Child of the pandemic, Radio-Hull is born of the importance of providing spaces for creation-broadcasting and of offering spaces for creation in a context where people could not rub shoulders inside a building. The radio symbolized perfectly this gesture of reaching the other that we cannot see, of listening to the ether to fight isolation.

 

Radio is intrinsically geographical and linked to its place of existence. We not only wanted to propel creative projects by artists from the community, but also to make music from both sides of the river resonate, often unrecognized. Radio-Hull has made it its mission to play only local music, that is to say music made by artists living in the Ottawa-Gatineau-Outaouais region.

 

Each year the formula has been refined. Initially only in a festival format, the project had enough scope to be able to envisage offering continuous streaming all year round. Thus in 2023 a digital radio component is opening, available at year: Radio de Radio-Hull. Its name is obviously a nod to a certain state corporation that one day had to differentiate its media channels.

 

A visionary for the music scene, Radio-Hull is now not only an annual festival, but also becomes a continuous vehicle for the sounds of an entire region. Any time of the day or night, from anywhere in the world, its listeners can now listen to something that was cooked up here.

 

Over time, its database will become a veritable catalog of the region's musical history, bearing witness to the richness and diversity of the sounds of the City of Hull and many of the surrounding towns. We therefore wish long life to Radio-Hull!