World College Radio Day, October 1, 2013

World College Radio Day was founded in 2012 as a response to the phenomenal international interest in College Radio Day, which began in the USA in 2011 (in the USA the event is still known as College Radio Day). Recognizing that student radio stations around the world wanted to unite for this annual event, Rob Quicke, Tiziana Cavallo and Guillermo Gaviria founded World College Radio Day to take the mission and unifying message of College Radio Day around the world.

Click here for more information.

New England in general and the greater Boston area in particular are very fortunate to have so many independent college radio stations. See an extensive listing in "Community and independent college radio stations".


Independent college radio producers, hosts and fans are invited to join
"Community and Independent College Radio." Upon joining, hosts are asked to take a moment to add their program information in "Community and Independent College Radio Members' Programs" - in the files area.




SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT COLLEGE RADIO STATION!

Public Radio Capital, "Broadening the reach of public media"

According to its own records, Big Brother, through "Public Radio Capital", has has spent more than $313 million to acquire commercial and college radio stations, bringing them into the government's National Propaganda Radio fold.

This information comes from http://www.publicradiocapital.org/clients/transactions.php

 "Broadening the reach of public media" indeed!

Printer Friendly Client Transaction size Primary Coverage (note a) 1 Public Television 19, Inc/KCPT (notes b,g) $1,650,000 1,317,900 Acquisition of KTBG-FM (Kansas City, Kansas) 2013 2 WAPS 322,398 WKTL-FM Operating Agreement (Youngstown, Ohio) 2013 3 University of Texas $6,000,000 1,554,653 Acquisition of KXBT (Austin, Texas) 2012 4 The Working Group (note e) $170,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Oakland, Calif.) 2012 5 Radio Bilingue (note e) $400,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Fresno, Calif.) 2012 6 WXEL Public Broadcasting (note e) $2,000,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (West Palm Beach, Fla.) 2012 7 Delaware First Media (note e) $105,000 117,641 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Dover, Del.) 2012 8 Classical Public Radio Network $3,750,000 1,772,557 Acquisition of KUSF (San Francisco, Calif.) 2012 9 University of Missouri $40,000 117,198 Acquisition of WQUB (Quincy Ill.) 2012 10 University of Southern California $7,500,000 2,057,105 Acquisition of KXSC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) 2012 11 Colorado Public Radio $12,000,000 Refinancing (Denver, Colo.) 2012 12 Marfa Public Radio Corporation (note e) $175,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Marfa, Texas) 2011 13 University of Southern California $205,000 78,854 Acquisition of K212AA (Los Gatos, Calif.) 14 Ohio State University $2,000,000 Sale of WOSU-AM (Columbus, Ohio) 2011 15 Listeners Community Radio of Utah $225,000 106,617 Sale of KZCL-FM (Logan, Utah) 2011 16 Iowa Public Radio $1,750,000 421,783 Acquisition of KZHZ-FM (Patterson, Iowa) and KZHC-FM (Pleasantville, Iowa) 2011 17 The Wheeler School 491,747 WELH-FM Operating Agreement (Providence, R.I.) 2011 18 University of Alabama $1,100,000 891,671 Acquisition of WHIL-FM (Mobile, Ala.) 2011 19 Radio Bilingue (notes e,f) $650,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Denver, Colo.) 2011 20 Denver Educational Broadcasting Inc. (note e) $500,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Denver, Colo.) 2011 21 Northern Kentucky University $6,750,000 3,300,000 Acquisition of WPAY-FM & WPFB-FM/AM (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2011 22 Marfa Public Radio Corporation $300,000 141,272 Acquisition of KOCV-FM (Odessa, Texas) 2011 23 Essential Public Media (note b) $6,000,000 1,784,349 Acquisition of WDUQ-FM (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 2011 24 Essential Public Media (note e) $2,500,000 Financing (WDUQ-FM in Pittsburgh, Pa.) 2011 25 KOCE Foundation (note e) $4,527,305 Re-financing (KOCE-TV, in Huntington Beach, Calif.) 2010 26 WFCR Foundation (note e) $420,000 2,110,123 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Amherst, Mass.) 2010 27 University of Houston $9,932,000 4,018,325 Acquisition of KTRU-FM (Houston, Texas.) 2010 28 Vermont Public Radio $435,000 46,515 Acquisition of WVXR-FM (Randolph, Vt.) 2010 29 University of South Florida $1,275,000 793,757 Acquisition of WSMR-FM (Sarasota, Fla.) 2010 30 Ohio State University (note d) $4,871,000 917,373 Acquisition of WWCD-FM (Columbus, Ohio) 2010 31 American Public Media Group $4,050,000 1,801,694 Acquisition of WXEL-FM (West Palm Beach, Fla.) 2010 32 Long Island University $850,000 133,413 Sale of WLIU-FM (Southampton, New York.) 2010 33 Colorado Public Radio $8,300,000 Re-financing (KVOD-FM, prev. KFDN, in Denver, Colo.) 2010 34 eTown (note e) $2,300,000 Financing through Public Radio Fund (Boulder, Colo.) 2010 35 WGBH Educational Foundation $14,000,000 4,006,875 Acquisition of WCRB-FM (Boston, Mass.) 2009 36 North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc. $18,000,000 5,901,402 Acquisition of KVTT-FM (Dallas, Texas) 2009 37 North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc. (note f) $17,500,000 Financing (KVTT-FM in Dallas, Texas) 2009 38 Cincinnati Public Radio 336,390 WMUB-FM Operating Agreement (Oxford, Ohio) 2009 39 University of Southern California $1,200,000 220,327 Acquisition of KXTY-FM (Morro Bay, Calif.) 2009 40 Lakeshore Public Media $1,050,000 129,720 Acquisition of WWLO-FM (Lowell, Ind.) 2008 41 Wasatch Public Media (note e) $2,818,000 Financing (KCPW-FM in Salt Lake City, Utah) 2008 42 Capital Public Radio $4,700,000 947,302 Acquisition of KUOP-FM (Stockton, Calif.) 2008 43 New Hampshire Public Radio $6,000,000 Financing for new building, studios and equipment (New Hampshire) 2008 44 California Lutheran University $1,440,000 538,165 Acquisition of KIST-AM (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 2008 45 Wasatch Public Media $2,400,000 830,361 Acquisition of KCPW-FM (Salt Lake City, Utah) 2008 46 American Public Media $1,000,000 141,432 Acquisition of KBXO-FM (Coachella, Calif.) 2008 47 Colorado Public Radio $8,200,000 Financing (KFDN-FM in Denver, Colo.) 2008 48 Colorado Public Radio $8,200,000 2,548,279 Acquisition of KFDN-FM (Denver, Colo.) 2008 49 North Texas Music Foundation $500,000 Sale of a CP in Stephenville, Texas 2007 50 American Public Media Group $20,000,000 4,302,125 Acquisition of WMCU-FM (Miami, Fla.) and a translator (West Palm Beach, Fla.) 2007 51 Santa Fe Community College 30,000 Swap of KSFR-FM for KSFQ-FM in Santa Fe, N.Mex. (owned by Educational Media Foundation) 2007 52 University of Pennsylvania $4,335,000 1,247,380 Acquisition of WZXM-FM and a translator (Middletown, Pa. & Harrisburg, Pa.) 2007 53 University of Pennsylvania $1,250,000 Sale of WXPH-FM (Harrisburg, Pa.) 2007 54 Northeast Indiana Public Radio $1,750,000 454,177 Acquisition of WCKZ-FM (Ft. Wayne, Ind.) 2006 55 Jacksonhole Community Radio $18,000 17,159 Acquisition of KURT-FM (CP) (Jackson, Wyo.) 2006 56 Capital Community Broadcasting $676,400 30,000 Acquisition of KFMG-FM and KSRJ-FM (Juneau, Alaska) 2006 57 University of Massachusetts $725,000 Sale of WSMU-FM (N. Dartmouth, Mass.) 2006 58 Vermont Public Radio $147,000 26,617 Acquisition of a CP (Brighton, Vt.) 2006 59 Cincinnati Public Radio $411,000 Sale of WVXA-FM (Rogers City, Mich.) 2006 60 Cincinnati Public Radio $200,000 Sale of WVXH-FM (Harrison, Mich.) 2006 61 Cincinnati Public Radio $380,000 Sale of WVXM-FM (Manistee, Mich.) 2006 62 Puget Sound Public Radio $500,000 202,222 Acquisition of KVSN-AM (Olympia, Wash.) 2006 63 Puget Sound Public Radio $6,000,000 Financing (KXOT-FM in Seattle-Tacoma, Wash.) 2006 64 Puget Sound Public Radio Operating agreement with PRC for KXOT in Wash. 2006 65 Oklahoma State University $130,000 50,700 Acquisition of two translators (Bixby & Okmulgee, Okla.) 2005 66 Radio Bilingue $50,000 39,412 Acquisition of KVFR-FM (CP) (Laytonville, Calif.) 2005 67 Cincinnati Public Radio $15,000,000 Financing (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2005 68 Cincinnati Public Radio $15,000,000 2,293,533 Acquisition of 7 Xavier University Stations (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2005 (note c) 69 WMHT Educational Communications $1,500,000 225,424 Acquisition of WBKK-FM (Amsterdam, N.Y.) 2005 70 Oklahoma State University $4,000,000 366,025 PRC Acquisition of KGND on Behalf of OSU (Tulsa, Okla.) 2004/2005 71 Oklahoma State University $7,000,000 626,001 Financing (Oklahoma City & Tulsa, Okla.) 2004/2005 72 University of Iowa $450,000 56,312 Acquisition/Financing - KIIC-FM (Lamoni, Iowa) 2004 73 San Diego State University $1,100,000 100,601 Acquisition of KQVO FM (Calexico, Calif.) 2004 74 Boulder Community Broadcast Associates $4,100,000 2,710,616 Acquisition of KJME-AM (Denver, Colo.) 2004 75 Radio for Milwaukee 1,294,279 WYMS-FM Operating Agreement (Milwaukee, Wisc.) 2004 76 GBH Telecommunications $3,927,000 94,866 Represented in the FCC Auction (Brewster, Mass.) 2004 77 Joy Public Broadcasting $1,200,000 300,009 Sale of WJTM-FM (Frederick, Md.) 2004 78 High Plains Public Radio $1,200,000 239,829 Acquisition KAEZ-FM Station (Amarillo, Texas) 2004 79 Nevada Public Radio $250,000 111,132 Acquisition of KZBS-FM (CP) (St. George, Utah) 2004 80 KBPS Foundation $5,500,000 1,902,001 Acquisition of KBPS-FM (Portland, Ore.) 2003 81 Northeast Public Radio /WAMC $500,000 618,461 Acquisition of WAMC-AM (Albany, N.Y.) 2003 82 Bates Technical College $5,000,000 2,181,922 PRC Acquisition of KBTC-FM from Bates (Tacoma, Wash.) 2003/2005 83 Chicago Public Radio 763,058 WLUW-FM Operating Agreement (Chicago, Ill.) 2003 84 KQED Inc. $3,000,000 451,131 Acquisition of KQEI-FM (Sacramento, Calif.) 2003 85 Park City Community Wireless $2,400,000 2,085,744 Financing (Salt Lake City, Utah.) 2003 86 Nashville Public Radio $3,000,000 1,029,856 Acquisition of WQDQ-AM (Nashville, Tenn.) 2002 87 Chicago Public Radio $550,000 100,054 Acquisition of WBEW-FM (Chesterton, Ind.) 2002 88 Nashville Public Radio $5,690,000 Financing (Nashville, Tenn.) 2001/2002 89 Johns Hopkins University $5,000,000 1,679,312 Sale of WYPR-FM (Baltimore, Md.) 2001/2002 90 WGBH Educational Foundation $1,500,000 40,758 Merger of WCAI/WNAN with WGBH (Cape Islands, Mass.) 2001 91 Colorado Public Radio $4,200,000 2,394,709 Acquisition of KCFR-AM (Denver, Colo.) 2001 92 Colorado Public Radio $6,300,000 Financing (Denver, Colo.) 2001/2002 Transaction Total $313,677,705 67,962,623 (a) The column represents the public media service area expanded or preserved by each transaction. Population coverage within the 60dBu (1.0mV/m ) FCC contour. The 60dBu coverage area is considered to be the primary coverage area for a non-commercial FM station and is the contour that is protected from interference by the FCC. Population predictions based upon V-Soft Communications - Probe 3 with Longley-Rice propagation model for the FMs (at 9.1m receiver height above ground) and FCC contour daytime coverage for the AMs. 2000 Census Data for sales before 2004; 2004 Census estimates for sales between 2003 and 2007; 2007 US Census estimated for sales between 2008 and 2010; and 2010 US Census estimates for sales in 2011 on. (b) Transaction purchase agreement signed but not yet closed. (c) Including: WVXU-FM/ Cincinnati, Ohio; WVXC-FM/ Chillicothe, Ohio; WVXR-FM/Richmond, Ind.; WVXH-FM/Harrison, Mich.; WVXW-FM/West Union, Ohio; WVXA-FM/Rogers City, Mich.; WVXM-FM/Manistee, Mich. (d) Transaction size based on net present value of cash flows associated with the purchase price and sellers note, discounted at 3%. (e) Transaction amount reflects total amount committed. (f) Loan paid in full. (g) Transaction total amount includes $550,000 in non-cash consideration. Primary coverage represents potential coverage of the proposed upgraded signal for KTBG-FM.

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World College Radio Day, October 1, 2013

World College Radio Day was founded in 2012 as a response to the phenomenal international interest in College Radio Day, which began in the USA in 2011 (in the USA the event is still known as College Radio Day). Recognizing that student radio stations around the world wanted to unite for this annual event, Rob Quicke, Tiziana Cavallo and Guillermo Gaviria founded World College Radio Day to take the mission and unifying message of College Radio Day around the world. For more information on the story behind this unprecedented international coalition, please click here.

To view participating student radio stations click here.  To register your student radio station (for free) please click here.

“College Radio Day…was a call to unity in which stations showcased their best work”

“A nationwide movement…illuminating the cultural significance of student-run radio”

“College Radio Day: An SOS for student-run stations…a unifying college-radio event”

The original idea for College Radio Day was conceived by Dr. Rob Quicke (General Manager, WPSC FM, William Paterson University, NYC market), and was founded in December 2010 by Rob, who worked with Peter Kreten (General Manager, WXAV FM, Saint Xavier University, Chicago market) to help develop the idea. The aim of College Radio Day is to harness the combined listenership of hundreds of thousands of college radio listeners throughout the world and to celebrate the important contribution of college radio by uniting for this one day.

The aim of College Radio Day is to raise a greater, international awareness of the many college and high school radio stations that operate around the world by encouraging people who would not normally listen to college radio to do so on this day. It is hoped that those people who do tune in like what they hear and become regular listeners. The organizers of College Radio Day believe that college radio is one of the last remaining bastions of creative radio programming, free from the constrictions of having to be commercially viable, and a place where those involved in its programming believe passionately in its mission. College radio is the only free live medium brave enough to play unsigned, local, and independent artists on a regular basis.  Indeed, many famous and successful bands today, owe their initial break to being played on college radio. Put simply, college radio is an important part of the media landscape because of its unique and fearless programming.

The organizers also hope that College Radio Day can also be used a fundraising vehicle for those individual stations that choose to participate, benefiting from the extra attention their station will receive on that particular day.  Being a participant in this day is free for all college and high school radio stations (AM, FM or online) so that together, for one day, we can lift the profile of an important form of media: college radio. It’s a day of celebration. It’s a day of live music and special interviews. It’s the day college radio comes together.

Since 2012, the annual event is known internationally as World College Radio Day, as more than 30 countries around the world now celebrate this occasion.

For a list of New England independent college radio stations* click here.

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* It's a pity that unlike fellow students at sister university University of Massachusetts stations (WMUA Amherst, WUML Lowell and WUMD Dartmouth) UMass Boston students do not have the chance to participate in a free-form independent college / community radio station, and thus be entitled to particpate in WORLD COLLEGE RADIO DAY. The reason for that is the powers that be at the state-funded university choose to run WUMB as a National Public Radio affiliate with a professional staff. That's right, a state university funded by federal and state tax dollars excludes its students and community members from participating as program producers, DJ's and news and sports announcers. WUMB claims through its station ID "bumpers" to be a "community service of UMass Boston". What and who that community is they do not say, but certainly it is not the UMass Boston students and residents of Columbia Point.

As this blog is Boston-based, WUMB leads the list of college stations that have been assimilated by the NPR borg. But there are many others whose students no longer have the ability to participate in free form independent college radio. Thanks to Jennifer Waits for the following:

KUSF-initially LMA'd, then sold to Classical Public Radio Network. KUSF had a faculty member GM (he actually started the station when he was a student), paid staff, student volunteers, and community volunteers
KTRU – sold
Others:
Bryant University leases WJMF airtime to WGBH beginning in 2011 and its student station moves online/HD/other technologies (this is communicated as a partnership) http://radiosurvivor.com/2011/07/28/delving-into-wjmfs-move-off-fm-as-college-radio-station-makes-way-for-wgbhs-99-5-all-classical/
Brown Student Radio (BSR) also lost its time share agreement with Wheeler Public Schools http://radiosurvivor.com/2011/08/22/the-wheeler-school-to-lease-fm-airwaves-to-rhode-island-public-radio/
WLIU-  Long Island University
KPSU - Portland State

Related articles:
http://radiosurvivor.com/2012/12/31/2012-a-mixed-bag-for-college-radio/
http://radiosurvivor.com/2011/12/31/2011-the-year-that-college-radio-fought-back/
http://radiosurvivor.com/2009/12/24/the-decades-most-important-radio-trends-11-cash-strapped-schools-turn-their-backs-on-college-radio/

For a much more extensive list, from the federal government itself, read "Public Radio Capital, "Broadening the reach of public media""

Lord Geoffrey Presents Rising Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory Talent for its Fall Season

Lord Geoffrey Presents' Fall offering will be an unplugged acoustic series of six eight concerts in Cambridge featuring rising young talent from the Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory!  

September 25 - Eleanor Buckland and Isa Burke

October 16 - Cat and The Moon

October 23 - Dylan McKinstry and Friends

November 20 - Dan Bui and Friends

December 4 - Adrinna Ciccone and Friends, Featuring Neil Pearlman

December 18 - High Rock Mountain
...and two more being added in between!
 The concerts are presented at Outpost 186, 186-1/2 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge where there is plenty of space and on-street parking / close to the T.  It's an art gallery with plenty of room to move, not a bar where artists compete with loud conversations and blaring televisions, or a cramped listening room where patrons are packed into tiny tables!
Thanks to Darol Anger (Berklee) and Tanya Kalmanovitch (NEC), Lord Geoffrey's Fall season consultants!

Come for a series of fine rising artists!

Eleanor Buckland and Isa BurkeWednesday, September 25

Ellie Buckland and Isa Burke are fiddlers and singer-songwriters from musical families who grew up surrounded by folk music. They met at a fiddle camp in the woods of Maine, their shared home state, and are now both studying at Berklee College of Music. With two fiddles, two guitars, and two intertwining voices, they perform old folk songs, new Americana, and original songs in an acoustic roots style.

Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00, pickin' party follows.
Students $5
General Public $10
Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

Cat and The Moon 
Wednesday, October 18
"Celtic and Bluegrass Together at Last"

Cat And The Moon is a contemporary Celtic Bluegrass fusion group that was started in Boston Massachusetts in 2012. They have a wide range of styles including Irish, Bluegrass, originals, jazz fusion, and classical.

Cat And The Moon are...

Ricky Mier is a banjoist who hails from the San Francisco bay area. While attending Berklee College of Music on scholarship he won the Lowell Banjo and Fiddle Contest’s esteemed ‘Other Styles’ category. Ricky is versed in hard driving bluegrass music, Flecktones style fusion, open funk jams, classical, and now is dipping into Irish traditional music.
He uses a 2008 Gold Star GF-100 banjo with Keith D-Tuners and a nickel plated presto tailpiece. He prefers to use the stainless steel National NP2-SS fingerpicks for his picking because it decreases the amount of tarnish that develops on the picks.
Check out his website at www.RickyMier.com!!

Kathleen Parks is a wild Irish fiddler from Newburgh, New York. She started playing the violin at the age of five and got heavily involved in Irish music by the age of ten. As she quickly progressed, she became interested in many other styles of music; Jazz, Classical, Fusion, and Bluegrass. Since then she has gone on to play numerous shows including festivals and cruise lines with bands such as; The John Whelan Band, The Jimmy Sturr Orchestra, The Lindsey Webster Band, and the Bobby Vinton Orchestra.
Kathleen is currently attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA on full Scholarship studying Songwriting and Performance.
Check out Kathleen's Youtube account - http://www.youtube.com/user/FiddleeDeeKP

Eamon Sefton is a guitar major at Berklee College of Music who is rapidly assembling an impressive array of credentials and experience in traditional music — he has headlined at Club Passim, performed at Boston Celtic Music Festival in 2011 and 2012 with the band Chasing Redbird, and been selected by Maeve Gilchrist as guitar accompanist for the Berklee Advanced Celtic Ensemble. He has just returned from Scotland where he explored Scottish traditional music at first hand. Eamon is a 10-year alumnus of Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School, joining their faculty as guitar teacher this summer.

Cat And The Moon's
Website - http://catandthemoon.wordpress.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CatAndTheMoon/

Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00, pickin' party follows.
Students $5
General Public $10
Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

Dylan McKinstry and Friends

Wednesday, October 23

Dylan McKinstry is 24 year old multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer working and living in Minneapolis, MN and attending NEC.

Dylan, who has been called “…a vibrant young acoustic music architect with a bold new approach to guitar playing…’’ has always been a fond proponent of story-telling and the language of song. Within a single song McKinstry will sashay seamlessly between the usual suspects: jazz, blues, folk-funk, classical and modal middle-eastern with a hint of disco. With ease, he dances in and out of styles and genres, leaving his foot-tapping audiences pleasantly plump with melodies to hum. Dylan’s athletic, high caliber technique and mature compositional style can only be compared to the great guitarists of today, and has allowed him to turn the 6 string guitar into a sonic mélange. He has secured himself a place at the ”big kids table” of musicians, and is widely acclaimed by fellow guitar players like Dean Magraw, Andy Mckee and Michael Gulezian as being one of the most promising young guitarists of his time.

Dylan started as a session player at the age of 8, mostly as a percussionist, after it became clear that his passions stretched far beyond whimsical recreation. He has since performed on dozens of records, along side Pete Ostrushko, Larry Long, Meredith Fierke, Kurt Jorgensen, Paul Mayasich, and many others. His openness to new ideas, his thoughtfulness and range as a musician, and his ease in the studio has made him a sought after session player throughout the twin cities.

Dylan has attended a handful of exclusive seminars held by some of the top guitarists in the world. Cannington, Ontario was the first of many stops, where he studied in a small group setting with guitarists Don Ross and Andy McKee, both of whom took a liking to Dylan immediately and said of his music ”…Cool!”. From there he flew to Paris, and found himself in the little village of Chateau-Thierry at the home of French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. Besides the allure of fresh baguettes every morning, he found himself completely at ease and inspired in this kind of learning environment, and he left there with a head bursting with new ideas.

Out of High school, McKinstry began playing full-time as a soloist and as a sit in musician for Minneapolis bands. It was in this capacity that he honed his skills as a Mandolin and Mandola player, and has since found that his savvy as a soloist and mason of melodies lends itself well to ensemble playing. He is currently working closely with twin cities recording artist Meredith Fierke as a producer, songwriter, and general team player on her new album, which it slated to be released in the late summer of 2012.

He has shared the stage with Dean Magraw, Dan Schwartz, Little River Band, Brandi Carlyle, The Minnesota Orchestra, Alison Scott, Needtobreath, and many more! He is currently performing, producing and recording with twin cities recording artist Meredith Fierke. He also continues to do solo performances as a guitar player/singer.

Doors 7:30; Concert 8:00; pickin' party follows.

Students $5

General Public $10

Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

Dan Bui and Friends

Wednesday, November 20

Bluegrass

under construction

Doors 7:30; Concert 8:00; pickin' party follows.

Students $5

General Public $10

Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

Adrinna Ciccone and Neil Pearlman

Wednesday, December 4
Québecois ,  Appalachian, Métis, Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish & Scandinavian fiddle tunes 

Boston-based fiddler & step dancer Adrianna Ciccone is quickly establishing herself as a distinctive voice in the new-acoustic music scene. Her style, while rooted in the Ottawa Valley & Québecois fiddle traditions, continues to be inspired by the many different regional fiddles styles of Canada and the world including Appalachian, Métis, Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish & Scandinavian music. 
Adrianna’s desire to explore new musical languages is reflected in her compositions and arrangements which draw from traditions of the past while forging a unique musical identity.  
This distinctive style has brought the Timmins, ON native many awards and achievements.  She is a Maritime Open Fiddle Champion & American Grand Masters Fiddle Championship Finalist.  
Adrianna is also an active & experienced instructor.  For nearly a decade she has been passing on Canada's rich musical heritage to students of all ages and levels. She maintains a lively studio in both Northern Ontario & Boston, as well as throughout North America via Skype Video lessons. 
Adrianna is currently studying with scholarship at Berklee College of Music where she is actively involved in the American Roots Music Program.

Pianist and mandolinist Neil Pearlman is rapidly distinguishing himself as a uniquely innovative artist in the contemporary traditional music scene. Called “a tremendous pianist” on BBC Radio Scotland and “a force to be reckoned with” by WGBH’s Brian O’Donovan, Neil is recognized in many Celtic music circles for his unique approach to the piano. Rooted in traditional Cape Breton piano styles, Neil brings in ideas from many other genres and the result is an exciting new sound that remains true to its traditional roots. It was this fresh approach that led legendary Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland to say "watching Neil's hands on the piano was like watching two spiders on crack!"

An accomplished Cape Breton step dancer as well, Neil grew up in the family band Highland Soles, led by father and mother Ed Pearlman and Laura Scott, both influential figures in Scottish music and dance. Neil has performed with many major music figures including Natalie MacMaster, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas, Seamus Connolly, Kimberley Fraser, Maeve Gilchrist, Hanneke Cassel, Frank Ferrel, Laura Risk and Mike Vass. He has also opened for Archie Fisher, split a bill with Jerry Holland and worked closely with many others.

Some highlights of Neil's career so far have been performances at Carnegie Hall and the Iron Horse, and teaching at Alasdair Fraser's Sierra Fiddle Camp. Neil currently performs with a number of projects ranging from traditional Scottish fiddle music to contemporary jazz.

Adrianna's website - http://www.adriannaciccone.com/

Neil's website - http://neilpearlman.com/

Doors 7:30; Concert 8:00; pickin' party follows.

Students $5

General Public $10

Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

High Rock Mountain

Wednesday, December 18

Bluegrass

High Rock Mountain plays mainly traditional bluegrass, with an emphasis on broken-hearted love songs and murder ballads featuring two- and three-part harmonies, with some originals and ripping instrumentals thrown in. The band met at the beginning of the 2012 Fall semester at Berklee College of Music through the Bluegrass ensemble arrangement - not that long ago - but they feel like they've been playing together for years. High Rock Mountain is delighted to take the musical heritage with which they have been blessed and bring it to those both familiar and new to Bluegrass, spreading awareness of this great music and expanding the Bluegrass community.

SADIE CURREY
A Columbia, Missouri native, Sadie is a fiddler and vocalist with panache and grace. The eldest of five children born into a musical family, Sadie started taking violin lessons at the age of 7, and has found her style and voice through years of performing with her family band CurreyKorn, Missouri-based Bluegrass band Midnight Flight, and through a year of Music Performance study at the University of Missouri. Now in her second semester at Berklee College of Music, her well-honed fiddling and sultry vocals bring life and depth to everything we play.

CHRIS ROONEY
A country boy at heart, Western Maryland-born singer and guitarist Chris Rooney earned his BA in Psychology at Shepherd University in West Virginia. As a child he was very athletic, but gave up sports 10 years ago after picking up his first guitar. He devoted every spare moment to learning the craft and eventually started writing his own music. After a few years in college he started teaching music to make extra money and started a fairly profitable business as a traveling music teacher, realizing in himself a growing passion for the art of teaching. Now in his second semester at Berklee, he has ventured through Rock'n’Roll, Metal, Blues, and Folk on his way to Bluegrass, where he has found his true voice.

JORDAN ALLEMAN
Our resident radio host and banjo wizard, Jordan is in his third semester at Berklee. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, he is a noted coffee and cat enthusiast in addition to his heavy interest in American Roots music - specifically Bluegrass. Jordan started playing banjo when he was 13 and has been inspired by many great players, having the good fortune to call some of them his mentors. Deeply rooted in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Americana music, his enjoyment of and desire to play genre-crossing styles is well evident in his performance.

JD WILLIAMS
Descending from a tradition of professional Country and Bluegrass musicians, the son of resophonic guitarist Roger Williams was submersed in the Bluegrass scene from the very start. JD started taking violin lessons at the age of 6, and was given his first mandolin at the age of 7. Raised in Southern New Hampshire and having spent time in Central Connecticut to perform full-time with Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, this fourth-semester Berklee mandolinist adds his passion for the harmonic arts and his love for American Roots music to our ensemble.

NATE SABAT
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Whatever became of UMass Boston's WUMB's experiment to use student DJ's, or where are Felica Zhao, Colin Briggs, Jimmy Smith, Brittany Fernandes now?

At the tail end of former general manager Pat Monteith 25+ year reign (remember her? wonder whatever became of her, her disappearance was so abrupt and without ceremony...but we digress), UMass Boston's NPR radio affiliate, WUMB, instituted a program to train students to be evening DJ's. Apparently four made it through the training and went on air, albeit on a very short leash, having no say in the programming and just doing voice-overs for the songs normally selected by the music director for weekday play.

Read a period piece,

They call script reading talent?

on the WUMB website.
If the article has been sent down the memory hole, the October 13, 2011 article was captured and read here.

So where are Felica Zhao, Colin Briggs, Jimmy Smith, Brittany Fernandes now?

Why was the experiment aborted?
Why have no new student DJ's been trained/given air time?
Inquiring minds want to know, after all our tax dollars support UMass Boston.

"WUMBeatown" was written by an unattributed author for "The Mass Media, UMass Boston's Independent Student Newspaper," is copied in its entirity from
http://www.umassmedia.com/art_lifestyle/featured_stories/article_6c66f296-3cc0-11e1-a3d6-001a4bcf6878.html

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Nine students vying for your vote to DJ a new radio show

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Amber Boumboulis

UMB Radio Finalists - Felica Zhao, Colin Briggs, Jimmy Smith, Brittany Fernandes.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8:47 pm|

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WUMB, the non-commercial radio station that operates in the bowels of our Healey Library, recently reached out to UMB students in the hopes of finding some fresh talent. Over 40 people auditioned in mid-September and now that number has been whittled down to nine students vying for the chance to host their own show.

According to Pat Monteith, general manager of WUMB, there are two slots open for on-air talent; she also suggested that depending on the budget more students might be hired for behind-the-scenes jobs.

Some students have voiced concern about the lack of airtime they have been given in the past at WUMB. In response to the question of whether this concern prompted the station to initiate the Talent Quest, Monteith said, "No, we've actually been trying for years. We used to have students on the air years ago."

According to Monteith, UMB had a Radio Learning Program ten years ago that worked with the Communications department to get students involved in the radio station. A professor named Mark Schlesinger headed the now-defunct program, and when he left, "the whole program fell apart."

Monteith said that WUMB had been keeping an eye out for someone internally who could properly train students. She also said, "I haven't seen any initiative from the university to try and help and give students credit or help them along the way. We can't take on the entire responsibility ourselves. "

It is clear that proper training is not just suggested but necessary. In 2006 Congress passed legislation that allowed the Federal Communications Commission to raise the fine for on-air indecency from $32,500 to $325,000. That price would make a national station, never mind the regional WUMB, think twice about placing someone with no experience or training behind a live mike.

Fortunately, one of WUMB's part-time staff employees has taught intro to radio classes at Boston University, among other schools. Albert Oram, better known by his on-air moniker Albert O, turned out to be the missing mentor for the UMB radio station.

Finding the right person to teach what it takes to be on radio, coupled with the constant support for a student WUMB program from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Patrick Day as well as students, has allowed the Talent Quest to take shape. In fact, it was Vice Chancellor Day's idea to do an open competition looking for the students who would fill the newly available positions.

So now with the talent found and being trained it comes time to decide not only who will host the show but what kind of music the show will play. WUMB has devised a way for the show to be an authentic UMB student representation.

Students will vote online for which would-be DJs become the hosts. The candidates are in the process of recording demos that you'll be able to listen to online, and based on that you can vote for your favorite. The radio station has also collected a panel of about 30 students who volunteered to give their input on what type of music, out of the vast WUMB catalog, should be played.

These efforts are sure to create a program that will be a representation of the varied student body at UMB. You can vote for the DJs at www.WUMB.org/TalentQuest. The show that one of our own peers will host is scheduled to air Monday through Thursday, 10 p.m. to midnight.

For the record, the article invites reader comments...

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I submitted mine, asking questions such as "why is WUMB run as a professionally-staffed AAA format NPR affiliate, rather than as an independent college/community freeform station like its sisters WMUA (UMass Amherst), WUML (UMass Lowell) and WUMD (UMass Dartmouth). Apparently they were perceived as too radical or subversive by the censors, they were never approved for publication.

Felica Zhao, Colin Briggs, Jimmy Smith and/or Brittany Fernandes, if you are reading this I'd love to hear about your WUMB DJ experiences.

...and by the way, why did GM Pat Monteith depart WUMB in so hastily a fashion?

Read Missing Pat Monteith at WUMB  from the Patriot-Ledger, 5/4/12.
Perhaps it is time for that publication to do a follow-up story, too.