Interview with Asheville GO! Co-founders

September 15, 2009 by kpwhaley

MAIN/WPVM Executive Director Wally Bowen interviews  Asheville GO founders Dan LeRoy and Dwayne Barton along with GO member Stuart Peterson.  The Asheville Green Opportunities Training Team (Asheville GO) is a paid job training and placement program designed to prepare unemployed, out-of-school young adults in and around Asheville for living wage jobs in the rapidly expanding green economy.

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Wordplay: Rare Birds

January 10, 2009 by onair

Jazz fans will like this show. Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins dropped in to talk about their new book of interviews with great composers and players, Rare Birds, published late last year by the University Press of Mississippi. And if you’re going to talk about music, you really should play some, right? So the show features full tracks by Charles Lloyd, Philip Glass, Eugene Friesen, Sathima Bea Benjamin, and the Abdullah Ibrahim Trio. Enjoy.

Wordplay welcomes Peter Culley … and Ezra Pound!

November 10, 2008 by onair

For this week’s fall fundraiser we featured the British Columbia author of The Age of Briggs and Stratton, who read just over a week ago at The French Broad Institute of Time and the River. A project of Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn, the Institute is definitely putting new life in the nightlife of Marshall, NC.

Peter’s done several residencies in the Smokies, now, and they’re beginning to find their way into his work.

We sometimes do archival shows on Wordplay, and have featured readings by Whitman, Tennyson, Yeats, and others whose voices recording technologies have happily saved from time during our three years of broadcasting. Today we featured the great Ezra Pound in readings from 1938 to 1967; he was 82 in the latter year, but still had a strong, complex voice. His reading of Canto LXXXI is exquisite, and poetry doesn’t get much better than that. “What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross…”

A huge thanks to PennSound for making its Pound archive available through the ‘net.

By the way, you might notice a few pops and distortions during the first minute of Peter’s reading. I’d set up that night to record the stage, but everyone decided to perform on the floor instead. What you hear is me moving the mics to get a more balanced recording. Sorry about that.

Music for today’s show included tunes from the remarkable Anni Rossi, who performed at the Institute as part of the program which included Peter, and California flutist Suzanne Teng.

Do lend it an ear.

Veterans’ Voices for November 5th, 2008

November 5, 2008 by onair

This week on Veterans’ Voices, we add a bit of humor. Imagine the swiftboating of Gearge Washington….or the blue states leaving the red states!

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This piece of art can be yours if you are the first person to donate over $35 during Veterans’ Voices. Just tell them you want the painting. If you miss the painting, ask about the Boston Tea Party shirts.

If you missed last week’s podcast, get it before it’s gone.



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nighttime swerve 10.29.08

October 29, 2008 by onair

Tonight at 11pm!

Adam will be featuring new tracks from Crazy P, Max Essa, Pnuma Trio, Beat Pharmacy and Raz Ohara as well as a retro track from Tough Alliance that will have you nostalgic for the ‘93 warehouse days.

Tune in and turn up the sub…
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Veterans’ Voices for October 22, 2008 – Rebellion, What is it Good For?

October 21, 2008 by onair

This week on Veterans’ Voices we speak with local lawyers, Bruce Elmore and Frank Goldsmith about rebellion.  Duke University Professor, Michael Hardt joins the conversation by phone from Raleigh.

We have pictures from the VFP & IVAW protest before the final debate, where an Iraq Veteran was trampled by police on horseback.

Iraq War Vet Nick Morgan (photo by Bill Perry)

Iraq War Vet Nick Morgan (photo by Bill Perry)

We discuss what happened and how it could play out in the courts.

If you missed last week’s discussion about Columbus Day, get it before it’s gone.


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Veterans’ Voices for October 8th, 2008 – Keep Space for Peace Week

October 8, 2008 by onair

This week on Veterans’ Voices we will play part two of our talk with Yana Pitner, UNCA Professor of European History and Russian-American, about the Georgia / Russia conflict and historical perspective. Additionally, we will talk to Bruce Gagnon. He serves as Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He has been working on space issues for the past 20 years and helped create the GN in 1992. He has been named to Helen Caldicott’s Nuclear Policy Research Institute Board of Advisors. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was trained as an organizer by the United Farmworkers Union.

If you missed last week’s interview, part 1 with Yana Pitner, get it before it’s gone.

Next week: The truth about Christopher Columbus.

Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.