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Building Power

Host: Brian Johns

Talk/Community

 Brian Johns is really appreciative of the opportunity to work with WEHC. He first came to the Virginia Organizing Project as an intern in 2000, and then worked as a community organizer from 2001-2005.

 

He spent two years in Pennsylvania doing community organizing with a labor union, and returned to VOP in 2007. He is currently the organizer for far Southwest Virginia, covering from Pulaski to the Kentucky border. Brian lives with his wife Paige and their daughters Lea and Susanna. Building Power is a show that will talk about organizing in Southwest Virginia and the people in our communities who are making that organizing happen. We will talk about real people working for real solutions to real problems, throughout our region and around the state. Listen to building power on the 3rd friday of every month, at 3:00.

 

 

 

 

Cultural Transition

Host: Ron Edins, Cassa Von Kundra

Talk/ Community

 

Ron and Cassa are co-founders of the local grassroots organization known as Transition Abingdon and Washington County; the focus of the group is building community resilience in response to peak oil, climate change, and economic instability.  Transition Initiatives are now being formed throughout communities across the globe, and they hold the promise of helping communities adapt to a sustainable way of living based on the ethics and principles of permaculture.
           
Join them as they explore the meaning of living sustainably and why a change in cultural values is needed to achieve that goal.  Learn about permaculture and its importance to our lives.  Together we can build resilience in our community, to withstand the impact of challenges we may face in our future.

Rise up Singing

Host: Dr. Steve Fisher

Country / Folk / Blues / Rock

Steve Fisher taught for 35 years at E&H where he helped create the Appalachian Center for Community Service and the Public Policy & Community Service major. While teaching he used music to let the “people’s voice” into the classroom. He is a long-time peace, social justice, and Appalachian activist and has seen the importance of music in people’s daily lives and struggles.

Although he can’t carry a tune and doesn’t play an instrument since he sold his high-school band clarinet, music is most certainly at the core of his life. Being able to hear live music on a regular basis is part of what keeps him happy and sane. He has eclectic musical tastes that include alternative country, folk, blues, rock, and the explicitly political.

He’s been in love with Emmylou Harris for over 30 years and plays one of her songs on his show every week but she still won’t respond to his letters.

Click here to listen to a sample of Rise Up Singing

V. I. Visits

Host: Margo Thomas

Music/Community

VI Visits features a selection of VI students sharing their musical interests and discussing what exciting, new things are going on in Bristol and on their campus.  Music from many genres are included depending on who is joining the show. Check it out at 11PM every Thursday night.

 

Margo Thomas is a senior at Virginia Intermont College and hails from Baton Rouge, LA.  Majoring in Equine Studies with an English Minor, Margo enjoys riding her horses, writing, and doing many things that have nothing to do with English or horses.  Like talking on radio shows.

 

Retroclectic

Host: Ann and David Ledgerwood

Local Music

 

 

  David and Ann met in their 40’s and immediately were drawn to “making music together.”  They have brought their varied backgrounds together to write and perform music.  Now they are bringing their love for music to the airwaves as they host “The RetroClectic Radio Show” on WEHC Wednesdays from 8:00—9:00 p.m.  They play out at various venues in the area, including the Virginia Highlands Festival, and are very involved in the music ministry at their church.   David and Ann finished their first CD “Face the Wind” in March of 2009, something they see as maybe a bit unusual for two people who have gracefully entered middle age . . . you guess their ages. 

David is a counselor working in the Washington County School System.  Ann attended E&H in the late 70’s, where she sang in the choral program under Dr. Charles “Chick” Davis, before transferring to physical therapy school.  She now works with children in Smyth and Washington Counties.  They live in the country in Emory with four labs, two cats, and an overwhelming variety of wildlife just outside the windows.   Between them, they share four children and a sweet six-year old granddaughter.  Please check them out at

 

Behind the Music

Host: Steve Morton

Choral

 

 

Bristol, Virginia native Stephen Morton is the writer and host of a new program coming to WEHC.  Behind The Music features sacred choral music from every style period from the Renaissance to the modern era, including hymn arrangements and spirituals.  The program focuses on the inspiration found in the world's great music, with both musical and theological insights offered.

Morton brings a rich and diverse background to this unique radio program, combining vast experience as a conductor and singer with a solid Christian faith.  In addition to presenting Behind The Music each week, Mr. Morton serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the American Chamber Chorale, Worship Associate and Director of Choral Music at Salem-in-Ladue United Methodist Church in St. Louis, and is a member of the voice faculty at the University of Missouri in St. Louis.  Mr. Morton is a graduate of Virginia High School, Milligan College, and the University of Tennessee.

 

Theatre Matters

Host: Evalyn Baron

Talk

Evalyn Baron has been a theatre professional for forty years, working as an actor on Broadway and Off-Broadway in such shows as Les Miserables, Rags, Big River and Quilters (for which she received a 1985 Tony Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical). She has appeared in soap operas, commercials, movie specials, The Captain Kangaroo Show, and on radio, as well as teaching at NYU. Ev's love affair with Barter began 15 years ago with a lead in Lettice and Lovage. Since then audiences have seen her in dozens of plays, such as Glass Menagerie, Gypsy, and First Baptist of Ivy Gap. Her directing credits include A Sanders' Family Christmas, Oklahoma, Evita, and the recently popular Beauty and the Beast.

Ev also holds the position in Barter administration as director of outreach, and is happy to be reaching out on WEHC's Theater Matters: Conversations With Barter Theatre, every Friday afternoon! She will talk with Barter insiders as well as fans about upcoming productions, art and life in Abingdon. She is married to Barter Theatre Marketing Director and actor Peter Yonka

Click here to listen to a sample of Theatre Matters

Radioface

Host: Will Coleman

Indie Rock

Will Coleman graduated from Emory & Henry in 2007 with a B.A. in Directing.  
He lived in New York for while, but now he travels the world in a red hot air balloon, righting wrongs, listening to music, and sharing it with people he likes.

Radioface is a travelling carnival of indie rock and sarcasm.  
Will promises only to play whatever he feels like, from hip-hop to hillbilly, focusing on independent artists.
It's like a radio.  For your face.

 

Art Speaks

Host: Art Speaks

Art Talk

Art speaks. It is a cognitive reaction that is so specifically directed at the individual viewer that often it can say more than any written word. Art is language, communication, sensory movement, aesthetic projection, nonsensical, religious, political, and profane.  The art spot explores this language, its themes, and how it interacts with our community. Join the William King Museum to explore this interaction.

William King Museum, a non-profit regional art museum and arts education center, is the only facility of its kind serving far Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Located at 415 Academy Drive in Abingdon, VA, the Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums, one of only about 750 accredited museums nationwide.

30 Minute Appointment

Host: William Mark Handy, MD FAAFP.TC

Talk / Call-In

You've got questions, he's got answers.

Join Dr. Handy as he explores controversies like substance abuse and men’s sexuality.

Call-In and find out what YOU want to know. Listeners can call in and ask on-air, or have the question asked by our in-studio operator.

Dr. Handy is a MD and a certified family practice physician. He also works as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. His family practice is located in Falls Plaza in Abingdon.

Upcoming topics include Young Men and Sexual Health, April 10 and Stress, April 24.

The only bad question is the one unasked.

Click here to listen to a sample of 30 Minute Appointment

Spectrum

Host: Carrie Cannaday /Sarah Hurley

Bluegrass/Electronic/Reggae

Carrie Cannaday is a '02 graduate of Emory & Henry. She is the founder of Starscape Media, a media company based in Glade Spring, Virginia.

 

Sarah Hurley grew up in Meadowview and is now a resident of Marion, Virginia, where she and her husband Keith work in a family-owned real estate business.

 

Carrie and Sarah have come together to develop and host "Spectrum," a variety show that features discussions about current events, culture, politics, health and fitness, fashion, religion, relationships, and more! 

 

Many Voices

Host: David St. Claire

Music Talk

 

 

Many Voices is a commentary, sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious, on things that matter, or should matter to us.  On Many Voices, we believe that the more voices we listen to the better our world will be.  We invite our listeners to look through a telescope at things far away in time and space; we invite our listeners to look through a microscope at things we don’t always see fully; and, occasionally, we hold up a mirror for our listeners and ask, “How do we look now?”

The Reverend Dr. David St. Clair is creator, producer, and host of Many Voices.  St. Clair also serves as pastor of the Chilhowie and Seven Mile Ford Methodist Churches.  He is a graduate of Emory & Henry College.

 

 

David is a graduate of Emory & Henry, former chaplain of the college, and former Director of the Bonner Scholars program.His master’s and doctoral degrees come from Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C.  He currently teaches courses for the religion department and is pastor of the Chilhowie United Methodist and Seven Mile Ford United Methodist churches.

Tim White Bluegrass Hour

Host: Tim White

Bluegrass

Tim White left Roanoke, Virginia in 1974 and settled in east Tennessee, where he pursued his careers of artist, sign painter and banjo picker. Though the artist was there from the start and the sign painter was a logical career outgrowth, the banjo picker was learned later in life. As he said one time, "It's amazing what one can learn when they don't watch TV."

Tim is also the host of the PBS television concert series , Song of the Mountains. www.songofthemountains.org This popular program has been featured on over 180 PBS affiliates across America featuring bluegrass, old time, Celtic, gospel and Americana music. Song of the Mountains reaches over 21 million households and 52 million people annually across the nation.

Tim's interest of recognizing, preserving and perpetuating the historic music of the area led to recruitment of others of a like mind and an organizing of the Appalachian Cultural Music Association. www.appalachianculturalmusic.org

Listen in Sundays from 9-11!

Emory First United Methodist Church

Host: David Jackson/Mary K. Briggs

Sunday Church Service

 

 

Join the Emory United Methodist congregation for worship every Sunday morning at 11:00.  The service features beautiful music by our organist Anita Coulthard, pianist Marilyn Hower, and our talented chapel choir.  Listen to inspiring sermons by Emory & Henry graduates Mary K. Briggs, E&H Chaplain, and David Jackson, Emory UMC Pastor.  If you can’t be with us in person, be with us in Spirit on WEHC.

 

Washington County Connection

Host: Nicole Price

Talk-Local Goverment

 

 

Welcome to Washington County Connections.  This is a program to inform you and keep you up-to-date on the issues that affect life in Washington County.  You’ll get a look at the inner workings of your local government by hearing from County officials and employees, and you'll hear all about community issues as they arise.

 Your host, Nicole Price, represents the Jefferson District on the Washington County Board of Supervisors.  Listen Friday at 3:00