Well, if you have not heard our yearly fund raising drive has started in earnest. Celtic Radio has a lot hanging on this fund raising event. The yearly fees to broadcast are very expensive, and the ability to generate funding for Celtic Music is not that great compared to other music genres.
But that is why it is so important that all of our music channels can stay online and available for free to introduce new people to the genre. Sure, we could just stream our channels to only paid listeners, but would we be doing a service to Celtic music and musicians by not introducing new people to the music and Culture?
That's why we are committed to keeping the new Celtic Radio Network App free for the next year if we can make our fund raising goal.
Every year we think for sure this will be our last year and we will not meet the goal and we will have to close down most of our channels. But every year you folks come through and for that we are very grateful.
Check out our Fund Raising Video to see what we are all about and if you enjoy the music, the website and the people on the website then visit our donation page:
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Am fear nach gleidh na h–airm san t–sith, cha bhi iad aige ’n am a’ chogaidh. He that keeps not his arms in time of peace will have none in time of war.
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Much appreciated all of the donations we are almost at our goal which is really a great thing! Thank you everyone this year and all of the years that we have been online it really is an amazing all the support.
Most of our supplies start to really dwindle this time of year and so we will now be able to order more bumper stickers, envelopes, ink cartridges, stamps and a number of other supplies we are probably forgetting about. Postage for our contests keeps going up, but with your support our monthly contests will continue. Half of our goal will go directly to our new license provider SonixFM and most of the other half towards keeping our vendor App going with another year of support and updates. Thanks so much to everyone!
Big Congratulations to Celtic Radio and all of it's members for meeting and surpassing this years Fundraising goal! The music here and this community are so enjoyable and knowing this is going to continue is just fantastic. Never doubted it wouldn't happen.
Wow, we just realized we hit the mark. Can't believe how quickly we did it in about 2 weeks or less? Thanks to everyone that contributed this year, past years too. It really only takes several dozen people to make our goal and it is so appreciated!
This year support came from all over - not just the U.S. but from the Netherlands, Canada and the U.K. We ran out of some items and some we have plenty left. For example we have about 11 calendar's left and so we might try to pawn these off over the next few weeks or use them for our St. Patrick's Day contest.
We have been trying to do a better job this year in getting the "Thank You" gifts out a lot quicker. As of today we only have a few large donation packages which will take several more days to put together.
See attached of some of the mugs and steins we did this year, definitely we are getting better at these unqiue gifts.
We will be removing the audio and banner fund raising markers today. Next stop St. Patrick's Day! Thank you everyone!