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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.

 

 

 

 

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

Let’s Get It On

Host: Robert Weisfeld

Variety Music

Emory & Henry alum Robert Weisfeld, an indelible local character who hosts WEHC's "Let's Get It On," is owner-collector-curator of Abingdon, Va.'s unforgettable Star Museum.

A former county newspaper editor and political hellion, Weisfeld spent 16 years prior wearing innumerable Manhattan hats. He is a visual artist, writer, performer and critic who believes pop culture takes the wheel.

"You can shake up the room once you arrive at a given destination," says Weisfeld. "Just make sure your best shot isn’t falling out of the car."

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Time 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's interest in the musical heritage of the region, a region which stretched from Roanoke to Knoxville and cut a broad swath into neighboring states, led to his painting a mural on State Street in Bristol in 1986. This mural depicts the principal characters of the historic Bristol Sessions, which took place in Bristol, TN-VA in the summer of 1927.

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. If your PBS affiliate does not carry Song of the Mountains please contact them to request the show. Information for requesting the program is on the website along with program schedule and merchandise information.

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 Tim currently serves as ACMA president and uses his many talents as artist, businessman, musician and radio announcer to further the aims of the ACMA. He has organized concerts and contributed his time and efforts to promote the music and the message. The ACMA helps to support the Mountain Music Museum, which Tim helped found, in 1999. The museum is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the music which was born in the Southern Appalachians.

Listen in Sundays from 9-11!

The flagship

Host: Dr. Aris Winger & Dr. Michael Young

Talk / variety / political

Dr. Aris Winger and Dr. Michael Young make up the co-hosts of the Flagship while also being the co-founders of DCSouth. They are both mathematicians hailing from Washington D.C. (Winger) and Jacksonville, Florida (Young).

While mathematicians may seem boring these two certainly break the stereotype (in many more ways than one) live on the air.

Topics such as social justice of mathematics, diversity, and sports are just a few of what the show has to offer.

Living Better Locally

Host: A. Flacavento

Talk / Improvement

Anthony Flaccavento is a founding member and executive director of the Appalachian Sustainable Development. ASD works to promote regional farming and forestry in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. Through this work, farmers are switching from tobacco income to income through organic farming and products. ASD helped form Appalachian Harvest, whereby 65 farmers can market their produce. To promote good forestry practices and “green building,” Anthony helped establish a solar dry kiln and wood products primary processing center, Sustainable Woods, located in Castlewood, Virginia. ASD and Anthony have received numerous awards, including the selection as a National Food and Society Policy Fellow by the Thomas Jefferson Agriculture Institute.

Anthony holds a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and Ecology from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in Rural Development from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his family raise three acres of certified organic produce on a farm outside Abingdon.

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Family Realities

Host: Cybill Britton

Talk

M. Cybil Britton is an advance practice nurse in mental health with a specialty in Bowen Family Systems Theory. Through her professional years she has been director of nurses in three psychiatric hospitals in the State of Maryland, had a solo private practice, been part of a group practice and acted as consultant/trainer to a free standing day care unit for the mentally impaired. She also considers it a privilege to have able to lecture on family systems both in the United States and abroad.

Cybil moved to SW Virginia permanently in May of 2007 to take up residence in her husband's family home in Emory. Here she is providing pro bono family systems coaching to people without insurance through Faith in Action in Abingdon and working as a volunteer for CASA. She is also planning a group for seniors at the Senior Center to start in September. She finds this area rich with culture and is happy to be here and to give back to the community that has welcomed her.

By visiting the community through a new program on WEHC called "Family Realities" Cybil and Emory hope to reach many people to chat about what it means to be part of a family, how great that is and sometimes how frustrating it can be.

?It's our basic unit and the one we live, work and love in every day. Join us!

Monday Night Jazz

Host: Al Bradley

Jazz

Al Bradley joins WEHC after a 25-year career as Director of Planning for the Town of Abingdon, but his media roots go back farther than that. He began working in radio at the former WBBI of Abingdon during his high school years with a popular-music show each weeknight called "Abingdon After Dark." He continued to work at WBBI during his college years and later worked in TV news production for WLVA-TV in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Al has been a fan of jazz music since his teenage years and is most knowledgeable about “old-school” jazz music of the 1940s through the 1970s. He is looking forward to sharing his love of jazz with the WEHC audience.

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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

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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.

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Alumni Jams

Host: Carrie Cannaday

Bluegrass/Electronic/Reggae

Since enrolling as a student and moving to Southwest Virginia in 1998, Carrie Cannaday, (E&H Mass Communications '02) has never gotten very far away from Emory & Henry.

Her mass communications career included work at the Bristol Herald Courier, WCYB-TV, and LFTV (Living Faith Television). In 2007, she established Starscape Media -- www.starscapemedia.com. In addition to creation of original programming such as Alumni Jams, the company offers corporate video production as well as wedding video services and web page design and construction.

A Wasp through and through, Carrie is thrilled to have a 30 minutes each week to submit to the community her musical tastes, which range from bluegrass, electronic, reggae, alternative, hip-hop, classical, folk... you name it, she probably listens to it! Tune in, and consider Alumni Jams a musical grab box for your ears!!!

The Reality of Mental Health

Host: Rana Duncan-Daston

Talk

Rana is a professor of social work at Radford University and the site coordinator for the MSW program at the extended campus at the Southwest Vriginia Higher Education Cetner. She earned her master's in social work in 1983 from Florida International University and became licensed as a clinical social worker in the state of Virginia in 1986. In the first part of her career, she worked in psychiatirc hospiitals, psychiatric clinics, private practice and community mental health providing individual, group, and family therapy.

In 1998 she began teaching for Radford and returned to school to complete the doctorate soon thereafter. Dr. Duncan-Daston teaches Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Practice classes, and Biopsychosocial Assessment. As a part of her service to the community, she coordinates programs of continuing education for the local mental health professionals. She has recently provided juried presentations at the Council on Social Work Education (Philadelphia) in November, 2008; The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Feb. 2008 (San Antonio) and 2007 (Cincinnati); as well as others

Click here to listen to a sample of The Reality of Mental Health

The Cage

Host: Doug Ball

Rock

Join Doug Ball for a great rock show on saturday nights from 9pm to midnight called "The Cage". Hear everything from AC/DC to Pantera.....Kiss to Godsmack. If It's Too Loud.....It's not loud enough.

 

Doug grew up in Maryland but moved down here 3 years ago. He likes playing sports and weightlifting, and i enjoy a nice cold beverage on a hot summer afternoon.

Time 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's interest in the musical heritage of the region, a region which stretched from Roanoke to Knoxville and cut a broad swath into neighboring states, led to his painting a mural on State Street in Bristol in 1986. This mural depicts the principal characters of the historic Bristol Sessions, which took place in Bristol, TN-VA in the summer of 1927.

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. If your PBS affiliate does not carry Song of the Mountains please contact them to request the show. Information for requesting the program is on the website along with program schedule and merchandise information.

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 Tim currently serves as ACMA president and uses his many talents as artist, businessman, musician and radio announcer to further the aims of the ACMA. He has organized concerts and contributed his time and efforts to promote the music and the message. The ACMA helps to support the Mountain Music Museum, which Tim helped found, in 1999. The museum is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the music which was born in the Southern Appalachians.

Listen in Sundays from 9-11!