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Ted Daigle Born in Jacquet River, NB, in 1937, Ted Daigle has enjoyed successful careers on the Canadian music scene as a recording artist/performer and Radio Personality, Music Director and Program Director. Ted Daigle's radio career began at CKBC in Bathurst, NB in 1956. After stints at CJLX in Thunder Bay and CFGM in Toronto, Ted settled in at CKOY and CKBY in Ottawa, where he founded (1972) the first full-time country radio station in the nation's capital. His tenure at CKBY for 24 years included the introduction of many special projects benefiting Canadian country music artists and the music industry, as well as the community at large. His relentless effort to promote country music in Canada has made Ted Daigle one of the nation's most honored braodcasters:
Program Director of the Year
Music Director of the Year
Deejay of the Year
Radio Station of the Year
Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame
In his dual role as both a performer (numerous albums, charted singles)and a radio personality, Ted Daigle has interviewed and shared the stage with most of country music's legendary artists, many of whom credit Ted Daigle for their own early career radio success.
Derek Knowles was born in Bathurst in 1948. He has had a long musical career beginning at the age of 14 when he acquired his first guitar. He is a singer/songwriter, and sang and played with a group called "The Second Generation" while attending technical school in Moncton, which appeared on television. The most prominent appeareance was a half hour Christmas special in 1968. Derek has been part of different country bands since and performed in clubs around NB and on radio shows. He composed both the words and music to "City By the Bay" for the 1973 Bathurst Summer Festival and won the NB Amateur 1979 Country & Western Fest. For several years he was the organizer of Hospitality Day Country Hoedown. He also plays for dances and various organizations around Bathrust. Derek gives of his time performing for charity fundraisers, senior groups and residences.
