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The Featured ARTIST(s) of the Week(s):

WERU invites you to tune in every weekday morning during our Morning Maine's eclectic mix of Americana at 7:45 to catch The Featured Artist of the Week. This segment is intended to help promote and highlight the wonderful gigs and performances of local, obscure & world renown artists. Morning hosts will discuss the artist and announce CD & ticket giveaways.

August 25th - August 29th: The Waybacks:

"Originally pigeonholed as solely a bluegrass band, the Waybacks’ genre-hopping and myriad influences make 'Loaded' seem like a mixtape made just for you by your infinitely cooler friend. The sound may not be easily categorized, but it is damn good." - Juli Thanki, PopMatters

They draw freely from the old school and the old world, but The Waybacks are no throwback. They've been erroneously pigeonholed as a bluegrass band and celebrated as purveyors of "acoustic mayhem." They are as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, and for nearly a decade, their experiments have always proven sharp-witted and musically dazzling. They're living proof that in music anyway, evolution and intelligent design are entirely compatible. "The whole spirit of improvisation – that's always been the cornerstone of this band for me," says founding singer, songwriter and guitarist James Nash. "Through all the stylistic changes and regardless of the instruments we're playing, to me the fun of this band has always been that in some ways I can do whatever I feel like doing at any moment."

They've been through changes for sure. Now a four-piece with a full arsenal of acoustic and electric instruments, The Waybacks are releasing Loaded, the boldest, rangiest and most exciting album of their career. Produced by Nashville bassist, composer and consummate sideman Byron House, it's a musical rebuke to anyone who would typecast true artistry.

The folk and roots underpinnings that have long been a Waybacks hallmark are still there, but after years of playing a huge range of venues and festivals, touring with Grateful Dead founder Bob Weir, and reconfiguring themselves around the hot guitar of James Nash and the fiddle virtuosity of Warren Hood, The Waybacks are enjoying a refreshed repertoire – one that's touched by Memphis soul, honky-tonk, Parisian swing, classical music, vintage blue pop and much more besides. Nash and Hood have stepped forward as songwriters, allowing The Waybacks to assemble their first project of entirely original music. They're finding a new collective voice, right before our ears.

Check out their website: http://www.waybacks.com/


UPCOMING LOCAL PERFORMANCE :

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PERFORMING ARTS & COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR

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Weekly WERU Public Affairs Roundup for 8/25/08 - 8/31/08

This is WERU’s News and Public Affairs Manager Amy Browne with a look ahead to the locally produced news and public affairs you can hear this week on YOUR community radio station:

Weekday mornings at 6:30 and 7:30, and weekend mornings at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30, we have short features on a variety of topics, produced by WERU volunteers.  Monday mornings at 6:30 it’s “World Ocean Radio”, and at 7:30 “A Word in Edgewise”.  Tuesdays at 6:30 the feature is “Outside the Box” and at 7:30 it’s “Going and Doing”. Wednesday mornings at 6:30 it’s “Ask W.A.M.” (the Wildlife Alliance of Maine) and at 7:30 EarthSense.  On Thursday mornings at 6:30 it’s “The World Around Us” and at 7:30 “Notes from the Electronic Cottage”.  Friday mornings at 6:30 the feature is “Mindful Parenting ” and the 7:30 feature is “Awanadjo Almanac”.  On Weekend mornings we re-air some of these features during the Coffee House shows.

The short weekly feature "Peacetime" has moved to Monday afternoons.  It will be airing during "Earthtones" between 2 and 4 o’clock.

On Tuesday morning August 26th at 10 o'clock am, we’re are going to have a extra edition of the WERU Listener Soapbox –the open mic of call in shows, so mark your calendar, tell your friends, and call in to talk about whatever is on your mind.

Tuesday afternoons at 3 o'clock pm , during “Mostly Manding” an African music show, Isatou Jobarteh brings us “Some of the News from West Africa”

Tuesday afternoon  at 4 o'clock pm , until the end of August, "Voices" is being pre-empted for “The Greatest ½ Hour of Freedom Ever”, a project of WERU Youth Radio. This will be the final week before we switch back to our regular Voices format, so be sure to tune in and catch  hosts Stephanie,  Justin, Brendon, Daniel and James--- on their last show. 

Wednesday morning 10 o’clock am health program this week is "Your Own Health and Fitness".

Thursday morning August 28th at 10 o’clock am: TBA

Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock pm , join us for “RadioActive”, a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal. 

Friday morning at 10 o’clock am...it’s time for a WERU Review, a call in show about topics related to the station.  Please call with your questions or comments about WERU.

Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock pm:  “Weekend Voices”, Meredith DeFrancesco will bring us  a report on the life and work of photojournalist Jim Harney.

PODCASTS: As always, if you miss something, be sure to check them out at . Almost all of our locally produced news and public affairs programs can be found there, and you can listen, free of charge, whenever it’s convenient for YOU.

Click here for a complete public affairs schedule

WERU 20th Anniversary:

WERU sincerely thanks everyone who helped organize, feed, entertain and celebrate at our 20th Anniversary Open House on May 1st at our studios in East Orland.  Thanks to all the listeners, volunteers, staff and musicians who worked together and partied together Community Radio had a wonderful day commemorating the twenty amazing years it has been since WERU’s very first broadcast from The Henhouse in Blue Hill.  

Approximately 250 people attended and enjoyed the delicious food (thanks especially to the Whole Earth Kantina in Bucksport and caterer Karen Frangoulis of Blue Hill), live music (Jay & Bjorn Petterson, Burnham Boys, and the Toughcats), used music sale, open-mic radio programming, station tours and strong sense of community.  

We are grateful for all the volunteer power and listener support that has kept WERU alive and well for twenty years and invite everyone to take part in other upcoming 20th Anniversary events scheduled throughout the year!

Check out these slideshows with music from the

May 1st 20th Anniversary Celebration:

PART I: The Bands

PART II: Volunteers & Fun, Fun, Fun!

Check out the RadioActive 20th Anniversary Open Mic that took place during the celebration! Listen to community members discuss their relationship with WERU.



CHECK OUT THIS LIST OF EVERY SINGLE UPCOMING

20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT!

It has been 20 years since WERU-FM went on the air, broadcasting from a portion of a converted chicken barn in South Blue Hill. In that time, the "little radio station that could" has grown into a staple for listeners throughout eastern Maine and for a growing audience around the country and the world tapping into the station’s offerings that are now streaming online...

READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE: http://bangornews.com/news

Community Supported Radio Station Celebrates 20 Years  Beth Faulkingham

READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE: www.wlbz2.com/news/article

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: www.wlbz2.com/video/news/player

WERU 20th Anniversary Event Sponsorship Opportunities!

A WERU Event Sponsorship is one of the best ways to show your support for Community Radio and get your name (business, organization, family or individual) on-air and in print before the ears and eyes of our listeners and community. As an Event Sponsor, not only do you get exposure at the event but you'll also receive recognition on our website, in our quarterly program guide Salt Air and best of all a generous number of on-air thanks credit announcements on WERU!


BECOME A WERU SPONSOR RIGHT NOW!

                         FIND OUT ABOUT ALL OUR UPCOMING EVENTS!

                                                 DOWNLOAD OUR SPONSORSHIP BROCHURE!

WERU won't let our 20th anniversary pass with out exception, so WERU invites you to support us in a year-long celebration of this great community resource.  There will be several great 20th Anniversary events like...


Tannahill Weavers!: September 10th, 2008

The May 1st Celebration marked the beginning of our year long 20th Anniversary now get ready for WERU's New Potatoes Road Trip! Hosts, George Fowler and Kathleen Rybarz invite you to join them on a chartered (flying) bus ride up to Carthage Maine to see the Tannahill Weavers at the Skye Theatre

Tickets and information are available at info@weru.org or (207) 469-6600. All proceeds to benefit WERU Community Radio.

Check out the theatre's terrific website: www.necelticarts.com

Check out the band's website: www.tannahillweavers.com

WERU needs $200 business sponsorships to help make this celebration as wonderful as possible for all those who attend.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FLIER & MORE INFORMATION

To sponsor an event please contact Adam Lacher here at the station: (207)-469-6600 or adam@weru.org

Teen Radio Tuesdays 1-5 p.m. 7/8/08 - 8/26/08:

Calling all teens! Calling all teens! Are you interested in radio, audio production, interviews, journalism and playing music? If you are, WERU community radio is offering you the chance to the learn the skills to enhance these keen interests and produce your own weekly ½ hour program with support from the WERU-FM staff! 

This training is offered free of charge.   We hope you’ll get hooked on radio and will stick around after the summer is over.

Tuesday afternoons, 1-5p.m., from July 8th thru August 26th, 2008 at the WERU-FM studios in East Orland, Maine

Openings are available for 6 teenagers who want to learn how to play music and/or do interviews on air!  Taking registrations NOW!

Contact Amy Browne, News and Public Affairs Manager and Youth Radio Coordinator by emailing amy@weru.org, or calling (207) 469-6600 for more information.

Click here for directions to the WERU 1186 Acadia Hwy Orland ME 04431

Listener Feedback:

What do you love most about WERU?

Have you heard WERU programming recently that you really liked or didn't like?

Do you have any suggestions for making WERU programming stronger?

Is there an important community issues that you need WERU to cover?

Is there something you would want added or changed on our Web site?

Answer these questions or make other comments on WERU by emailing us with "Listener Feedback" in the subject line, or send us a note. All written listener feedback on programming is shared with the WERU Program Advisory Committee.

Write or email with feedback anytime!
WERU - Feedback
P.O. Box 170
East Orland, ME  04431-0170
info@weru.org

Written feedback is shared at our Program Advisory Committee meetings.

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