LIFE
MARK PAPOUSEK
Keeping Ottawa country music alive
Since my retirement from CKBY Radio, I have had a chance to
look back and reflect on some of my achievements over the past 35 years.
One award I’ll never forget was my induction into the Ottawa MAC BEATTIE
Valley Country Music Hall of Fame in November, 2011. I was inducted into this great organization along with fellow-Renfrew-boy, singer and songwriter Dan Paul Rogers; with Hall of Fame Board of Director Elayne Carlson; and also with great singer and picker Rodger Coulombe.
The Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame was founded in
1980 and incorporated as a non profit organization in 1987. It became a registered charity a year later.
Its mission is to establish a hall of fame museum for the storage, TED DAIGLE
preservation and public display of the instruments and artifacts they have accumulated over the years from the Valley and elsewhere in Canada. They also want to develop and promote country music and the history of the music in the Ottawa Valley. We sometimes forget about the pioneers in our industry, the people who put their heart and soul and time into making their brand of music a part of the Ottawa Valley.
The very first inductees into the Hall of fame in 1981 were Reg
Hill and the great Mac Beattie, who for years played the Ottawa Valley. They were really the forefathers of country music in the area.
Over the years many performers were added to the list, including
Orville Prophet, Ronnie Prophet, Ward Allen, Joe Brown and the entire Family Brown.
TERRY CARISSE Others include Irwin Prescott, Hank Rivers, Bob King, Ron 24 BOUNDER MAGAZINE
McMunn, Wayne Rostad,Terry Carisse, Bruce Golden and Bobby Lalonde. Many of my fellow radio broadcasters are in there as well, with the likes of Ted Daigle, Hal-The-Bear Lee, Doug Anderson, Hal Botham, and Ralph Carlson, who hosted the 5th string on CKBY many years ago. Radio Stations CKBY and CJET from Smiths Falls were also inducted.
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