Tara Garcia

Country superstar Blake Shelton is bringing his Honky Tonk Tour to the Sasktel Center on March 7th, 2024 and we want you to win tickets before they even go on sale!

Listen to the Country Music Radio morning show Monday through Wednesday this week for your chance to win. Simply listen for the cue to call in the 7 a.m. hour. 

Shelton will be bringing along supporting acts Dustin Lynch and Emily Ann Roberts. 

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, Oct 27th at 10 am

The Eagle 94.1 is going to pump up the music so you can pump some iron. 

Tune in twice a month on the morning show for your chance to play Pump It Up, your chance to walk away with a Free 30 or 60-day trial at the Iron Office gym. 

A selected lucky caller will have the opportunity to identify a selection of songs played at various speeds which increase each round and could be running away with anything from a Free 30 Day Trial to a Free 60 Day Trial at the Iron Office gym. 

Tune in to test your musicality and win with the Iron Office on the Eagle 94.1

The Best Buddies program at the Swift Current Comprehensive High School is putting out a call for some festive donations to assist with an upcoming event. 

Tara Christiansen a co-advisor with the Best Buddies program provides details on the foundation of the program.

"The overall mission of Best Buddies is to create opportunities for one-on-one friendship and relationships for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities."

One local school recently provided their students with extra incentives through a unique Terry Fox fundraiser.

The Bribe Your Teacher fundraiser saw students heavily invested as an Intervention teacher at the school Michelle Vavra explains.

"So basically it's a fundraising activity where the students in each class, collaborate to raise money to bribe their teacher for a variety of activities. Their teacher leads the class in the discussion of the kinds of activities students might want and how much it will cost for them to get that."

Nominations were narrowed down to the top three in 9 award categories at the Swift Current Business Excellence (SCBEX) Awards finalists reveal event held last night at Great Plains College. 

CEO of the Swift Current & District Chamber of Commerce, Karla Wiens says selection was difficult this year due to numerous nominations. 

"This year we received over 100 nominations. We had 76 individual nominees this year in 11 different award categories."

While the Lyric Theatre remains closed during renovations, the spirit of the Lyric was alive at Market Square yesterday with the theatres first fundraiser "Shades of Chautauqua."

Georgia Graham, President of the Lyric board provides details on the day's events. 

"A collaboration of music, spoken word, youth performances, theatre all of it in one space. So, we had performances from Write Out Loud, our Youth Talent Night, our Open Stage and our theatre troupe just for mini performances here at Market Square."

Friday night saw bidders bidding high at our Million Dollar Auction. 

Taking place at Full Line Ag on Friday evening, all the lucky recipients of Full Line Ag Fun Bucks were on hand to splash their cash and see what they could bid their way to win. 

A total of 36 items were auctioned off, all of which were received from our generous sponsors who came on board for our Southwest Explorer promotion over the summer. 

Over the past few months our Southwest Explorer, Alex Kozroski has been busy visiting some of the beautiful locations here in the southwest as well as attending many local events at which he was distributing some valuable Full Line Ag Fun Bucks. We would like to thank all of the wonderful sponsors who came on board to help make this happen and for the items they have all provided for the auction. 

The time has come to put those fun bucks to use at our Million Dollar Auction taking place this Friday, September 15th at Full Line Ag. 

Country Music Radio is sending you to Saskatoon to see The Chicks World Tour next month with special guest Maren Morris!! 

Tune in to the morning show all this week for your chance to play Chicks or Tricks. 

When you hear the cue to call, call in and if you are the lucky caller you will have to choose either Chicks or Tricks. 

Chicks you will have to identify a famous Chicks song from a quick excerpt, and Tricks you will have to answer a true or false piece of Chicks trivia. 

Canadian country superstar Aaron Goodvin will be Taking it to The Streets of Swift Current as he takes to the grandstand stage this Saturday night along with the Johner Brothers and Johner Boys. 

It will be an epic night for Goodvin to take the stage with these artists whom he says he grew up listening to. 

Goodvin details what fans can expect from his upcoming performance.