Wed)
Latino Soy celebrated 14 years on the air Friday November 30th at the beautiful Alpen Club on Victoria Drive, with a great turn out representing enthusiastic Latin music lovers from our listening audience and fabulous entertainment from some favorite artists heard on 96.1FM.


Che Pablucci


Aracely Y La Tropa 21


Mariachi de Alex Alegria


Mariachi Flores De Alegria


Eduardo with Marlin Ramazzini


Eduardo with DJ Jorgito B.


Eduardo with Ivania Olivares and


Editors of Spanglish Newspaper present Eduardo with gift.

Lac Viet Anniversary Party
2008/01/01 (Tue)
LAC VIET RADIO which airs on Fairchild each Saturday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. held an Annual fundraising Dinner and Dance on Saturday November 24, at the Continental Seafood Restaurant in Richmond.

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