CWU radio station launches food bank benefit

  • December 12, 2014

Student staff and volunteers at Central Washington University’s college radio station have written, produced and performed an Ellensburg-related remake of the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” as part of an effort to spread word about the needs of the FISH food bank, which burned down late November.
Using the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” originally released for a charity effort by he supergroup Band-Aid to shed light on famine and hunger in Africa, the students at 88.1 The ‘Burg created a “serious parody” version of the song.

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