New Year's Day

I am out of town and will be off air tomorrow New Year's Day. I wish you a smooth transition from 2008 to 2009~

Community Grooves radio guest/topic for Thurs 12/18

Tomorrow's scheduled guest will be a representative and a foster youth, from the Lane County Heart Gallery. Their mission is to find loving families for Oregon's foster children. 

www.lanecountyheartgallery.org

My niece, who signs with Classic Albums Live, will also join in by phone. They are preparing for a big New Year's eve performance at Hard Rock Live in Orlando.

I will be off air the next two weeks, and this program will be near to my heart~

Zimbabwean musician/activist on air Saturday

Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwean musician, political activist, and creator of Chimurenga music, will be a guest on the De Ampy Soul Hama show Saturday on KWVA. I will be co-hosting this segment with Shawn, sometime between 11:30am-12:30pm.

Weekend cultural/community events

Fri 12/12 

5:30-7:30pm

EQUUS art opening reception

Emerald Art Center - Springfield

www.emeraldartcenter.org

Sat 12/13

11am-3pm

Holiday open house with music, food, and art from Cuba

UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

http://uoma.uoregon.edu

Sat 12/13

7pm

Community Center for the Performing Arts (WOW Hall)

Member/anniversary celebration

www.wowhall.org

Sun 12/14

7pm

Halie Loren (recent "Community Grooves" guest) and Matt Treder Holiday concert at the Shedd Recital Hall

www.halieloren.com

Thursday's radio guest (including live music)

Community Center for the Performing Arts representative Bob Fennessy and musical guest Chico Schwall, previewing WOW Hall's membership celebration. It's their 33rd anniversary! 

Chico will play live on air, and we'll sample tracks by other musicians scheduled to perform on Saturday.

www.chicoschwall.net

www.wowhall.org/events

Today's radio guest - noon-1pm

First Friday ArtWalk (Lane Arts Council) coordinator

www.lanearts.org

and

UO Gospel singers and director

music1.uoregon.edu

Eugene community/cultural events this week

Wed. 12/3 UO Dance Quarterly performances

http://music1.uoregon.edu/eventnews

Fri. 12/5 First Friday ArtWalk

www.lanearts.org/communityarts/firstfriday

Sat. 12/6 UO Percussion and UO Gospel ensembles

http://music1.uoregon.edu/eventnews

Sat 12/6 Annual Lane Powwow

www.lanecc.edu/nasa/powwow

More events are listed at www.visitlanecounty.org/calendar

Links from today's show

On the radio program today, I shared several quotes about thanks/gratitude. They were from this site. 

www.wisdomquotes.com

Also, there is an insightful article on this theme at 

www.yogajournal.com/wisdom/722

Hope you had a thankful day~

December Radio Guests

In December, I am delighted to be joined by the following guests...

Dec. 4th - First Friday Art Walk (Lane Arts Council) director and

UO Gospel Ensemble members and director, previewing their upcoming performance

Dec. 11th - Community Center for the Performing Arts (WOW Hall) representative, along with musical guest Chico Schwall - previewing anniversary and membership celebration event

Dec. 18th - Lane County Heart Gallery Director (connecting foster youth with adopted families)

It will be a lovely season for acknowledging organizations that groove hearts and spirits!

Thanksgiving program noon-1pm

For Thanksgiving, I'll find and share some music and readings related to gratitude. Listeners are invited to call in and share why they are thankful...

I am thankful for KWVA and your support!

Guest hosting De Ampy Soul Hama Show - tomorrow (Sat) 11am-1pm

I will be filling as host for the De Ampy Soul Hama Show tomorrow (Sat. 11/22) 11am-1pm. 

Kudos to Shawn as this show was voted Top 3 radio program in Eugene Weekly's recent poll!

Joining me will be Thaddeus Moore, recording engineer/studio owner and drummer for Circae Vitae. I recently took a Basic Sound Engineering class taught by Thaddeus, and I appreciated his philosophy on sound quality. We'll listen to Circae Vitae's freshly released CD; and play with sound mixes, consistent with De Ampy Soul Hama improv!

Nov. 20th "Community Grooves" radio guest and ticket giveway

Today's radio guest will be The Dead Americans

www.myspace.com/thedeadamericans

And we will give away another grrrlzrock series pass on air!

"Community Grooves"

Thursday 12noon-1pm (PT)

KWVA 88.1

kwva.uoregon.edu

Sound Healing

I went to a Sound Healing conference this weekend; and it is inspiring to learn about the application of sound/music in health care, education, organizations, and international/multicultural collaboration~

Nov. 13th radio guest and ticket giveaway

Tomorrow (Thursday Nov. 13th), I will be joined on air by guest Halie Loren, who will be performing at grrrlzrock this Friday. The word is that she is uniquely talented!

You can check out her sites/reviews at www.halieloren.com and http://cdbaby.com/cd/halieloren.

Also, we will be giving away a comp grrrlzrock pass during the program...

You can tune into "Community Grooves" this Thursday 12noon-1pm (PT) on KWVA Eugene 88.1 or http://kwva.uoregon.edu/.

November Grrrlz Rock Guests on "Community Grooves" - KWVA Eugene 88.1 - Thursdays noon-1pm

In November, I am glad to feature Grrrlz Rock (Eugene concert series) performers and their music, along with other community/cultural event info. Here's the radio radio guest lineup:

Nov. 6th - Cindy Ingram (Grrrlz Rock founder and director) and Jessie Marquez (also performing at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, during the Cuba Avant-Garde exhibit)

Nov. 13th - Halie Loren

Nov. 20th - The Dead Americans

For more information, you can check out www.grrrlzrock.com, and tune into "Community Grooves" on Thursdays 12noon-1pm, via KWVA Eugene 88.1, and the Internet at htttp://kwva.uoregon.edu.

Thanks for your support!