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2008 Full Circle Fair July 26th & 27th
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
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.
June 30th - July 4th: FULL CIRCLE FAIR artist Slaid Cleaves
“Guthrie-like in his compassion for those branded as losers, Cleaves on Broke Down weaves third-person tales of despair born of fruitless toil ("Cold and Lonely"), too much whiskey ("Horseshoe Lounge," in which you can almost smell the love- and liquor-sick protagonists) and regrettable convergences ("Breakfast in Hell," a story of what happens when testosterone, a swollen river and a logjam meet).” -John Nova Lomax Houston Press
Doing roadside van repairs, hauling equipment in and out of venues, answering a dozen e-mails a day, planning and booking tours and their financial details, these are not things Maine-raised songwriter Slaid Cleaves envisioned when he said goodbye to a string of day jobs and became a musician full time. But perhaps these mundane tasks ground him, for he is revered for turning out rawneck songs that capture the essential struggle of the Everyman within the resin of a fine melody.
By the time his breakout 2000 album Broke Down was released, Cleaves said he had lost money in music every year he’d been in it. Well, all the better to turn out those songs filled with people who know that their rainbow is just around the corner. His other knack is for picking out songs that compliment his. He has noted that Hank Williams didn’t write all of his own hits but really had an ear for finding great songs; in the same manner, Cleaves is a connoisseur of covers, punctuating his sets with the best songwriters you’ve never heard.
The characters that traverse his open sky songs are down but never out, forever waiting on something better, something earned. You don’t know whether to feel sorry for the poor saps for their lot in life or envy them their indefatigable hope. Be they race track dreamers, heartbroke gamblers, or barroom fighters, all yearn for a better deal but accept their fate with resignation and even the wisdom of those who can see things for what they are. Cleaves is skilled at summing up the whole drift of their lives within their midlife revelations while tightly wrapping the package with sing-along melodies.
Check out his website: http://www.slaid.com/
UPCOMING LOCAL PERFORMANCE :
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Weekly WERU Public Affairs Roundup for 6/30/08 - 7/6/08
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 July 1st at 10 o'clock am , join host Anita Arnold for "Conversations thru the Ism Prism". This month Anita's guest will be former Bar Harbor resident, Susan Coppersmith. Coppersmith is the Project Coordinator at Kariobangi Women Promotion Project in Kariobangi Slum of Narobi, Kenya. Susan's work and other aspects of life in Kenya will be discussed.
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 , we invite you to join us for “Voices”, a community audio magazine.
Wednesday morning 10 o’clock am health program this weekis "Healthy Options" with host Cynthia Swan.
Wednesday afternoons from 2-4 o-clock pm , 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 morning July 3rd 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 this week is the call-in show, Renewable Radio, with host Bruce Maanum. This month’s topic is Biochar.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock pm , “Weekend Voices”, the weekend edition of the WERU community audio magazine. This week Marge May will be bringing us a report back from the recent Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis.
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!
WERU's 20th Anniversary makes the news: |
WERU Celebrates 20 Years
Rich Hewitt |
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
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Community Supported Radio Station Celebrates 20 Years
Beth Faulkingham |
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EAST ORLAND (NEWS CENTER) — Over the past decade, large corporations have gobbled up small commercial radio stations, giving listeners less choices for local programming. Community supported radio aims to fill that niche...
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!
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...
 1) 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, Debbie Davies , 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.
2) Tannahill Weavers!: Septemnber 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.
To sponsor one or both events please contact Adam Lacher here at the station: (207)-469-6600 or adam@weru.org
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