Hi Open Mike. Nope..Acoustic Workshop is into it's 15th year now in Toronto. Once a week (almost always with a live guest) on Monday night.

To answer your question....what I receive per month in CD submissions is a FRACTION of what the shows who post playlists on the internet get. I stopped doing that years ago, because I wanted the freedom to play what I liked, rather than what was a current release.

I tend to be turned off by a lot of hype, because often the music simply doesn't live up to it. I have made some great discoveries over the last few years, regarding artists that do NO hype at all. The Band, SloPoke, Mudcatter Reggie Miles, fine musician Pam Swan, and dozens of others. The real problem I have though is artists who use a "Shotgun" approach to getting their music out there. My show is "Traditional folk" oriented, but I inevitably get material that is not really appropriate. Better for folks to get to know personally about twenty DJs than to send out a hundred and twenty CDs...many of which will end up in the garbage.

Black Walnut makes a great point. DON'T cheat on your cover. If it looks cheap, it makes the radio programmer think you probably recorded it in your living room on a porta-studio. Nothing wrong with that of course....but if you want to compete with professional artists, it simply won't cut it.

Cheers

Rick