Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData WGLT Program Guides Arts and Sciences Summer 7-1-2006 WGLT Program Guide, July-August, 2006 Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg Recommended Citation Illinois State University, "WGLT Program Guide, July-August, 2006" (2006). WGLT Program Guides. 207. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg/207 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in WGLT Program Guides by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GLT Night at Comedy ofErrors by Events and Promotions Director Linda Healy We have been reminiscing since last summer about GLT Night at the Shakespeare Festival, and greatly looking forward to another exclusive evening of music, refreshment, and masterful theater August 6th. Once again, GLT has the entire house for this performance. Our evening begins at 4:00 PM on the grounds of lovely Ewing Manor. For the same price that you'd pay just for the play, you'll hear traditional Irish music from the GLT Night SullivanBurton trio and classic jazz fromjazzchocolat, while you linger over the delicious boxed dinner catered by Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano. (Biaggi's will also offer a cash wine bar.) Following dinner, meander to the cobblestone courtyard for a Green Show mini play. Comedy of Errors At 7:30 PM, we'll open the theater for general admission seating to Comedy of Errors, a classic Shakespearean serving of mistaken identity and mayhem, with a healthy dollop of laughter. Your ticket includes live music by SullivanBurton and jazzchocolat, a Biaggi's boxed dinner, Sunday, August 6, 2006 • 4:00pm - 11:00pm • $37 Green Show, and the performance of Comedy of Errors, all for $37. Proceeds from this The Grounds of Ewing Manor exclusive event will benefit the GLT Equipment Fund, with a portion going to our on­ going collection for the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. Please Note: As last year's event sold out, early ticket purchase is recommended. While 4:00 PM - Ewing Manor grounds open tickets are general admission seating, entrance to the theater will be staggered to avoid 4:30 PM - Sullivan Burton long lines. 6:00 PM - jazzchocolat Entrance will be in the order of ticket purchase - another good reason to get yours early. 7:30 PM - Theater doors open Seating in order of ticket purchase 8:00 PM - Play begins (late seating only between acts) Boxed dinner available from 4: 30-6: 30 PM Corner of Emerson and Towanda Streets, Bloomington, IL Ticket price includes live music, boxed dinner, Green Show, and play. Tickets for this performance are ONLY available at WGLT online at wgltorg or by phone to 309-438-8910 This GLT event sponsored by: Busey -2- -3- bluejforaday sweet corn blues festival Blue J for a Day Sweet Corn Blues Festival by Music Director Jon Norton There are dozens of great blues bands in central Illinois, and five of them will be on stage August 27,28, Downtown Normal the weekend of August 27-28 playing the Sweet Corn Blues Festival in downtown Normal. Free! Who do these musicians cite as influences? What CDs get played at their house or in their car? You'll find out in August during GLT's "Blue J for a Day" feature, as each of A downtown Normal tradition, the Sweet Corn Blues Festival the performers, aka "Blue J's", takes the reigns of GLT to play and talk about his favorite celebrates the bounty of central Illinois' signature crop - sweet corn - blues songs and artists. T hey'll be sitting in with me every Saturday from 5:00-6:00pm and the bounty of central Illinois musical talent - sweet, sweet blues. beginning with July 29 and running through August 26. It's a two day festival featuring top notch local blues bands who will cook up a tasty treat for your ears, while you're munching on some of those golden ears. The corn is cooked on the spot and you can buy Here's the schedule: one ear at a time, or take home a whole bag to cook yourself for the July 29: Billy Galt of the Blues Deacons family if you're in the sharing mood. Better yet, bring them with you and let them carry their own corn home. August 5: Marc Boon of Hip Pocket August 12: Russell Miller of 6V6 August 19: Joe Zaklan of Red Hot Llama August 26: Steve "The Harp" Mehlberg Sweet Com Blues Stage Saturday Lineup: 1:00 - 2:30 Red Hot Llama 3:00 - 4:30 ________ 6V6 5:00 - 6:30 Hip Pocket Sunday Lineup: 11:00 - 12:30 _______ Full Circle 1:00 - 2:30 teve ''The Harp" Mehlberg 3:00 - 4:30 Billy Galt & the Blues Deacons A big thank you to the Sweet Corn Blues stage sponsor: CEFCU -Your Credit Union - 4- -5- CM: We hope to be financially On the Air After Katrina sound by the first of the year. The by Development Director Kathryn Carter listeners have been fabulous, we had about 6200 members and have As GLT reaches the mid-way point in our celebration of 40 years on air, we continue with heard from about 4400 of them. our series about former staff members. Actually, about 20% of the metro area population is gone. The city Many of you remember Chuck Miller as the afternoon jazz host, but he was also our has only been 50% repopulated. We Program Director. When he joined the GLT staff in October 1992, he felt it was have several openings, but are having "important for public radio stations to exhibit their 'stationality' ! We have to let the difficulty attracting new staff to the audience know we are having a good time." During his tenure, GLT's audience grew area. We need to reclaim our local rapidly and we were visible throughout the community at area events. service/local identity. And we have some of the same challenges all public Chuck accepted the Program Director position at WRTI in Philadelphia in 2000, where stations have including technology he guided the station through a format change from jazz to classical and helped grow their competition from WiFi, iPod, cell audience for four more years. Then he headed south to Atlanta in 2004 as Director of phones and all the new ways people Georgia Public Radio, where he managed a fifteen station network for two years. are getting their information and Throughout his career, Chuck has seized every opportunity to learn as much about entertainment. The other thing we technology as possible. His next move would call upon every ounce of knowledge, have to complete is a disaster plan. Every station should have one, whether it's for tornado perseverance and community outreach he could muster. or flood or hurricane or whatever! New Orleans is his current home. He accepted the General Manager position at WWNO KC: How can WWNO help the community cope with the reconstruction? seven weeks before Katrina hit. After a forced evacuation to Atlanta, where he set up CM: New Orleans is a very active cultural town. We need to get back out in the temporary broadcasting services, he has returned to New Orleans. I spoke with him there. community, reconnect. Our station must be perceived as a "first responder." We still have Kathryn Carter: Was there anything you learned at GLT that helped prepare you for information on the air about what is going on in neighborhoods, where cleanup efforts are New Orleans? concentrated, where supplies are being distributed, anything the people need to know. Chuck Miller: There were a number of things. Remote broadcasts in college and on KC: Will it ever be over? Not only for the station, but for the city? the job at GLT. Understanding technology: we shop from anywhere - we use satellites CM: It'll take a long time. Katrina is a common social builder. We are hearing story after everyday - we should be able to broadcast from anywhere. I asked a lot of questions and amazing story. New Orleans will be completely different than it used to be. said a lot of thank yous. Georgia Public Radio enabled us to return to the air on December 19th by feeding our programming through their satellite. Our live stream is originating I'm relatively optimistic about WWNO. The partnerships we're building are fascinating. from Boston, and our membership activities are being run out of West Virginia. Thank We've established the New Orleans Regional Performing Arts Coalition because New God for computers, the internet and satellites. Orleans is more than the culture of Bourbon Street. There are many arts organizations throughout the region that are making a come back. We will get stronger too. KC: What exactly happened to WWNO when Katrina hit? KC: What is the most commonly held misconception, by those outside New Orleans CM: Our biggest weakness was our broadcast tower. The transmission line was on the about the progress of recovery and reconstruction? outside of the tower and the winds tore it off. We also had an issue with our backup transmitter's underground cabling - it flooded out. So we were completely out of business. CM: It's much worse than you think - and it's not just in New Orleans. The devastation runs from Mobile to the Texas border. Nationally we're not hearing about the small towns KC: What's going on now at WWNO? that were practically wiped off the map.