Date Range

1984-2010

Description Level

Fonds

Creator

Mark Campbell

Physical Description

52cm of textual records in bound volumes

History Biographical

Mark Campbell was born and raised in Lethbridge, and he attended the radio arts program at Lethbridge College. Actively engaged in the local fine arts community throughout his life, Campbell worked as a radio broadcaster in the 1970s-1980s. He transitioned to television broadcasting in 1993, working for Global Lethbridge. It was while working at the local radio station 1090 CHEC in the early 1980s that Campbell started the Greetergrammers. The Greetergrammers were a group of friends that could be hired to sing and entertain for scheduled groups around town, and perform to unsuspecting individuals. The group could be hired to perform for birthdays, anniversaries, proposals, going-away parties, or any other special occasion that the client would request. The client would contact Mark Campbell and arrange to have their loved one or friend serenaded by the Greetergrammers at a specific time and place. The group would show up at the arranged location, and surprise the individual, and serenade them with a personalized song based off of a famous tune. As the Greetergram performances started to catch on, Mark Campbell kept schedule books of all of their performances, starting from 1984-2010; however, the Fonds are missing the 2004-2009 schedule books. Information contained in the schedule books include the names of the clients arranging the performances, the unsuspecting individual to be serenated, a few personal characteristics of the individual, and where the performance would take place. The Greetergram performances lasted for approximately 36 years, performing to over 20,000 people. A more detailed account of the Mark Campbell Greetergram Schedule Books to be found in file 2019.1014/001.

Scope and Content

2019.1014/001: Schedule Book 1 from 1984, 1 double-sided page details account of the Greetergrammers origins from Mark Campbell. 2019.1014/002: Schedule Book 2 from 1985? 2019.1014/003: Schedule Book 3 from 1985-1986. 2019.1014/004: Schedule Book 4 from 1986-1987. 2019.1014/005: Schedule Book 5 from 1987-1988. 2019.1014/006: Schedule Book 6 from 1988-1989. 2019.1014/007: Schedule Book 7 from 1989-1990? 2019.1014/008: Schedule Book 8 from 1990-1991? 2019.1014/009: Schedule Book 9 from 1991-1992. 2019.1014/010: Schedule Book 10 from 1992-1993. 2019.1014/011: Schedule Book 11 from 1993-1994. 2019.1014/012: Schedule Book 12 from 1994-1995 2019.1014/013: Schedule Book 13 from 1995. 2019.1014/014: Schedule Book 14 from 1996. 2019.1014/015: Schedule Book 15 from 1997. 2019.1014/016: Schedule Book 16 from 1998. 2019.1014/017: Schedule Book 17 from 1999. 2019.1014/018: Schedule Book 18 from 2000. 2019.1014/019: Schedule Book 19 from 2001. 2019.1014/020: Schedule Book 20 from 2002. 2019.1014/021: Schedule Book 21 from 2003. 2019.1014/022: Schedule Book 22 from 2010.

Accession No.

20191014

Collection

Archive

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