Well I had a fall post, and this I will call my spring post. in between ...
Yeah a lot of white. It's been an old fashioned winter of glorious proportion, and April 1st is kicking off with a joke from Mother nature, snow flurries. I sit hunched by my bright light, sorting out my tasks for the day.
The highlight of my winter was a workshop I put on last weekend for fiddlers, and a concert the same evening. Our guest artist was Brian Wicklund and I had a great turn out for both the workshops and the concert later that evening with Brian and guitarist Mike Cramer.
I ran the whole thing myself, and it wasn't hard until the very end. I will know what to delegate next time so I can better participate in the workshop. Tired as I was from it all it just filled my heart with joy to see musicians from all walks of life and every age from 8 to( almost) 80 getting together and learning new ways to play. The concert was superb, I had never seen Mike Cramer before and he created a stellar performance with Brian.
One of the resources that was instrumental in my publicity for the event was KBEK the radio station in our area. They so generously gave away tickets for the concert for three days prior to the event and gave me invaluable coverage in the area. Today I found on my Facebook feed that KBEK is off the air. My heart is very heavy, and I really hope that they are able to reorganize and bring back our live and local radio. My daughter worked there as a DJ when she was in High School. I was so excited for her, she was living a dream of mine, I have always been a radio junkie. KBEK was the last of a breed of radio station that was not fed from some tower in colorado somewhere with a disconnected voice popping in and breaking up the music and advertising.
I really liked the immediacy of a live DJ on the air when it came to weather emergencies, winter and summer, school and activity closings, area events, local news, the station is a big part of our community and radio listeners here can consider themselves a part of the evolving history of radio as we see the passing of our live and local station. Whatever happens, I hope it is the best for all involved at the station.
Yeah a lot of white. It's been an old fashioned winter of glorious proportion, and April 1st is kicking off with a joke from Mother nature, snow flurries. I sit hunched by my bright light, sorting out my tasks for the day.
The highlight of my winter was a workshop I put on last weekend for fiddlers, and a concert the same evening. Our guest artist was Brian Wicklund and I had a great turn out for both the workshops and the concert later that evening with Brian and guitarist Mike Cramer.
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One of the resources that was instrumental in my publicity for the event was KBEK the radio station in our area. They so generously gave away tickets for the concert for three days prior to the event and gave me invaluable coverage in the area. Today I found on my Facebook feed that KBEK is off the air. My heart is very heavy, and I really hope that they are able to reorganize and bring back our live and local radio. My daughter worked there as a DJ when she was in High School. I was so excited for her, she was living a dream of mine, I have always been a radio junkie. KBEK was the last of a breed of radio station that was not fed from some tower in colorado somewhere with a disconnected voice popping in and breaking up the music and advertising.
I really liked the immediacy of a live DJ on the air when it came to weather emergencies, winter and summer, school and activity closings, area events, local news, the station is a big part of our community and radio listeners here can consider themselves a part of the evolving history of radio as we see the passing of our live and local station. Whatever happens, I hope it is the best for all involved at the station.
