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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.

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 in the Full Circle Fair Guide if you sponsor the WERU summer fair) and best of all a generous number of on-air thanks credit announcements on WERU!


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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...

1) TOM NEILSON LIVE!: May 10th, 2008

The May 1st Celebration marked the beginning of our year long 20th Anniversary now get ready for Tom Neilson live at the UU Church in Ellsworth at 7:30 PM. $10 for WERU Members and $12 for the general public.

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

Check out Tom’s terrific website: http://tomneilsonmusic.com/index.php  

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

2) 2008 Full Circle Fair: July 26th & 27th

WERU is in the midst of planning a spectacular 2008 Full Circle Fair  featuring Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Reggae, Rock, World and more with headliners Ellis Paul, Vishten, Slaid Cleaves, Smokin' Joe Kubek, emma's revolution and several local favorites like the Burnham Boys and countless others performing on stage and during the fair's open mic. Check out this Full Circle Fair flier!  Check out the fair's website: fair.weru.org

WERU needs $200 business sponsorships to help make this full weekend family event the best Full Circle Fair of all time.

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

The Featured ARTIST of the Week:

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.

May 5th - May 9th: Tracy Grammer

“Tracy Grammer is a brilliant artist and unique individual. Her voice is distinctive, as is her mastery over the instruments she plays.”
- Joan Baez

Grammer is currently touring in support of FLOWER OF AVALON (Signature Sounds 2005), her much anticipated solo debut. In January 2006, that album showed up on "Best of" lists and listener polls around the country, and was the #1 most-played album on folk radio across the United States for 2005. We call this a triumph -- a testament to the enduring appeal of Carter's songwriting, and a sign of good things to come for Grammer as she continues on her solo career.

Flower of Avalon includes nine previously-unreleased songs by the late Dave Carter and one traditional tune, re-worked by Oregon professor Wm. Jolliff. Multi-tasking masterfully as co-producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, Grammer digs deep into the spirit of Carter's poetic verses and haunting melodies to color each song with textures and flourishes that blur the boundaries of categorization. Paired with Grammer’s voice -- emotive, warm and versatile -- the songs on Flower of Avalon are nothing less than visionary. Mary Chapin Carpenter sings harmony on three cuts and wrote the liner notes for the record. Carpenter writes, “Tracy’s continuing quest to make sure that the world remembers Dave Carter marks a new beginning of artistry for her. We are lucky that she is so brave, generous and gifted.” Flower of Avalon is produced by Grammer and John Jennings (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls).

Tracy Grammer tours internationally with songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jim Henry (Deb Talan, Mark Erelli, The Burns Sisters). With acoustic and electric guitars, beautifully matched voices, dobro, mandolin and violin, this duo shares original songs, instrumentals, and pays homage to Carter and other stellar writers while charting a brand new course for themselves in the musical landscape. Grammer says, "I’ll keep on singing, and I’ll keep on telling my story, however that evolves. Working with Dave Carter was the first step on what I hope is going to be a long and fruitful road for me: the endless quest for authenticity through music.”

Check out her website: http://www.tracygrammer.com/

UPCOMING LOCAL PERFORMANCE :

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PERFORMING ARTS & COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR

SUBMIT INFO FOR WERU's COMMUNITY & PERFORMING ARTS CALENDARS
E-mail, fax or mail us your local event announcement for our on-air calendar.  Two weeks notice, please.

Weekly WERU Public Affairs Roundup for 5/5/08 - 5/18/08

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.

On Tuesday morning May 6th at 10,  Robert Jensen will once again join host Anita Arnold on "Conversations Thru the Ism Prism" . Last month's show on Pornography and the End of Masculinity brought a huge response and it seems everyone agrees there is more to say about this little discussed topic.  This week Anita and Robert will discuss "Pornorgraphy and the Perfect Storm of Inequality:Sexism, Racism, and Economic Exploitation”

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

Tuesday afternoon  at 4, we would normally invite you to  join us for “Voices”, a community audio magazine, but this week we’ll be airing the national community radio show “Sprouts” instead, because it features a report on the Kent State Massacre produced here at WERU by volunteer Lawrence Reichard.

Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock we'll present our weekly health program, locally-produced “Healthy Options”. This month host Andree Bella be talking with Dr. Jane Robertson, a local chiropractor,  about autism--- and taking your calls with questions and comments.

Wednesday afternoons from 2-4, during “Off the Cuff” host Cathy Melio mixes music with  spoken word features like “Peace Time”, “Grassroots Radio Updates” and interviews with local artists

Thursday mornings 10 o’clock will be the “Writers Forum,” hosted by Dr. Betty Duff and co-host Joan Clemons, will feature local poets Barbara Maria, Jennifer Moxley and Megan London.

Thursday afternoon at 4, join us for “RadioActive”, a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal. This week we’ll be talking with members of the Maine Fair Trade campaign about their efforts to get Senator Susan Collins to join with the rest of Maine’s congressional delegation in taking a stance against the so-called “free” trade agreement with Colombia

Friday morning at 10 o’clock this week host Ron Beard brings us the call-in show “Talk of the Towns”   The topic this week will be:  Maine and Climate Change:  What Choices do we have now?, and the  guests will be Esperanza Stancioff, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant,  Dylan Voorhees, Natural Resources Council of Maine and Peter Arnold, of the Chewonki Foundation  

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

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